MORE CRUSHING POWER.

Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1766, 31 August 1874, Page 2

MORE CRUSHING POWER.

We learn that a new battery is 'shortly to be erected on a site near-to the Bright Smile, Company's shaft, the freehold having already being acquired. The project is due to Messrs Kennan, Whitford and Sully, who have decided upon erecting a battery of 40 head, with provision for 80 more at a future time. This will be private property for a time, but it is believed provision will be made by the Bright Smile Company for its ultimate acquirement by means of a sinking fund. The company will crush at the new battery, as soon as it is completed, and the quartz will be trucked v .direct JErom the landing. plat to tlie battery by mean s of a raised tramroad, by which a saying, on,present expenditure for crushing and carting of £6500 a year will be effected on the work of 40 head stampers. Water supply will be obtained by using the mine water and that from the right hold from- the Karaka Creek. Mr. Sully leaves to-day en route for Victoria^ for the purpose of purchasing. a' powerful: engine, and during his absence the necessary plans and specifications for the battery and buildings will be preparedi so that, no time may be lost. This, is;another instance of the confidence which exists in the permanency and reproductiveness of our mines, and there is ,little doubt but that as the Waio-Karaka mines become, more opened out, the crushing .power of the Thames, even with the additions recently projected, will be quite inadequate to the requirements. , ... :