RICH FINDS AT WAIKAIA.
Tl.e Argyle Wat' i Race and Sluicing Company" Waikaia, have stmck it rich, and are said in five week* 1 woiking to have washed up for 20 'oz. Mr Sew Hoy is said to be obtaining still ere.itev reI turns on the Nokomai, and there is such activity at Waikaia as has not been known for many a year. Forty-nine applications for special claims, water races, damn, &c. were made on Tues lay at the Warden's Court, involving au expenditure of over £60,000. MOUNT LYELL MINING AND RAILWAY COMPANY (LIMITED). Mr A. G. Fenwick has handed to us the'fo'low- [ ing extracts from the head office report for week ■ ending May 15 : — No. 1 tunnel, north diive — "Distance driven for week, 3ft ;— total, 3lft. No. 3 tunnel, south fiiive — Difctance driven for week, lft ;— total, 531 ft. No change to report. No. 4 tunnel, south driveDistance driven for week. 3ft ; — total, 494 ft. No, 4 tunnel, south drive, No. 3 ciosacut — Distance driven for week, lft ;— total, 37it. Slightly improving. No. 4 tunnel, south drive, No. 2 rise— ftise has been put up 2ft for week ;— total, 22ft. No. 4 tunnel, south diive, *• o. 4 c osMJut—Distauce driven for week, lft ;— total, 3f)ft. Face very hard. No. 4 tunuci, south drive, No 3 riseRise has bern put up sft for week ;— totil, 27ft. Suifaca Work. — Compressor has been running during the latter part of the week. The removal of overburden at No. 1 bench has boen actively carried on, exposing good face of pyrites. An ore bin at foot of haulage line and opposite approach to No. 4 tunnel has been started and is nearly completed. At site of new assay office the brickwork for furnaces has been staited Progress Report. -- Smelter building practically completed f.>r some time past. Mac iinery in wo' king order. Electric light plant neaily completed, only awaiting arrival of last parts. i Railway Engineer's Report.— The whole of the works are in a very forward state. Earthworks will be very shortly completed, and are entirely confined to two cuttings in Hall's creek. Two i shifts are working at the foundations ot the ! Queen bridge, and only one pier remains to complete.
RICH FINDS AT WAIKAIA.
Otago Witness, Issue 2206, 11 June 1896, Page 18
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