THE SIX-MILE ENGINE.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 15, Issue 1356, 16 January 1894, Page 6

THE SIX-MILE ENGINE.

It is recorded in the • Free Press ' that ] Bslclutha's enterprising towneman, Mr Qeo. TbomfOD, baa the proverbial-. ' eye lo butiDesf,' and whenever he gets wind of a good j bargain he'ishotslow to close down. G'ouecquently, wben. he heard that the Six Mile jQredgiDg CompßDy, near Waiiswa, . was in liquidation, and toat they bad among their plant a costly engine ihat was likely to, bo : gold cbeap,he took immediate steps to become I the purobaser. Arriving at the scene of ' operation onthe Ist iust. wilh the neceisary teams and appliances, the work ol dismantling was rpeedil} placed in hand, and next d»y a dart waa made. The boiler was placed "on one lix horse waggon ami ihe engine on another Those 'who hn. w (lie locality will apprcoitite Ihe difficulties to bo encountered with such a freight. Jb'or the fiist six milca , of ihe journey to Waikawa there is no road ; : and for aonue diatance from th« etarting point the ouly wayUit's over a aand .drift. VV/.ile' ! mgoiibtiDg this one team had to ba bitohed on to (he bojler.ao as to pull up hill to keep ■ the waggon ; ftom capsizing while the other team pulled it aloiu ibo steep sandhill. ; This difficulty successfully ovarcome, tte ntxfc , trouble arose .on tue Waisuwu beach -tho : only road— when the waggon with the engine eank in a qmckeand ; bm by the aid oi levers and platiks it wan ruised, and after ihat tbe way was cbmparilively plain eailicg. On Monday of luat week the teams arrived in Bttlclntha and since then the eneine and boilor have' ' been fittefl tip by V>r* A. Mo Donald of Milton. . They will ba used lo ruu a E»\»mMing plant. The enf-ma wis n.eu b> ihe6ix-mile Uu-dgiug CompaDyfor •luioing purposes ; and w a only at work a few dajs, go that it in prustieally new. It is, without tx«epiiou,.irut> veil engine that has been teeii in Balo utba j