Mining Notes.

Te Aroha News, Volume XIV, Issue 2078, 12 February 1898, Page 2

Mining Notes.

GREAT WESTERN. We understand that the alterations effected by the manager (Mr Farquharson) at the Great Western mine have been attended with satisfactory results. Our readers will remember that the oik employed in generating the motive-, power in the Otto gasoline engine to. drive the Chilian Mill turned out to beinadequate. It was of a too inferior: quality for the purpose*, the lowness of the flash point providing the sfcumb- ! lirig block, we believe. This has been ; remedied by the introduction of a better ; class of oil. The Chilian. Mill isteow doing excellent work. The quantity of stone it is capable of dealing wi h per week is equivalent to a crushing ,by a ten-head stamper in the same period. The objectionable feature afc present is the dust. This it is proposed to overcome by boxing in the milil- ' table, leaving only a small aperture through, whi ch she may be fed. The- ; manager also cqptemplates introducing an. automatic |fceder combined with a drier—the work to he done bv a revolving cylinder, designed on tht principle of a arehimedian screw. Thestone, reduced;* to- uniform size by s>. rock-breaker by,.a, .novel arrangement, i will he dried in its passage-through the. cylinder. , u • ' * Operations on the properties known, as the Silver Streak, Crimson- Thread,. I and Golden Bandy owned by Messrs Burt, Chaytor and Thomas, at the confluenceof the Waitawhetaand' Maunga- , kino Creeks which are the centre of so- much attention in the local mining: , world, were recommenced a fortnight, age. The- body of stone lately cut. great hopes are entertained willl/ prove to be intimately connected with the lode the party have been so long engaged in prospecting for.