Notes from Tuapeka.

Otago Witness, Issue 2326, 29 September 1898, Page 17

Notes from Tuapeka.

(From Our Wetherstones Coerespondent.) September 26. — All the claims around here are working full time at present. Anyhow, they have not lost as many hours these last two weeks as they did days in the winter time. The Tuapeka Company's two dredges are paying their way, and giving a little over. The Evans Flat dredge had 18oz for the week ending 10th inst., but the following week not so much. The Golden Rise party have built a dam by the road where the timber and material for their dredge is lying. They have taken the old useless buckets and other things that are not fit for use out of her, before floating her down alongside the- road. Not being able to get the boiler they expected, they called for tenders in the Dunedin papers for a new boiler. The tenders they got ranged from £275 to £280. They thought that too much, so they called on the Dunedin agent of an English firm, who offered to supply them with a good, strong, and suitable boiler landed in Dunedin for £180. I can't see why there should be a difference of £100 in the price of a boiler manufactured in the colony and one made in England. Some of the shareholders of the Golden Crescent Cement claim went to Waipori on Monday last to see which would be the best way of bringing the water in. The race had been surveyed a twelvemonth ago by Mr Gascoigne, who owns the water rights that the present company hold. They think that by fluming the water across the Waipori river the snow would not affect the.fluming, and that it would shorten the race by 20 miles. The cost of that 20 miles would more than pay for the pipes. I have heard that the party intend to call for tenders for cutting the race in a few weeks.