ALEXANDRA. MINING.

Otago Witness, Issue 2664, 5 April 1905, Page 35

ALEXANDRA. MINING.

April 1. — The river continues at between •6ft and 6ft above normal, and a little drift is Tunning.

The Manuherikia had her first wash-up yesterday for this season, and I learn tha+ the ground gone over was mainly worked ground. - Bpeaks'lrohrmes, and indicates unmistak- ,. ably 'that, wilh-a return from worked ground , of 4402 for.lßohflurs'dredging, directors should - consider their gold-saving appliances. , ,The-M6a is still working .at the mouth of 7 the Manuherikia, and as she is beine: worked . up stream very slowly, the bottom, -no doubt, .-asf-fesing^well cleaned.

lira Aexaariuliead has a- good future -a,head"is- clear from the last-two xetoirns. Tiast * week=s '.return was *4Qasr- for about ~five days' -worfc. It is most unsEfirtunate that this dredge must now stop any -day, for she is just about hemmed in with tailings and silt. If the comj^any decides to replace the rotary elevator -7ith a bucket elevator, at the same time that this work is being carried out a silt elevator should also be arranged _ for. That the -silt elevator is necessary is evidenced from the. fact that the material now being treated consists of nearly one-half fine silt. This fine material must be removed by some means, and there Is no betFer means known than a silt elevator. -With a bucket elevator the dredgo could be iept -going for 'some considerable time without a silt elevator; but it-4s as .well to look ahead and make provision for future contingencies.