MINING

Evening Star, Issue 12257, 26 July 1904, Page 4

MINING

(Continued from page 6.) The Hartley and Riley Company’s drodg* started work again at noon to-day. The Moonlight dredge-master, reporting on the 23rd hist., stated that tho ground ■was becoming rhallow right across the cart, which he regarded as a. good indication, as all the best returns obtained from the claim have been got in shallow gronnd. At this afternoon's call a sgle was effected in Unitys at 6/. The Enfield dredge-master reports tho ground on the north side of tho face as very poor. It appears to have been worked before, as there was nothing but mud on a rock bottom. _ The gold reported from fifty-nine Otago and Southland dredges for last week’s work was 1,7630z 16dwt, giving an average of 290z 18dwt per dredge, as against 1,6530/ i 17dwt from fifty-seven dredges the previous week, when tho average per dredge was 290z. From the West Coast thirteen dredges have reported 554nz 14dwt, or an average of 41oz 2dwt per dredge, afi against 4600z 14dwt from sixteen dredges the previous week, when the average per dredge was 28oz 16dwt. One reason for this apparently improved average from West Coast dredge? hist week is that in several eases the gold washed up at the erd of the week was for over a week's work, and in one care it wes for over a month’s work. The secretary of the Nokomai Hydraulic Sluicing Company reports that at* Fo. 1 elevator shorin'’' has prngrcw.pd well, a large paddo-k having been all hut completed. Four Ivnros were cleared for 26oz—• a very disappointing remit. Tho bottom is si’ll to be e'eaned, and w : ill probably bike till Friday to finish. At Fo. 2 elevator bottom was struck at a depth of 53ft. This, however, is rot the mam bortnm. Hi© reef is still dipping, and on the bottom is a layer of large stones and blue pug, carrying poor prospects. The Forth Beach and Few Woodstock dredges resumed work on Pehirdav. Thinner tlie four we<-ks ended duly 16 the Wa : hi Gold Minhre Company treated 19,798 tons of ore for bullion valued at £52,266. RETURNS Royal Wahmunu: 440z Bdwt, 208 bouts, Taniwha: 17oz lOdwt, week. Lawrence : 4oz 6dwt, week. Enfield: 15oz 4dwt, 129 hours. Patersons Freehold No. 1: 490z. Paterson's Freehold No. 2; 20oz, 131 hours. WEST COAST. Reeves’s Proprietary No. 1: 13or 13dTrt, 107 hours. smncixo. Undaunted; 760z, two weeks.