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1902. NEW ZEALAND.
THE GOLDFIELDS OF NEW ZEALAND: REPORT ON ROADS, WATER-RACES, MINING MACHINERY, AND OTHER WORKS IN CONNECTION WITH MINING.
Presented to both Houses of the General Assembly by Command of His Excellency.
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Page. Accidents .. .. .. 26, 52, 58, 85 Alluvial Mining— Marlborough, Nelson, and West Coast .. 19, 55 Otago and Southland .. .. .. 65 Antimony .. .. .. •■ 27,84 Battery Superintendents, Holders of Certificates 134 Cinnabar .. .. .. ..27,85 Compressed Air, Loeses with .. .. 33 Dredging (Gold) .. .. .. 23 Marlborough, Nelson, and West Coast .. 23, 58 Otago and Southland .. .. . - 23, 76 New Dredges .. .. .. 24, 26 Godbe Agitation Method of Leaohing .. 31 Examination Papers— Battery Superintendents .. .. 130 • Mining Managers (Mining Act) .. .. 128 Blmore Ore-concentration Process .. .. 27 Gold-dredging .. .. 23, 63, 68 Gold Purchased by Banks .. .. 141 Gold-saving : Paper by H. W. Young, A.M.I.C.E. 20 Haematite Paint .. .. • • 61 Hydraulic Mining— Marlborough, Nelson, and West Coast .. 19, 55 Otago and Southland .. .. 19, 65, 93 Inspectors of Mines (Reports) — Mr. Coutts, Thames .. .. .. 36 Mr. Green, Dunedin .. .. .. 61 Mr. Tennent, Westport .. .. 52 Mechanical Ventilation .. .. .. 27 Mine Managers, Holders of Certificates, Mining Acts .. .. .. ■ ■ 132 Payne and Peck's new Dredge-elevator .. 24 Prospecting for Gold .. .. • ■ 2 Quartz-mining .. .. ■. 19, 36 North Island .. .. 19, 36 Otago and Southland .. .. 19, 61 Inspectors' Reports .. .. 36, 52, 61 Machines employed .. .. • • 135, 178 Quartz crushed, and value .. .. 138 West Coast .. .. .. . - 19, 52 Beports of Inspectors of Mines — Mr. Coutts, Thames .. .. • • 36 Mr. Green, Dunedin .. .. .. 61 Mr. Tennent, Westport.. .. .. 52 Reports of Managers of Water-races — Mr. Aitken, Kumara .. .. .. 122 Mr. Murray, Naseby .. .. .. 126 Report of Engineer for Water Conservation .. 127 Reports of Wardens (see Wardens) Roads constructed by direct Grants .. .. 2 Scheelite .. .. .. .. 27, 85 Schools of Mines — Coromandel .. .. • ■ 8 Karangahake .. .. • ■ 11 Nelson .. .. •■ •• 12
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I Page. Schools of Mines— continued. Otago .. .. .. .. 14 Reef ton .. .. .. .. 13 Thames .. ... .. .. 3 Waihi .. .. .. .. 8 Westport .. .. ... .. 14 Expenditure on Schools .. .. 18 Statistical tables .. .. .. 142 Gold Duty .. .. .. .. 172 Gold Exported, 1857-1901 .. .. 173 Gold Exported, Comparative Return, Years 1899 and 1900 .. .. .. 173 Gold Exported, 1857 to 31st March, 1902 .. 174 Goldfields Revenue, Quarter ending 31st March, 1902 .. .. .. .. 170 Goldfields Revenue, Comparative Return, Quarters 31st March, 1901, and 31st March, 1902 .. .. .. .. 174 Goldfields Revenue, Comparative Return, 1900 and 1901 .. .. -. 171 Goldfields Revenue, Comparative Return .. 172 Goldfields Revenue, Year ending 31st December, 1901 .. .. .. .. 169 Gold purchased by Banks .. .. 141 Machines Employed .. .. .. 135, 178 Mining Leases .. .. .. 181 Price of Gold, &c. .. .. .. 175 Prices of Provisions .. .. .. 176 Quartz Crushed .. 138 Quartz-crushing Machines .. .. 175 Rates of Wages .. .. .. 177 Statement of Affairs of Mining Companies .. 182 Summary of Works Constructed .. .. 142 Wardens' Court cases .. .. .. 186 Water-races, &c. .. .. .. 179 Water-races, Results of Working .. ' .. 168 Works completed on 31st March, 1902 .. 151 Works in progress on 31st March, 1902 .. 146 Steming Shotholes .. .. .. 31 Subsidised Roads and Tracks .. .. 1 Wardens' Reports—■ Mr. Burgess, Clyde .. .. .. 114 Mr. Bush, Thames .'. .. .. 86 Mr. Carew, Dunedin .. .. .. 112 Mr. Cruickshank, Lawrence, &c. .. .. 120 Mr. Hawkins, Greymouth .. .. 94 Mr. Keddell, Oamaru .. .. .. 112 Mr. McCarthy, Inveroargill .. .. 121 Mr. Mcfinnis, Naseby .. .. .. 112 Mr. MacFarlane, Hokitika .. .. 107 Mr. Roberts, Tauranga.. .. .. 92 Mr. Wilson-Heaps, Nelson .. .. 92 Water Conservation .. .. .. 127 Water-races .. .. .. 122, 126, 168
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On page 134, to list of battery superintendents' certificates issued after examination under " The Mining Act, 1898," add the names of— Carter, S , Waihi. Clark, John L., Waihi. Fuller, John P., Kuaotunu. Horn, G. W., Kuaotunu.
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1902. NEW ZEALAND.
THE GOLDFIELDS OF NEW ZEALAND:
EEPOET ON ROADS, WATER-RACES, MINING MACHINERY, AND OTHER WORKS IN CONNECTION WITH MINING.
Presented to both Houses of the General Assembly by Command of His Excellency.
Mr. John Hayes, F.S.Sc, Inspecting Engineer, to the Hon. James McGowan, Minister of Mines. Sic, — Mines Department, Wellington, 15th May, 1902. I have the honour to present my report for the year ending the 31st December, 1901, together with those of Inspectors of Mines, Wardens, and other officers connected with the Department. The tables showing Government expenditure on roads, bridges, tracks, prospecting operations, &c, are made up for the financial year—viz., from the Ist April, 1901, to the 31st March, 1902.
SUBSIDISED EOADS AND TEACKS. The expenditure (as subsidies) authorised and the liabilities on outstanding authorities for the year ending the 31st March, 1902, are as follows : —
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Name of Local Body. Expenditure for the Year ending 31st March, 1902. Liabilities on Authorities on 31st March, 1902. Joromandel County Thames County . . lames Borough )hinemuri County ... Vaitoa Road Board 'iako County !ollingwood County duller County i-rey County Vestland County ... 'uapeka County jake County lontingencies £ s. 35 0 147 9 d. 0 0 £ s. d. 245 0 0 178 1 6 100 0 0 382 10 0 391 7 130 0 210 0 285 13 325 0 397 10 73 7 6 0 0 1 0 0 3 12 0 7 625 0 0 96 19 3 240 0 0 744 6 72 16 0 9 Totals 2,812 3 7 1,879 11 1
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EOADS CONSTEUCTED BY DIEECT GEANTS. The following statement shows the expenditure and liabilities on authorities issued on roads from direct grants to the several local bodies during the year ending the 31st March, 1902 : —
PEOSPECTING FOE GOLD. The following statement shows the expenditure and liabilities on authorities issued m subsidies to prospecting associations and parties of miners recommended by the local bodies in the different counties for the year ending the 31st March last: —
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Name of Local Body. Expenditure for thi Year ending 31st March, 1902. ie Liabilities on Authorities on 31st March, 1902. Great Barrier County Whangarei County Coromandel County Thames County ... Thames Borough... Ohinemuri County Piako County Tauranga County Pelorus Eoad Board Wairau Road Board Collingwood County Waimea County ... Buller County Inangahua County Grey County Brunner Borough Westland County Eoss Borough Taieri County Bruce County Tuapeka County ... Vincent County ... Lake County Southland County Knapdale Eoad Board Wallace County Lands and Survey Department Public Works Department... £ s. d. 200 0 0 135 0 0 5,977 10 2 2,197 16 5 100 0 0 4,679 4 3 58 0 0 700 0 0 481 14 2 1,538 3 9 647 14 6 4,305 0 0 959 18 3 1,592 16 10 £ s. d. 65 0 0 4,893 9 4 3,182 11 11 2,284 16 5 105 0 0 287 0 0 138 0 0 600 0 0 1,307 ,5 7 1,122' 7 0 3,700 0 0 2,257 12 6 3,170 0 0 250 0 0 1,304 7 5 2,745 13 7 200 0 0 200 0 0 500 0 0 1,900 0 0 831 15 0 850 0 0 400 0 0 168 0 0 2,075 0 0 1,197 10 0 1,000 0 0 250 0 0 150 0 0 6,742 2 0 7,068 11 9 2,393 18 5 3,832 10 4 Totals ... 44,761 0 8 35,984 8 11
Name of County. Expenditure for Year ending 31st March, 1902. ;iabilities on Authoritie: on 31st March, 1902. Dhames 3ay of Islands tfarlborough ]oromandel 3uller £ s. d. 74 0 10 75 0 0 17 0 0 269 14 6 345 8 6 £ s. a. 925 19 2 13 0 0 24 10 0 479 6 9 51 5 0 91 10 0 240 15 3 .nangahua 3-rey tVestland ... 3ontingencies 12 0 0 499 1 3 217 5 8 Totals 1,509 10 9 1,826 6 2
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SCHOOLS OF MINES.
The instruction given at the various schools in the different mining districts continues to be of considerable service in the theoretical training of aspirants for certificates, by which they become eligible for positions as mine-managers and battery-superintendents. As a result of the examination open to schools of mines students, a scholarship was won by Mr. G. Fraser, a student at the Coromandel School of Mines. This entitles the holder to three years' free instruction at the University of Otago and a grant of £50 per annum. The following reports relative to the past year's work have been received from the several schools :— THAMES SCHOOL OF MINES. Mr. P. B. Allen, M.A., B.Sc, Director, reports as follows : — The following record indicates the work done at the Thames School of Mines during the last nine months of 1901, from the Ist April to the 31st December. Although, owing to the depressed state of mining in the immediate neighbourhood, the attendance has been less than formerly, nevertheless the students have attended regularly, and much good work has been accomplished ; while in the battery there has been an increase in the number of parcels treated for the public. The battery has been worked throughout the year by P. H. Grumitt, battery-superintendent, and he has performed his duties carefully, zealously, and entirely to my satisfaction, and I sincerely regret that he severed his connection with the school at the end of the year, with the intention of going to Australia. Mr. A..8. Hardinge, as drawing-master, has performed his duties in a highly efficient manner, and several of his students have taken high positions in the annual examination in mechanical drawing. The position of assistant lecturer and assayer has been temporarily held for the last nine months by Mr. K. M. Barrance, who resigned on the 31st December, and applications are now being called for a permanent assistant. The museum has been opened to the public each week, a considerable number of mining-men taking advantage of the opportunity afforded them of viewing the rocks, minerals, and ores of the district displayed in proper order, and of comparing doubtful samples in their possession with those in the cases. The collection has proved of great assistance to the students in mining, mineralogy, and geology; new samples are being added from time to time, and the written labels are being gradually replaced by printed ones fixed in front of the specimens. This relabelling is a long process, but will be a very decided improvement when completed, and will enhance the value of the collection. A great improvement has been made in the general appearance of the school property by removing the old fence and continuing the picket fence all round the grounds. The fence, which is 5 ft. high and strongly built, is painted white, and has a pleasing effect. As usual, a number of excursions have been made to different places in. connection with the mining and geology classes. On one occasion, through the courtesy of Mr. H. P. Barry, the metallurgical class spent a day in viewing all the details of the Waikino battery. Every part of the- works was visited and much useful information obtained by the class concerning practical battery-work. On another occasion several of the students of the same class were permitted, through the kindness of Mr. E. W. Powell, to conduct a cyanide test on tailings in the Tararu battery. The students conducted all the operations —from the filling of the vats to the melting of the bullion —themselves, one of their number possessing a battery-superintendent's certificate being in charge of the party, and the results obtained were highly satisfactory. Altogether about 150 tons of tailings were treated, the assays of the ore, cyanide-solutions, residues, and bullion being also carried out and recorded in proper form by the students, who were thus enabled to put into practice the principles they had been taught at the school. The number of assays made in the school assay plant during the last nine months is as follows:— Public assays ... ... ... ... ... ... 162 Assays in connection with the experimental plant ... ... ... 184 Total assays .. ... ... ... ... ... 346 All the assays were made in duplicate in the separate assay-room set aside for this class of work, and every care was taken to insure accuracy in the results; and in this connection my own personal work has been largely increased during the last year. The school has continued to make assays for the Mines Department, details of which are given in this report. There has been a considerable increase in the amount of ore treated in the experimental plant, the number of parcels, quantity of ore, and value of bullion recovered for the last nine months of 1901 being greater than for the whole twelve-monthly period preceding, and this increase in ore-treatment was especially marked during the last four months of the year. Eight parcels, weighing 16,2401b., were treated by pan-amalgamation, and yielded 660z. 18 dwt. 12 gr. of bullion, worth £128 lls. Id.; five parcels, weighing 15,9201b., treated by the cyanide process, yielded 63 oz. 18 dwt. 11 gr. of bullion, of the value of £172 10s. 5d.; and ten other miscellaneous parcels, of an aggregate weight of 6,2981b., gave 35 oz. 6 dwt. of bullion, worth £38 19s. Bd. These together make an aggregate of twenty-three parcels, weighing a little over 17 tons, from which 166 oz. 2 dwt. 23 gr. of bullion were recovered, and a total value of £340 Is. 2d. returned to the owners of the parcels. The average rate of extraction both by panamalgamation and by the cyanide process was 835, and the details of weight, assay-value, percentage extractions, &c., for the separate parcels are shown in the attached tabulated statement.
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Tabulated Statement showing Parcels of Ore treated at Thames School of Mines Experimental Plant from 1st April to 31st December, 1901.
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Name of Mine or Owner, and District. Description of Ore. Dry Weight of Ore. Assai Gold. Assay-value of Ore per Ton. ,y-val lue of Ore Silver. per Ton. Value. Bullion saved. Value pe Ounce. ier Percentage saved. Gold. Silver. Value. A.— BY Pan A: lALGAMATIO: Gladstone, Waihi Huanui, Waitekauri Te Puke Gold Eeefs Taniwha, Tairua K. Macleod, Top Valley... Byron Bay, Komata Incognito, Maratoto White quartz Cyanide tailings White quartz, with iron-oxides Soft flaky white quartz Quartz stringers in rhyolite ... Splintery white quartz Quartz, with blue veins and reddish mullock ... Mullocky quartz, with MnO 2 Lb. 2,240 2,240 2,520 560 2,100 2,520 2,030 2,030 Oz. dwt. gr. 0 13 20 0 9 20 6 7 6 6 11 2 21 17 13 0 14 11 15 0 0 8 9 Oz. dwt. gr. 5 15 22 4 18 2 23 6 6 2 15 11 14 4 19 £ s. d. Oz. dwt. gr. 3 6 11 4 5 0 2 9 2 1 6 18 28 1 5 21 6 18 26 9 10 1 18 12 88 18 7 34 3 3 2 19 3 0 16 21 .5 4 6 2 7 0 1 14 5 0 14 12 £ s. 0 12 0 16 1 7 2 12 2 8 3 12 1 16 1 19 d. 6 2 3 0 2 0 4 84-2 49-7 95-9 75-4 98-7 90-8 91-4 92-3 57-0 21-1 54-2 89-4 98-0 63-0 83-5 79-5 45-7 92-0 75-6 98-7 90-8 90-2 92-0 2 "5 9 0 9 5 Gladstone, Waihi, A . B ... Te Puke Gold Eeefs B, -By G ■ANIDE. 6 6 1 5 5 20 2 10 10 4 1 22 2 9 18 3 13 1)1 3 0 lit 1 11 6 0 14 Oj 42 9 10 ! 30 9 0 29 4 8 J 31 18 5 1 (11-5 (66-6 96-3 97-8 12-0 38-3 100 95-0 96-3 11-5 48-0 46-3 963 97-7 White quartz, with iron-pyrites ... ... I 1,120 1,120 2,240 4,640 6,800 0 15 3 0 12 14 0 2 6 10 10 10 7 4 22 0 13 1 1 . It It • •' * " Soft flaky white quartz ... .. .. 1 White flaky quartz 2 15 2 14 8 It • • •
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The following parcels were also treated in the battery during the year, but either from their nature or their poorness did not require treatment by pan-amalgamation or by the cyanide process:—
Table of Attendances for the Year ending 31st December, 1901.
Results of Annual Examinations, 1901. The following table shows the results of the late annual examinations: —
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Owner and District. Weight. Yield in Bullion. Value. Bank of New South Wales, Thames M. Davis, Kirikiri T. C. Bayldon, Thames 7501b. ashes 81b. specimens ... 5001b. bottles ... 5601b. glass 1,120 lb. slate, A 1,1201b. slate, B 1,1201b. slate, C 1,1201b. slate, E 8| dwt. retorted bullion Jib. specimens ... Oz. <lwt. gr. 29 3 0 4 0 0 £ s. d. 23 6 0 10 7 6 E. H. Henderson, Gisborne // ft it it it a 0 7 0 0 11 8 n n Merriman, Thames 1 16 0 4 14 6
Name of Subject. First Term. Second Term. Third Term. Eegistered students— General and mining geology Mineralogy and blowpipe Land and mine surveying ... Mathematics Mining and applied mechanics Metallurgy of gold and silver Practical chemistry Theoretical chemistry Practical assaying ... Mechanical drawing 12 7 11 11 11 5 5 10 12 9 10 14 11 15 10 5 5 7 12 7 7 13 12 15 13 14 14 14 13 Total ... Saturday science class 107 50 101 61 96 46 Total attendance at classes 157 162 142 Individual registered students 36 31 29 Total individual students ... 86 9.2 75
Subject of Examination. First Class. Second Class. Third Class. Failed. Total. General and mining geology 3 umping and winding ... Ventilation Explosives fining and applied mechanics ... ?heoretical chemistry (senior) theoretical chemistry (junior) Practical chemistry (senior) Practical chemistry (junior) Practical assaying, dry (senior) ... tactical assaying, dry (junior) ... Practical assaying, wet (senior) ... Practical assaying, wet (junior) ... Surveying (land and mine) ilap-drawing ... Mineralogy and blowpipe Metallurgy Mechanical drawing 1 1 2 1 2 2 2 3 1 1 3 2 4 1 2 2 2 2 6 8 1 2 2 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 i i i i 1 2 1 1 i 4 3 i 4 Saturday science 22 2 LI 1 LI 6 2 3 u> 12 Totals 24 12 17 58
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The annual examinations held during the second and third weeks of December, 1901, were supervised by myself and my assistant. The papers were set by the following gentlemen : Mr. Hayes, P.S.Sc, Inspecting Engineer of Mines; Mr. Alexander McKay, F.G.S., Government Geologist; Dr. Maclaurin, Government Analyst; Mr. G. H. Pierard, and the Surveyor-General, and were received each day of the examination from Mr. Coutts, Inspector of Mines. A fewer number of candidates presented themselves for examination, but obtained a better proportion of passes than the previous year. There was one candidate for the University scholarship, Mr, C. A. Banks; but, although he gained 75 per cent, or over in eleven subjects, he obtained less than 75 per cent, in one of the scholarship subjects, and was thus disqualified. Mr. Banks* did remarkably well, considering that he is only a two-years student, in scoring 614 marks, or an average of 767, in the scholarship subjects. He secured the President's gold medal with a total of 931 in twelve subjects, an average of 77-6 per cent. During 1901 the following Government certificates have been granted to Thames School of Mines students after examination: One first-class mine-manager's, one second-class mine-man-ager's, and seven battery-superintendents' certificates. In January, 1902, the annual Government examination was supervised at the Thames School by Mr. Goutts, and two candidates for first-class mine-managers' and five for battery-superin-tendents' certificates presented themselves for examination. Goveening- Body. At the annual meeting of subscribers held on the 11th February, 1902, regret was expressed at the deaths of the late President, Mr. B. McDonnell, and of Mr. T. Cautley, a member of the Council. The annual report and balance-sheet were read an& confirmed, and the prizes and certificates distributed. The first of the new certificates of merit granted to students for proficiency in the mining and metallurgy courses was granted to Mr. C. A. Banks. The following officers were elected for the year 1902: President, Mr. G. Denby; vice-presi-dent, Mr. M. Paul; hon. treasurer, Mr. J. Hague Smith; Council, Messrs. B. P. Adams, W. Baker, T. C. Bayldon, H. Haszard, W. H. Paltridge,. E. W. Powell, B. Cartwright; hon. secretary, Mr. A. Bruce. Great satisfaction was expressed at the admirable manner in which the new syllabus has been printed by the Government Printing Office. The syllabus contains a large amount of useful information concerning the school, and is illustrated with six views of the interior and exterior of the school property. The thanks of the Council and myself are due to several gentlemen for donations to the museum during the last nine months : Mr. J. B. Banks, Waihi specimens; Mr. Clark, Waihi specimens; Mr. P. Morgan, andesites and rhyolites; Mr. Trelease, copper and silver ores; Mr. A. G. Williams, guano and other specimens from Surprise Island ; Captain Eobie, island shells; Mr. E. W. Powell, telluride ore; Messrs. Odium, Woolcock, Martin, for miscellaneous samples. It gives me much pleasure to acknowledge the hearty co-operation of the Council and the assistance of the secretary in furthering the interests of the school. The accompanying table shows the special examinations for gold and silver, &c, which have been made during the year at the Thames School of Mines for the Mines Department, and special reference may be made to several of the more interesting ones, as follows : — No. 2839, forwarded by Mr. Robertson, surveyor, consisted of half a dozen pieces of crystalline quartz, containing white and black mica and 15 per cent, of dark mineral which proved to be magnetite. A small amount of gold, amounting to 1 dwt. per ton, was present, as well as 0-2 per cent, of cassiterite or tin-oxide, accompanied with 3 per cent, of wolfram. No. 2863. Five samples forwarded by Mr. M. Webster from Wangapeka. No. 1 : Small seams of rusty quartz, contained 22 gr. of gold per ton. No. 2 : White quartz, carried traces only. No. 3 : Solid white quartz, with much oxide of iron, contained 18 gr. of gold per ton. No. 4: Blocks of white quartz, with massive iron-pyrites, contained 6 dwt. 22 gr. of gold and 3 dwt. 3 gr. of silver perton. No. 5 : This was a fine-grained galena, containing about 40 per cent. of lead sulphide, along with copper and iron sulphides, and 16 per cent, of silica ; it is a rich silver-ore, containing 7 dwt. 13 gr. of gold and 264 oz. 3 dwt. 2 gr. of silver per ton. No. 2864. Four samples from Marlborough, forwarded by Mr. F. F. MacLeod. No. 1, from 3 ft. reef, Devil's Arm-chair: This was a brownish-white quartz, containing 8 dwt* 19 gr. gold per ton. No. 2, from sft. reef, half a mile higher up the hill: The quartz was white, and contained 12 gr. gold per ton. No. 3, loose stone shed between the two outcrops, some white and some brown pieces, averaging 2 dwt. 2 gr. gold per ton. No. 4, from 5 ft. reef, at mouth of Top Valley : this carried 1 dwt. of gold par ton. Further samples from the same district forwarded by Mr. K. MacLeod pointed to the existence of some good ore-bodies, as shown by assays Nos. 2871 and 2878 ; while to confirm the prospects shown by the small samples a ton of the ore from the Top Valley was forwarded to me for treatment, and yielded £2 14s. per ton. The bullion was of good value, and a little gold was visible in the stone. No. 2879. Small piece of quartz forwarded by Mr. E. M. Houston, M.H.E. Said to have been found near the river at Mangonui. The quartz was polished on one face ;it had a bluish tinge, and contained free gold and dark-coloured iron-pyrites. The bullion present amounted to If oz. per 1 lb. ay. of stone, and was worth £2 15s. per ounce. The stone and the bullion in it greatly resembled Thames specimen stone. No. 2883. Three more samples forwarded by Mr. Houston. No. 5 : Small piece of rustybrown quartz, from large reef. No. 6 : Eusty-brown honeycomb quartz (polished on one face), from Glennay's Creek. Nq. 8 : Quartz which had been roasted to find if any silver were present. No gold or silver was found in any of these samples, which did not resemble sample No. 2879 in appearance. No. 2930. Quartz forwarded by Mr. Houston from Mangonui. This was glassy quartz with dark-coloured patches, but no gold or silver beyond a trace was found in it. It resembled No. 2879 in appearance, but was whiter and more glassy, and did not show the same bluish tinge.
