MINING.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CV, Issue 12423, 12 February 1901, Page 2

MINING.

[Per Press Association.] . AUCKLAND, Feb. 11. The Waiki Company's return for tlio month, is £29,055 from 12,963 tons of stone.- The total return to date is £ 1,589,869. .[Pee Press Association.] . Feb. 11. Tile following are the Stock Exchange'quotations : —Ahauia. River, buyens Is, .sellers la 3d; Alpine Consols, buyers £2 0s 6d, sellers £2 Is 6d • Alpine No. 2, sellers £2 4s; Arrow Junction, buyers £1123, sellers £l"l3s; B«ndigo ; sellers 6s 9d; Boundary Creek, .buyers £1 2s) sellers £1 4s; Buller Junction, buyers 3s 3d, sellers Ss 3d; . Cairnmuir, buyers ,; £l. 14s 9d, sellers £1 15s;. Cajeiionia,, sailers..2s'9&";-Galla- j ghunV Creek, buyers' 'ss 9d; Central''.Charlton, selllers 16s; Central Electric, buyers. £3 10s, sellers £3 18s; Central Mata'ura" sellers-,par;. Charlton Creek, buyers'£l 10s,'sellers £1 12a 9d; Dobsorv 'No. 2, sellws £l.Cs; Bulce of Wellington, sellers pir; Eclipse, buyers £1 lis, sellers £1 16s; Electric, buyers, £2 12a, sellers £2 12s 3d; Empire, sellers.. £4; Endeavour, buyers £1 3s; .'Erickson's -Reward, sellers 7s 6d; E'ttrick, buyers 7a ,6d, sellers 3s 6d discount; 'Extended Fourteen-mile Beach, .buyers 6d, sellers Is 6d; First Chance, buyers £1 9» 3d sellers £1 9s 9d; FordW Creek, sellers 14s; Fourteen-mile" (Beach, Buyers ! £1 103 6d, sellers £1 12s; Galvanic, buyers £1 13s; Gentle Annie," buyew £2 7s, sellers £2 3s 6d;'Gribbs's Beach, buyers 16s 6d, seil'ers 173;, Globe, sellers par; Gold King, huyers Is, •selaers 3d discount; Gold Queen, buyers £1 12s, sellers £1 133 9d; Golden Mile, sellers 3s .discount; Golden River, sellers 6s 9d; Golden Run, sellers £2 9s; Grand Junction, buyers 6» 3d, sellers 6s 9d; Great Central, buyers,£l 12s sellers £1 15s'; Great Woodstock, .sellers la discount; Greenstone, sellers 3s; Greenstone Creek, sellers £1 lis 6d; Greenstone. Junction, buyers £1 ss, sellers £1 Gj Gd;, Grey River, 'buyers £2 lis, sellers £2 ,13s 3d; Grey River Consolidated, buyers 4» ljd, sellers, 4s 6d; Half-way House, buyers £2, sa, sellei-3 £2 5s 6d; Hartley and Riley, buyers £6 17s, sellers j £6 18s; Hokitika River, sellers 12s; IhcbhoTme, | sellers 6s 9d; .Island Creek, buyers 4s, seller* 73 6d; Kaiora, buyers 7s, sellers 12s6d; Sawa- | rail Bridge, buyers lis, sellers lis 6d; Kawa- | rau Consolidated, sellers 3d discount-; Kelly ; and Casey, buyers £1 10s 6d, sellers £l,lls 6d; j Leviathan, sellers £2; Long Valley, buyers 13s, > sellers 15s; Magnetic, buyers £1 10s t'd, sellers £1 12s 6d; Majestic, buyers £l'9s, sellers-£1 103 Maori King, buyers 3s, sellers ,3s 3d; Meg and Annie, buyers .£3 7a 6d, sellers £3 13s; ! Merrimac, buyers £2 2a, sellers £2 4s;- Metivlic, buyers £1 Is Cd, .sellers £1 3s Gd,; auj'ller's Fiat Electric, sellers. 19s 9d; Moa.FUu, buyers £1 , 2s,'sellers £1 4s; Mokoia, buyers £1 Cs 3d, sellers £1 7s;, Molyneux Hydraulic, Company's Dredge, sellers £1 5s 6d;. Morite Chr'.ito, buyers £l'l3s, sellers £l'l4s 6d; iloonlighfc, sellers par; Mosquito, buyer.? 6s, .sellers 6$ 6d; Naumai, sellers £1 Is; Nelson Creek, buyers £3 3s, sellers £3 5s 6d; Nevis, sellers, 19s; New Alexandra, buyers 12s 9d. sellers 13s 6d; .Notown Creek, sellers 5s 6d; Nugget, buyens Is Id, sellers Is 9d; Olrig, sellers lis 6c!; Orwell Creek, sellers 4s 6d; Otama, sellers.l2s; Pactolus, buyers £1 10s, ■'sellers £1 14s; Perseverance, sellers £4 30s;. Premier Waikaka, sellers 14s 6d; Prince of, "Wu'-es. sellers 6s; Reeves' Piotirieiaqs Iniyers: 17s Gd, sellers £1 !.?• 9d~r.'Kicnar3''s"B'eaclil sellers, 18s ,9d;.. River Molyneux, buyers 3s, sellers sa; Itoxburgh Jubilee, buyers 4s; Sailer's Bend, buyers £2 fls . 3d, seller.? £2,25; Sa'.'Uvater Creek, .sellers 9d; Second Magnetic, sellers £1 11*; Sixteen-mile Beach, buyers 1&3, sellers 173 ,61; Teremakiu, buyers 3d discount, sellers par; Mot,..buyers" Is. 3d,. ,sellers 6d.discount; Three-mile; TrafalgSr : Sell«TS i6V;- Upper ''Magnetic, buy-j ers £1 14s, sellers £1 15s 6d; Yiciory, buyers i S» 9'd, sellers 9s 6d; Vincent, buyess £2; Van- "

