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Otago Witness, Issue 2493, 25 December 1901, Page 20

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iTN Consequence of the nearness of the ■*■ Christmas and New Year Holidays it has been deemed advisable tb POSTPONE THE PUBLICATION OF THE. FOURTH. NUMBER OF THE INVESTORS" GUIDE, r ' MINING AND GENERAL, Until "• WEDNESDAY, JANUARYS, 1992. This will- onafele the Full Statistics for 1901 to be included. ' Corrections and new information may be lent by Secretaries to th* Compiler, Mr ALFRED 1 H-. BUKEON, Liverpool street, until TUESDAY, December 3lst. * I Copies of the " Guide" may be obtained j >£ all Booksellers, oe, direct from the Otago , Daily Tiin^s and Wijtness Company. .Price, Half-a-crownj or, if posted, 2s;9d. - j It MINERS' G^lf BOOT&— Wholesale and IH. Betaifc— J. WATSON, Importer, George itreet, Port .-Chafaxers, and Lower Eattray rfreet Dunedin, has on hanij' (direct from tne makers) the following brands of mining and ' -Fishing 1 . Tfcigbr . Dull-finish Bubfcfer goots:— Woonsockets, 225; Stout's Snagproot, 17* 6d: Stout* Patent Snagproof, with leather ■oles, 35^fia4..XJM5e.Boats, 15s. 13» ( 6d, 21* (vrool ok rubfeer-lin*!). Eatfietf Knee Boots, lte; Alaska Fleecy Socks, Is'6a. Qne pair posted. to any partfof Kew Zealand for Is extra. Letter j oi&exs promptly attended to. 22m • — . — ■ — IA G. KIPSTON-HUNTEB SflL. ! JF.C.&;,-F.Bn;M.S. t M.S.G.L, Lon.),. ] ANALYST,. ASSAYEB, & CONSULTING . '" CHEMIST, 132 PRINCES STREET, DUNEDIN. Mining Properties reported upon. MINING. THE WEEK'S^MINING NEWS Extraordinary deposits of alluvial gold futv« been diacoxsred along the Horse Fly River in the Cariboo district of British Columbia, ihe famous stamping ground of the ! oM " forty-niners." It was thought that che ! men who overspread the Cariboo country in 1857 had exhausted " the diggings," and for some years past white men have been content to leave them to Chinamen, who have l>een panning over the ground with fail . returns. The Cariboo district takes rank as the richest placer diggings eve? discovered, and the present reported finds indicate that the "forty-niners" only touched the fringe <Jf the gold-bearing area. Placer mining has ibeeri carried on in British Columbia since 2858. In 1860 the output amounted to Z,228,5#2d01. In 1863, high-water mark, the output totalled 3,913,563d01, most of which came from the district now being worked. 3?or five years ' th© product continued over 2,000,000d0l per year, and remained over 1,000,000d0l until 1881,, when it began to decline, and for the past few years the prbdiiet of the placers has-been comparatively insignificant. There- is a tremendous " rush " now in progress to the Horse Fly country It is simply marvellous what development has taken place in gold^nming in Canada in recent years. It is only four years ago since the Yuk«n goldfield was discovered, and in that period ihere has been a steady increase in the output. This year, for instance, the shipments for the four full months of the •xport season are as i'cllows : — Dollars. June - < .. '1,918,000 July -" ,r. : . .., 9.725,000 August .... - .. 3,000,000 September « „.*... 3,000,000 .TotaL ..,<■. .'- . "21,643,000 ' " The dtedgemaster of the Big Flat dredge reports 89 iodlows fox the week ended ltih inst,:.— "We were sroumea a lot with the clfim, »s we did not iiave enough water to work, and fcfter raising, the water we had to extend the ladder as much as we could and also make a tail box to carry the silt a bit further away from the dredge. We got started on Thui-a day, and now we have opened out, and s"e quite safe and independent of the darn. The dredge will ba closed down before Christina <;, and will remain so until after the New Year. ' Mr J. J. Ramsay informs u<3 that it will ,'*k« most of this week to relip the bucket of the Golden Gravel dredge, but that everyth.ug ■will be ready to recommence work after the holidays.- The Golden Eeward dredge has b??u unable to get a start on the new claim owirg to th« hooded state of the rver. At'fhe annual meeting of the Dunecun Stock Exchange, held or Tuesday afternoon, st ihe conclusion of the call over. Mi C \Y. Haivcy ■was elected chairman for the ensuing 12 months, and Messrs E. R. Smith, H. Fenwick. W. F. Sligo, G. Sievwught, and H. E. ■Wilson a committee. The United Morven Gold Dredging Company require an engineer Th» secretary of the Nevis Dredging Conipaay leports having received the ioliowing field the" dredgeniasttr, dateo December 13r — "We hope to have all reaay on 'luescUy or .Wednesday. Too* gogd. run out of luackuieix,