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No. 2880. Quartz forwarded by Dr. Chappie from Nelson District. It was clear, semi-trans-parent quartz, coloured red, with micaceous haamatite; showed coarse gold freely, and assayed 10 oz. 1 dwt. 15 gr. gold per ton. No. 2889. A similar sample taken from a different place in the reef. This showed no free gold, but assayed 1 oz. 5 dwt. 5 gr. gold per ton. No. 2901. Four samples forwarded by Dr. Chappie from the same locality. The stone was similar in appearance to No. 2880, but none of the four samples were of any value. No. 1 was marked " fair sample of reef" ; No. 2, another reef, probably poor ; No. 3, loose rubble and mullock on foot-wall; No. 4, quartz lying near smithy. No. 2928. Two samples from the same locality. No. 1, main reef, 1 ft. solid quartz; No. 2, sugary quartz, 2 ft. hanging-wall of No. 1 reef. These contained only traces of gold per ton. The later tests thus failed to at all approach the promising results of the first sample, which showed gold so freely imbedded in the solid particles of quartz. No. 2900. A sample of alluvial gold forwarded by Mr. T. James to ascertain loss on melting and value per ounce. The sample lost 0-82 per cent, on melting with borax, and this was increased to 1-29 per cent, during the cupellation of the bullion-assay. The amount of dirt and black sand present with the gold causes a variable loss, but in the present case the loss on melting 100 oz. should be from f oz. to 1 oz. The gold and silver in the unmelted sample were as follows : Gold, 0-9328 ; silver, 0-0543 : value, £3 19s. 2d. per ounce (unmelted). While in the melted sample the amounts were: Gold, 0-9405; silver, 0-0549 : value, £3 19s. 9fd. per ounce (melted). The values are calculated on a mint value of £3 17s. 9-Jd. per ounce standard gold, and no allowances are made for value of silver, or charges for melting, shipping, insurance, &c. No. 2912 was interesting on account of the scheelite in the concentrates, along with a good amount of gold. No. 2913 was a large block of chrome-iron ore containing magnesia. No. 2869, forwarded by Mr. Whinray, Gisborne, was described as quartz, and an assay for gold was required. The sample was pure white, but slightly softer than quartz ; it gelatinised in acid, and an analysis proved it to be a feldspar. It contained no bullion.
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lescripi ;ion. local ■y!em Ler. iesu' .ssay. 2829 2836 (1-3) 2837 (1) White quartz Brown quartz Flaky quartz Wairau River Napier Hon. Mr. Mills .. Mr. H. Macdonald Messrs. Johnstone and Co. 8 dwt. 19 gr. gold per ton. Small traces of gold per ton. 2oz. and 8gr. gold and 9oz. 16dwt. 15gr. silver per ton. No gold present. 2837 (2) 2837 (3) 2839 2844 Crushed sample Slate Quartz and magnetite White quartz Masterton Hawke's Bay Stewart Island Baton River Mr. T. J. Donnelly Mr. W. Thomson Mr. Robertson Mr. Joseph Taylor See body of report. 5 dwt. 1 gr. gold and 1 dwt. 6 gr. silver per ton. Traces of gold per ton. 2847 2848 (1) 2848 (-2) 2848 (3) 2851 2857 2863 (1-5) 2864 (1-4) 2867 (1-3) Quartz stringers in brown country-rock White surface quartz Rusty quartz Arm-chair Creek Mr. A. F. Hadfield Mines Department Minute traces of gold per ton. Quartz and schist .. j Siliceous rock Various Quartz Calcite veins in coun-try-rock Hard sandstone i Silicate White quartz Banded quartz Cement sand Serpentinous rock .. Brassy pyrites Dark pyrites Oxide of iron Brown quartz Brecciated quartz .. Aniseed Creek Queen Charlotte Sound Golden Bay Wangapeka.. Marlborough Mangapai Mr. H. F. Logan Mr. T. H. Baird.. Mr. M. Webster Mr. F. F. MacLeod Mr. N. Jackson No gold or tellurium. No gold present. See body of report. Traces of gold par ton in all three. No gold present. 2868 2869 2871 2872 2874 (1) 2874 (2,3) 2874 (4) 2874 (5) 2876 2878 (1) 2878 (2) Gisborne Top Valley Mr. J. Shore Mr. J. Whinray Mr. K. MacLeod Mr. F. Iredale Mr. H. J. Hayns Mr. Woodman 8 dwt. 9 gr. gold per ton. Slight traces of gold. 8 dwt. gold per ton. No gold present. Trace of gold per ton. Westport D'Urville Island South Africa Marlborough Mr. Rees Mr. K. MacLeod 6 dwt. 7 gr. gold per ton. 10 dwt. 2 gr. gold and 2 oz. silver per ton. 4 dwt. 9gr. gold per ton. See body of report. 2878 (3) 2879 2883 (1-3) 2930 2880 2889 2901 (1-4) 2928 (1,2) 2881 2888 (a) 2888 (b) 2900 2902 2903 2908 2912 (1) 2912 (2) 2913 White quartz Quartz Mangonui Mr. R. M. Houston, M.K.R. Red-coloured quartz Nelson Dr. Chappie Various Quartz White quartz Clean tailings Top Valley .. Marlborough Mr. John Main Mr. C. D. Morpeth 3 dwt. 3gr. gold per ton. 2 dwt. 12 gr. gold per ton. 5 dwt. 7gr. gold per ton. See body of report. No trace of gold. Small trace of gold per ton. 5 dwt. 7 gr. gold per ton. loz. 7 dwt. 17 gr. gold per ton. 4 dwt. 10gr. gold per ton.* 43'99 per cent, chromic oxide, 3-01 per oent. magnesia, and no gold. 2 oz. 2 dwt. 20 gr. gold and 2 dwt. 12 gr. silver per ton. 3 dwt. 18 gr. gold per ton. 2 dwt. 12 gr. gold per ton. 1 dwt. 21 gr. gold per ton. 1 dwt. 18 gr. gold per ton. Trace only of gold per ton. No gold found. Alluvial gold Shell limestone Iron-pyrites Quartz Concentrates Rappahannock Creek Dannevirke.. Methven Top Valley Macrae's Mr. Thomas James Mr. J. J. Barnes Mr. J. Hobbs .. Mr. D. Campbell Messrs. Donaldson Chrome-iron ore D'Urville Island Mr. R. Woodman 2915 White quartz Timm's Creek Mr. A. Muir 2916 (1) 2916 (2) 2917 2927 (1) 2927 (2) 2929 Massive iron-pyrites Slate Flaky quartz Bluish quartz Brown quartz Various samples of quartz Tailings Maharahara Ohau River.. Alexandra South Gisborne Pelorus Sound Mr. Ed. Foley .. Survey Department Mr. E. C. Stewart Mr. J. Whinray Mr. F. B. Fariuar 2931 Top Valley .. Mr. T. W. Young 1 dwt. 12 gr. gold per ton. 6rat is contain scheelite.
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COROMANDEL SCHOOL OF MINES.
Mr. D. V. Allen, A.0.5.M., who is Director of the school and manager of the public battery at Coromandel, reports as under: — The school opened the second week in February, and closed on the 20th December, 1901. Throughout the year we had an average attendance of sixteen students, with an average attendance at classes of thirty-four. This rather small number of students is solely accounted for by so many leaving the district in search of work. Twelve students presented themselves for the Schools of Mines Examination held in December, and the results were very satisfactory. The certificates obtained were eight firsts, three seconds, and eight thirds. The scholarship for competition by students of the North Island schools of mines fell to Colin Fraser, who obtained 75 per cent, in each subject. Great credit is due to Mr. Fraser for the way he has perseveringly worked his way to distinction. In the examination for first-class mine-managers and battery-managers our school was also very successful: four candidates passed for mine-managers, one for coal-mine manager, and one for battery-manager. Forty-six public assays were done by myself during the year. Several valuable specimens were received for the museum. The subjects of instruction were mathematics, mining, &c, surveying, mechanical drawing, metallurgy, chemistry (theoretical and practical), and assaying. The prospects of the school for the incoming year appear to be quite as good as last year. Public Battery Bepokt. During the year ending the 31st December, 1901, thirty-three parcels of ore from various parts of the neighbourhood were treated at the battery. These represented 78 tons 6 cwt. of quartz and 242 lb. of picked stone. The result was a return of 208 oz. 8 dwt. of retorted gold. Several minor repairs have been effected to the mill. The oil-engine gave considerable trouble, the work being too much for it. The Minister of Mines has agreed to authorise £50 to be expended on repairs, and also to enable us to increase our water-supply. When all the improvements are made we shall be in a better position to give satisfaction to the public. WAIHI SCHOOL OF MINES. Mr. P. G. Morgan, M.A., Director, writes : — During the early part of the year the attendance at the various classes was the largest known in the history of the school, but towards the end of the year the unsettled feeling which prevailed in the district, owing to the protracted dispute which arose between the Miners' Union and the mining companies, caused the attendance to fall off considerably. The average number of registered students during the year was forty-seven, and the class-attendance 139, as against forty-nine and 148 respectively for the previous year. The appended table shows the subjects taught and the attendance at the various classes during the past twelve months :—
Table of Attendances for the Year ending 31st December, 1901.
During the greater part of the year assaying and chemistry were, as in former years, the most popular classes, but in the last term the attendance in these classes fell away so much that mining and surveying took the lead. ■ The members of the last-mentioned classes attended very regularly, and made excellent progress. In the other classes those who attended regularly did good work, but the progress of many was impeded by their irregular attendance. It gives me pleasure to say that the conduct of the students has been most exemplary. With hardly an exception, all are most anxious to learn.
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Name of Subject. First Term. Second Term. Third Term. Mining Advanced mining Mathematics Theoretical surveying Practical survey in g ... General geology ... • • • Mineralogy and blowpipe analysis Theoretical chemistry Practical chemistry ... Assaying Metallurgy ... Drawing 13 23 17 11 11 12 18 21 26 8 12 12 22 14 14 2 7 14 12 19 6 16 14 14 6 16 15 4 6 12 3 8 Totals 172 138 97 Individual registered students ... 56 4H 88
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The following is a rSsume of the work done during the year in the various classes :— (1) Mining (average attendance, 13).— Instruction was given in shaft-sinking, opening out and exploitation of mines, timbering, pumping, hauling and winding, mine-ventilation, tapping water, modes of constructing dams, blasting, explosives, and strength of materials. All the students in this class attended regularly, and made excellent progress. . (2.) Advanced Mining and Mining Geology .—This class, which was a special class for candidates intending to sit for the Government examinations for mine-managers' certificates, was attended by fourteen students, all practical miners. The last set of examination papers for first-class minemanagers' certificates was fully explained and answered. Notes were given respecting the nature and mode of occurrence of mineral deposits, the formation of lodes and deep leads, the dynamics of lodes, &c. . . ~ ~ , i (3 ) Mathematics (average attendance, 17).— In this class the instruction was individual, and adapted to each student's needs as far as possible. Some of the members of this class attended regularly, and made good progress; but on the whole the attendance was irregular, and the progress made somewhat unsatisfactory. The work done comprised arithmetic, the whole subject; algebra, as far as quadratic equations ; the use of logarithms ; and a little Euclid. One student reached the third book of Euclid, and showed that he had obtained a good grasp of the subject. (4 ) Theoretical Surveying (average attendance, 15),—The students in this class, all practical miners attended regularly, and made good progress. They were well grounded in the use ot logarithms, the solution of triangles, the various calculations connected with land and mine surveying, mine-surveying problems, &c. (5 ) Practical Surveying (average attendance, 13).— This class was taught the adjustments and uses of the various instruments. A large amount of useful field-work was done, besides some plandrawing and other indoor work. . (6) General Geology (average attendance, 6-5).— During the first term this class was well attended The instruction given was a continuation of the previous year's work, and comprised the geological periods, treated with special reference to New Zealand geology. Most of the members of this class had attended during the preceding year, and had taken much interest in the easier and more general part of the subject. This encouraged me to attempt this year a rather hiah standard of instruction ; but the unfamiliar, jaw-breaking names of the fossils were too much for most of the students, and during the next term the attendance dwindled away to two. ihvidently the instruction was not given on the most suitable lines; but experience teaches, and m future years care will br taken to present the subject in a more simple manner, with special reter--o en)°Mineralogy'and Blowpipe Analysis (average attendance, 95). —In this class blowpipe and other tests for simple minerals were taught. Mineralogy was hardly touched upon owing to the attendance falling off, and the class being therefore discontinued during the third term. (8) Theoretical Chemistry (average attendance, 12).—The chemistry of the non-metallic elements and of the alkali metals, together with the laws and principles underlying chemical reactions was taught in this class. Instruction in chemical arithmetic was also given Ihe attendance in the chemistry and assaying classes was greatly affected during the last term by the depression prevailing in mining and business circles. The nature of the subject also caused the attendance to fall away. Chemistry, like mathematics, but in an even greater degree is one in which many students fail to make any great progress. Its importance, however to those who wish to acquire a knowledge of assaying or of the cyanide process cannot be overrated. _ (9 ) Practical Chemistry (average attendance, 13).— The work done m this class included the preparation of oxygen, hydrogen, chlorine, and carbon-dioxide, with illustrative experiments, tests for metals and acids, separation of the metals, manipulation of apparatus, and quantitative analyses of simple substances. , (10 ) Dry and Wet Assaying (average attendance, 19).— In this class, which has always been the largest in the school, individual instruction is given, and each student is carried on from year to year as far as he wishes to go. Much good work was done by the students in this class, but many (in fact all) of them are greatly hampered by their imperfect acquaintance with theoretical chemistry It is difficult to make the beginner in assaying understand the importance of this subject to him until he finds it out for himself from practical experience. The work done in assaying covered pretty nearly the whole of Park's treatise, with the exception of one or two analyses which seem almost out of place in a school of mines— e.g., analyses of milk, sugar, arl Gold and Silver (average attendance, 6).— This class is adapted specially to the 'needs of candidates for battery-superintendents' certificates. Last year the subjectmatter comprised crushing and concentrating machinery, amalgamation, cyamdation (very fully treated) chlorination, bromination, miscellaneous lixiviation processes for the recovery ot gold and silver smelting, roasting and smelting furnaces, chemistry of gold and silver, &c. MS ) Drawing (average attendance, 12).— This class was much better attended than in former years. Instruction was given in the use of instruments, lettering, machme-drawmg, planlW prospectus n A and syllabus, which gives full information concerning the classes fees, &c. has lately been printed. Copies may be obtained on application to the secretary or Director ot the 10< During the year some changes have taken place in the teaching staff. In April Mr. K. M. Barrance assistant lecturer, left to take up a similar position at the Thames School of Mines. His place was taken by Mr. A. H. V. Morgan, M.A., who is possessed of the highest university credentials and since his appointment has done very good work. At the end of April, on account of his ceasing to visit Waihi, we lost the services of Mr. A. B. Hardinge as drawing-master, but
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Mr. B. H. Mitchell, who is also an accomplished draughtsman, kindly consented to carry on the class. The thanks of myself and all concerned are due to Messrs. Hardinge and Mitchell for their honorary services as drawing-masters. At the annual Government examinations for schools of mines held during December eighteen of our students presented themselves, taking between them forty-two papers, with the result that two first-class, twenty-two second-class, and fifteen third-class certificates were obtained, whilst three papers fell below the minimum. Many of the second-class papers, especially those in the mining subjects, were not far off first class. Considering that all our students are employed in mines or batteries, most of them working the three shifts, and have therefore little time for study, these results are very creditable. The President's medal, given for proficiency in the mining subjects, was won by Mr. Boyd Bennie, with an average of 69 per cent., Mr. N. Whyte, with an' average of 66-5 per cent., closely following. Bast year the school sent nine candidates up for mine-managers' and battery-superintendents' certificates, with the result that six obtained first-class mine-managers' certificates, and two batterysuperintendents' certificates. For this year's examinations some ten or twelve of our students are candidates. During the year nineteen assays and analyses were made for the public, besides a number of determinations of minerals which were not charged for. A good deal of experimental work was done in the school laboratory by the staff and one or two of the more advanced students. In this way several minerals previously unknown in the district were identified. The following results may be quoted as showing the character of the work done in the school laboratory : — (1.) Analysis of stilbite from the Waihi Extended Mine : Water lost at 100° C, 1-41 per cent.; loss on ignition (water), 16-91 percent.; silica, 56'68per cent. ; alumina, 16-41 per cent. ; calciumoxide, 8-45 per cent. ; sodium-oxide, 0-97 per cent. : total, 100-83 per cent. Specific gravity, 2-103. (2.) Analyses of borings from a borehole in the Waihi'Consols Claim at a depth of about 400 ft.: No. 1 sample —Silica, 60-70 per cent.; alumina, 18 per cent.; ferrous oxide, 6-86 per cent.; calcium-oxide, 4-03 per cent.; magnesium-oxide and manganese-oxide, strong traces ; alkalies and water, not determined. No. 2 sample —Silica, 65-72 per cent.; alumina, 16-37 per cent. ; ferrous oxide, 6-81 per cent.; calcium-oxide, 4-60 per cent.; magnesium - oxide and maganese-oxide, strong traces ; alkalies and water, not determined. The analyses and microscopic examination of the particles showed that the borehole was passing through a solid andesite. No. 1 sample was mixed with a certain amount of material from the upper part of the borehole. (3.) Analysis of a soft black substance from a crosscut in the Waihi Mine : Water lost at 100° C, 13-70 per cent.; loss on ignition, 13-55 per cent.; silica, 36-88 per cent. ; lead-oxide, 0-38 per cent.; copper-oxide, traces ; alumina, 26-60 per cent. ; ferric oxide, traces ; oxides of nickel and cobalt, 1-63 per cent. ; manganese calculated as Mn a 0 4 , 5-07 per cent. : total, 97-81 per cent. (4.) Analysis of oxidized ore from Waihi Mine : Water lost at 100° C, 0-26 per cent.; loss on ignition, 1-60 per cent. ; silica, 89-98 per cent.; ferric oxide, 5-62 per cent.; alumina, 1-82 per cent. ; oxides of manganese and nickel, 0-39 per cent. : total, 99-67 per cent. The oxide of nickel was not exactly determined, but was at least 0-20 per cent. All metallic iron was removed by a magnet, but the percentage of iron was nevertheless unexpectedly high. The sample assayed 2 oz. 5 dwt. 17 gr. of gold and 10 oz. 2 dwt. 12 gr. of silver per ton. The specific gravity was 2-314. (5.) Specific gravities of various samples of Waihi quartz (oxidized ore) : No. 1, 2-314; No. 2, 2-517; No. 3, 2-505. (6.) Analysis of lustrous, friable, bituminous coal from Wharekeraupunga : Water lost at 100° C, 0-55 per cent. ; volatile matter, 36-50 per cent.; fixed carbon, 51-15 per cent.; ash, 11-80 percent. : total, 100 per cent. The sample contained no less than 15 per cent, of sulphur, the greater part of which must have been combined with the carbon compounds, for the ash consisted mainly of silica and alumina. As the coal occurs in very thin, broken seams of no great extent, it is commercially valueless. A qualitative examination of the ash revealed the interesting fact that it contains the rare element vanadium in easily detected quantity. The vanadium probably occurs in the coal as a sulphide. (7.) Experiments in testing potassium-cyanide solutions : The bulk of these experiments was made in order to ascertain the influence of the double cyanide of zinc and potassium on the titration of cyanide-solutions with silver-nitrate. A full description of the experiments would occupy too much space for the present report, but the following conclusions, amongst others which were arrived at, may be given : (a.) The more diluted the solution the greater is the total amount of apparently free potassium-cyanide, and therefore the greater is the amount of double cyanide which appears to be simple cyanide, (b.) The greater the percentage of double cyanide present the greater is the percentage of apparently free potassium-cyanide. (c.) The more slowly the titration is performed the less is the percentage of apparently free potassium-cyanide. A moderate speed gives the most consistent results. A second set of experiments was made in order to ascertain the influence of exposure to the atmosphere on potassium-cyanide solutions of 0-1 to o's per cent, strength. It was found that forty-eight hours' exposure in deep beakers not more than half filled caused losses of from 22 to 36 per cent, with fairly pure KCN solutions. The ratio of the exposed surface to the bulk of the liquid had evidently an important influence on the results. It appeared also that the percentage loss of KCN was less in the stronger solutions (0-5 per cent.) than in the weaker solutions (0-1 percent.), though, of course, the absolute loss was much greater. In order to test the influence of alkalies with respect to atmospheric loss, caustic potash and quicklime were added to the extent of 0-4 per cent., with the result that in the solutions containing caustic potash the average loss was reduced to 10-7 per cent., and in those containing lime to 5-1 per cent.
