PROPOSED NEW TAIL-RACE TO CONNECT WITH THE KUMARA SLUDGE-CHANNEL.

Kumara Times, Issue 2588, 8 October 1884, Page 2

PROPOSED NEW TAIL-RACE TO CONNECT WITH THE KUMARA SLUDGE-CHANNEL.

The Committee appointed to devise the best means for relieving and supplementing the sludge-channel lately resolved on having a survey made with the view of ascertaining the cost of a new tail-race to relieve the slndgechannel. The work was allotted to Mr Heavy Wylde, surveyor, and that gentleman completed his survey and a very excellent plan of the proposed tail-raco on Thursday last. It was accompanied by the following descriptive memorandum showing the claims which would be wholly or partially worked by its construction : To J. S. Pearx, Esq., Secretary to the Committee of miners and others appointed to devise the best means of relieving and supplementing the Government sludge-channel. Sir—l have the honor to hand you herewith a plan shewing the result of my survey for a tail-race to carry the tailings from some of the claims on Larrikins Flat, on the Knmamgoldfield, ami thereby relieve the Government •sludge channel from the excessive work now throw n upon if. The tail-race will commence at a poiut about 7-'i yli.i'....- jp ih- rilud»e-

channel, and will extend a distance of 37 chains, with a grade of 7in. iu 12ft. (or 3.21 feet per chain) to a gully which communicates with the public tailingssite on the bank of the Teremakau River. Two branch tail-races, each 13 chains long, will be required. The claims which will be served by the tail-race and its branches are as follow : Rothwell and party, 6 men. Watson „ 6 „ Borlase „ 7 „ Mansfield „ 7 „ Total 26 men. The following claims can also be partially worked by the tail-race and its branches : Bain and party, 6 men. Cairns „ 6 „ Scanlan „ 6 „ Meade „ 6 ~ Morris „ 4 „ Total 28 men. The mouth of the tunnel will be 34 chains from the river, and the space thus available for deposit of tailings is far in excess of what is required. Owing to the height of the tail-race above the tailing-site, and above the highest of the other tail-races, and the ample space available, no interference will take place with the deposit of tailings from the sludge-channel, or from the private tail-racea discharging on to the public tailing-site. Should at any time the proposed tailrace and the private races be produced until they crosß each other, the proposed race will be sufficiently high to pass over the others without interfering with them. The upper end of the tail-race will be 28ft. 4iu. above the sludge-channel; and the lower end, if continued as far as the river, will be 22ft. sin. above medium flood level; but it is very improbable that the tailings will ever reach so far as the river. I have shewn on the sections the level of an alternative race following the same direction as the one above described, but having a grade of only s|in. to 12ft., which would strike the bottom of the sludge-channel, and thus serve to divert all the tailings from that channel above the point of intersection, and, consequently, would serve a much larger area; but it would also require a larger quantity of water to work it. The following are the claims which such race would accommodate:— Rothwell and party Watson and party Borlase and party Mansfield and party Scanlan and party Reid and party Meade and party Netzband and party Daw and party Hardy and party Shrives and party Moore and party White and party Roberts and party Morris and party, fifteen claims in all, being about half the total number at present using the sludge-channel. I have the honor to be, Sir, Your obedient servant, H. J. Wylde, Surveyor. Kumara, October 2, 1884. The original plan was forwarded by yesterday morning's mail lo Mr Seddon, the member for Kumara, requesting that he would present the same to the Government and urge upon it the necessity for the construction of the proposed tail-race, as it was considered by the Committee to be the cheapest and most efficient way of attaining the desired object, which, if carried out, would effect the double purposo of relieving the sludge-channel so that all parties could work and connecting with it an unlimited tailings-site. A tracing of the plan is in the possession Mr Pearn, secretary to the committee. The Committee propose that the tunnel tail-race should be 7ft. Gin. high, 4ft. wide in the clear, timbered with round red birch props Tin. in diameter at the small end ; h oar t 0 f red pine laths, 2in. thick; boxes 2ft. wide in the botton and 2ft. Gin. in the top, with a tramway on the top of tho. boxes for the purpose of carrying materials, and blocked wi.'h wooden blocks. The plan also shows a tail-race with a fall of 7in. to the 12ft., which would, work four claims.

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