MOSQUITO GOLD DREDGING COMPANY.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 18 June 1901, Page 3

MOSQUITO GOLD DREDGING COMPANY.

The following is the report reoeived by the Directors of the above Company iso far as it relates to the various bores sunk in the boring operations carried out by Messrs Outten Bros, in the Company's claim: — Sie,—Under your instructions we have prospected your claim situated at Mosquito Creek, Nobles, by means of boring, with the following results:— No 1. Test at top end of clearing passed through 3 feet 6 inches of clayey silt, thence through 21 feet of loose gravel on to an old man formation bottom. Total depth 24 feet 6 inchesj contents of bore, 769.5 cubic inohes. Gold result, .007 grains, or equal to .424 grains per cubic yard. The poorness of this result may be accounted for by the looseness of the gravels, the situation may formerly have been an eddy. No. 2. Test, about 5 chains above centre of the area close to the right hand bank looking up-stream, passed through 5 feet of loose drift and pug, then through 15 feet of fairly loose light gravels on to a soft sandstone bottom. Total depth 20 feet; contents of bore, 810 cubio inches. Gold result, "41 grains, or equal to 23-616 grains per cubio yard. No. 3. Test, 20 ohains from top boundary, passed through 5 feet of loose drift, then 8 feet of nice looking wash, then 11 feet of loam wash on to a soft sandstone bottom. Total depth 24 feet; contents of Bore, 972 cubic inches. Gold results, '23 grains, or equal to 11'04 grains per cubic yard, No 4. Test, about 1£ chains from lower boundary, passed through 21 feet of light gravel, from grass to old man formation bottom. Contents of bore, 810 cubic inohes. Gold result, "11 grains or equal to 6'33 grains per cubic yard. l|k 5. Test, about 5 chains bottom boundary- and 4 chainsfrom right hand terrace, in bed of supposed run of back lead feeding main creek, passed through 28 feet of gravel, from grass to old man formation bottom. Contents of bore, 1134 cubio inohes, Gold result, '43 grains or equal to 17*63 grains per cubic yard. The above is considered most satisfactorily.