MINING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 9547, 1 October 1892, Page 5 (Supplement)

MINING.

NOTKS PROM WAKATIPtr. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Aiiuew,September2.l.-WorkattheArrow Falls has been stopped for the.time being, owing to the Government haviug shown signs that they intend to protect tl le Macetown dray road, the safety of which, it is alleged, will bo jeopardised by the party sluicing out the river bed below it The stoppage, it is supposed, will be of short duration as there is a ready if somewhat costly way out of the difficulty.

With the open weather we have had, mining is looking exceedingly healthy, and espec al y so in the alluvial mines, but it is anticipated that un less we have a wet spring and summer water will rim short as there is very little snow oni the

NOTES FROM NENTHO RN. CFhom Our Own Correspondent. )

September 20 -The Bonanza has turned out a cake of 2300z from a little over 100 tons of

Surprise.—More men have been put on lately and another crushing should soon bo at crass Olus reef was discovered about the latter end of the Nenthorn boom, and taken up in the name of seven shareholders registered as a company, and work started. Several small crushiiigs were taken from it, and although they averaged'about 20/ to the ton they did not cover expenses It F b£">g worked from a shaft A contract was then let for a low-level tunnel, but the contractors not being paid, they sold the mine under distraint about 15 months ago for 30s. It was «nl?l -f V n H*he. c,ontr actprs, who afterwards resold it for L 5, they thinking that they were well clear of it, as they had prospected the reef, and it was in ithcir opinion no good. l He purchasers took out a crushing after fiuishion,P r f r" nel Wli! ch S*y°*>», <«"l then through ™i 1 1 f?) C° Jie mui° was olFered fOl- sale auu bought by the present owners for LSO I uX'nnnn 1-* v:il-"c of tho mine * not it is tn M? » Tls a c n lUß. tance °f how diflicult it is to toll the value of a mining property 1 visited Cockerel's dredge on Macrae's Flat and saw his patent self-filling scoop at work-tho bucket portion of the plant was not at work filled the lever is pulled back arid the ,1 scs r °Ld for t°l c MoSTwh! r dthOy SCVVC «« a ttntoS loitne scoop, which runs on two runners lil-p •> sledge It is easily tipped. I tinied tle nu ber of loads and found that there was being shifted of ckv hT- ai,l l W° lm- abollt Kbfcft of clay in eight hours, at a cost of lid per yard ihe scoop will work gravel wash cniwllv as well At present the clay is being stripped off, largo m 1 dock to the depth of about 4ft andl beneath fh th? ro }f^ at 12ffc of W!l3h- wh el will he tikcb a"AaraSi'ftsß-i-4^; any practical man. The first cost is little ami all of it is easily removed, so that it can road ly be taken to fresh ground. Tho same scoop can c equally applied to steam power with the use of a wire rope &c. For road making the advantages of this self-filhug scoop are very groat, as i man and two horses can do tho work of aboutl2 me with pick and shovel.

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