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During the year a large number of rock and mineral specimens, collected by myself or given by various donors, has been,added to the school collection. Among these may be specially mentioned several pieces of solid rhyolite containing fragments of easily recognisable charcoal. One specimen was obtained at a depth of 110 ft. in the Grand Junction No. 1 shaft ; the others were found in excavating one of the Waihi Company's No. 4 shaft chambers at a depth of over 200 ft. Quite as noteworthy, perhaps, are specimens of partly silicified wood, containing 5 per cent, or more of free carbon, from a depth of 620 ft. in the Grand Junction shaft. The rock in which this fossil wood is imbedded is not improbably a decomposed andesite lava, though it may be decomposed andesitic tuff. In conclusion, I have to thank the committee for the continued attention which they have given to the requirements of the school. Thanks are due also to Messrs. K. M. Barrance and A. H. V. Morgan, M.A., who have in turn acted as assistant lecturers. KARANGAHAKE SCHOOL OP MINES. The Director, Mr. E. B. McDuff, writes: — I have the honour to furnish herewith the first annual report on the Karangahake School of Mines for the year ending the 31st December, 1901. At a public meeting held in October, 1899, for the purpose of establishing a school of mines at Karangahake the following gentlemen were appointed to carry out the resolutions passed at the meeting: Messrs. G. H. Taylor, J. E. Noble, W. Goldsworthy, G. N. McGruer, F. Eich, E. Stackpole, jun., and Alexander Hogg. At a committee meeting held at the close of the public meeting Mr. Hogg was appointed secretary, and Mr. W. Goldsworthy and H. W. Guthrie trustees. So untiring in their efforts was this committee that in a little over a year the school was erected and fitted up with all the necessary appliances ready to open at the beginning of the present year. Applications for the position of Director were called, and that of Mr. W. H. Baker, B.Sc, of the Thames School of Mines, was accepted. Mr. Baker took charge at the beginning of the year, and continued up till the end of March, when he resigned, having received the offer of a more lucrative position in Tasmania. Applications for the directorship resulted in my appointment, and I commenced my duties on the Ist April, 1901. The school has had a most successful year, the attendance at the lectures being excellent, as is shown in the table appended. The course of instruction is similar in all respects to that of the Waihi School of Mines, and embraces all the subjects necessary for the Government mine-managers', battery-superintendents', engine-drivers', and assayers' certificates. The school-year is divided into three terms : First term, from the first Monday in February to the 30th April; second term, from the 9th May to the 20th August; third term, from the 9th September to the 20th December. The fees charged are ss. per term for each subject taken up. In addition to the class fees there is a membership fee of £1 per annum. No Saturday science class is held for children. The following improvements have been made in the school during the year : Sixteen lockers for the assaying class; a lecture-bench placed in front of the blackboard; a mineral case provided; and the assay-room ceiled with iron. The capacity of the assay-room is taxed to its utmost at present, it being only 14 ft. by 10 ft., and, with an attendance of twenty students, working becomes very inconvenient. If the number of students in this class increases—as I am convinced it will do next year—some addition will have to be made to allow the work to be carried out successfully. One great drawback to the school is the want of a waiting-room for the students ; having only one class-room, they are compelled to remain outside until the earlier class is over, which is not very pleasant in the winter months.
Table of Attendances for Year ending 31st December, 1901.
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Subject. First Term. Second Term. Third Term. lining lurveying ... Lssaying theoretical chemistry Metallurgy ... Mathematics ... ... 5-eology Mineralogy ... )rawing 'ractical chemistry ... 8 9 13 10 11 4 3 3 4 13 11 12 16 18 13 7 3 3 4 18 11 12 20 20 11 13 4 4 3 20 Totals 78 105 118 Total individual students 25 31 37
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The Hon J McGowan, Minister of Mines, has visited the school, and approved of what has been done; and, on representing that the survey class was working with a primitive theodolite, he kindly sent a new and up-to-date theodolite when he returned to Wellington. This gift was much appreciated by the Council and students. . The annual meeting was held in the school on the 22nd July, when the following officers and Council were elected: Preeidenfr-A. H. Curtis, Esq.; vice-presidents-D. G Waddell Esq., F Eich Esq., C. H. Taylor, Esq.; Council-Messrs. C. H. Taylor, W. Goldsworthy, F. M. Brown, B*. Stackpole, jun., C. Trezise, H. W. Guthrie, J. Jackson, E. D. Jones ; treasurer—E. D. Jones; secretary—Alexander Hogg. , . . ~ A The number of assays done for the public during the year was eleven, all being for gold and silver. One analysis of coal was also made for a local syndicate, who are prospecting near the examinations on the papers sent by the Mines Department have just been completed twelve students presenting themselves for the subjects which they had taken up. IMS number would have been greater had not a slump in mining matters taken place, causing some ot the best students to temporarily leave the district. . . ~ , 3 •*+ t In conclusion, I must heartily thank our President, Mr. A. H. Curtis, for his handsome gitt ot seven valuable books to the school library, the Council for their hearty co-operation with me in every plan for the improvement of the school, and the donors of mineral specimens. In this connection the thanks of the school is especially due to Mr. F. B. Allen, of the Thames School of Mines, and Mr. W. H. Baker, of Tasmania. NELSON SCHOOL OF MINES. Mr. W. F. Worley, the Instructor, writes as follows, his report being made up to the 31st March, 1902, instead of the 31st December, 1901:— , Blowpipe Analysis Classes. Two classes—an upper and a lower—have met weekly for the study of this subject. The work attempted and the results achieved are so similar to those of former years that a detailed account of this work is scarcely necessary. Twenty-six boys belonged to these classes during the year but by the end of the year the number had decreased to twenty-two. The usual examination has not yet been held, as it has been found necessary to change the time of year for the commencing and closing of these classes. After the usual standard examination of the school, when scholars are passed from a lower to a higher standard, there are generally several boys anxious to join the blowpipe classes. As it is extremely inconvenient to have new boys entering the class three months after starting new work, the classes will in future be reformed at the same time as the ordinary school classes. By adopting this arrangement the blowpipe classes will not be examined till the end of June. The results of this examination will be embodied in my next annual report. . . „ n , During Easter week twelve members of the class were taken to Eighty-eight Valley to search for fossils. Each boy secured several specimens, and at the same time had opened up to him a new avenue of possible pleasure. Assaying. Only twelve assays were made for the public during the year. This is the lowest number yet recorded. Prospecting for reefs has, for the time being, been almost abandoned in this district. Adult Classes. By special arrangements with the Nelson Board of Education a course of lectures on the chemistry of agriculture was delivered for the benefit of the teachers of this district. Twenty-five teachers availed themselves of this opportunity. In all fifteen lectures were delivered, each lecture lasting about an hour and a half. Attention was first given to the composition of plants. The method of analysing plant-substances was explained, and some partial analyses were made before the class by way of illustration. The chemistry of the elements usually found in plants was then taken up Each of these elements was produced before the class, their properties being illustrated by numerous experiments. The part played by these elements in plant physiology was then explained and some analyses made of plant-substances, such as starch and sugar. Use was made of the microscope for the studying of the cell-structure of plants, the starch granules, and the chlorophyl. The attention of the students was then directed to the sources from which plants set these elements or compounds containing them. In this connection air, water, and soil were considered, special attention being given to the soil. Einally, the attention of the class was directed to the necessity of manuring to make up for deficiencies in the soil. Natural and artificial manures were considered in detail. The sources of supply, methods of using and of manufacture, adulterations of and simple tests for being dealt with by experiment. A small quantity of superphosphate was made before the class, and to it were added suitable quantities of substances containing potash, nitrogen, magnesia, sodium, chlorine, and iron, till a perfect manure for kitchen-garden crops was obtained. Experiments were then made with this manure to show its effects on growing plants. A good deal of appreciation was shown by the members of this class, and there is reason to believe that good will result from the lectures. Conclusion. By an arrangement with the committee of the Nelson Institute the typical sets of ores and rocks belonging to the School of Mines are now exhibited in the Nelson Museum. There is a distinct understanding that they are only there for exhibition. The key of the case containing
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them is in my possession, and I have been granted the right of teaching mineralogy there to my classes. By this arrangement these valuable specimens are now available to the public. Any miner or prospector may see them, and, by means of the descriptive catalogue, learn their chief properties and modes of occurrence. My thanks are due to the town School Committee for the loan of the schoolroom on two afternoons of each week. REEFTON SCHOOL OF MINES. Eeport of the Director, Mr. J. W. Lee: — During the year classes in the various subjects have been held regularly, at which the attendance has been fairly good. The number of students, however, is not so large as might be expected, especially when the number of young men working in the district is considered. It should be remembered, however, that the distances from the school at which their work is situated seriously affect their regular attendance, especially with weekly shift changing, which drawbacks are intensified during the winter months. In January last examinations for battery-superintendents' and mine-managers' certificates were held under the supervision of Mr. R. Tennent, Inspector of Mines for this district. At these examinations three students obtained full passes as battery-superintendents ; one a partial pass in the same examination, since completed at the interim examination ; and three have since been successful in obtaining complete passes as mine-managers. At present the number of individual attending students is twenty-five. During the year the average attendance has been as under : — P1 Number Average of Students. Attendance. Mining and mathematics ... ... ... ... 15 10 Surveying ... ... ... ... ■ ... 12 10 Theoretical and practical chemistry ... ... ... 10 6 Practical assaying ... ... ... . . ... 11 6 The instruction in each class has been as follows: — Milting (including Mining Geology and the Dynamics of Lodes). —The construction and timbering of shafts, drives, stopes, &c, with sketches of timbering; hauling and winding; explosives; mineral veins, their nature, modes of occurrence ; metalliferous ores, their character, and strata in which they chiefly occur; faults and fault rules. Special attention has been paid to ventilation, embracing natural and artificial, fans, water-gauge, horse-power, friction, and splitting of air in mines, anemometers, furnaces, water-blasts, &c, and also to pumping, comprising drawing and forcing pumps, motors, rods, with all other accessory appliances, sinking pumps, &c.; also calculations as to horse-power required for pumping and delivery water from pipes and pumps have been fully dealt with; dams, their construction and use. Students have also been instructed to draw plans and sketches of the various appliances in use for ventilation and pumping. Mine accounts, comprising wages, time-sheets, costs per ton, statements and analyses of expenditure. Text-books: Gordon's "Mining and Engineering," Le Neve Foster's "Ore and Stone Mining," C. Pamely's " Colliery Managers' Handbook." Mathematics. —The whole subject of arithmetic. Surveying. —Logarithms, plane trigonometry, chaining, keeping field-notes, traversing, computation of traverses by rectangular co-ordinates ; closing lines ; areas ; magnetic and true meridians compared; connection of underground and surface meridians; adjustments of the theodolite, miners' dial, and compass; dialling by fast and loose needle ; problems re dip and strike of lodes, and connection with reefs and mine-workings at required relative positions; plotting by co-ordi-nates, and protracting. A considerable amount of field-work has been done with the V theodolite, granted to the school in last January, and students are shown practical instrumental work with it as often as possible. Text-book : Brough's " Mine Surveying." Theoretical Chemistry. —General principles; atoms and molecules; combining weights ; the non-metallic elements ; alkali metals ; the metric system of weights and measures; chemical notation and formulae, and corresponding percentage composition; salts, acids, alkalies, and general fundamental principles of inorganic chemistry. Text-books : Bloxam's "Chemistry," Lupton's "Chemical Arithmetic." Practical Chemistry. —Reagents; qualitative analysis, comprising group and detailed separations, thence proceeding to simple analyses; volumetric analysis, with especial reference to the testing of potassium-cyanide solutions ; analyses of simple substances ; tests for gold and silver in ores and alloys, and also in solution as chloride ; manipulation and laboratory-work ; preparation of different gases, as hydrogen, oxygen, &c, and their physical and chemical properties. Assaying. —Fluxes; reducing agents; dry assays of gold, silver, lead, tin, mercury, and antimony ores ; wet assays of copper, lead, zinc, antimony, and iron ores, with calculation of results in each case; tests and special methods of assaying tellurides of gold and silver; tests by wet and dry methods of different minerals and alloys. Some work has also been done in electro-metallurgy and electroplating. In both practical chemistry and assaying subjects students are taught practical work and manipulation, and encouraged to verify their results by their own practical observation and experiments as far as possible.
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Metallurgy of Gold and Silver. —Special classes in this subject have been held for the benefit of students preparing for battery-superintendents' examinations, dealing with the following branches : Crushing machinery; amalgamation, with the use and properties of mercury; machinery used; concentration and vanning ; chlorination and cyanide processes, with especial reference to recent improvements ; other leaching processes ; roasting ores ; testing and assaying ores; chemistry of the various processes ; arithmetic; plans and sketches of the various appliances and machinery. Text-books: Park's " Practical Chemistry and Assaying" and "Cyanide Process," Louis's " Gold-milling," Eose's " Metallurgy of Gold," Eissler's " Gold " and " Silver." Special instruction has been given at different times to persons desirous of obtaining certificates as engine-drivers, and six persons have been successful in obtaining such certificates by examination during the year. Class fees are : Mining and surveying, 12s. 6d.; chemistry, assaying, and metallurgy of gold and silver, each 7s. 6d. per quarter. No members' fees are required from students, but any persons other than students may become members on payment of a fee of 10s. The number of assays performed for the public during the year has been forty-two, and berdan' tests ten. A number of ore-samples have been submitted for analysis or identification of the mineral contents, but no results of very special interest have been obtained. In conclusion, I have to thank the committee of the school most heartily for their co-operation and support, always accorded very readily ; also the various donors of mineral specimens for the school collection, and Messrs. J. Chambers and Son for a number of catalogues of mining machinery for the school library. WESTPORT SCHOOL OF MINES. The hon. secretary, Mr. Edward Young, has supplied the following particulars to the 31st March, 1902 :— Owing to the want of an Instructor, classes were suspended during the early part of the year 1901, but were reopened on the sth July, Mr. D. A. Strachan, M.A., having kindly undertaken to deliver lectures on chemistry, while practical instruction in assaying was given by the President, Mr. James Bradley. There has been an average attendance of seven students, who have all made very satisfactory progress, and are becoming proficient in the analysis of complex ores. One of them, Mr. Sydney Pry, has lately passed his examination for a quartz-mining manager's certificate at Eeefton. There is only one class at present, the fee for each term being 10s., except for pupils attending day-schools, who are admitted at half-price. The ordinary annual membership fee is 10s. The work done in the school during the period has included ninety-four chemical, scorification, amalgam, and fusion assays, besides innumerable chemical tests of salts, minerals, &c. Most of the assays were made from ores of the district—tin, copper, antimony, zinc, zineblende, and other minerals—and in some instances high results of gold and other metals were obtained. The institution has been of marked utility to the district, and promises, from the increasing interest now being taken in it, to be still more fruitful of benefit in future. The chief drawback is the want of a regular Instructor. Free railway-passes to schools of mines students, if I may venture the suggestion, would also be a great boon to the latter, besides increasing the attendance. One of our students, the Mr. S. Fry above mentioned, often walked home after lectures, from Westport to Waimangaroa, a distance of ten miles. An appliance much required by the school is a second-hand theodolite for the teaching of surveying. During the period under report the school has been visited by Mr. Hayes, Inspecting Engineer, and also by Messrs. Tennent and Eichards, Inspector and Assistant Inspector of Mines for the district, and others who take a deep interest in it, and contribute any interesting mineral specimens they can find. The text-books used are Jago's " Chemistry," Dr. Black's " Chemistry," Park's " Laboratory Instructions," Hiorns's " Metallurgy," and Brown and Griffith's " Assaying." The school has a membership of forty-six, in addition to students. Various local donations have also been received, including a subsidy of £10 from the Westport Borough Council. The school wish to record their gratitude to Mr. D. A. Strachan, M.A., for his gratuitous and very valuable services to the institution. OTAGO SCHOOL OF MINES. (Is CONNECTION WITH THE UUIVDBSITY OS , OTAGO, DuNEDIN.) The Director, Professor James Park, F.G.S., reports as follows for the twelve months ending the 31st March, 1902 :— During the session of 1901 the school showed the satisfactory attendance of thirty-eight registered students, and one casual student for one special subject only—namely, practical assaying. The thirty-eight students attended with the intention of going through one or more of the courses of study prescribed in the calendar for the several divisions of the school. Of that number, eleven entered for their first year, leaving twenty-seven in their second or third year. In past years students have not strictly followed the curriculum prescribed in the calendar, and for this reason the year of attendance does not always coincide with the academic year of a student's course, and failure to pass a satisfactory examination in a subject at the end of the session may throw a student out of the prescribed course, and in some cases necessitate attendance in the same class for another year.
