Mining Review of the Week.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3666, 25 September 1880, Page 2

Mining Review of the Week.

During the week some little attention has been drawn to the new scale of charges for water for mining purposes from the County supply. They appear to give satisfaction in most instances, the only notable case in which the new tariff presses hardly being that of Mr Green▼ille's battery^ flape Creek. This is a ■mall machine, but from its position it takes proportionately a larger body of water to work it than any other battery on the field. Under the new tariff the owner

would have to pay something like £12 per week for bis motive power—a sum equal if not greater to that charged to batteries driving 20 and 30 head of stamps. As will be seen in our mining columns the result has been that Mr Greenville has determined to close his mine and battery on the grounds that such a large expense for crushing will render operations at present unprofitable. Though we very much regret this, it is apparent that the Council cannot make fish of one and flesh of another, especially when the Grahamstown battery proprietors are complaining loudly every summer of scarcity of water.