WEST COAST NOTES.
(special to "the press.") GREYMOUTH. March 31. Information, from the Nelson Creek Company's claim indicates that this week will see material improvement in the returns. The Pactohis Company's dredges are both in pood runs, and will likely head the list this week. In siving- evidence at the Assessment Court Mr Taylor said that the North Beaoh Company's dredge was betts-r row- than when she started. The claim, he considered, waa good for 40oz per week for a. Ion? time to come. Tlie principal trouble was -the timber met in the workings. A dredge is> to be put on O'Kane's lease at the foot of Blackball Creek. When erected it will be the largest and most up-to-date dredge on tho Coast. Work is to be put in at once. It is the intention of the syndicate to work up the creek where good gold has been obtained. The last act in the Waipur.a Company was completed to-day, when the directors Lad each to pay £135 to -th", bnnk. .that amount ■having- been guaranteed by them. The Prince of Wales Company's dredge is on the bast run she has yet struck, and the lead is well defined. Another reduction in the price of flour •»J ~>tmaal •♦■ W'al>rl»H , « , -C
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 11547, 1 April 1903, Page 5
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