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Of students who entered for their third or final year, four completed their studies with success, and, having presented satisfactory certificates of time spent in practical work, were awarded the diplomas and certificates to which they were entitled. These students were as follows : Leslie Maurice Jolly, diploma of Associate in Mining and certificate of Metallurgical Chemist and Assayer; Thomas Otto Bishop, diploma of Associate in Mining, diploma of Associate in Metallurgy, certificate of Metallurgical Chemist and Assayer, certificate of Mine and Land Surveyor; Harold Tyndall de Renzy Harman, diploma of Associate in Mining and certificate of Metallurgical Chemist and Assayer ; Frederick Thomas Seelye, diploma of Associate in Mining. Diplomas and certificates were issued during the year to nine students who had already passed the prescribed course, on production of certificates relating to practical work, in accordance with the regulations of the Mining School. The names of these students are as follows : Herbert Edmund Allen, diploma of Associate in Mining; Edward Arthur de Lautour, diploma of Associate in Mining ; George Herbert Royse, diploma of Associate in Mining and certificate of Metallurgical Chemist and Assayer; Colin Campbell, diploma of Associate in Metallurgy ; George Aubrey Gow, diploma of Associate in Mining, diploma of Associate in Metallurgy, and certificate as Metallurgical Chemist and Assayer; Sydney Parker Street, diploma of Associate in Mining ; James Baillie Macdonald, diploma of Associate in Mining; George Watt Thomson, diploma of Associate in Metallurgy ; William Graham Eoyse, diploma of Associate in Metallurgy. The attendance in the different classes and the results of the annual examinations in the subjects of instruction in the Mining School are shown in the following tabulated statement : —
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In addition to these classes, students in their first, second, or third year, according to their standing, had to attend the University classes in mathematics, theoretical mechanics, theoretical physics, practical physics, theoretical and practical chemistry; and two students, with the intention of qualifying for the diploma of Associate in Geology, attended the classes in biology and palaeontology. No failures were recorded in the University classes, with the exception of three in mathematics and three in theoretical chemistry. The results of the examinations in these subjects are shown in the following table : —
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Students in the different divisions, according to their standing, had also to attend the drawing classes at the School of Art, the Director of which reported satisfactory progress in the case of every one.
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;esa ;s o: Ixaminai Dns. Teacher. Attendance. Subject. First Second Glass, j. Class. Third Glass. Failed. General geology Mining geology Mineralogy Petrography ... General metallurgy Special metallurgy Assaying, first course „ second course Blowpipe analysis Mining, first course „ second course ... Applied mechanics, first course ... 'Mine and land surveying, first Dr. Marshall If 8 6 8 7 11 13 16 10 12 II 4 9 12 1 1 3 1 4 1 3 4 6 8 3 2 3 1 3 3 3 5 2 5 3 3 2 1 1 1 II 1 2 1 6 3 2 8 2 4 L0 D. B. 'Waters 3 3 1 a it it The Director it 1 1 1 a it course Mine and land surveying, second 6 2 3 1 course
Subject. Teaoher. Attendance. lesults of ixaminatii ins. First. Glas-. Second Class. Third Glass. Failed. Mathematics rheoretical mechanics Pheoretical physics ... Practical physics rheoretical chemistry Practical chemistry ... Biology Palaeontology Professor Gibbons Professor Shand 9 10 9 5 14 10 2 2 1 1 2 1 3 2 2 1 5 5 4 3 ;/ Professor Black 4 3 4 1 5 7 3 3 Professor Benham it i
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The examination results are shown in the accompanying tabulated statement: —
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The work done for the public in the valuation of ores, bullion, &c, by assay, by Mr. D. B. Waters, lecturer and instructor in assaying, was as follows : Charged for at fixed rates, 52 ; not charged for, 5 ; total, 57. In this period the Director examined and reported on three collections of rocks and fossils : two from Southland, in connection with the probabilities of coal being discovered, and one from Hokianga, relating to a copper-discovery. Staff. —Up till the year 1900 the teaching staff of the Mining School consisted of five members, including the Director and lecturer in metallurgy, and three outside lecturers—namely, a lecturer in geology, a lecturer in applied mechanics, and a lecturer and instructor in mine and land surveying. The regrettable death of the late Professor Ulrich led the Council of the University to reorganize the staff on a new basis. The outside lecturers were dispensed with, and instead of these a lecturer in geology and mineralogy was added to the permanent staff. This new appointment led to a rearrangement of the subjects of instruction, as indicated in Table I. This arrangement will be adhered to in the present year, except in the case of mining geology, which will be taught in future by the Director as the first chapter in the mining course. Regulations of School. —At the end of last sessien a revision of the regulations of the school was prepared. The new matter related principally to the issue of diplomas and the course of study in the different divisions, and after lengthy consideration and some amendment was finally approved and recommended to the Council by the professorial board. The new regulations and a synopsis of the instruction in each class are embodied in a separate publication recently issued from the Government Printing Office by the courtesy of the Hon. James McGowan, M.H.8., Minister of Mines. Examination Papers. —In response to a request from the Director in July, the Hon. the Minister of Mines agreed to the printing of the annual examination papers by the Mines Department, and in fulfilment of that promise printed papers were placed in the hands of the students at the October examinations, an innovation which was much appreciated both by the staff and the students. Students' Library. —In July the students organized a social entertainment at the school to raise funds for the purchase of books for their library. The proceeds of the social realised some £10, which, with the sum of £12 obtained from a similar entertainment in 1900, was spent in the purchase of standard books of reference on mining and metallurgical subjects. The self-reliance of the students in this matter deserves much commendation, and for such a praiseworthy object the Council of the University might be reasonably requested to subsidise any small sum collected in this way. In August the Hon. the Minister of Mines presented the library with a set of the back numbers of the annual reports of the New Zealand Mines Department, and promised to send copies of all the publications of this Department in the future. Donations of technical works were also received from Mr. A. Hamilton and the Director. Donations to the School. —Valuable gifts of serviceable and up-to-date machinery and mining plant were received from a number of mining companies in the Auckland goldfields, notably the May Queen, Kuranui-Caledonia, Moanataiari, Big Pump, and Waihi Companies. The machinery proved of great value for class demonstration. It included a hoisting-cage with safety appliances (new model); two 3-| in. Ingersoll-Sargeant air rock-drills, with fittings; one rockdrill column and arm ; two tripod stands ; one rock-boring augur; sets of steel drills for single- and double-hand drilling; set of drills for air-drill; samples of cruciform, hexagonal, and octagonal drill-steel; set of tools for charging blast-holes, including scraper, tamping-bars, prickers, and "gun"; single-and double-hand striking-hammers ; driving and sinking picks ; shovels; examples of fire-bars ; steel-wire and flat hemp ropes ; two mine-trucks; one 12 in. pump bucket valve ; one cheese-clack, &c. From the Waihi Gold and Silver Mining Company (Limited) were also thankfully received 2 cwt. of cyanide tailings ; from the Woodstock Gold-mining Company (Limited), 1 cwt. of argentiferous gold-ore; from the New Zealand Jubilee Gold-mining Company (Limited), \ cwt. of cupriferous gold-ore; and from the Monowai Gold-mining Company (Limited), 1 cwt. of complex sulphide ore. These ore-samples proved a valuable addition to the material available for the experimental work undertaken by the advanced students in metallurgy and assaying. The geological collections were supplemented during the year by a collection of Trias fossils from Nelson, presented by the Director, and a typical series of rock-specimens representing the Maitai formation of New Zealand, together with sundry other rocks and minerals, from the same
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source. The Trias fossils will form the nucleus of a collection of New Zealand type fossils, which is much needed for the instruction of students in the geological division. In addition to the above donations, the receipt of a collection of West Australian rocks and gold-ores from Mr. Max yon Bernewitz, of Kalgoorlie, and a collection of Victorian rocks and minerals from Mr. 0. G. Adams, Director of the Stawell School of Mines, has to acknowledged. Graduates of Mining School. —The Australian Mining Standard of a recent date supplied the following interesting information relating to the present positions occupied by a number of old students of the school in different parts of Australia: W. A. McLeod, Director of the Charters Towers (Q.) School of Mines ; O. G. Adams, Director of the School of Mines, Stawell (V.) ; A. C. Boydell, lecturer on assaying, metallurgy, mineralogy, chemistry, and petrography, Bendigo (V.) School of Mines; Thomas Esdaile, lecturer on assaying, metallurgy, and chemistry at the South Australian School of Mines; A. Purdie, Director, Government Technical School, Perth (W.A.); P. J. McLeod, University and Technical School, Hobart ; W. H. Baker, formerly of the Karangahake School of Mines, Director of the Launceston (T.) School of Mines; P. B. Stephens, former Director of the Stawell (V.) School of Mines, but now manager of the Cassilis Gold-mining Company, Gippsland (V.); and Murray Eussell, Government Inspector of Mines, Queensland. In addition to these, the following old students of the school hold responsible positions in New Zealand : F. B. Allen, Director of Thames School of Mines; Percy G. Morgan, Director of Waihi School of Mines; D. V. Allen, Director of Coromandel School of Mines; F. T. Seelye, lecturer, Waihi School of Mines; and A. Montgomerie, superintending engineer, Kauri Gold Estates (Limited), Auckland goldfields. It is also a pleasure to record that Mr. D. B. Waters, our lecturer in assaying and metallurgy, and Dr. P. Marshall, lecturer in geology and mineralogy, are old students of the Otago Mining School. It is further gratifying to note that J. Malcolm Maclaren, an old student, secured the 1851 Exhibition Research Scholarship for 1901. Mr. Maclaren is at present investigating the gold veins of Great Britain and Ireland, and has been favoured with permission to conduct his laboratory research work in the Davy-Faraday laboratory of the Eoyal Institution in London. Besides these, many students of the Otago Mining School fill positions as assayers, metallurgical chemists, cyanide managers and operators, mill-managers, mine-managers, and mining engineers in New Zealand, the different States of the Australian Commonwealth, in America, South Africa, and Newfoundland. Progress of Mining. —The unexampled progress of gold-mining in all parts of the world during the past decade can be traced directly to the introduction and successful operation of the cyanide process of gold-extraction. Many mines that were formerly closed down, or working at a loss, are now paying regular dividends ; and piles of tailings, at one time regarded useless sands, are yielding a profitable return through the application of this process. The cyanide process depends on a series of highly complex chemical reactions, and for this reason is probably the most difficult and technical of present-day metallurgical processes. Its successful introduction in the Australian Colonies and New Zealand, often under the most adverse conditions, is a splendid tribute to the value of the training imparted in our mining schools. The process may truly be said to have revolutionised the art of gold-mining, which now occupies a foremost position among the established industries of the world. In the past twelve years it has already added over £50,000,000 to the wealth of the British and American peoples, and its possibilities in the future seem almost without limitation. And it came most opportunely. It is almost certain that, had the process been invented twenty years ago, its introduction had been well-nigh impossible through the lack of men possessing the high technological skill required for its successful operation. But it so happened that it came when the mining schools were fairly established and in full swing. The schools were called on to supply the men to work the process. In a sense they were placed on their trial, and for the first time since their establishment were required to justify their existence. This period was an anxious and critical time in the history of our New Zealand mining schools, and writing now, ten years after, it is gratifying to record that the reliable and successful work of our students, who were thus suddenly called upon to take the place of the old-time millman and battery-manager, dispelled for all time any lingering doubts of the value of a technical mining education. Since filling all the available positions at the New Zealand mines, the overflow of our certificated students has found its way to responsible positions in connection with the process in all parts of the world, wherever gold-mining is conducted on scientific principles. If the colonies are to stem the tide of foreign competition, greater facilities must be provided for the acquirement of a technical training in the higher branches of applied science. It is not so much in the manual occupations that we feel the stress of foreign competition as in the domain of mining, metallurgy, engineering, chemistry, electricity, and manufacturing industries. Mining has already afforded a wide field for hundreds of our more intelligent youth, who have discovered not only a remunerative source of employment for themselves, but one in the pursuit of which they contribute largely to the wealth of the nation. Hitherto mining is the only industry in New Zealand in connection with which any serious attempt has been made to introduce technical education. That the results have already more than justified the expenditure is clearly shown in the more systematic development of our mines and the yearly increasing value of our mineral productions. There is, therefore, now no need to go to Germany or America to discover that money spent on technical education is money well invested on behalf of the community.
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EXPENDITURE ON SCHOOLS OF MINES. The following table shows the expenditure by the Government on schools of mines since their inauguration, exclusive of subsidies paid to the University of Otago towards the School of Mines in connection with that institution: —
The above statement shows the amount expended on the different schools of mines throughout the colony; but, in addition to this, the sum of £9,303 6s. 2d. has to be added, as that has been paid to the School of Mines attached to the University of Otago, £750 being paid last year towards maintaining the school, which makes the total expenditure up to the 31st March last to be £33,580 17s. 3d. This expenditure has extended over a period of seventeen years.
PRODUCTION OF GOLD AND SILVER. The following comparative statements show the quantity and value of gold entered for exportation for the last two calendar and financial years:—
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Financial Years. Subsidies towards the Erection of Schools of Mines, and Maintenance. Chemicals and Apparatus, also Mineralogical Specimens supplied to Schools of Mines. Scholarships. Salaries of Teachers, and Travellingexpenses, &c. Total Sum paid by the Department towards the Schools of Mines. 1885-86 1886-87 1887-88 1888-89 1889-90 1890-91 1891-92 1892-93 1893-94 1894-95 1895-96 1896-97 1897-98 1898-99 1899-1900 ... 1900-1901 ... 1901-1902 ... £ s. d. 257 16 6 253 15 9 42 10 0 142 2 0 217 6 6 181 14 0 312 3 4 197 0 5 390 0 0 820 0 0 352 14 11 1,089 18 6 740 15 2 990 3 4 866 10 11 1,155 12 3 £ s. d. 36 19 9 409 1 4 253 14 1 6 12 9 181 14 10 54 8 0 £ £ s. d. 1,223 9 10 2,716 9 3 1,714 9 6 1,139 4 1 716 3 10 620 9 9 689 5 9 670 1 0 858 19 4 773 17 8 849 3 0 834 12 8 780 19 0 729 10 11 52 16 3 77 7 10 69 16 4 £ s. a. 1,260 9 7 3,383 7 1 2,221 19 4 1,188 6 10 1,040 0 8 892 4 3 870 19 9 982 4 4 1,055 19 9 1,209 8 6 1,719 3 0 1,346 6 1 2,000 17 3 1,553 5 8 1,117 3 3 1,098 2 1 1,337 13 8 45 10 10 58 18 6 29 19 9 32 19 7 24 3 8 56 3 4 63 5 1 50 100 100 ■ 50 50 98 49 Totals ... 8,010 3 7 1,253 11 6 497 14,516 16 24,277 11
ear eni led 31st I 1901. Decern ler, ear en led 31st I 1900. Decern icr, Name of District. Increase for 1901. Decrease for 1901. Quantity. Value. Quantity. Value. Oz. 191,968 133 7,212 113,286 142,940 22 £ 695,551 513 28,138 454,006 575,492 83 Oz. 166,342 535 3,718 73,923 129,075 23 £ 605,398 2,147 14,605 295,733 521,629 90 Oz. 25,626 Oz. .uckland larlborough lelson ... Vest Coast Itago lanterbury 3,494 39,363 13,865 402 1 Totals 455,561 1,753,783 373,616 1,439,602 81,945* Year ended 19 31st March, 02. Year ended 191 31st Maroh, 31. Name of District. Quantity. Value. Quantity. Value. Increase for 1902. Deorease for 1902. .uckland larlborough lelson ... Vest Coast Oz. 201,861 277 4,207 104,441 128,200 19 £ 728,498 1,108 17,118 418,322 515,265 71 Oz. 166,049 247 5,126 85,779 135,753 22 £ 604,018 970 19,238 343,728 548,444 84 Oz. 35,812 30 Oz. 18,662 '919 )tago lanterbury 7,'553 3 Totals 439,005 1,680,382 392,976 1,516,482 46,0291 * Total net increase, value £314,181. I Total net increase, value £163,900.
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During the year a considerable part of my time was occupied in the performance of duties of a special character, which included the examination of several areas of lands comprised in the West Coast coalfields in connection with the proposal to establish State collieries, and the supervision of prospectmg-works. These, in conjunction with the various other departmental and office duties, prevented my making my usual visits of inspection to several parts of the colony The reports of the Inspectoreof Mines for the respective districts, and also those of the several Wardens wi Ibe found very complete. These, together with the information which is published monthly by the Department in the columns of the New Zealand Mines Record, render a voluminous annual report from me altogether unnecessary.
QUABTZ-MINING. Taking quartz-mining as a whole, the industry may be regarded as satisfactory. In the JNorth Island the Waihi Company's mines have not only materially increased their output but the developments carried on during the year have still further proved the value and permanence of the company s property. As pointed out in the report of Mr. Warden Bush, the large output of these mines would have been larger still had the work not been affected to some extent by labour troubles. Indications of a favourable character are also to be noted in connection with several other properties, and as these become more fully developed, and the most approved modern methods and appliances adopted for the treatment of the ores, the maintenance of the position occupied by this branch of the gold-mining industry will be fully assured. The success which has attended the scientific treatment of the complex ores raised at the Monowai Mine Waiomo, and referred to in the reports of Mr. Coutts, Inspector of Mines, and Mr. Warden Bush' is very satisfactory, and should tend to encourage further enterprise in a similar direction. There are reefs m various parts of the colony which are of a somewhat complex nature, and if the ore from these were to be thoroughly tested, and the best method of treatment arrived at, there seems no reason why such should not be worked on a systematic and comprehensive method to a profit. _ During a visit to the Eeefton portion of the West Coast Mining District I was pleased to notice the manner in which working operations at several of the quartz-mines are concentrated. In all probability, the comprehensive methods adopted here more nearly approach the conditions mentioned m my last annual report (as desirable for the working of low-grade ores) than is the case in any other mining district in the colony, and the results obtained are ample justification for the procedure. In the case of the New Inkerman Mines regular crushing has not yet begun, but the property is being opened out at various levels and the body of stone well proved. The foresight displayed, and preliminary work accomplished before attempting to put out a large tonnage of ore, must result in the mines being eventually worked with economy. Where fairly large bodies of low-grade ore exist, thoroughly comprehensive methods embodying concentration of operations, with consequent economy in expenditure for labour and material, ■must be adopted to make the working of such reefs a commercial success.. Quartz-mining in the Southern district has been very quiet during the last two or three years, the late " boom " in dredging having overshadowed every other branch of gold-mining for the time being. Quite recently, however, a little more attention has been directed to the reefs ; and I cannot but think that, if the energy and enterprise which have characterized the mining and metallurgical research and subsequent development of some of the properties m the Northern and West Coast districts were to be devoted to the reef systems of the south, good results would be obtained. Eeefs exist which could be worked economically if handled on a fairly large scale, but other methods than amalgamation are required to extract the gold contained. This is a matter which has not received the attention it deserves. In another portion of this report I reproduce information recently issued by the Australasian Ore-concentration Syndicate (Limited), of 4, Bishopsgate Street Within, London, E.C., descriptive of the "Elmore " method of the concentration of ores by oil. This patented process is at work on a commercial scale at a copper-mine in Wales, which is said to have been a losing concern prior to the adoption of the " Elmore " method ; and from copies of reports I have seen by eminent mining engineers whose reputations are firmly established throughout the mining world, there appears to be a reasonable prospect of the process meeting the requirements of some of the mines and undeveloped reefs of this colony. In an examination of the plant at work in Wales by one well-known engineer it was found that about 85 per cent, of the values contained in the ore was saved by this process, as against 15 per cent, by ordinary water concentration as previously carried out with the best machinery that could be got. The ore in this instance was of low grade. Another report on a test parcel of ore by both the ordinary and the " Elmore " processes of concentration gives the following results: Eecovery by water concentration, 32-62 per cent, of copper, 35-23 per cent, of gold; recovery by "Elmore " process, 85-10 per cent, of copper, 75-00 per cent, of gold. Besults such as these will no doubt lead the managers of New Zealand mines to inquire into the question for themselves.
