SOME SPLENDID YIELDS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2250, 15 April 1897, Page 18

SOME SPLENDID YIELDS.

Some of the West Australian mines continue to return splendid yields, which no doubt have their share in counteracting the depression. Tho Western Argus of a recent data gives returns of yields from

several mines. The Great Boulder has pro duced 2 tons 16cwt 2qr 4-^lb of gold, or an average of 3oz Bdwt7grto the ton for 23,725 tons. The period during which this yield whs produced extended from April 30, 1895. to March, 1897. Lake View Consols between November, 1894-, aud Juue 3, 1895, produced 17,0600z of gold from 6H2 tons of stone, or an average of 2cz 15ilwb 13,:r to the ton. Lake View Consols Gold Mining, the new company's claim, produced 36,165dz of gold from 12,196 tons of gold between June 1896 aud March of this year. The average here was 2oz 16'lwfc per ton. Great Boultler Perseverance produced hii average of 3oz 4-dwt 2gr per ton from 2375 toni since December of last year, and Coolgardie Mint and Iron King an ay.-rage of 2^z 19ds?t from 768 tons since June, 1896. The Ivanhoe produced an average of 2 t z lldwfc 16gr per ton from 6505 tons of stove tcom April, 1895, to March last. The la«t crushing recorded of the Great Boulder yielded 2575nz of smelted gold from 792 tons. Tuis was a fortnight's craahing, les3 a few days lost owing to tha uaw 10 heads of stampers being conuect:d. These are results which inflame men's minds, and obliterate the record of any number of failures.