Notes from Clyde.

Otago Witness, Issue 2509, 16 April 1902, Page 23

Notes from Clyde.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) CLYDE, April 10 I was aboard tho Unity dredge yesterday, the dredgemaster (Mr Barry 1 ) kindly showing me over the dredge. The machinery :s m tiptop order, and is kept constantly going, constant application to work being a character. stio of the management — so much so, in fact, that "Your Own was harnessed mto assist in shifting a headline. The dredge and pontoons appear to be well pieserved notwithstanding the amount, of woik they have withstood. I was particrhirly well pleased v.-ith the gold-saving appl - anccs. The engine room a'ld all the machinery reflect a, deal of credit 0:1 Mr Cairns, tbu engineer. The Vincent dredge is working full timo i)i=hoio on the west side of tho river and sor_:€ 2t)o yrrds fiom the top boundary of her claim Tho Matau dredge has hpnled into mic!stjenm. and I=, working near where good return's were obtained last winter The Cairnmuir dredge staits again next V. pok. The Vincent Extended dredge im^'nt be going low like the other ventures. I intend to visit the gorge dredges o.uMiig the week, when I hope to hnd a!! gcod thi'iga at woik. Apr.l i: The Davis Bend dredge (the old Cairnmu.r) is being shifted to the upper boundary of the Cairnniuir claim with a view to testing the giound Tho Halfway Hou=c drodtre ha» been shifted to the lower bounds] v of liei eln.Hi. The Biatertal operated on I*3 of a silty nature Tho dredgemn=ter speaks higb'.y of the steainrig finalities of the fuel supplied to tho dredge by the Clyde coal pit". The Unity diedge is said to be on highly payable gold. This week's wash-un of '.he Mutau will be an improvement ou tho previous week's return. Mr Wilkinson, of St. Bathans. is the successful tenderer for the re-erection of Pitches's Commercial Hotel, Clyde, which was iecent!y dotiojed by hie.