LATE MINING

Evening Star, Issue 11863, 17 April 1903, Page 4

LATE MINING

There was no wash cp this week on the Feddersen’s dredge. She resumed work last night after effecting alterations to the tables, which are now working satisfactorily.

The directors of th© New Roxburgh Jubilee Dredging Company have declared a dividend of 2s per share’, pavable on the 27th inst.

The North Beach report no wash np this week owing to the time lost with timber, and in cleaning up the face.

RETURNS.

Mystery Flat: 14oz 9dwt; 125 hours. Enterprise No. 1: 260z sdwt 18gr; week. Enterprise No. 2 : 28oz 6dwt; 88 hours. Matau : 320z; week. New Teviot: 31oz 6dwt; 132 hours. Electric No. 1: 790z 12dwt; week. Central Mataura : 13oz; 127 hours. Spec Gully : 9oz 14dwt; 108 hours. Waimunjn Extended: 18oz 6dwt; 117 hours.

Point d’Or: 12oz; 180 hours. Inchdale: 20oz 14dwt; 161 hours. Cromwell No. 1; 240z 9dwt; 153 hours; prospects fair. Cromwell No. 2: 540z Bdwt; 156 hours. Genital Charlton: 240z 12dwt y 139 hours. Duustan Lead : 90oz ; week.

DUNEDIN EXCHANGE

This afternoon’s sales:—Endeavor, 8/6; Prince Arthur, 9/6.

Dredge-masters’ reports for week ended lllh inst.: Blackwater River.—The substantial increase in the return was a good deal due to not Laving so much corner work and being free from timber, and also from running the engine faster. The ground bad also improved a little, if anything. They hope to run the dredge faster as soon as they get the tables altered, as there was more stuff being treated than the latter could carry comfortably. Having the silt tailing from one side only made it rather difficult to get at the corners. They were still widening out the face. At a meeting of directors held to-day bulkheads were authorised to be constructed in the pontoons, and also the alterations to the tables recommended bv the directors.

Cornwall.—They did not experience such a good run as usual, owing to the feed pump nnd the ejector failing to work at the same time, on which account they had to draw their, fire from the boiler. They will now have to fall back on the injector. There was a network of sunken timber which had hampered work. Prospects continued fair. Since the New Year the dredtre has worked 270 yds up the river, the cut averaging 4 chains in width.