GOLD DREDGING.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 23 March 1901, Page 4

GOLD DREDGING.

Tlio mine manager at Big River reports as follows Since last report we Lave been driving over No. 2 level. We got stone again and we are now rising on same. There is no change to report from No. 0 level. All the stone is now at the battery and crushing was started on Monday morning. The Totara dredge commenced work again yesterday, all repairs having been completed. Mr Phillips, Messrs Gotten Bros’ representative is much pleased with the prospects obtained in the Saltwater district.

Mr Macleod, of the Wanganui syndicate, visits Okarito on behalf of their interests in that locality. A circular issued by the Chairman of Directors (Mr. W. H. P. Barber) of the Kohikohi Gold Dredging Company states that he, with Mr. Finlay, another director, visited the claim, and were highly pleased with their inspection of it. They tried some top gravels taken out at a point 150 ft ahead of the pontoons, and obtained an average of 10gr to the cubic yard. This, he says, establishes the fact that the dredge will start work on goldbearing wash, Mr. E. (Mills, who has had experience of dredging on the Matakitaki, opposite the Company’s

claim, has been appointed dredgemaster. A water-race is baing brought in to fill the reservoir, in which the pontoons were to be floated about the 18th inst. The engine for the dredge is on board the Maori, due before the end of the present month, and a considerable shipment of machinery has been son; forward to the claim..