OPENING OF THE FAME AND FORTUNE BATTERY, THAMES.
The Caledonian G. M. Co.’s battery, which was recently purchased by Mr Ed. Kersey Cooper on behalf of the London syndicate owning the Fame and Fortune mine, has recently undergone considerable alterations and improvemeuts, which were finished on Wednesday, when the formal opening took place in the presence of a number of gentlemen interested in mining. The whole, plant has been completely overhauled, the building having been enlarged, a specimen stamper erected, two new stamper boxes put in, new tables and Banket streaks provided, while new buddies have also been constructed. The battery now consists of twenty-one head of stampers and sixteen berdans, and is in splendid order, being one of the most efficient plants on the field. Water is used as a motive power, and when the stamps were set in motion everything was found to work as smoothly and satisfactorily as could he desired, and Mr Cooper was the recipient of the hearty good wishes of all present for the future success of the mine and plants There are at present about eighty loads of quartz awaiting treatment at the battery, and should the roads be kept in good order, Mr Cooper expects to keep the plantgoing continuously.—Thames Star *
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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 474, 24 May 1890, Page 2
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209OPENING OF THE FAME AND FORTUNE BATTERY, THAMES. Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 474, 24 May 1890, Page 2
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