THE WEST COAST BOOMED.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 20 April 1901, Page 4

THE WEST COAST BOOMED.

The London Daily Express wants icnsation from its correspondents—truth is quite a secondary consideration. The following, which appears in the columns coming from its Wellington correspondent, shows (hat it is a fair way to get what it wants from New Zealand.—A length of gold-hearing sand, 300 miles long by 25 miles, or 7,500 square miles sounds like a rather tall order (the correspondent writes), but that is the well authenticated news which comes here across the strait. From the Karamca River, in tho northern part, to tho Haast River, in latitude 44 S., the whole of the West Coast is almost fabulously rich in auriferous quartz reefs, and for 300 miles the black sands arc full of tho precious yellow dust. Hitherto none but entirely unsuitable machinery has boon used for gold getting along the Paetolian shores, but quite recently the Waiwhero Sluicing Company has put up plant adapted to the peculiar conditions of the land, and is reaping enormously rich harvest. The result lias been a rush and 3,000 acres have already been taken up by prospectors from as far away as Sydney. Orders for dredges to the value of over £IOO,OOO have already been placed with manufacturers in England and the United States and at Krupp’s Works in Germany, and on the basis of the results so far attained it is expected that the annual yield will not be less than £4,000,000 sterling.