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No. 25. RETURN of the YEARLY EARNINGS of some ALLUVIAL MINES, and other Details. The following information has been obtained from Returns given by the Mine Owners or the Managers of the various Mines :—

Peovince. Name of Claim or Owner. Locality. Yield of Gold for Year. Value of Gold per Ounce. hi is a go i I s is 'So g CO I o I I " O a> m Value of Mining Plant. Eemaees. Nelson ... Cosmopolitan Nile Cement Crushing Co. ... Shenandoah ... (a.) Arrow River United Charleston Charleston Kanieri Arrow oz. dwt. gr. 365 15 0 590 16 12 318 15 22 £ s. d. 3 17 0 3 17 0 3 16 9 Feet. 14 12 14 40 Feet. 300 100 8 7 1 1 1 10 8 12 5 20 £ s. d. 2,800 0 0 500 0 0 1,836 0 0 1,000 0 0 Westland... Otago "i (a.) Machinery in course of erection. (b.) The claim is worked by tunnelling. The main tunnel is 400 ft. long, with branch tunnel 400 ft., and tramway. (b.) Bolton and Co Waipori 450 0 0 3 15 0 80 124 1 3 1 200 0 0 Crombie, Hazlett, and Co. ... Extended Water-Eace Co. ... Hall and Co Hales and Hind (c.) HavilahHill Bannockburn ... Mount Ida Blue Spur, Tuapeka ... Blue Spur, Tuapeka ... Table Hill 272 11 5 341 17 18 280 0 0 870 13 9 35 0 12 3 15 6 3 15 10 3 16 0 3 15 6 3 15 0 50 100 6 2 "5 150 0 0 100 0 0 Serpentine, Mount Ida Serpentine, Mount Ida Highly District Highly District Blue Spur, Tuapeka ... Blue Spur, Tuapeka ... Shotover Blue Spur, Tuapeka ... St. Bathan's Upper Shotover St. Batban's ... Blue Spur, Tuapeka ... Blue Spur, Tuapeka ... 150 10 15 167 11 0 275 5 0 13 0 0 2,419 17 3 500 0 0 200 20 70 "e "i 79 1 8,006" 0 0 34 0 0 1,040 0 0 500 0 0 2,700 0 0 600 0 0 1,678 0 0 700 0 0 750 0 0 400 0 0 665 0 0 30,000 0 0 600 0 0 9,100 0 0 200 0 0 (e.) With twenty - two miles of water-race. Homeward Bound Long and Co. May Burn Water-Eace Co. ... Mount Lyret ... Morrison and Co. Nelson Mining Co. ... New Channel Co Otago Gold Mining Co. Scandinavian Water-Eace Co. Shotover Terrace Co. United M. and E. Co. William Kell White and Co 3 15 0 3 15 6 3 15 6 3 15 0 3 15 10 3 15 6 6 35 2 130 150 2ft 6in "i 2 2 16 80 60 i "i "i 20 166 748 12 9 545 16 9 618 18 0 507 4 0 1,275 7 23 550 0 0 3 15 6 3 15 6 3 15 0 3 15 4 3 15 6 3 16 0 100 250 14 130 100 180 200 400 333 3 i 80 100 7 ...