HYDEAULIC AND ALLUVIAL MINING. With the exception of the commencement of sluicing operations in connection with the works of the Humphrey's Hydraulic Sluicing Company (Limited), at Humphrey's Gully, near Hokitika, there are no very important developments on an extensive scale to report for the year in this branch
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of gold-mining work. For some considerable time past the company referred to have been engaged in extensive and costly works, comprising the construction of water-races and other necessary erections, and are to be congratulated on having at length reached a productive stage. The engineer, Mr. E. W. Spencer, reports having erected gold-saving tables at the end of the ordinary wash-boxes. These have proved very effective in catching the fine gold, as much as 27 per cent, of the gross yield being saved by this means. The results are further proof of the loss of fine gold which takes place at many sluicing claims where tables are not provided. This is a feature to which I have repeatedly drawn the attention of various claim-managers, and have the satisfaction of knowing that the results obtained by the subsequent adoption of tables has led to mining operations which were previously carried on at a loss becoming commercially successful. In connection with the question of saving fine gold, Mr. H. W. Young, A.M.1.C.E., of Greymouth, who has had considerable experience in the West Coast goldfields, has very kindly placed the following notes and accompanying drawings, together with photographs showing the Waiwhero Sluicing Company's plant at Barrytown, at my disposal for the purposes of this report. Mr. Young says, — " I may premise that, excepting amongst those more or less familiar with the subject, great misapprehensions exist as to the practicability of economically working what is vaguely termed ' black-sand ' ground, and of saving the very fine gold with which black sand is frequently associated. Many regarded this as a mysterious and insoluble problem, and there was a widespread delusion that fine gold never was or could be profitably recovered from black-sand wash. These views are disproved by the history of the industry on the West Coast, for the golden beaches were discovered in the first year of the rush, and have contributed a most profitable and large proportion of the whole yield of these goldfields. The beach-workings of the earlier period extended more or less throughout the entire length of the coast-line, and were held in small claims, worked in most cases by ' paddocking.' Thus the overburden was removed by stripping, and cast aside, only the leads or layers of concentrated washdirt -being washed. The gold was saved on plush, &c, by cradles or toms, or by copper plates. The washdirt usually contained a large proportion of black sand, and was sometimes almost entirely of heavy black and grey sands. The quantities dealt with and the appliances required were small, all operations being carefully conducted by hand. As usual, the miners tested and watched their tailings, letting no gold escape that it would pay them to save. By degrees, and as the richer deposits were worked out, small water-races were brought in and ground-sluicing resorted to, also the process known as ' beachcombing' or ' haymaking,' by which were worked the gold-bearing black sands sorted out and deposited on the beaches by wave-action. Many tracts of beach have thus been continuously worked for more than thirty years, often by their original holders or their descendants. The modes of working such claims have not materially altered, though many ingenious devices in connection with them may be observed. " Fine-gold working on a large scale has been largely confined to and developed in the vicinity of Westport, where extensive gold-bearing marine deposits exist. When the richer leads were worked out in small claims, poorer ground in larger areas was taken up, and the systematic development was begun of washing-appliances capable of putting through large quantities of comparatively poor dirt at a cheap rate. At first the plant was generally somewhat similar in construction to the American undercurrent tables, having a main cross-launder discharging on to the tables through numerous small gates, but this and other arrangements and details gradually developed according to experience. During the period of development there was no lack of means to supply the plant, or of skilful and observant men to adapt it to its purposes. Innumerable experiments of all kinds were tried, some leading to progress and others abandoned after failing to stand a working-test, and it is interesting to note that amongst the latter are many which have been recently suggested or patented as up-to-date novelties. " Without going into the particulars of older forms of tables, and confining these remarks to the general Westport type and improvements on it, it may be said that the modern fine-gold-washing plant as used on the West Coast consists of three main essential parts. The first is the hopper-box with stone-shoot, which t receives the water and gravels from the tail-race connecting with the sluicing-face, and separates the stones and shingle from the water and sands. The second comprises the ' sand-box' or ' boil-box,' with its discharge-ducts and other accessories, intermediate between the hopper and the tables. The third comprises the washing-tables and their accessories. These three essential parts deal with the stuff from the face and reduce it to concentrated gold and heavy sand ready for amalgamation. While these three features are necessary elements in any successful plant, they differ in form and detail in various constructed examples. Some four years ago, as engineer for the Waiwhero Sluicing Company, it was my business to provide working-drawings for a plant of medium size, and later for a much larger one, both of which have stood long and satisfactory working-tests ; also (for other companies) designs for somewhat similar plants, but with modifications to suit special circumstances. Based on a knowledge of the successes and failures of the Westport district, and with all available information from those who had special experience in the matter, it was possible to make designs embodying and improving on the best practice of the time. It may be best to describe this in detail, noting possible variations or improvements, as the conditions and necessities of each case may require special attention and modifications. " The object of the hopper-box is to receive the discharge of the tail-race from the sluicingface and eliminate the coarser stones from it. The most suitable width for the hopper-plates is 3 ft. for small water-supply up to, say, five heads, and 4 ft. for larger ones. The plates should be square, of equal breadth and length, so that they can be turned round and over to equalise wear, and of steel fin. thick, punched (not bored) with holes in. in diameter, about 1-J in. pitch on diagonal lines. The plates are subject to great scour, necessitating frequent renewals,
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Waiwhero Sluicing and Dredging Company (Limited): Washing Plant, Buckley's Terrace. Tables, looking south from level of ducts.
Waiwhero Sluicing and Dredging Company (Limited): Main Canoe Creek Water-race, thirty-five heads capacity, six miles and a half long.
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Waiwhero Sluicing and Dredging Company (Limited). Sluicing Face, Buckley's Terrace (250ft. above H.W.M.).
Waiwhero Sluicing and Dredging Company (Limited) Washing Plant, Buckley's Terrace.
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GOLD-SAVING PLANT. designed by Mr. H.W.Young. C.E. GREYMOUTH .
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and are so far made of the ordinary market mild steel. A harder steel, if obtainable, would be more durable and cheaper in the end. The best size of perforation for hopper-plates has been a matter for experiment by myself and others, variations from J in. to -f in. having been put to working-tests. It is proved that holes of less than fin. diameter unduly limit the discharge through the plates, are liable to choke, and that there is no advantage whatever to be gained by their use. The discharge'through yg-in. holes is sufficient in amount, and the fine shingle particles which pass through with the sands, and seldom exceed J in. in diameter, are not troublesome in their size or quantity; in fact, many consider that they are of benefit in keeping lively the sands on the tables. With holes exceeding yj in. in diameter, the size and quantity of small shingle becomes excessive, and the water passes away so rapidly as to prevent material from being carried forward over the plates. The hopper-plate box should be graded so that, as nearly as possible, the water and fine stuff will just disappear through the plates as the ' hopperings,' or coarse shingle, slide into the stone-shoot, which is a steeply inclined box carrying the hopperings into a tail-race or tip-head. Owing to variations in the water and gravels it is impossible to make this process fully automatic, but it can be made nearly so, and requires very little attention. This depends upon the proper adjustment of the grades and length of the hopper-box to suit (a) the quantity of water in use, (b) the nature of the stuff, and (c) the state of the hopper-plates, which varies greatly as the holes get bevel-edged and worn. Much adjustment is obtained by using plain unperforated plates to blind a suitable length of hopper-surface at its upper end, or by narrowing it at the sides. " In the latest plant I have devised and introduced an improvement by making the grades of the hopper-box easily adjustable. Instead of being built in and fixed- to its framing, the hopper-box is formed in sections hinged together, so that it can be adjusted to whatever combination of grades best suits the conditions of the time. Instead of hopper-plates, bar screens or grizzlys have been tried, but these get choked with the thin flat stones common in beach-wash. As some amount of water and sand find their way over the hopper-plates and down the stone-shoot, it is necessary to insert screen-bars in the upper part of the shoot to save this, and to carry the sand either to a separate table or to one of the main tables. The stone-shoot grade is too steep for hopper-plates, and the grizzly is thus necessary. "The tail-race from the sluicing-face should widen out and have a low grade at its junction with the hopper-box —say, 6 in. to the box, or 1 in 24—and for a short distance the hopper should have the same grade, gradually increasing as the stone-shoot is approached. " The sand-box is placed directly under, and in line with, the hopper, and receives the water and sand discharged through the hopper-plates. In some plants the sand from the hoppers is received on boarding arranged like a pent roof, with its ridge under the centre-line of the hopperbox. This boarding divides the sand and water into halves, shedding one on either side, where it is received into long parallel troughs acting as sand-boxes for each wing of tables respectively. The objection to this halving operation is that an equal number of tables must be kept going in each wing, while with the central box any inequality in the number of tables on each wing does not matter. The central sand-box must have a length proportional to the number of tables to be served, the distance between centres of outlet-gates being about 18 in. The best width is 10 ft. clear, of which a width of 2 ft. on each side is 1 ft. in depth from the top of the box, and the central width of 6 ft. is 2 ft. 6 in. deep. In this central portion are fitted longitudinally two vertical boards or partitions fully 2 ft. wide, held in slides so that they can be adjusted to a sufficient height above the bottom of the box, usually about 7 in. to 9 in. These boil-boards are placed about 3 ft. apart. A shrouding of match-boarding extends from each side of the hopper-box to the level of the top of the boil-boards, where the sides are drawn in to a distance of about 2 ft. from each other. Similar boarding extends from the ends of the hopper-boxing into the sandtank, the whole of the sand and water thus being delivered into the space between the boilboards. By this means the water in the sand-box is kept in a constant ' boil,' with the sand in suspension and unable to settle. In the shallower wings the agitation is less, though enough to prevent settlement. Gates consisting of wooden slides, with an opening of about 8 in., are placed in the wings, and regulate the discharge into the ducts leading to the table. In long sand-boxes it is necessary to control the discharge of stuff into the sand-box, so that the sand is distributed throughout its length, but in short boxes this is unnecessary. A clean-water flume should be fixed round and into the box, so arranged that water can be let into any duct for streaming down its table or for filling the sand-tub. In some cases tail-water from the amalgamator waterwheel provides this flushing-water. From the regulating-gates of the sand-box the water and sand is led to the various tables by ducts having a cross-section 8 in. by 8 in. in clear. These ducts can be made in separate boxes, with 8 in. by 2 in. bottoms and 10in. by 1 in. sides, or by laying down a floor of 6 in. by lin. T. and G. boards, and subdividing this into boxes with 8 in. by 1 in. partitions. Experience of both methods is in favour of the separate boxes. "The ducts require setting to a gradient of 1 in 24, or steeper if there is much heavy sand, with vertical drop-boxes to adjust the surplus fall. The ducts discharge on to the top member of each table called the 'V ' piece. This portion of table is fixed permanently level, is in length about three-quarters of the width of the washing-table, and in its own width tapers from duct-width to table-width. It is not used for gold-saving, its function merely being to convert the narrow duct current into a regular shallow stream of full table-width. " The washing-tables themselves should always be made adjustable for fall, which requirements can be attained by simple and cheap means. It was the usage to make the tables fixtures, at grades supposed by their builders to be suitable, but which in practice had to be repeatedly altered and rebuilt at great expense. The hinging of the table to its 'V piece in such manner as would obviate loss of water and sand can be effected by simple devices. A prime essential for any satisfactory washing-table is that the fall of the table can be
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easily altered and adjusted to suit the nature of the stuff treated and the quantity of the water used. The range of adjustment should be between lin. to the foot to 2 in. to the foot. From careful experiments with a mixed quality of old beach-wash and its overburden, containing a fair but not large proportion of black sand, I found that in. to the foot just reached the maximum and ljin, the minimum working-fall, and adopted If-in. as a good working-mean. The best fall in any particular case must depend on the lightness or strength of the gold, the nature of the wash, and especially the proportion of heavier sands, and the quantity of water available, the object always being to save the greatest possible percentage of gold and to deal with the largest possible quantity of material. With regard to the best width and length of tables, opinions differ. Narrow tables are objectionable, and widths of 4 ft. or 8 ft. are most generally used. The Waiwhero tables are 8 ft. wide, and a considerable experience of their working has disclosed no reason for altering or subdividing that width. As the table-sides induce a little scour on the saving fabric and are unfavourable to gold-deposit, it is evident that the proportion of edge to surface should be the smallest possible, and that therefore a table should be of the greatest width it is expedient to use. The evolution of the Westport district arrived at tables about 8 ft. wide, constructed longitudinally, with four panels or strakes of plain surface, each 4 ft. long, and with cross-trough ripples between the 'V' piece and the first strake and between adjacent strakes. I tried a reduction of strake-length to 3 ft., with four strakes, and found in practice the 3 ft. more than sufficient; that fully nine-tenths of the gold was deposited on the first strake, and practically the whole remainder on the second strake, with very few colours on the third, and therefore reduced subsequent tables to three strakes each. Where the gold is of the lightest quality, however, it is better to have a greater number. The length of strake can, however, be reduced to 2 ft. or less, as the gold-saving is practically confined to a length of 12 in. or 15 in. below the ripple, and any length below that merely serves to regulate the water-current before it descends into the next trough. Four strakes of 2 ft. each would make an excellent table. " The water issuing from a trough reaches the table-plush with a downward current, bringing the gold into contact with, and bedding it in, the plush. Whenever the flow has resumed its horizontal current the gold remains in suspension, and tends to remain in its particular layer of water until a vertical disturbance carries it downwards. The usual trough-ripple is 5 in. wide in clear, 4iin. deep from the table-surface at the upper side, and 3Jin. at the lower side, fitted with an adjustable dash-board or baffle-board at its centre. The trough is therefore 1 in. deeper on the upper side of the dash-board than it is on the lower side, which gives sufficient head for discharge without backing the water on the strake above. The trough is square, rectangular in section, this form having proved preferable to a curved one. " In referring to the grade of tables, the fall given to the strakes is meant, not including the inch allowed to each trough. It is a good plan to fix the last and lowest strake with a fall of, say, in. to the foot in excess of the others, so that cocoanut-matting or other rough material may be used to trap any floaters that may have escaped. " The manner of laying on plush or other gold-saving covering is as follows : Immediately below each trough a strip of leather about 4 in. wide is tacked along its upper edge on to the table. This forms a long flap, under which the upper edge of the plush is snugly laid. Instead of the leather, canvas can be used, but neither handles nor lasts so well, though much cheaper. The plush for 8 ft. tables should be 52 in. wide, as this allows for shrinkage and lap. It is better cut into 26 in. widths, which are more easily handled, and laid in four overlapping widths. When the plushes are laid down under the leather apron and overlapping each other they do not require to be held in place by battens or other means, and can be quickly lifted for washing and relaid. "Various fabrics are in use for saving the gold, but some variety of plush is almost always included. Generally, good plush or other special material is laid on the upper strakes, and some coarser and cheaper ones on the lower. Blankets made for the purpose, or of the ordinary market kind, are in use, but lose their nap and saving efficiency much sooner than plush, and require more frequent renewal. The ordinary market plush fails in the backing, and becomes useless long before the nap is worn ; therefore the best of it has a comparatively short life, seldom exceeding three months. To meet this difficulty the Waiwhero Company obtained some specially manufactured fabric, called the ' water-resisting gold-saving plush,'through Mr. James Trent, of Christchurch. A large set of tables was clothed with this in February, 1901, and did not require renewal until the end of that year. It has proved an excellent gold-saver, and, its life being so much longer than that of ordinary plush, it has proved cheaper than other varieties, although greater in first cost. For some reason there remains a 20-per-cent. duty on plushes used for mining purposes, although all other similar imports for gold-saving purposes are admitted free. This tax on industry is a hardship to all dealing with fine gold, and enhances the cost of production. '' The tailings from the tables are usually discharged into boxes leading into the main tail-race, just behind the bottom end of the stone-shoot, so as to carry the hopperings forward to the tailing site or ' dump.' The boxing from the tables may be either placed in a line under the table-ends, in which case a considerable fall is required, or may be carried back under each table to a branch of the main tail-race placed under the tables. Across the head of the tables, and usually along the 'V' piece, a tramway should be laid along the whole range of tables and extending into the amalgamating-shed. The washing-tub, -which runs on this tramway, is simply a strong watertight box on tram-wheels, the box being about 2 ft. deep, lft. 8 in. by 2 ft. 8 in. in clear at bottom, and 3 ft. by 4 ft. at top, with sloping 6 in. shelves on the edges of one side and both ends on which the washer can place his cloths. Before lifting the plushes or blankets the table should be shut off from the sand-box, and well streamed with clean water so as to clear off any sludge or surplus sand. The cloths are then rolled up and carefully conveyed to the washing-tubs, washed, and relaid. The washing-tub is then rolled to the next table, and so on until the set is completed, after which the
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tub is run to the amalgamator-house. Amalgamation is effected in revolving barrels actuated by a ulnri r " Plusiaes should be washed every eight to twelve hours, and blankets more fre- • "In the treatment of wash containing gold it should be possible to easilvand at any time alter and adjust the proportions of stuff and water dealt with, also to adjust the hoppers and the fall on the tables, especially when variations in the nature of the ground or in the available water have to be considered. "Experience has proved the value of the sand-box, of separate and direct ducts from the sand-box to each table, of the trough-ripples, and of adjustable parts, but the dimensions and general arrangement of any plant must be made to suit the conditions of the case. In determining the size required the amount of water available is generally the ruling element. From and the experience of those working with tables there should not be less than 10 ft. width of table per sluice-head of water, or 60 cubic feet per minute, and 12 ft. of table or more per head is better In sluicing it requires special experience to keep the stuff moving regularly down the tail-race or the tables may be alternately under- and over-fed. In dredging, the delivery of dirt should be more regular, and therefore require the minimum proportion of water. ■IJ'J 6 end , eavoured t0 ascertain the quantity of wash per sluice-head which can be dealt with by table-washing on a large scale. From measurements and estimates of the ground worked and with carefully kept records of the hour-heads expended in working it, I conclude that the average quantity of ground per hour which one sluice-head can deal with is about 5 cubic yards Ihis result must differ in various cases, because the fall and capacity of the tail-race, the proportions of material which go respectvely over the stone-shoot and tables, and other elements have to be considered In the two cases from which my estimates were made, one fall was of very sandy beach-gravel with a considerable overburden of coarse shingle, while the other had very sandy washdirt with an overburden of blue-reef pug." 0 f^T^w^ B ',- hoN and 3^ h ° W the general arran gements in plan and section of a plant erected at the Waiwhero Sluicing Claim, near Barrytown. It has been found in some instances that the very strong winds have a tendency to lift the adjustable tables at their upper end when fitted with the rockmg-jomt shown. To meet this an improved joint has been designed, which is strong easily faxed, and inexpensive. The table-joist end runs between two studs—say 4inby 2 in— th d Zl tB rh n % T™? °} 2i ?' > } in - ir ? n ' With P erfora ted side. A pin of | in. round iron passes through the studs, joists, and stirrup, making a very secure hinge-joint. The drawing No 4 gives a good example of a small cheap plant if modified in construction so as to have the improved table-joint, separate distributing-ducts, and tables having three strakes of 2 ft. length with a fourth and lowest strake, say, 3 ft. long, and with extra fall of about Hin. per foot
DBEDGE-MINING. As was to be expected as the result of the recent "boom" in both the West Coast 9n( l southern goldnelds, a large number of investors have gained an experiencem wWch disappoLt merit is the leading feature. Numerous dredges have been built and put to work- in some she rs:r4:fno s :s,e";:™e k 42 airrf to be L ° ; ta ° ,Js a > ™ M ™ = were not, in many instances, allowed time to properly consider the requirements of claims (manTof which were inadequately tested), and reliable data for their guidance was frequently ™t Sable As regards the second condition many applicants for shares took little or no troubled mquTre into ZlTtft 8 of , the t claim K s °l th ™ suitability for dredging, and thus claims which mighSablv be worked to advantage by hydraulic mining, but not by dredging, were taken up as dredair ,l claims, with results that any independent person with only a slight aUuvialS 8 mining might easily see could only prove financially disastrous auuviai gom The impetus gl yen to dredging by the "boom" has passed, and as actual work proves the value or otherwise of claims, as well as the suitability or unsuitabUity of the dredge* TempCd th is branch of gold-mining is settling down to a steady industry, which will, it is to be reasonably expected, continue for many years to come. There is little doubt that the returns for dre3 Cer rivers ~Tt ? ™% th ° y6ar but for the fact that so ™ «fS| n ™Ja T § r a mUGh l° nger perlod than is usual - consequently those dredges at work in rapid currents and gorges were of necessity stopped for a considerable portion of the! time removal\t tr e nirre a ;Lr"- S ° f dredgeS *°* «^«
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As each working dredge is, on the average, responsible for the direct employment of about a dozen men (including coal-miners and carters), it will be seen that the present state of the industry gives occupation to over two thousand persons, without taking into consideration those who are employed in the manufacture of machinery both in and beyond the colony, as well as in the building of pontoons, erection of machinery, repairs, removal and rebuilding of dredges, cartage of material, and in the various incidental requirements of this branch of the mining industry. The safety of workmen employed on dredges continues to occupy the attention of the" Inspectors of Mines, and it is found that both dredgemasters and workmen are becoming more observant of the regulations issued in this respect, and the dredges are, as a rule, kept well equipped with the required safety appliances. The great majority of fatal accidents in connection with dredge-mining are by drowning, and it is to be feared that carelessness, if not recklessness, on the part of employees (especially in the handling of boats in swift-running rivers) is often the cause of such accidents. In regard to the construction of dredges for work in the West Coast district, experience has demonstrated the necessity of increased powers and strengths of machinery (as compared with the usual practice found suitable to the characteristics of the Southern district) to successfully deal with the tight wash, large boulders, and buried timber which are met with in many of the claims. This is a feature which will doubtless be dealt with by engineers in designing future dredges. The most novel and striking improvement which appears to have been introduced during the year is that of the centrifugal tailings-elevator patented by Messrs. Payne and Peck, of Dunedin, of which a drawing is given. A photograph showing the machine at work on board the Ngapara dredge, Alexandra South, is also reproduced. This elevator is, I understand, working very satisfactorily, and at my last visit to Dunedin I saw a larger machine (intended to replace a ladder elevator) in course of construction for the Sandy Point dredge working near Alexandra South. As this dredge ranks as one of the largest at work, and has a deep bank-face to excavate, in addition to what is lifted from below water-line, its stack of tailings is necessarily high. The adoption of the new elevator on this dredge is being watched with much interest; the test may be considered a fairly severe one, and if successful here its future may be reasonably considered to be assured. The following paragraph from the Otago Daily Times of Monday, the 27th May, 1901, describes the trial at Dunedin of what may be termed an ' experimental machine,' improvements having been effected in those of later design : — " Trial of a Neiu Dredge Elevator. —A practical test of an invention which, if what is claimed for it is borne out in its actual use, will very largely decrease the cost of dredge-construction took place on the reclaimed ground on Saturday afternoon in the presence of a large number of gentlemen interested in mining. The machine is the invention of Mr. W. Peck, with whom Mr. P. W. Payne, consulting engineer, is associated in the patent rights. The invention is intended to do away with the elevator at present in use on dredges, and it simply throws the stuff away with great force. In the first test on Saturday about 5 tons of stone, some of which consisted of rubble about 1 ft. in diameter, was put through the machine, and it disposed of this readily, throwing the most of it to a distance of about 100 ft., while some of the larger stones were cast as far as 300 ft. In the second test the stone was bagged, and emptied down the shoot in a continuous stream, and the result was even more satisfactory, the material being hurled away to a distance without any trouble. The trial with the stone used was perfectly successful, and, given the same results with the varied material that is taken up in the elevator-buckets on a dredge, the invention is a most important one to the mining industry. The machine consists of a wheel or drum with beaters or vanes somewhat similar to a water-wheel. The general dimensions of the machine under trial on Saturday were 5 ft. diameter by 3 ft. wide, with four beaters or impact plates. The machine was driven at a speed of 240 revolutions per minute. The tailings are delivered on to the periphery of the drum, and, being struck by the revolving beaters, are projected in the required direction. The advantages of the machine are obvious. In the first place, the cost of this machine as compared with an ordinary bucket elevator is trifling, and the cost of maintenance is also immensely reduced, as there are only four wearing surfaces and two bearings, in place of tumblers, rollers, links, bushes, pins, &c. The impact plates used on the machine at the trial were only soft metal, the manganese plates not yet being to hand. The inventors have given much time and study in determining, by calculation and experiment, the best form of wheel, and have also given the various practical points that will no doubt suggest themselves to dredging-men due consideration, and now state they are prepared to place these wheels at work on any dredge. One difficulty that will no doubt suggest itself is the disposal of the large stones. This difficulty, it is claimed, has been entirely overcome, and the inventors state that any stone that can come up in the buckets may be put into the machine with impunity. In regard to the deposit of silt, the present machine has been constructed to elevate material such as is now being delivered to existing elevators, and if it is required to elevate silt the inventors suggest a slightly modified form of vane. A 120 ft. elevator is now lying in Messrs. McGregor and Co.'s yard, near the new machine, this huge structure being a strange contrast to the simple, unpretentious-looking wheel at work on Saturday. In the carrying of bucket elevators the pontoons have to be made deeper and wider than would otherwise be necessary; while poppet-heads have to be erected for the attachment of hanging ties, &c. All this additional work can now be dispensed with, and it is estimated that a saving of £6,000 to £6,500 could have been effected in one at least of the mammoth dredges now being built if the machine had been invented in time to save the expense of a long elevator and its attendant large pontoons, &c. One of the drawbacks of a bucket elevator is that it deposits the material in one spot, causing a series of heaps, and to attain a better distribution revolving shoots have been in some cases resorted to, and shoots delivering sideways. This difficulty, it is claimed, is entirely overcome by the new machine, which gives good distribution of the material, thus insuring an even stack. In cases where this distribution is not permissible,
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Ngapara Dredge, Alexandra, Otago, showing action of Messrs. Payne and Peck's Patent Centrifugal Elevator.
