WEST COAST NOTES.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 11110, 31 October 1901, Page 3

WEST COAST NOTES.

. (SPECIAL TO "TOB PBE9S.") T .; ; GBEYMOUTH, October 8a , Rain has fallon pretty constantly since Handay, and all tho. rivers ax© tnoro or lose flooded. , Xbe.returns'{or,ihe week will, be. , lower than for souife time. -. ' ' The ground being worked by' thft North Belch Company? s dredge does not improve, the legooa ailt continuing- aa. thick ac over., If tho week had bocri anything' Jiko fine the Grey . River Consolidated Company's aredge ' would have given a strong return. The Greenstone Creek Company's dredge ia new iit midstream, and gets anoccaeional hit of j unworked ground.. . ... . i lho Greenstone Junction Company's dredge ' ie working into White's land (his week, so the return will be scmewhat problematical. This j course i*,a:cces9ary in order to test, the ground over which the company holds an. option. t he • Greenstone TLhree Mile Company's dreclge. lias mrtneged to keep going, and though., hbuipercd with eilt* roturo wiil bocspeot«d on S&vurd*y. v , l'be Greet l*ad Company's pontoons' have been launched and' shifted down to the site forthe erection of the machinery. The- pontoon j had been standing oil the high bench ground ' -for six months. TheK*noi Company have atc-1- j : gnmated with, tho Great Load Company, ana j i enrry ou the work as one concern. ' . j i'ligh.y tens of "machinery has'arrived for j th'c W'oodetock Gold Dredging Company, and. tho creation of the machinery will bo commenced at'once. The AhouTtt River Company's dredge got a fair siait yoiitorday, hut owing to (ho paodock being pifetiy well lull of silt and debris, it wilt, ttko some time to gel a good face, on again. The dredge is now in capital trim, and should give s strong run for months, to coma with kood returns. Tho work on the Muori\<jtioen Company's drerfgo- ia being pushed'on,' and a fortnight should sec the machine at work. -A number of grabs «ro being attached to the ladder, whi«h it i* honed will- bringing down the hard packed wash. The Jluby Creek Company's dredge was formally taken over 'irom' the contractors yesterday by Mr Wardell. the' Chairman of Direciora- Mr Coniiick his been dr?dgcmß3ter. Dredging ■ commenced to-d*y,' the raacninery ;mining ■Wβ!!, Ko -wasb. up can be expected before Saturdsy. .November 16th. the dredge having a lot of dead work to do.