cent Extended, buyers £2 Cs Sd, sellers £2 7s, 6d; Vulcan, .sellers par; Waimumu, sellers figs; "Waimumu Central, -buyers £1 2s; Wsijmna, buyers' £1 Qs 6d, sellers £1 2s-6d; Waiieatea:, sellers ss; Westland, sellers 3d. During the week ended to-day, returns have been- received from thirty-four dredges, the total gold being 79Soz I9dwt .ligr,' or an average of £soz. The additional cetuniß are—-Success 230 z 4dwt, -Majestic 16oz 13dwt' opening up), Tuapeka 16oz lSdwt, Chaitto Creefc' Moz ISi-wt, Upper Waipori 12oz 9dwt The Skipper's Sluicing Company washed up 70as' lOdiwt. The return from the Nelson Oreejc (West Coast) is 49<->z far 136 hours' work. THE GLOBE-PROGRESS REEF 3. A SECOND WAIHI. : Some interesting details of the -work dend at the Globe-Progresg .reef at Inangahua axe' afforded fey a recent return. During the pass' year the company crushed 60,000 -tons of J quartz, obtaining 22,6180 z of gold valued aV £92,010; The mine has paid Ga per £1 shexa already, and the prospects of the splendid,' reef struck in xhe Wealth of Nations mine' give hope of even better returns. The " Grey-| mouth Star " states that there is no reason to doubt but that there are plenty of similar reefs on the West Coast that require only; testing to prove equally rich. One very proV raising locality is the Paparoa range. , • CANTERBURY STOCK EXCHANGE. ,-' The following are yesterday's quotations of !ih« Stock Exchange of Canterbury:—Aldinga, sellers 7s p; Buller Junction, sellers 5s 6d p;. Caledonia, sellers 3s p; Dobson No. 2, sellers' 26s pd; Ford's Creek, buyers 13s pd, sellers. 15s 6d pd; Greenston« Creek, buyers 32s 6d pd; Hokitika Junction, sellers Is 6d p; MaoriKing, buyers 2s Sd p; New River,' sellers 113 ' pd; Perry's Reward, sellers 6d p; Red Jacks, buyers la 3d p, sellers Is 9d p; Reeves's Proprietary, 22s 3d pd; Teremakau, buyers par,' sellers 3d p; Westland, sellers par; Waipun* Creek, sellers par; Reeftou TTnited, sellers 2a 6d p. • The "Greym'outh Star" has thp following:] —The contractors for the driving of the Siaf-' ford damage tunnel have now finished sinking their new shaft opposit* Rodda's mill' and! erecting their machinery. They are now en-| tering on the last stage of their contract. Be- : fore many months pass by, something tangible —in the way of a lead of gold-bearing wadb>» —should be found. A large quantity of blue gum has been soldi by the Brandy Jack Company to the Mosquito Company. The timber was all taken to the Brandy Jack claim a few months ago. l The " Mining Journal" states that the company is acquiring a new' claim. The machinery for the Prince of Wale 9 claim (Ross),has been ordered from England, 1 the traJo x for delivery allowed being thirty, weeks. The cost will be about £SOOO, which? is over '£2ooo lower than the colonial price. _ ' The "Hokitika Guardian" states that the' payable extent of tho ground in the Great Woodstock "Company's claim was considered too small, and the claim has been virtually,' abandoned, the prospecting party now preparing to prospect the Commissioner's Fiati claim. ,' Twenty-five tons of machinery arrived at Greymouth last Wednesday for the Harsdert' No. 1 dredge. The timber for the pontoons of inc Green-' stone dredge is being delivered, and the r>on- ' toons will ho built about the middle of the, claim'. The boring experiments are neorly completed,, hut no results have as yet been made known 1 . Mr Slowey, of Westpoit, wss the successful tenderer far the building of the Wareatea ponicons. Dredging on the Mitchell River <l>ew South! Wales) or any cf its tributaries is not to be' permitted. This decision has been come to by the Hon A. R. Outtrim, Minister of Mines: who has been-repeatedly urged by deputttiona hot .to grant drsdging leases on the-river, a 3 it would result in sludge being scattered riclt river fiats, which, were valued, at £3O per acre. ' . The Nelson Creek dtedge has obtained 150 oz of gold since first starting. This is exclusive', of last week's return, which has: not been, made known yet. The work is going on' smoothly, and during this month the rlredgc. should make up for somei of the .tim<> lo9t in' stoppages and interruptions. , The Maori King Syndicate intends further;prospecting tho claim during this month. ; Satisfactory progress with the erection of the* machinery on the Maori Queen dredge is being made.' The boiler and engine are in l line, and a. large portion of the other machinery is in position. A plate with large per-' 'f orations has been put in at the lower end of the screen to catch the rough gold known to be distributed throughout, the wash. This chin* promises to be the Hartley and Riley of. the West Coast. The Foley's Creek Company has secured an option over the New Ma-rsden clainv in the New River, below the Yellowstone claim. Tha property is being extensively prospected. The contractors, Messrs M'Kinnon ana Hill, expect to complete the pontoon® for the, Marsden No. 3 dredge by the end of lb© month.- The- reservoir and head-raw w.U be' completed about the same time. . - The Woodstock Company has purchased the Nil Dasperandum races, water rights, etc., and the price is understood to hivabean £1200,.