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a deflector, or director plates, 'can be used, the addition of these being included in the patent rights of the machine. It is understood that the machine has been patented all over the world." " Working of Gold-dredges by Hydraulic Pressure. —The adaptation of water-pressure to the work of driving dredge machinery has been applied by Mr. W. O'Brien, of Waipori, with considerable success, steam-power having been abandoned in its favour in one instance at least— viz., that of the Waipori Consolidated dredge. This dredge has buckets of 3J-cubic-feet capacity, the working-speed being about thirteen buckets per minute. One Pelton wheel— which is set high enough for the discharge-water to be used in conjunction with that lifted for washing purposes — drives the bucket-chain and centrifugal pump, a smaller and reversible Pelton wheel being used to work the winches. Water is conveyed to the edge of the paddock by a line of pipes from a water-race, and has a pressure due to a head of 160 ft. vertical. To accommodate the water-supply to the varying movements of the dredge, the pipes are carried by a number of small pontoons, on which ball-and-socket joints are mounted; thus the pipe-line is made capable of a certain amount of flexibility without loss of water. The arrangements, as I saw them, worked very sweetly, and I was informed that the substitution of water-power for that of steam had effected a saving of about £1,000 per annum, the weekly working-cost of the dredge being about equal to 6oz. of gold. It occurred to me that the substitution of armoured hose for the present system of pipes with ball-and-socket joints might probably be an advantage in reducing loss of pressure due to friction and abrupt changes in the direction of the water-current. The practical success of the system has been proved, and this method is being adopted on a new dredge which is to rework the ground already worked by the Jutland Plat dredge near Waipori Township, also on the Lower Bnfield dredge, and is being substituted for steam-power on one of the dredges at Cardrona. Mr. W. O'Brien, the patentee, supplies the following particulars : — " The pressure is obtained as in any ordinary hydraulic claim—viz., the water being conveyed in pipes down the slope of a hill. The water is conveyed on to the dredge from the bottom of the hill or -edge of the paddock by means of a floating column o.f pipes, coupled with revolving joints ; each joint to be fixed and supported by means of floating pontoons. The water-pressure, when conveyed on board the dredge, will work the turbine, Pelton wheel, or any other water-motor to drive the dredging machinery. The length of pipes and position of pontoons of floating column will be so arranged as to take up the smallest space up and down the hull of the dredge when the dredge is close to the bank. The pontoons will be worked from the dredge, and can be so manipulated as to permit of the dredge being moved from side to side of the run or face with ease by the ordinary winding-gear on board the dredge. A dredge can be built to work by the above method at a considerably less cost than those which are worked by steam-power, as there will be no expensive engines and boilers to provide for. The turbine or Pelton wheel will be placed at the same elevation as the sluice-boxes. The water discharged from the turbine or Pelton wheel, after working the machinery, will wash the stuff discharged from the buckets. The water-pressure provides a power which can be turned on at any moment, so that time is not lost in lighting fires and getting up steam. A power is always at hand to drive the electric light or work grindstone, water-blast, &c. Water-power, where available, is the cheapest power known, and, when used direct, very poor ground can be made to pay. " Advantages claimed. —No fuel will be required, no engine and boiler to keep in repair, less oil and wear-and-tear, less labour required, as when the water-motor is once set to work it does not require attendants; therefore a second man on the dredge can attend to the lines, sluice-boxes, &c, and give assistance with anything which may require to be done. Bucket-dredging is undoubtedly the quickest method of working ground, on account of regularity of working, everything being afloat, following its work, stripping and cleaning the bottom at the same time, discharging the tailings evenly on worked ground, and requiring no attendance, and the gold going into the boxes continually, giving regular weekly returns. With an uneven bottom, such as holes and rises, the ladder can be raised or lowered to clean the same out. This cannot be said of the hydraulic-elevating system, in which there is a great deal of lost time in shifting and erecting plant, continual shifting of the hydrant, and stoppages through stones getting into the throat of the elevator. The sluice-boxes being stationary, the tailings accumulate at the end of the boxes and require building and looking after. The material also has to be lifted much higher to obtain a dumping-ground for it. In the elevating principle only a small percentage of the water-power is obtained. For example, five Government heads (or 300 cubic feet of water per minute), with 150 ft. of pressure, is about the smallest power used with the hydraulic elevator. These five heads of water 150 ft. high will give a force equal to over 60-horse power, including friction, when applied to the Pelton wheel for driving the machinery. This 60-horse power will work five large dredges, with buckets of 4-cubic-feet capacity, capable of raising over 100 yards of material per hour 25 ft. high, with power to spare." Advance Stkipping by Dredgkes. In connection with the working of dredges on flats, I have in previous reports urged the importance of stripping off the soil and clayey matter in advance of the dredging of the auriferous wash, and of depositing the overburden or surface material on the top of the tailings. By this means good land would not sustain much damage by reason of dredging operations, and land which is now cold and useless for cultivation would be vastly improved and made into fairly good farm land, owing to the facilities given for natural drainage by the breaking-up of the tightly packed matter underlying the surface. The operation would also tend to materially increase the yield of gold by reason of the gravels (during their treatment in the screen or sluice-box) being free from contact with the clay, which, under present conditions, is known to carry off a considerable percentage of fine gold. This subject I have at different times discussed with Mr. F. W. Payne, consulting engineer, of Dunedin, with a view to the satisfactory solution of the question by simple
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means, which should not only be provided for in new dredges, but, if possible, be capable of attachment to existing machines. As the result of our consideration, we think the desired object may be gained somewhat in the following manner : A dredge working flat land to have a tailingselevator ; this may either be a fairly long elevator of the ladder type, or a centrifugal elevator such as that already referred to and illustrated in this report. When a ladder elevator is adopted in the case of an existing dredge, it may be necessary to provide for increased flotation by means of small auxiliary pontoons bolted to the stern end at each side of the dredge's hull, in order to counteract the leverage of the elevator. In working, the bucket-ladder will be raised so as to strip the ground down to the top of the gravel, and the elevator (if of the ladder type) lowered to as nearly a horizontal position as circumstances will admit, in order that the material passing over it may be conveyed as far back from the dredge as possible. The revolving screen is to be thrown out of gear, and a box shoot (made m sections so as to be readily set up and taken down) is run through the screen to act as a conveyor for the material from the discharged buckets to the foot of the elevator. Where a dredge is not fitted with a revolving screen, blind plates would be placed over the ripples in the sluice-box, and answer the same purpose as a box shoot inside a revolving screen. The machinery is now started and a cut made across the face of the paddock, the width being determined by the distance the dredge can move forwards before the bows come in contact with the gravel left below the stripping. When this cut is completed the box shoot is removed, revolving screen thrown in gear and elevator either raised or thrown out of gear, as circumstances may require (in the case of a dredge with sluice-box and ripples the blind plates are lifted), and the dredge set back to work the gravel These changes can be quickly accomplished, and in many instances there would not be any need for the elevator to work except when stripping is being done. This, of course, depends largely on the relative thickness of the overburden and gravels. No question of patent rights is involved in connection with this method, which owners of dredges are at perfect liberty to adopt. Particulars of a Eecent. Dbedge. T7 „ The a ne w dredge for the Sheddon's Freehold Gold-dredging Company (Limited), at Waikaka Valley, Southland, of which an illustration is given, is the design of Mr. C. L. Watt consulting engineer, Dunedm. Whilst the general appearance of the dredge is very similar to many others working on flats, there are several differences in detail, for particulars of which, and also a drawing of the dredge, I have to acknowledge my indebtedness to Mr. Watt. There is a departure in the construction of the bucket-ladder, the bulk-heads being placed diagonally. This plan (which is not considered suitable for river-work) has been devised for paddock-dredging, where grass tussock flax, and small scrub have to be dealt with, and it is claimed that, owing to the absence of crossstays and bracings, the ladder is kept free from accumulations of dSbris. In the Southland dredging field several machines are fitted with tines connected to the bottom tumbler or its shaft. These act as picks, and cut into the ground so as to loosen it a little in advance of the buckets. Mr Watt has deviated from the ordinary style of tine by fitting those on the dredge in question with side cutters m addition to the ordinary points, so as to allow the ladder more freedom at the lace ot work, and admit of its being more easily moved. ,_ Th ere is no revolving screen on this dredge, a sluice-box being used. This is on somewhat different lines from the ordinary run of sluice-boxes as used on dredges, and is made of iron instead of wood, Keterence to the drawing (elevation) will show that there is a considerable drop from the buckets to the shoot in the head of the sluice-box, and at about 25 ft. down the box there is another drop of dO m. Beyond this the sluice-box is increased in width to 6 ft. for a distance of some 40 ft the entire length of the box being 65 ft. The upper part (25 ft. long) is covered with perforated plates, the lower portion (40 ft. long) being fitted with ripple-bars laid longitudinally and transversely, with perforated plates intervening, the usual matting being adopted throughout. An appliance resembling m principle a suggestion embodied in my report of last year has been adopted on this dredge. This consists of an endless belt of matting revolving upon an endless revolving grid-iron made the full width of the box. It is fixed inside the box below the perforated plates and travels upwards, making one revolution every three minutes. The gold, sands silt &c, which pass through the perforated plates fall on the travelling mat, on which jets of water' having a head of from 3 ft. to 4 ft., are made to play. This is plainly shown on the drawing. The sands, gold, &c washed off the mat fall on the streaming-down tables, which are constructed with boil-boxes something after the style adopted at the Bound Hill claims by the late manager Mr G Lee and introduced by him on some of the dredges at Waikaka. Provision is made by means of a trough (not shown in drawing) to catch any gold which may find its way through the revolving mat, and carry it forward to the streaming-tables. The "save-all" box or shoot is brought under and to one side of the sluice-box, and enters the latter where it widens out The water from the centrifugal pump does not enter the sluice-box at right angles, as is usually the case, but by a deflection in the delivery-pipe is made to attack the wash as it falls from the buckets on to the dump-plate. A churning-action is thus set up which has a tendency to dislodge any particles of gold that may be adhering to the wash. The latter then travels down the sluicebox for some 25ft., where it drops 30in. as already stated, and becomes further disintegrated, finally travelling over the ripples and plates in the wide box to its discharge beyond the stern of the dredge. The dredge is working with excellent results.
ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. The Allowing table shows the number of persons who have lost their lives and also the Suring cl the yeZ;l in COMecti « n with gold mining work
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OTHEE MINEEALS. Beyond the usual output of scheelite by Messrs. W. and G. Donaldson at Macrae's, Otago, and some prospecting operations for antimony at Alexandra South, which may be considered fairly successful, little or nothing appears to have been done during the year. The cinnabar lode near Waitahuna is not yet being worked. It is proposed to form a company to develop and work the mine.
MECHANICAL VENTILATION. So far nothing has been done in the direction of providing by mechanical means constant and reliable air-currents for the complete ventilation of quartz-mines in this colony, most of the mines relying on natural ventilation, which is both uncertain and irregular. The simple fan illustrated and described in last year's report has apparently supplied a want felt at several coal-mines. One of these fans, 9 ft. in diameter, has been erected at the Orepuki Sbale-mine, and at 180 revolutions per minute circulated a current of 33,120 cubic feet of air, with a depression of l W.G. The cost of this fan was only about £140 erected, the mine-owners providing an engine for driving it. Mining managers who have seen the fan at work consider that its efficiency and small cost should cause it to become very popular. Three others are now in course of construction for the ventilation of coal-mines.
. THE ELMOEE OEE-CONCENTEATION PEOCESS. The following is the text of a description of the above process. It is issued by the Austtalian Ore-concentration Syndicate (Limited), 4, Bishopsgate Street Within, London, E.C. The syndicate announce that they have a testing plant capable of treating 10 tons per day, and are prepared to make laboratory tests and to report results free of charge, and large scale tests at moderate fixed rates, which will be remitted in cases where the syndicate's process is adopted. Metallurgists throughout the world have hitherto become accustomed to understand that the separation of the metalliferous and valuable portions of ores from the gangue with which they are associated must depend upon the difference of specific gravity of the mineral particles and the rocky constituents of the ore. It may come as a complete surprise to many when they are told that the latest improvement in concentration does not depend in the slightest degree upon specific gravity for the perfect separation of the rock from the mineral, and that the percentage recovery is equally good when treating slimes and finely divided minerals, such as would largely pass away as " float " in any ordinary process of concentration by water over mechanical jigs and vanners. Such, however, is the case, and it is the object of the following description to introduce to the notice of the reader the Elmore process for concentration of ore, slimes, and tailings by the use of oil, which is likely to inaugurate a distinct addition to the field of ore-concentration. The process, as worked at the Glasdir Copper-mines at Dolgelly, North Wales, may be shortly described as follows : The rock from the mine, after passing through the usual stone-breakers, is crushed in a pair of Cornish rolls, and run thence to two Huntington mills, wherein it is reduced to pass through a thirty-hole screen, and issues therefrom with just sufficient water to make it into a freely flowing pulp. From the Huntington mills the pulp passes directly into the open end of a horizontal rotating drum, inside of which is fixed a helix with cross blades or buckets, which lift up the pulp to a certain height and drop it again, at the same time propelling it forward to.the opposite end of the drum, thus keeping the pulp in constant agitation for the few seconds which are occupied in its progress through the drum. With the pulp is also admitted a small quantity of a thick, sticky oil (the residue left in the stills in the refining of paraffine-oil). This oil is, of course, subjected to the same agitation as the pulp, and is consequently tumbled about with it, and exercises the remarkable property of sticking to and buoying up the particles of mineral that are floating about or suspended in the pulp ; but it does not stick to or have any effect whatever upon the particles of rock which are present in much greater number. The oil and pulp automatically discharge from the opposite end of the drum into a pointed box or spitzkasten, in which the tailings or rock at once settle down and flow off with the water at the bottom, whilst the oil, by reason of its buoyancy, floats to the top and carries up with it practically all the values which the ore contained. From the top of the pointed box the oil, with its load of mineral, flows off continuously to a specially constructed centrifugal machine, where the oil is extracted from the mineral (which is left in the machine), the oil being at once ready for re-use. For close extraction three mixingcylinders are sometimes used, the pulp passing from one to another after floating off the oil and collected mineral, and receiving a"fresh stream of oil in the next mixer. A second centrifugal
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machine is also found desirable below the first, to separate the last of the oil and water from the concentrates. The concentrates are left in the machine, practically dry and free from oil. The Glasdir Mine was originally equipped with one of the most modern concentrating-mills obtainable, which was worked in the best possible manner under the direct personal supervision of able experts-. Over 52,000 tons of ore from the Glasdir Mine were treated by the jig and Luhrig table plant referred to, with a result that only 14-5 per cent, average value recovery could be obtained from the ore. The Glasdir Company secured the services of expert managers from Germany and Cornwall, as well as from America, and gave the mill every chance to show its best performance. During the time the various experts sought to remedy the defects in the dressing and concentrating process which had been established at so great an expense; almost every known mechanical appliance was tried in turn to see if a reasonable recovery could be got from this ore, but without success, owing to the large proportion of float and slime material produced. Magnetic separation was considered and tried, but with negative results ; several chemical processes were tested, and in turn abandoned, owing to great cost or poor recovery. It was found that the disastrous loss arose largely from the very friable nature of the pyrites. The process was first tried in the laboratory, then on a small working-scale, and then with a plant erected at the Glasdir Mine capable of treating about 50 tons of ore per week. After a lengthened trial of this plant a larger one was erected, which gave eminently satisfactory results when treating 100 tons per week. From the experience gained from working this last-named installation the existing plant was designed, which is a thoroughly practical working equipment in every respect, treating 250 tons of ore weekly. The recovery of over 80 per cent, of the metallic values from the Glasdir ore by the new process having been fully demonstrated, the whole of the original jig and Luhrig table plant has been abandoned in favour of the new plant. The Elmore ore-concentration process has already been investigated and favourably reported upon by several eminent experts. Mr. Charles M. Bolker, M.1.M.M., the well-known mining engineer, made an exhaustive examination, and in a paper, which he read upon this process before the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy said, " The mechanical contrivances brought into action by the inventor are excellently adapted to the work demanded, and bespeak very careful thought, as well as patient, systematic, and highly intelligent work. Seemingly insuperable mechanical difficulties in the initial stage have been very ingeniously overcome, and the process has arrived at a practical working-stage." Mi. J. H. Collins, F.G.S., past president of the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, and formerly chief chemist and metallurgist of the Bio Tinto Company (Limited), in his report upon another mine, the ore from which was treated at Glasdir by the Elmore process, says, in reference to the process, "It is not my province here to report upon this process in detail, but I feel bound to say that in my opinion it will open a new era in the treatment of tender sulphuret ores." The plant of the Glasdir Mine has recently been studied by mining experts connected with some of the largest and best-known mines, with the result that the process is about to be applied to low-grade ores in different parts of the world where such ores have heretofore been found impossible to work at a profit, and it is anticipated that, by the use of the Elmore process, in the near future some mines which have been either standing idle or have been worked at a loss will become successful. Experiments have shown that on auriferous antimony, cinnabar, and molybdenum ores, the sliming properties of which are such as to preclude the possibility of their being concentrated commercially by water, the process gives a very high extraction and rich concentrates. Some copperores from South Africa which have been very wastefully treated in the past, owing to difficulties in concentration caused by the presence of magnetite, have been in small tests enriched from 6 to 40 per cent, of copper. Another copper-ore from Mexico in which the presence of heavy garnets interferes greatly with concentration of the auriferous copper minerals has given a concentrate of 23 per cent, copper from mill tailings. In both these cases the final tailings after the oil process were very poor. Free gold seems easily caught by the oil even when quite coarse. There .may be no advantage on such material over existing processes, but late experiments indicate a successful application even to very fine gold. Some of the copper-ores from the Mount Lyell district and from British Columbia seem particularly well adapted to the treatment. A much larger number of tests than is here indicated have been made, but those quoted will suffice as showing the variety of ores the process has successfully treated., and experiments with telluride and sulphide ores from Western Australia have been made with very satisfactory results, inasmuch as the oil is found to effect a practically complete extraction of the sulpho-telluride contents of the ore. Detailed results of a number of tests are given herewith in the tabulated statement on the next page, to which special attention is directed. The process has a great future, particularly in cases of difficulty by water concentration arising from brittleness or lightness of minerals to be separated, or from heavy gangue accompanying the minerals, such as heavy spar, magnetite, garnets, rhodonite, &c. It does not seem to matter how finely the mineral breaks ; if it is a mere scum on the water-surface, contact with the oil in the agitating-cylinders appears to assure recovery of the float values. Where water is scarce the process has a great advantage, for the rock can be crushed with the minimum quantity used in regular wet stamping, and by settling can be used over again, as muddiness of the returned water is no disadvantage. In practice it has been found at Glasdir that very little attention is required for the control of the process; that considerable variations in quantity of oil-supply and temperature are allowable ; and unskilled labour can be used under the ordinary intelligent superintendence necessary in any mill. The plant is much simpler than that of an ordinary concentration-mill; is not expensive to install; is subject to little or no wear-and-tear; and can be put below any wetcrushing machinery. In existing mills where heavy loss in slimes occurs this process can be easily added as an auxiliary plant. Material as coarse as 20-mesh has been concentrated. The loss of oil has been found to be at Glasdir 1J gallons per ton of ore treated, and may be taken as varying, according to ore and other conditions, between 1 and 3 gallons per ton. The oil is of a very cheap class ; its cost may almost be said to be the cost of transport to any particular place.
