WEEK'S MINING NEWS

Otago Witness, Issue 2808, 8 January 1908, Page 30

WEEK'S MINING NEWS

December >SO. The return of the Alexandra .Lead dredge was 13oz for 75 hours' working. Everything was working well. , The master of the Jkfanuherikia dredge washed Tip" on Tuesday ior ' a return of S4oz for 70 hours. • _, ' « Th.6 -Alexandra Eureka yield -was 58oz 16dwt for four days. , The -dredgemaster reports -.by wire tihat the Eise &oS Shine No. 1 return was JJOoz ldwt for 77 'hours' dredging. . December .31. The Garden Gully return is 4oz 17dwt 'for ,30 hours. i January 1. The manager of the Mount Ilex Tin Mine (Avoca 1 ) reports under date December 21: — "West drive extended 2ft; stose very poor; , driven hugging granite in >N.~W. direction-; rise was "put Tip 3ft" stone a little "better, 'butnot payable ; all operation's suspended and ' mine Bhiri down on the 19th inst." January 3. The secretary pi the Nokoraai Hydraulic , Sluicing Company reports that the -work,, at i No. 1 has .-gone on very satisfactorily dnring the week, and buti for the assistance of the water from the X&on race -woik would Ijav-e been suspended on the '23rd. Th© weather continues ,very warm, '85deg on the average for the week' Attaining 92deg for two days in succession — all in the .shade. No.' 2 claim has a full dam owing to supplies from ' the Lion race. There was * -wash-up - during | the week lor 60oz -SaVi, which jjs not very • i satisfactory, considering fhe time covered in J working .the .paddock. , The ground has .been ' very rough, and the stones very large. A start had been made on Friday to remove the plant fox another jaaddock. There was^some trouble (wluoh lias now been rectified) by* the , scouring of the sides of theirace at the second } drop in th» Lion race. Srfc No. 3 tresfles have been erected, with sufficient sluicing fall, and probably elevating will be in progress by the end of the weelc. January 6. ' The Rise 'and Shine No. 1 Teturn is 220z . Bdwt for 86 hours. Under date the 21flt December, the' dreogemaster of d;he- Sandy Point dredge reports-: '"Worked 132 Jhours; widfe .of .cut jfoai i ' chains; Average -depfh ; distance worked > ahe»a av&zage height -of ifaoe abov* ' water level Jsft. <Bhe -bottom is -much colter, ; and jwosoeetß show a slight improvemeat, . , Hjut ;pat«Ey with an uneven bottom:" >On tthe 3rd ipst. .aecretaxy received a teleadvising that on resuming work after ihe Iholidays the .fir^t motion shaft had "broken. Jlb it -wonld. be necessary to stop ' the dredge shoxtly to put in .a new crown • -wheel and jpinion, vdd«h, ie on the ground, it ias been aeoided io s>ut them in now .as aomo of 'the same gear -would "h&y.e ±o be ishjfted )to pat An a Jiew first mofion ihaft. The dredge will therefore "be stopped .for, eight or 10 dayjs. Piint Company'is dredgemaster wired on .SaterdHy: "Started midnight Thursday,; •drop Tjack .MJonday ; m»ohinery running -well ; 3)rO3peetß I»ir.' r On December '20 ihe New Trafalgar dredgemaster reported * that -h& was - -still engaged dredging towards the east. The - upstream portion of- the face was -showing ~ the "best wash, the TCBt of the face being very -dri|^ty, with big -stones. - The liottoni ' was "fairly 1 level, but appeared to have- been scoured. The cold was « heavy sample. The return for •"■'"> -nine days ended December 24 wa3 240z Bdwt.The "ontract" io* the dismaniliß'g of -Qic Unity dredge machinery and tha 'pontoons, recently the property of -the Bendigo Dredging Company, and their re-erection on tjh© South .Wai&aia Dredging Company's claim at Waikaia, naa been let to Messrs Ruff »nd' Jamison, of Alexandra South four month's being the contract time for the completion of the vrorlit

I The Mount Ida Chronicle contains tae fol- 1 lowing: — "Messrs Wether all and Jbam berry, | at Paerau, are elevating, and with good pros- j pects. Their claim is* situated m the .Ueep i Oreek, she miles iiona terpentine. ""'liie ground on the surface w?a woifced to the i faise bottom -an the early days, aid they ure '■ mow working on tfce rock bottom at a C/epi'h i of Irom 201t to 40ft. and find payable .gold [ all through the . stufi, quartz gravel. 'Xhe I prospects for the future a.i« good, ,as this 1 creek was worked for a considerable distance and very rich gold taken out. The party qnd it very hard to get pipes such a distance a irom. Dunedin, but titey have a fine line " now. They are to be complimented on their i- pluck in going infc> the ground when to a certain extent public opinion was ? against gold , being found on th« rock g -botfom. No doubt other places will a some day ■wake .up and find that they are 3 really walking on a gold mint, of which they a are -only taking off the gilt edge and leaving the solid part alone. — Re "Canadian Flat: * This claim has- no men on it at present. We j. wonder why such a good property should j not he pushed ahead, as, judging by r' managers' .reports, their prospects appear to , be good. A considerable quantity of pipes are ' on the. ground, and W hope soon ,to see a good few jnien engaged as it will help .1 ihe district generally. — Senderson' and party, c IjEmroerlaw, are still busy. . ■sluicing in their „ new claim, and I 3iop© iheir work' is "being " rewarded, as they have -gone to a good deal , of expense in cutting" -a .watet-iaoe. — ©obson _' and, party have been -surveying a water jrace [ through Linnburn Statioti, from Tanzuahills, and let us hope 'that it will not be long before this ■Kjr^a.t scheme- i» started. I hear there , -are three miles of tunnel ira. the route, btct . this would -save 14 miles of r»ce cutting and a. 'lot of fall. I also heard' that they iutend ' going To the Great Moss Swamp (better known >ac M'Curdy's Swamp) to survey a >, dam site. Suuely we ought to iiave things riehi lor thfi plain in time." v The followins items are from the Cromwell Argus :^The Eixcelsior (late Revival) is re- ■ neyring the tables and doing some other repairs, and expects 'to get a start dredging at ' the end l of this week. — The Punt dredge ie now ' i doing well, having washed up- for a three-days' - TU n 21oz.— The liydraulio sluicing claims p + I Nevis are all doing well this -season. M«?sr<= Webber and party and Graham njid -party both w-ashed up last week. B^id' had same- : -thing over 140oz each.— ; Both Shines are doinjj j a i«w necessary repairs befpre paTdng a start I , dredginct again. — A jxnrfcy of 'miners are making ready to start work in "Pennyweight Gully, near Blackstone Sill. 'Tkey have gone -to -an expense -of 3200 itor pipes to siphon "the water across Pegleg Gully. The -water tvill be sui>t)li«>d from the Blackstone Hill rare. The Mount Lyell Mining Com-pany has conJ signed 1955 tons of 'blister copper for the current 'half-year. January 7. The dredige got a start on Sunday l night, /but had to stop .on account of the river falling. The master -is now -raising the water by means of "a dam. • ' Messrs Reeve* .antL Go rr*T>ort tha.t vb-e 1 Esnteiforise,- ClTifcha River. Riley's Revival, ■ and 31acks -dredges -have* all -restarted dredging.