MOUNT LYELL, MINING AND RAILWAY COMPANY (LIMITED).

Otago Witness, Issue 2241, 11 February 1897, Page 18

MOUNT LYELL, MINING AND RAILWAY COMPANY (LIMITED).

Mr A. G. Fenwick supplies the following J extracts from the head office reports for the wteic January 15 : — Smelting Plant. —No. 1 blast furnace blown in again ; both furnaces running. ' Extension of Smelting Plant.— Roof trusses for feed floor framed and erected ; upper storeys of building/in progress ; excavation of ore storage pit j nearing completion ; excavation of new blower room completed ; widening of slag damp level in ' progress. j Water Supply. — Conglomerate Creek race com- j pleted and water let into high-pressure reservoir ; ' foundations of east York tank completed ; ertc- ! tion of tank in prosre<»*. I Converter Plant — Ilavo started active opera- I tious, working half time in order to break iv requisite crews of men. DREDGING RETURNS j The Dunedin Stock Exchange* leport the fol- ' lowing culls from Ileefton :— lTnited Alpine, (ill (struck 2nd February); Dillon, ad (struck , i J'-t February}; GoMen Lead, 3i (struck 28tfi ] January). . The Upper Waipori Alluvial Gold Dredging - Company (Limited) obtained from No. 2 dredge i ; 9on l(idwt of gold for 139 hours' dredging last week. i Mr Thomas Callender reports 370z 7d\vt 12gr | i retorted gold from the Sew Hoy Big Beach Gold Mining Company (Limited) Mr C. S. lleevea reports a return from the Enterprise dredge for labt week of 15t.-z 16dwt 16fcr. i The manager of the Roxburgh Amalgamated j Mining and Sluicing Company reports having ' washed down for January for 119oz lldwt 12gr gold ; value £460 7s 34. ! The secretary of tho Clyde Dredging Company j (Limited) reports a return for last week of 50oz ' 13dwt for 102 hours' dredging time. An additional 2oz was received during the week from paning31 off and blowings. ' The Dunedin Stock Rxchanga reports the \ \ following returns for last week :- Golden Treasure Dredging Company, 220z for four and a-half , days ; Golden Gate Dredging Company, lOoz ldwt ■ : for four days ; Otago Dredging Company, lOoz for ■ three and a-half d*ys.