WORKSOP GOLD-DREDGING CO.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9125, 26 June 1908, Page 7

WORKSOP GOLD-DREDGING CO.

Mr J. Heasey, of Masterton, has received the following report regardjog the Worksop Gold-dredging Company from Mr George" Pottigrew:— Since starting, the dredge headed straight for the road, and went to within a chain and a-half. The tailings were then, in the deepest place, 16 feet thick, and the wash thinned out to about 2ft and prospects poor. We then wheeled the corner around to fuce down the flat. The result being h poor return—i he third onethere being very little wash; all clay and tailings. The following week the wash improved, and we got a little gold out of the cut out from the terrace, where France's camp was. Though the wash on half of the cut next to the road was thin and drifty, at the outside end of the cut the wash has been the best since turning down the flat. The result of that soven days was 250z lOdwt. This last week was put in opposite the bluff in the terrace no gold came over, the face being 210f; wide and 16ft to 18ft deep. The end cf the cut next to the road is poor, the wash being very ' drifty. I think you had a bore in this part, and if I remember you told me it was very drifty. The end of the next creek is a better wash, and mora of it. I would not expect to get much gold for the next thn e weeks till we get through the swamp. The stripping is very heavy aid tough, cutty gjraaa being on two surfaces. The tailings covering the original surface. 'lhe face will now be widened out fairly quick since we have got through the tailings. But we must hold on to the end next to the road to get into the bend when 1 the greater part of the run came off the terrace. By then we will have a good face on, and should be on to the run and get good gold. As far as my experience has taught me I am not disappointed at the terrace being so high, a3 1 do not expect to get gold so close in under the terrace. As the cutting down of the flat from the terrace level the cold is bound to be ■ further out down the flat. I don't think you need feel annoyed or disappointed at this week's return of 15oz, as no one can expect to get gold out of a scour-out which this has been; but I would not expect the end next to the road to be much better for three weeks. Still, I expect the returns to improve, as every week we are wicer.ing the cut out into the flat. The wash on half of the cut next to the flat is improving, and as we will be working a square cut, and not be in the end next to the load so much as this week. There should be a fair improvement next week. The dredge is doing good work, and the electric light is workirg first-las?.