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THE CONCENTRATION OF ORES BY OIL (ELMORE PROCESS)
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Some Results of Tests made by the Elmore Ore-concentrating Process on various Ores, Slimes, Tailings, etc.
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Description of Ore. Original Assay. Assay of Concentrates. Assay of Tailings. Percentage of Values recovered in Concentrates. Eatio of Concentration. Copper. Silver. Gold. Copper. Silver. Gold. Copper. Silver. Gold. Copper. Silver. Gold. Copper-ore Per Cent. 7-1 7-6 3-9 3-6 1-58 3-40 Oz.lP.T. 3-9 2-67 0-33 0-73 Oz. P.T. 0-61 0-27 0-64 0-24 0-19 1-27 3-05 0-91 0-613 Trace 0-516 0-232 0-2 0-35 0-327 1-147 Per Cent. 14-6 10-9 19'1 11-5 7-8 8-0 8-40 3-0 29-0 9-0 12-1 10-8 8-1 145 15-31 13-10 9 00 15-65 Oz. P.T. 8-0 3-6 2-7 2-5 Oz. P.T. 1-28 0-39 3-00 0-60 Per Cent. Trace Oz. P.T. Trace 6-07 Trace Oz. P.T. Trace 0-09 Trace Per Cent. 95 0 94-0 94-0 97-0 84-0 91 0 Per Cent. 91-0 90-0 98-0 980 Per Cent. 92-0 94-0 90-0 96-0 950 96-8 97-5 96-0 98-0 930 77-0 94-0 900 74-8 88-85 97-80 2 to 1' 5-2 „ 1 3J „ 1 5 „ 1 2* „ 1 5| „ 1 7 „ 1* 3-5 „ 1 10 „ 1 5-1 „ 1 2-4 „ 1* 2J „ 1 5 „ 1 3* „ 1 3 „ 1 7 „ 1 7 „ 1 ii ii i 12J „ 1 3J „ 1 12A „ 1 5" „ 1 6| „ 1 7* „ 1 12J „ 1 12| „ 1 Tailings from a water-concentrating plant Copper-ore Gold-ore (telluride) 1-74 0-10 0-24 5-0 0-51 6-1 18-3 3-79 6-13 6-11 Trace Trace Trace 0 05 019 Trace 93-0 i-5 Trace South African gold-ore Antimonial gold-ore (tailings) Copper-ore Silver-ore Magnetic oxide, with copper-pyrites Copper-ore 3-0 1-15 11-5 2-2 4-3 2-8 3-6 005 6-5 32-0 16-2 65-4 0-30 0-30 0-60 0-45 0-08 0-05 Trace 0-90 7-0 90-3 85-2 940 80-0 97-0 98-0 96-0 80-0 87-3 1-90 1-78 1-41 0-14 0-14 5-6 7-4 3-5 0-6 1-5 0-66 0-75 3-8 2-4 Trace Trace 98-0 99-0 95-0 90-0 900 Antimonial gold (tailings) „ (slimes) Magnetic oxide, with copper-pyrites Slimes from silver-mines Copper-ore Pulp from battery-table (silver-ore) Magnetic oxide, with copper-pyrites Copper-pyrites in quartz „ slate Transvaal banket West Australian gold-ore 3-6 4-4 3-20 1-80 2-80 16-2 23-5 153 220 2-0 3-5 0-33 0-62 0-08 015 0-04 4-1 60 6-17 Trace Trace 0-1 92-0 89-6 98-0 93-0 98-7 77-0 .76-5 0-20 1-30 2-55 3-25 3-627 13-060 0-067 1-000 0-039 0-025 70-67 21-90 Cinnabar (quicksilver) ore Mercury. 0-50 1-24 1-75 Mercury. 11-00 13-10 19-00 Mercury. 0-023 0075 0-200 Mercury. 96-0 95-2 90-0 21 „ 1 12 „ 1 16 „ 1 *M early.
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Summary. 1. The process saves the finest slime or float mineral, free gold, sulphides, or tellurides, &c, which is the chief source of loss in water-concentration plants, and will separate such mineral even when the same is of less specific gravity than the gangue it occurs in. 2. It can be used after any system of wet crushing, without classification, on material finer han 20-mesh (400 holes to square inch), or can be added to existing concentration-mills for the treatment of the slimes which carry off value; it is thus specially adapted to the saving of " float losses." The grade (mesh) of crushing necessitated will, of course, depend in each case upon the degree of fineness and dissemination of the values through the matrix of the ore, and the ease with which these can be detached therefrom during crushing. 3. The pulp flows automatically and continuously through the mixers without attention, and the oil pa-sses continuously from the surface of the spitzkastens below mixers into the centrifugal machines, and thence, freed from concentrates, is pumped back into circulation again through tanks feeding the mixers. The discharge of concentrates from the centrifugal machines involves extremely little labour. The power required is very small, being simply that to revolve the mixers and to run two centrifugal mac*hines for several sets of mixers. 4. The cost of installation is not relatively high for a plant in which the capacity is at least 50 tons per day. The floor-space occupied is very small. 5. The cost of operating is very low, and wear-and-tear as little as any running machinery will admit of. 6. The quantity of water necessary per ton of ore is small, and, by settling, this can be used over again, except, perhaps, where amalgamation is used before concentration. Mine-waters, even where acid or charged with soluble salts, can be generally employed. 7. Clean concentrates are produced almost free from rocky particles, but containing a small percentage of oil, which is no disadvantage for smelting or roasting, and assists in briquetting if this be desirable. 8. Certain minerals can be separated from others of similar or greater specific gravity. For instance, copper-pyrites can be taken from magnetite, which is impossible by water concentration, and very imperfectly accomplished by magnetic separation, however slowly and carefully concentrated. 9. Although oil is used freely in the process, the whole plant and building can be kept absolutely clean and neat, owing to the perfection of the mechanical appliances as now developed. The total loss of oil depends in part on percentage of concentrates, and may be taken at from 1 to 3 gallons per ton of ore. 10. The plant is constructed in very convenient units of about 25 tons daily capacity, but depending on character of ore, and can be easily added to when installed. 11. The concentration depends on the surface condition of the material, and generally it may be said that metallic surfaces are attachable to the oil, and earthy surfaces not. Nevertheless, sulphur, earthy-looking cinnabar, graphite, molybdenite, atacamite, and some other minerals, which in advance might not seem to possess promising surfaces, are most successfully taken up by the oil. Tellurides which are difficult to concentrate by water, and from their gold and silver values need close saving, are easily concentrated by this process. Some oxidized gold-ores in which the metal is so fine as to defy amalgamation have given good results. Average banket gold-ore from the Rand mines without- any previous amalgamation has yielded a high extraction and rich concentrate. These last three classes promise a field for the process in direct competition or in conjunction with cyaniding. As it is desirable to extend the knowledge of its application, correspondence is invited, and samples will be received for laboratory testing by the process, in cases where difficulty or loss occurs in existing methods of concentrating or cyaniding. 12. Where an ore is heavily mineralised the adoption of the oil process by no means precludes the employment of water-concentration plant, especially where such is already installed. The contrary is indeed the case, water- and oil-concentration systems being frequently capable of advantageous combination, the former supplementing the latter and rendering it more efficient. By the addition of an oil-concentration installation to water-concentration plant, not only are all float losses (more or less inevitable with water concentration) effectually recovered, but the capacity of the wet-concentration system is greatly increased. The vanners, Wilfry tables, duo., would not need to be run as close concentrators, but employed merely to yield a large proportion of the mineral as sharp " heads," all middlings, tailings, and slimes being passed through the oil plant for the complete recovery of the balance of values. The total saving by the combination is greater than possible with the most perfect water-dressing system alone, whilst the economy is dual—that of the water-concentration plant being increased by freeing it from the necessity of close separation, thereby utilising its maximum ore-capacity, and that of the oil plant by relief from the need of dealing with a large proportion of the coarser material. 13. Where gold occurs both finely disseminated through the quartz or other ore matrix, and also in association with pyrites, tellurides, or refractory minerals, the oil process offers a, ready means of treatment. The mineralised values are thereby obtained in a high degree of concentration available for smelting recovery, or for roasting with subsequent chlorination, cyaniding, &c, whilst the residual values (if any) in the siliceous tailings are obtained in a condition readily recoverable by ordinary cyanidation. Thus the bulk of an ore otherwise unsuited to direct leaching extraction may be so treated after the removal of the refractory contents by means of the oil-concentrating process. Notably is this so in the case of tellurides and sulpho-tellurides and copper compounds. 14. The readiness with which the finest mineral particles are retained by oil renders possible in many instances the simultaneous recovery of slimes values with the concentration of the coarser ore, and will thus often obviate the need for subsequent slime-treatment plant, filter-presses, &c. ;
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nor will the ore have to be crushed or reground to the same degree of fineness as at present found necessary with sulpho-telluride and other refractory ores. 15. It should be remembered that, as a rule, metallic oxides are not saved by oil, although partial exceptions occur, as in the case of atacamite, oxide of copper, and eassiterite. Sulphide minerals, on the contrary, are almost invariably retained with completeness, the most notable exception being the incomplete removal of " blende." Hence, in the installation of oil-concen-tration plant, care should be taken to avoid undue oxidation at any stage in the previous reduction operations, in order to prevent the possible formation of oxide films on the surfaces of the sulphides present in the ore. It is for this reason also that tailings and slimes sent for trial should be taken as " running " samples, and despatched hermetically sealed.
THE GODBE AGITATION METHOD OF LEACHING.* This is a new method, recently patented by Mr. Ernest Godbe, of Salt Lake, Utah for leaching fine or slimy ores by agitation and the separation of the solution from the ore In the case of most ores, especially tellurides and sulphides, the finer they are pulverised the higher is the extraction by the cyanide-solution; but it is well known that very fine or talcy ores cannot be successfully leached by percolation, and this is the class of material the Godbe process is more particularly designed to treat. It consists of a combination of agitation and upward percolation simultaneously in the same vat. The pulp is stirred with a cyanide-solution containing lime in a circular vat, the diameter of which is not greater than the depth, and while being so stirred a stream of solution is introduced in the bottom from below a false filter-bottom, and rises up through the agitated and suspended ore, and overflows at the top perfectly clear and free from slime. To do this the miller or stirrer is placed close to the bottom of the vat, and does not revolve fast enough to throw the slime up to the surface of the charge, but just sufficient to keep the entire mass well up in suspension and flowing around in the tank, and at the same time always leave a few inches of perfectly clear solution at the top. The solution in its upward course comes into intimate contact with every particle of slime, as the latter is constantly changing its position in the tank and rises above the mass of slime into the clear-solution zone at the top, from whence it overflows perfectly clear and ready for precipitation. During the period of dissolving the gold the speed of the stirrer is increased so that the entire charge is in thorough agitation, and at this stage compressed air can be blown in to hasten the dissolution of the gold if the ore requires it. After the dissolution has taken place the gold-bearing solution is washed out by displacement with weak precipitated solution until all the gold has been washed out of the charge, and in turn the weak precipitated cyanide-solution is displaced with water, when a plug is drawn and the charge allowed to run out into the tailings-dam. Each displacement operation washes out about 80 per cent, of the solution contained, so that it generally takes three displacements— two of solution and one of water—to recover practically all the goldbearing solution from the charge. These displacements, however, take place very rapidly two hours only being required for each one. The proportion of solution to ore varies according to the specific gravity of the slime, being from 1-2 to as high as five parts of solution to one of ore. When used in connection with plate amalgamation no settling is required, as the water is withdrawn by displacement with the cyanide-solution. One important feature is that by using a lame quantity of solution, which can be done—the upward percolation taking place so rapidly—a very much weaker solution can be used and still bring the proper or necessary amount of cyanide of potassium in contact with the metals to be dissolved, thereby reducing the loss of cyanide to a minimum, both as to the loss of the latter in attacking basis, as well as in the ordinary losses of solution. A warm solution greatly assists the operation mechanically, and, presumably, chemically
STEMMING SHOT-HOLES. The experiments made by the French Committee on Explosives were undertaken in accordance with instructions issued by the Minister of War, and extended to the following points : Comparison of the different methods of stemming in relation to the utilisation of the explosive ; comparison of these methods from the point of view of the relative safety afforded thereby ; comparison with reference to the danger of ignition through friction. The Utilisation op the Explosive. These tests were made with Abel blocks, measurements being taken of the change in volume effected in the case of different methods of stemming under similar conditions. Although furnishing exact and comparable results, this method of testing presents different conditions to those obtaining in the practical use of explosives, more particularly as regards the friction between the stemming and the sides of the hole; nevertheless, the Committee considered it the best method available for the purpose in view. The blocks employed were of the usual dimensions—viz., 28 cm. high, 25 cm. diameter with a central bore 28 mm. in diameter, and varying in depth from 14 to 18 cm., according to the test In order to increase the length of the stemming, the blocks in some instances were fitted with an iron tube screwed into the bore. This tube was 70 cm. long and 30 mm. inside diameter The
* Prom the Engineering and Mining Journal.
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carefully weighed charge of explosive was formed into a small cartridge, fitted with a fulminate detonator, and pressed into the bore of the block with a bronze stemming-rod, the compression being regulated so as to insure equal density throughout all experiments with a given explosive. The stemming being then introduced and pressed down in the usual manner, the charge was fired by a Bickford fuse. After firing, the volume of the resulting crater was gauged with water, the block being then sawn in two, axially, to reveal any bubbles which, in badly cast blocks, might falsify the result of the test. The materials used for stemming were : Finely powdered dry quartz sand, dry clay, water, ordinary moist sand, clay rubbed down in water, and forming a plastic mass of about the consistence of glaziers' putty. The following explosives were employed : Grisoutine dynamite, with 12 per cent, of nitro-glycerine ; Pavier's grisounite-couche, with 4'sper cent, of trinitro-naph-thalene ; Pavier's grisounite-roche, with 8 - 5 per cent, of di-nitro-naphthalene ; and Cugny's dyna-mite-gomme, with 92 per cent, of nitro-glycerine. The results obtained are considered to show that plastic clay forms the best stemming under all the conditions of stemming employed —sand, dry clay, and water all proving inferior. Another set of experiments was afterwards conducted under different conditions, the sides of the bore being made as rough as possible so as to contrast with the smooth walls in the first set of tests. With this object an Abel block was completely imbedded in brickwork, the latter being pierced by a channel forming a continuation of the bore in the lead block. Iron ties were fitted to bind the block and brickwork more firmly together, thus forming a block of high resisting-power, measuring 65 cm. across and 90 cm. in height. The bricks forming the walls of the central channel were roughly dressed, and thus presented considerable irregularity of surface. A preliminary test having shown that a 50-gramme cartridge of grisounite-roche could be exploded in the centre of a similar block without shattering the lead, this weight of explosive was taken throughout, the more so because it corresponds fairly well with the charges used in practice. The stemming, about 60 cm. (24 in.) in height, only penetrated into the lead for a distance of 6 cm. (2-4 in.), nearly the whole remaining within the brickwork. The charge was exploded in the centre of the leaden block, and the resulting crater could therefore be measured with great precision. Under these new conditions, which more closely approximated with those of practice, sand stemming proved superior to plastic clay. It therefore follows that the conditions of use have a decisive influence on the superiority of the materials employed for stemming, and it is consequently difficult to ascribe marked superiority to any of those examined. In any event, however, it would seem that, in practice, ordinary sand is preferable to clay, contrary to the conclusions that one would be inclined to draw from the experiments with the Abel blocks. Bisk of Blown-out Shots. In the course of the previous experiments the stemming was invariably blown out of the tube, even in the case of small charges (10 grammes) and with long stemming (up to 80 cm.). Consequently the Abel blocks, which do not allow any of the gas to escape, are badly adapted for the comparison of the different kinds of stemming in this respect. To remedy this defect a trial was made with blocks pierced with a narrow bore for the purpose of allowing the gas to escape; but this method proved unsuitable, the vent being in some cases obstructed as a result of the deformation produced in the metal by the explosion, and the results being far from comparable. Parallelopiped blocks of cement concrete were then employed, the dimensions finally selected being : Width, 30 cm.; height, 60 cm.; central bore, 30 mm. in diameter and 45 cm. high. With these blocks it was possible to use 50-gramme charges without risk of dangerous projections of material. All the blocks were made of the same mark of cement, with stones of the same size, and the comparative tests were made with blocks prepared at the same time, so as to have identical conditions of experiment. The blocks were imbedded in clayey ground, and well rammed all round, the top of the blocks being flush with the surface. A large wooden screen was suspended at a height of 30 cm. above the blocks, in order to stop any scattered fragments. In the ease of blownout shots the stemming was projected with violence against the screen, on which it produced a well-defined impression. Ordinary sand and plastic-clay stemmings were tested, the sand being tamped in the hole with a stemming-rod, whilst the clay was first rolled into short plugs, which were rammed gently after insertion in the hole. The results show that a minimum length of 30 cm. of stemming is necessary to prevent expulsion in the case of clay, but that about 25 cm. of sand is sufficient, the latter being therefore the best. Bisk of Ignition by Fkiction. The chief danger incurred in shot-firing is that of ignition, by friction, of fragments of the explosive, or traces of nitro-glycerine left adhering to the sides of the shot-hole after the charge has been driven home. This risk is mainly confined to explosives of the dynamite and black-powder types, the Favier explosives, on the other hand, affording almost perfect safety in this respect. Consequently the tests were limited to ordinary dynamite (75 per cent, of nitro-glycerine) and finegrain black mining-powder. In order to approximate as closely as possible to the conditions obtaining in practice, use was made of a reciprocating-piston, working in a pump-barrel, the latter representing the shot-hole, the former the stemming-rod. The pump-barrel was composed of cement and flint concrete, and was open at both ends, the interior being recessed in the shape of a spiral intended to retain small quantities of the explosive during the stroke of the piston. The latter measured 40 mm. in diameter, and had a stroke of 12 cm.; whilst the crank from which it was driven was arranged to run at a speed of 125 or 375 revolutions per minute, the linear velocity of the piston in the former case being 50 cm. per second, and in the latter 1-5 m. per second.
