LATEST MINING NEWS

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1349, 10 June 1905, Page 3

LATEST MINING NEWS

WAIHI G.M.CO THE BIG PUMP Yesterday, alter a lapso of a good many months, a trial ran was mado of the bin pump. lu every way tho trial was natis. factory. Tho prolonged susponsioc of opemtious of the pump was by puttiug iu an. iMormcdiato pump midway between the surface and No. 7 lovol. This work was carried Out as tho outcome of instruciions from tho Mining Inspector, tho object being to lessen tho risk of accident, l'lio result of rccoinmonc-, in? work wiih the big pump will bo the almost immediate further sinking, of TCo. 2.ntid No. 5 sbails, anil olhor important developmonts will, wo understapdj shortly follow, A t No 5 shaft surface, improvements are in hand, including an exearation for concrete foundations for a largo sir compressor and rlynamo. The lattor is,'with, other things, to provide electric lighting for the No 5 shaft and its bnildings in the immediate vioinity, Tho No , 5 shaft and surroundings are in tho meantime supplied with electric light from No, 2 shaft. . MINING AT tfAITEKAUIU THJS GRACE DARLING CLAIM Our own correspondent write Tho above claim of 90 acres, recently abandoned by tho Waielmuri Cr.ftL Company, has been taken up by Messrs Cballish and Korsey Cooper, of tbis place. Up to Iboprescw 3 tons of ore havo been broken out from No 1 lovel and treated at the local battery for a return of £IOB, This is (i most satisfactory restil', and encoutaging to other parties to tako up claims ill tho district and work thorn.