GOLD DREDGING.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9675, 14 December 1909, Page 5

GOLD DREDGING.

ANOTHER DRECGE TO BE STARTED.

Mr John He3sey, .who has been m a five weeks' trip to the West Coast J of the South Island, on mining j buisness, returned'to Masterton yea- I terday. Interviewed by a Wairarapa Age reportjd as t< whether there were any fresh developments in dred-1 ging Mr Hessey Btated chat he had j just bought the rights of a claim of i about 100 acres, situate about three from Hokitika, at the foot of the Blue Spur. "This,"' said the mining expert, "is the outcome of a thoroueh prospect made with my boring* plant. Altogether I put in seventeen bores and struck gold in every bore of varying quantities, h good average being obtained throughout the claim. The resuit3 were satisfactory enough for me, and I have decided to form a company and start a'dredge working as soon as possible after Christmas. The machine, which wili cost about £7,000 will be the most powerful yet constructed on the West Coast. Masterton speculators will be given an opportunity of procuring shares in the new venture, but if anything I feel disposed to allow those who held shares in the late Antonio Company, which had to ceasd operations on aucount of the submerged timber encountered, the privilege of coming in first."