BIG RIVER MINE.
(FBOH OtJB OWK COBaEBPOBIHENT.)' REEFTOINy December 15V The Big Biver mine manager reports:— )» '* Driving No. 9 south was continued on ft good jeef track carrying quextx bouldersv Ris«n for leading stops aver branch levely and started stoping towards crosscut on aa average width of 10ft of stone of gooct quality. Have been prospecting in No. 2 level on a likely-lookins; reef track, which: opened to 18in of dean stone, bui has now pinched to a few inches, fifty ions of stone, were broken out for the week." GOLD PRODUCTION OF VICTORIAThe following table shows tne amount of gold won in Victoria per yea* for the pasti 56 years, the aggregate value thereof, and th* total amount of dividends paid year by yeax by Victorian public companies l— Dividends publio ■ From Ounces, companiesv 1661 to 1806 61,08ft,«82 £09,695 a During 1897 .• 812,766 587,084 1 1898 . .-. .. ... 837,367 615,68* 01899 -.. .*. .. .. 854,500 566,805 t 1909 --j .. 807,407 458,882 ll 1901 789,562 427,997 § 1902 .v -. 4* 777,788 478,185 4 1908 .:, v 822,424 601,162 1« 1904 .. .. .* .. 881,017 era,BSTI7 1905 810,050 451,422 18! 1906 864,775 484,798 2 1907 (nine months) .. 545,586 389,064 If Total gold yield, 69,747,76405. .mlued a» £278,650,1084, of which £5,975,025 has been x*« turned to shareholders in dividends by publid companies.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2805, 18 December 1907, Page 30
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210BIG RIVER MINE. Otago Witness, Issue 2805, 18 December 1907, Page 30
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