WEST COAST NOTES.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 11010, 6 July 1901, Page 5

WEST COAST NOTES.

(SHKttAL TO "TUB PHES3.") ■ „. GEEYMOUTH. July 5. «ti L weathpr ' which- hus continued fine wroughout the week, has given our dredges • CJUJico, nnd very fair returns should be "jwrded by Monday. J™ , N«leon Creok Company's return, how 7™* W'!. b * rm.-s<*ed for the next three weeks. *• « will t«ko that to thoroughly overhaul w,. alter the machinery. When she starts iKt It returns can be. looked for, find ■«? i . cml of Aiiguat phenomenally rich Poend will bo reached. The alterations to "» dredge will enable her to treat the wash •rP w <» ua, »*»tiee than before. iflo return from the Pactolus Company's tMor,:ow 9hou!tl bo * good one. .«» ford's Creok Company's dredge is also • w 2J? n e well. J*** Brickson'e Howard Company's dredee, wucjj baui KOt nicely clear of the timber SL * BPcd-Jookinrf wash, had the mis"ftun* to bend a 4-inch shaft, necessitating Th« "* v rouKht t0 the foundry for repairs. r"*™«ninc may possibly get started again r™*r«w efUrnoon, but the stoppage will the week's return. ***• Grey Consolidated Company's r™"8». waich was working with every - appearr™« 01 «, re'urn, broke a tumbler yes- "»*»? evening,, and j 9 not likely to get a start ■e« Wore Monday or Tuesday. *»»?». A n attTft Rir « Company's dredge waa JS™** during the week, but I do not anM, V ,Mil . c retum - ilfeU • w Bivcr Company's dredge shows a ito" ""P'Ofoment, and appears to be workto the load. There is not much 'rEP* of * wash-up this week. Qw!" , J c not alteration in the Maori Tfc* \v P Rnv ' s dredge, fe A*»2 aip r- a - Dre % in e Company's uredge |*wpng herself into a safe position from tO . b2i,,s ,aitl "P- A. meeting of J??err«tors jg to be held on Monday, to .'eirill T "Ip™ l "* farther operations, which *¥*&**&**s* K tbe borough prospecte2Lr:," c c -»«m before they t-gain oommeiic4» •p«aces^%o?d' h " aP to "» eBW wiU « ive repairs to the Greenstone Junction Comare expected to be finished by Cb^^f"^ o " 6 C**** » nd th& Three Mile *£<£* exp^ted to give -4r*d« ,, u AAi r y, oi lbe Leviathan Company , * : toteHJL* 0, " l ? ine ftbout in a " directions, > 1 CMmOt » ;. ;. DREDGING IN RHODESIA. ;::^.' ; («0M OTO OWK CORBE9FONIJENT.) - 4«{*t ( m * LO2TDON, May 24. S 'S» h£!? • W r we reade at the meeting of ■,':;;"'*« (Limited), held on Thnxiday.

In the course of his speech, the' Chiirmen of the oompany said it «w only, a month ex two ago that a gentleman who knew the country ■extremely welt considered that good gold dredgi ing ground could, be found in Rhodesia, and a i cpneesMon was obtained from tho British Sonth I Africa Company giving* them a monopoly for a limited time over the whole of the territory to locate gold dredging area*. ' The first step which they had takes had been to get over the best known expert (Mr Bawlioa) from New ileaund, where the gold dredging industry bad now become » commercial enterprise, *nd «ts worked on a large scale with very good resulte. This gentleman came over to Rhodesia, and made several trips into; likely, places wjth a view to locating gfouncF for them. 14r R*wlins had already succeeded in locating one or two good areas. From operations in NewZeaJands it was fonnd that lgr per ton would pay the «wt of treatment. - .Another speaker,, the managing director of the.company, said their monopoly waa for nine months, during which time they thought they would be able to get the expert from New Zee- j i*nd, and to locate and register a certain mom- ; ber of areas. The option would expire in another two months, but by that time he reckoned that the half-dozen expeditions which were under way in Rhodesia would have obtained an area aggregating ten square miles ! along the river, whioh would probably give j them something like forty miles in length. He belived six areas would be located. He might say that Mr Rawlins, the New Zealandauthority, had given his opinion that the ground, for instance, on the Mazoe River would be three times as rich as the beet dredging ground being worked in New Zealand, so that they would probably be in a position to ,pay very handsome dividends on the capital of the company which it was proposed to float for one or otbe* of the locations.