WEST COAST NOTES.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11753, 30 November 1903, Page 5

WEST COAST NOTES.

(sraoiA_ to "tat M1_89.") OREYMOUTH, Novenabar 29. The ion* of _c share market continues to improve, -while claim* thai eae wnrkinw satk&otonbr are hardening in price. North Beaches, which durins; the previous week were loop, are M(*_ held for em advainee. while Jamieson'a Reward* have also com* up to 12s «d.' Notowm (No. 11. and Bignell's Notowus have sd-«_-ed rrom 8d to Is over" the preartoue week's' ouotatioos. Sullivan's Leads, which ware sold *a low «m U, have sjjain ad-wwed to double thWt sumt Blaokwater Rivers are hard held at tho previous week's ouoUtfoms, while aCcsqurtos _we advance- Greeinstone Oeeks are now inquired for, too* Greenatone J_r_tton« remain tmiruotslble. AW (Ross stock ban eased onl ■ , „ . , __, The Noto—in Creek Compsiay J *«-h conttr.uos alrooet tmifonm. the gokt being a little thidcer at one aide than the other. The Paetol-a Oaaxpvnfa dredges are working _ose together, and the difference in Uunr retunia is 4s _t*dh c—i_g to capacity of the bmu__m* a* to the difference in ground. A tjumtoer of stoppagos ooourred on the Mosquito Company's dredge, and timber is p!er.t_ol. The ©laobwaier River Ctamipany's dredre is worVung towwrds the richer side of tha claim, and ebould j—iprove. The Mbo_fa(_t Coxnpanv's drecVe has got a fresh start sifter the accident. The wash is shallowinc TasndMy, and the bottom has to be out into to Steep the dredge afloat. ' Much time wan lost tor want of coal, the inspection of the bailer, a delect in the fcotkenrtamlbler. and difficulty witfa heavy . boirfders., The iNorth Beeoh Company's ArecVe during tbe timber.trouble rather bed. l-s'Aiding* Company's —ash is about the name, IbetaVr»~tnawhat roug. and hea-w. On-lv half the width of t_s raja ~a» worked fast Treek.

The Welcome Oompeoy's dredge got tbrorr*_ a fair .u-Dfa'sv o. —s_a, but she was wor__g' in a poor bell Tha wrssH treated by the Kohinoor Company's dredgs was eknilar to that givirut over efto*. The dredge is off the richer run, and th* rroond is 'patchy. Tbe Greenstone JqjsoMon Company's dcedge had another -hurt stosupagw on account of the minion <w_e*fl on the main a_ot_>n ehaft brerftiiv. The Greenstone Three 'Mile Ccanpunv'a dredfre i* sUJ kNa, trnderffornar repaint. A new screen is besqr put on the Huller Junction Company's dredge