GOLD DREDGING.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 26 October 1901, Page 2

GOLD DREDGING.

Hokitika River Dredge—This dredge is still working most satisfactorily and seems well able'to cope with the heavy wash she is meeting with. .We understand that she has been doing a lot of dead work this week at the foot of an old tail race coining out into tho river and it is questionable whether any wash up will take place to-day. The Stafford-Waimea dredge is now working steadily and though not a large dredge, she is powerful. The ground is said to be of a very light nature. It is in a rich locality and the dredge should sooner or later strike one of the Waimea leads. We hear that Mr Ritchie's work of putting the dredge together was very conscientiously performed. There were a good number present at her opening run including Messrs Steel and Nelson directors from Otago.

Kanieri Lake Water Race—The annual meeting of shareholders in the above company will be held next Thursday. We understond that the extension of this race from the Kanieri Lake is now within measureable distance of the rich alluvial terraces in the Kanieri district. Application is being made to the Warden by miners for sluicing claims which this water will command. The extension of this water race will supply a long felt want of the miners in the Kanieri district of water to work the terraces along the line of race. The com-

paDy has spent a large sum of money in bringing in the water, and as special attention is now being given to sluicing claims by capitalists and others, this will give them every opportunity of opening up sluicing operations on a scale. The famous Hartley and Riley Company's dredge has been working new ground at the top end of her claim for several weeks now, with poor results, and she started shifting down on Thursday morning. There is still about Jl5O yards of new ground untried at the top end.