GOLD DREDGING.
The Maori Gully dredge will commence operations on Saturday, but the official opening will not taka place, till the.following Wednesday. It will take a fortnight tiTbpen out so that the dredge will only have two washings up before Christmas, when all the dredges will be closed down for ten days. The rain of Sunday and Monday brought a flood in the Greenstone Creek, sweeping away a portion of the dam erected by the Greenstone Three Mile. It will take three days more before the damage can be repaired and the dredge gets a start once again. This dam seems to have been built on the “penny wise and pound foolish principal.” Considering the broken weather, and the liability of the creek to flood, the work should have been pushed afaead, and completed days ago, instead of keeping only a few men at it.
The Stafford-Waimea return was 230 z. This is for a portion of two weeks and considering the amount of ground treated and the fact that the dredge has not been working on the bottom it is very satisfactory. The dredge is troubled with the material coming in behind and pushing it forward before it can clear up the bottom or indeed touch it in some places. The Westport News says: “The majority of the men who had been working on the Island Creek dredge took their departure for Greymouth where appointments were fortunately awaiting them.” The Premier dredge has, according to the Westport News, not yet been completed, but will be floated down to the claim with the first moderate fresh.
Some time must yet elapse, says the News, before the Welcome dredge is ready for working. Part of the machinery has not been removed to the claim.
The El Dorado pontoons are almost completed and will be launched, says the News, when the river rises sufficiently for the purpose.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 3 December 1901, Page 3
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315GOLD DREDGING. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 3 December 1901, Page 3
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