MINING

Evening Star, Issue 11897, 27 May 1903, Page 4

MINING

The Riley's Beach dredge will probablj begin work on Thursday night. The hushet for which she has been waiting errived thif morning. Mr Wyllie leaves Dunedin to-morrow for the West Coast to superintend the dismantling and ro-eructioii of the Bignell's No Town dredge. The work is expected hi occupy about four month*. Good progress is being made with the erection of machinery on the Heesey's dredge. The boiler is in position, aUc most of tho mountings fitted, and the housing is well forward. The carters have not been keeping the workmen too wed supplied with material. The Inchdale dredge is working a. cot seven" chains wide, and the average depth is 23ft. , T , _ , . The manager of the Local Industry washed down on Saturday, when ho gol 220z 18dwt. It will take him a few mon clavs to finish the paddock. The above goM is "the result of 144 hours' ground sluicing. The manager of the Golden Creaoent finished his paddock on Saturday. He got 390z lOdwt, making a total of 81oE6dwt from the paddock since April 3. Over a week of that time they had no water on, being otherwise engaged on the race. Some of the props from the old cement workings ore sticking out of the bottom of tjje padTuapekn. Times.' The report to be submitted to thft Mimal meeting of the Roxburgh Amalgamated Hydraulic Sluicing Company shows that tJ»e quantity of gold won during the year was 9990 i, valued at £3,887 13s 3d, w»d tie two dividends paid absorbed the sum of £1,457 lis 6d. On April 30 there wore sundry creditors to whom the company owed £154 16s, as against which there wna £SOO on deposit and £499 8s Id in the bank. DUNEDIN EXCHANGE. This afternoon's sales: Davit Benw (contbs.), par; Dunstan Lead, 12/3. « i