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The test was applied to mixtures of explosive and stemming (sand or clay) in equal proportions. The sand used was finely powdered, dry, siliceous sand, the clay also dry, this condition being selected in preference to the damp state, as presenting greater risk of ignition. Four series of tests were applied, the intensity of the friction being progressively increased. First series : The (wooden) piston was accurately adjusted in the cylinder to reduce the play to a minimum, and the speed was 125 revolutions per minute. The machine was run continuously for eight hours a day during ten days, successive additions being made every hour of the mixtures of stemming and dynamite or powder. In no case was any explosion produced. Second series : The same apparatus was used, except that the wooden piston was replaced by one of iron, also fitted tightly into the cylinder. After eleven days the test was suspended, no explosion having been produced. Third series :In order to increase the friction the cylindrical piston was replaced by an iron one of slightly conical shape, the pump-barrel being tapered to correspond. The previous tests were repeated during four days, the machine being stopped every half-hour for the addition of small quantities of explosive into the cylinder. At the close of the experiment the concrete cylinder was found to be worn for a distance of several centimetres. The results were negative throughout. Fourth series : The same machine was used again, after adjustment, but the speed was increased to 375 revolutions per minute. This considerably increased the vibration, the foundation rocking continually, and producing knocks between the cylinder and piston. The machine was run for a whole day, with stops at intervals of a quarter of an hour for the addition of more explosive; but, though the cylinder was found to be worn and the piston to have become very warm, no ignition occurred. Sand mixtures alone were subjected to this test. Although it would be inadvisable to conclude from the negative results furnished by these tests that there is no risk of ignition from friction in practical shot-firing, it may be assumed that the probability of accidents from this cause is small; the more so that the presence of fragments of explosive on the sides of the shot-holes is likely to be rare, provided the explosive has been properly packed in the cartridge. The Committee consider that the foregoing tests, without having completely solved the whole of the problems investigated, have at least shown that: Sand stemming appears to give better results than clay in practice; sand stemming opposes greater resistance than plastic substances to blowing out, which is a factor of considerable importance in the case of fiery or dusty pits ; the danger of ignition by friction in stemming shot-holes seems to be remote, whatever kind of stemming is employed. Consequently the Committee is of opinion that no reason exists for the exclusion of sand stemming in conjunction with safety explosives.
LOSSES WITH COMPEESSED AIB.* The question as to the causes of loss in the transmission of power by the use of compressed air is very important to all who use it, and, as compressed air is much used in mining, it may be interesting to consider the subject and to try to summarise the causes of loss. We may set out by stating that: (1) When air (or any gas or steam) is compressed it becomes hotter; (2) when it is expanded it becomes cooler; (3) when it is heated its pressure is increased; (4) when it is cooled its pressure is reduced. Compressed air is obtained by using cylinders fitted with specially arranged valves to admit air from the atmosphere into the cylinder during the return stroke, and to exhaust it from the cylinder into the air-receiver during the advancing—that is, the compressing stroke. The aircylinders are generally in a line with the steam-cylinders, or tandem-wise, the two pistons being on the same piston-rod. Suppose that an air-compressor compresses air which is at about atmospheric pressure (say, at 15 lb. per square inch), and at 63 degrees Fahr., into one-third of its former volume, by applying Boyle's law it is known that at a constant temperature its pressure would then be 45 lb. absolute pressure (15 lb. absolute pressure x 3), and (45 — 15) 301b. above the atmospheric pressure. But the temperature is not constant, it rises; and, in reality, the compression into one-third of its volume will in this case raise the temperature of the air from 63 degrees Pahr. to 360 degrees Fahr. Now, this temperature should give a pressure of about 55 lb. above the atmospheric pressure (instead of 301b.). If the air could be kept at this high temperature it would remain at this pressure, and all would be well, because in that case, when the air was used in the cylinder, it would expand from 55 lb. above the atmospheric pressure to the atmospheric pressure, and at the same time it would cool down from 360 degrees Fahr. to 63 degrees Fahr. If that could be done the air, when used, would give back practically the same amount of work as had been performed upon it in compressing it. But in actual practice the compressed air has to be taken a long way in iron pipes, and these pipes give out the heat. The compressed air is thus cooled, and if it should be cooled down to its original temperature, 63 degrees Fahr., while still occupying the same volume, its pressure would have fallen to exactly 301b. above atmospheric pressure, in conformity with Boyle's law. This is what actually does occur in practice. A loss of heat always results in loss of work. It will be seen that a very low proportion of the work done in the steam-engines compressing the air is given off by the engines or motors using the compressed air, on an average from 25 to 30 per cent, only, so that two or three times as much fuel is consumed as would be necessary if steam were used direct; but, of course, there are circumstances in which no other motive force can be so well applied, unless it is electricity. In summarising the causes of loss it would be well to classify the losses into those which may be called the primary and secondary causes respectively.
* Abstract from article by Mr. George Farmer in the Journal of the British Society of Mining Students.
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Pkimaky Causes of Loss ob Lowness op Useful Effect. 1. Generation of heat during compression, which passes away by radiation, &c, without producing any useful effect; this loss of heat represents exactly the same loss in work. 2. During compression, the temperature of the air being increased, its bulk is increased. During compression from atmospheric pressure to 451b. above, its bulk is increased so much by the increase in temperature that what should be 2 cubic feet becomes 3 cubic feet in the aircylinder ; but on leaving it, with reduction again of the temperature, the bulk is again reduced to 2 cubic feet, so that the work of compression is performed on a larger bulk of air than work is obtained from. 3. Inability to get much expansion out of the compressed air at the motor. The compressed air on arriving at the motor, at the point it is to be utilised, is at or near the temperature of the atmosphere, and always holds some moisture in suspension. On expanding in the cylinder of the motor its temperature will fall to such an extent that the moisture will freeze, and ice is formed in the exhaust-passage of the engine. Secondary Causes of Loss. (1.) Eesistance to air in passing through suction-valves. (2.) Eesistance to air in passing through delivery-valves. (3.) Clearance-losses in cylinder. (4.) Leakage past the piston. (5.) Losses from friction of mechanism. (6.) Losses in air-mains from leakages. (7.) Losses from friction in air-mains of insufficient diameter. Means op diminishing the Loss of Poweb. There have been several methods adopted for diminishing the loss of power in compressing air, and the writer will first try to describe, or consider, those adopted for diminishing primary losses, the more important ones. These losses have been to some extent obviated by surrounding the air-compressors—the cylinders—with cold water, so that the surface of the cylinder shall not be heated during compression. This reduces the pressure' of the air, and consequently less work has to be done upon it in order to compress it, and hence also "less heat is generated in the act of compression. By this means the temperature is not raised so high, and thus less heat — i.e., less work—is lost by radiation during the whole operation. It is necessary to cool the cylinders for other reasons, such as the lubrication of the cylinder and the packing of the piston-rod and valves. Also, when the cylinder is very hot, the air which enters from the atmosphere is at once heated and expanded before the inlet-valve has closed, and thus the air compressed by each stroke will fill a smaller volume when it has cooled in the receiver and pipes. This smaller volume at equal temperature and pressure represents a proportionately smaller quantity of work. Again, we may adopt stage compression with intermediate cooling, such as the West two-stage compressor. In this the air may be compressed to 35 lb. in the low-pressure cylinder, then passed through the intermediate cooler to the high-pressure cylinder for further compression. For pressures of four atmospheres and upwards, the extra first cost, &c, of a stage compressor will pay for itself in a short time, because the loss which arises from heating of the air increases rapidly as the pressure increases. We cannot afford to use the air without expansion, hence some means must be adopted to use the air expansively without being encumbered with the freezing difficulty. Several methods have been devised of heating the air before it reaches the motor, so as to obtain the necessary expansion and avoid the freezing. When the compressed air comes to be used to drive an engine the air has already cooled down nearly to its former temperature. When it is expanded in the cylinder down to atmospheric pressure its temperature falls very low, and thus its pressure upon the piston falls much more rapidly than it would do if the temperature remained constant. When the air is exhausted its temperature is usually much below the freezing temperature of water, and therefore the moisture in the air is frozen upon the exhaust-valves, and causes much trouble by choking them with ice. The writer considers that the best means to adopt to diminish the loss from this cause would be to provide air-receivers of a large size, both near the air-compressor on the surface and near the engines underground where the air is used; these, together with the air-mains of ample dimensions, would give sufficient time to deposit any moisture held in suspension, and with large and straight exhaust-passages no trouble need be experienced from ice, because if there is no water, or moisture, it is not likely there will be ice. Diminishing Secondaby Losses. These losses may occur by the suction-valves not being large enough, or the springs upon them being too strong. The negative suction- pressure sometimes amounts to 21b. or 31b. per square inch—a serious loss of power. Valves actuated mechanically are to be preferred, but these are more suitable for large-size compressors, and are often found to be too great a refinement for small ones. West and Jenkins have a good mechanically actuated valve, and Eeidler's and Fowler's are also good valves. Delivery-valves should be nicely adjusted, capacious and easy, and quick in action. They should open immediately the piston-pressure equals the receiver-pressure, and should close again immediately it becomes less. In badly constructed compressors the delivery-pressure in the cylinders is frequently several pounds below the receiver-pressure; extra work is then required to deliver the air against this resistance. If the delivery-valves do not close immediately the pistonpressure becomes less than the receiver-pressure, then the engine loses the work it has performed. To guard against this the air-compressing cylinder should be frequently indicated, to see that the valves are in good and proper working-order. Clearance-losses are often very troublesome. The simplest method of reducing clearance-loss, so far as the writer knows, is by means of by-pass grooves in the end of the cylinder, which allow the high-pressure air to pass to the other side of the piston, where it will be a distinct gain. The
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air should pass through the grooves at a velocity not exceeding 100 ft. per second. The piston should, of course, work as close as possible to the cover, so as to make the clearance-space as small as possible. Only the best kind of piston-rings obtainable should be used in the air-cylinders. The piston of an air-compressor is more difficult to keep tight than a steam-piston ; the moisture from the steam helps to keep the piston-ring tight, but the reverse happens with dry air. The losses from friction of mechanism depend chiefly upon the accuracy of workmanship, the arrangement of the compressor, the efficiency of lubrication ; all of which should be well attended to in the design and future working of the compressor. Equally so, good and reliable workmanship will often result in diminishing the losses from leakage in the air-mains. In bad arrangements great loss will result from leakages at the joints of the air-pipes; and more care is necessary with these than with steam-pipes, because a leakage of steam can be easily seen, whereas small leakages of air cannot be seen. Good joints should be made at first, providing properly for contraction and expansion ; and they would give little trouble afterwards. The air-main should be sufficiently large. The loss due to friction in air-mains increases not directly as the velocity, but as the square of the velocity. Should the air-mains be too small it is quite evident the air will be wiredrawn, the pressure diminished, and the greatly increased velocity will produce a greatly increased friction. The delivery in the pipes should be more than equal to the quantity that the engines worked are capable of taking out. In spite of these losses, compressed air is largely used for underground motive power; it has many advantages over steam under certain conditions, as the latter is not a convenient motive power to convey far into a mine. Compressed air as a motive power can be conveyed to any point in the workings, and the power can be readily split up by means of branch pipes, and carried in small quantities to numerous points. The exhaust air improves the ventilation, although this is hardly appreciable in well-ventilated mines, the cold air cools the mine, and quantities of gas can be cleared away by directing the air on to it. As may be readily seen, the installation of a compressed-air plant requires a large capital expenditure; but once established it is not expensive to maintain. It requires extensive plant on the surface, a steam-engine being necessary in the first place to produce the compressed air; and to maintain a uniform pressure of air it is necessary that the generating plant should have a good margin of power and capacity. There are circumstances in which no other motive power can be so well applied, but on economical grounds, wherever practicable, steam, or some other force, should be employed direct. If steam is not found advisable, and compressed air is preferred, then a good and large plant should be put down ; the first cost of this should not be considered too much, while, on the other hand, the work to be done should be well considered, and a plant put down to do more than that work. The plant should be perfect in every possible item, and, in order to minimise the losses, only reliable and good workmanship employed, and sound material used. A knowledge of the laws which govern the changes in the temperature, pressure, and volume of air should be of immense service to would-be users of compressed air: — Let P, V, and T = the initial pressure, volume, and absolute temperature respectively of a given weight of air, and p, v, and t = the final pressure, volume, and absolute temperature respectively of a given weight of air ; Then—(l.) At constant temperature PV = pv. V T (2.) At constant pressure = ~j~ P T (3.) At constant volume =~f ' If air be compressed or expanded adiabatically the following formulas hold good :— . wi-(?)~"-(fr The units of work U required to compress a volume of air V to a volume of air v, or to compress a volume of air V from P to p, are : — First, adiabatically— i.e., without loss of the heat due to compression, Second, isothermally— i.e., at constant temperature, (7.) D = PV hyp. log. I When air is compressed adiabatically the rise in its temperature is an exact measure of the work done upon it, and so the units of work required to compress it can be calculated from the increase of temperature. This rise in temperature t— T is given by (5) ; and the units of work = this quantity x weight of the air in pounds x specific heat of air at constant volume expressed in foot-pounds —viz., 130 - 2. Thus, if W = weight of the air in pounds,— (8.) 0 = (t - T) W 130-2.
In the following appendix will be found the annual reports of Inspectors of Mines, Wardens, and other officers; the questions used at the recent examinations of candidates for certificates of competency as mine-managers and battery-superintendents, together with a list of persons holding such certificates ; and the usual schedules. I have, &c, John Hayes, The Hon, the Minister of Mines. Inspecting Engineer.
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EBPOETS OF INSPECTORS OF MINES. Mr. Jambs Coutts, Inspector of Mines, to the Under-Seceetaby for Mines, Wellington. Sir,— Inspector of Mines' Office, Thames, 13th March, 1902. I have the honour to furnish herewith the returns and report on the gold-mining industry in the Hauraki district for the year ended the 31st December, 1901. Although mining operations in this district have caused no excitement worthy of notice by any new or important discoveries being made, still it is pleasing to find (in reviewing the returns) there is a considerable increase in the output of gold as compared with previous years. This is due to the splendid returns obtained from month to month from the Waihi Company's mine. The yield of gold from the localities of Thames and Coromandel shows a slight decrease, but there is always a hope that something rich or important will be discovered at either of those places at any time which would be the means of causing an impetus to the mining industry, and again bring them to the front, thereby giving employment to hundreds of men as in the past. Waihi Gold-mining Company's Mine. —The operations in this company's mine have not only been directed to taking out the quartz in sight, but extensive development-works have been carried out to further prove the value of this magnificent property, which appears to increase in value the more it is opened up. The ore-bodies are maintaining their size as they are followed down, and, although the quartz apparently becomes more mineralised, it is considered there will be no great difficulty with the mineral in the treatment and extraction of the precious metals. The bullion returns are sufficient to show that, if this is not the greatest gold-producer in the world, it is by far the largest in New Zealand. The following is a summary of operations carried out in the mine during the year ended the 31st December, 1901: — No. 6 Level. —In the month of August last operations were commenced at this level, which is 110 ft. below No. 5, by excavating two large chambers, one on each side of the shaft. The northwest crosscut was driven 304 ft., and at 60 ft. from shaft quartz came to hand, having a course of 19 degrees magnetic, and a dip of 1 in 10 W.N.W. This proved to be a large body of oxidized ore extending diagonally across the course of drive for 68 ft. from point of intersection until the country was reached on northern side. This lode embraces (it is believed) the junctions of Welcome, north and south branches, also Magazine and Eegina lodes. From 128 ft. to 172 ft., a distance of 44 ft., a conglomerate of quartz and country was passed through. Then quartz came to hand again, striking in the same diagonal course across the drive. This body proved to be a mass of rubbly ore 88 ft. in width. After this 13 ft. of oxidized andesite interlaced with veins of quartz was passed through, which gave place to solid quartz again at 273 ft. The latter was penetrated 31 ft. up to end of year. This lode, from its appearance and dip, is believed to be the Martha. The west crosscut from north-western chamber was driven 65 ft., and intersected south section of Welcome lode at 47 ft.; here the lode is 8 ft. wide, and it has been driven on west 15 ft. The south-east crosscut was driven a total length of 181ft. At 160 ft. the Empire lode was intersected ; the lode is 8 ft. wide, course 94 degrees, dip 1 in 4 south. The Magazine lode was driven 181 ft. east of No. 2 shaft, north-west crosscut, on course of lode. No. 5 Level.—During the year a distance of 1,205 ft. was driven on course of the Martha lode, made up as follows : 101ft. west of No. 2 shaft, 468 ft. west of No. 1 shaft, and 636 ft. east of same. The different widths of lode at intervals of 50 ft. are given as follows : East of No. 2 shaft —Crosscut 77 ft., full width 62$ ft.; crosscut 128 ft., full width 60 ft.; crosscut 178 ft., full width 59 ft.; crosscut 230 ft., full width 73 ft.; crosscut 278 ft., full width 62 ft.; crosscut 328 ft., full width 45 ft.; crosscut 378 ft., full width ft.; crosscut 429 ft., full width 40ft. ;- crosscut 479 ft., full width 45 ft. No. 1 shaft, north-west crosscut, full width 33 ft. East of No. 1 shaft—Crosscut 50ft., full width 33 ft.; crosscut 100 ft., full width 53 ft.; crosscut 150ft., full width 53 ft.; crosscut 200 ft., full width 43 ft.; crosscut 250 ft., full width 44 ft.; crosscut 300 ft., full width 36 ft. ; crosscut 350 ft., full width 37 ft.; crosscut 400 ft., full width 35 ft.; crosscut 453 ft., full width 36 ft.; crosscut 500 ft., full width 31ft.; crosscut 550 ft., full width 25 ft.; crosscut 600 ft., full width 31 ft. At the beginning of the year the level on the north section of the Welcome lode stood at 88 ft. west of No. 2 shaft. Since that time it has been extended a further distance of 567 ft., while the south section was driven on 236 ft., making a total of 803 ft. Crosscuts through lode in the north section give following widths : Distance from No. 2 shaft 200 ft., width 25 ft.; 323 ft., width 17ft.; 403 ft., width 30ft.; 461 ft., width 36 ft.; 519 ft., width 24 ft.; 577 ft., width 14 ft.; 651ft., width 14 ft. As the Empire lode now embraces the late Albert lode, the whole may be dealt with as one continuous body extending from A Pass west to 10 ft. east of No. 4 shaft, south-east crosscut, a distance of 794 ft., which has been all developed during the year. The width of lode can be seen from the following statement (all measurements taken from No. 2 shaft, south-east crosscut, on original section of Empire lode): 131ft. east, 24ft. wide; 184ft. east, 16ft. wide; 236ft. east, 25ft. wide; 294ft. east, 32^ft. wide; 347ft. east, 22Jft. wide; 397ft. east, 29ft. wide; 447ft. east, 33ft. wide; 497ft. east, 21ft. wide. No. 4 shaft —South-west crosscut, 28^ft. wide; southeast crosscut, 8 ft. wide. The south-east crosscut from No. 2 shaft was advanced from 373 ft. to 976 ft., or home to No. 5 shaft; while driving this crosscut two important lodes were intersected.
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The Princess lode has been driven on to Empire junction, a distance of 284 ft. from No. 2 shaft, south-east crosscut; the average width is about 3J-ft. The south-east crosscut, No. 4 shaft, was driven from No. 4 to No. 5 shaft, a distance of 375 ft., and connected with crosscut coming from No. 2 shaft. At 79 ft. from starting-point the Empire lode was met. The No. 1 shaft, north-west crosscut, was driven 123 ft. At 24 ft. the Magazine lode, 12 ft. wide, was cut; at 48 ft. in Eegina lode 9 ft. wide, and again at 90 ft. the Martha lode came to hand. At the beginning of year the level on the Magazine lode stood at 455 ft. east of No. 2 shaft; it has since been extended 148 ft., or 25 ft. east of No 1 shaft. The average width along this distance is 8 ft. On the Eegina lode 248 ft. has been driven; that is 200 ft. west and 48ft. east of No. 1 shaft, north-west crosscut. Owing to the lode being wider in many places than the level could command, it was cut through as follows: No. 1 shaft—North-west crosscut, 9ft. wide; distance west, 51ft., 6ft. wide; 100 ft., 10ft. wide; 150 ft., 9| ft. wide ; 199 ft., 8 ft. wide. No. 4 Level. —In the Prince lode a distance of 102 ft. was driven west of old south-east crosscut. At the starting-point it was 5 ft. wide, but proved to be very irregular as the level advanced west. On the Princess lode the level was only extended 40 ft. during the year, which makes 338 ft. west on course of reef from old south-east crosscut. On the Boyal lode 306 ft. was driven early in the year. The old south-east crosscut was advanced during year 240 ft., making the total length from No. 2 shaft 1,633 ft. Surface-works.—Driving through country, in connection with the drainage and facilitating filling-in material, 1,557 ft. have been cut. On the Martha lode the surface cutting on new intermediate level has been extended from 20 ft. west of Bull's Pass to 139 ft. The lode at startingpoint was about 9ft. wide; at present face it is 22ft. wide and 40ft. in height. Prom this cut 4,797 tons of a fair class of free-milling ore have been supplied. Mine-developments and Dead-work Footage. — The following figures show the amount of shaft-sinking that has been done: No. 1 was 410fft. at beginning of the year; sinking was stopped in March last and resumed on the 9th December, making the total depth 478 ft., ft. having been sunk during the year. The depth last year of No. 2 was 534Jft. ; sinking was commenced on the 25th March and stopped on the 16th July, 108f ft. having been sunk : total depth, 643 ft. In No. 4 sinking was stopped on the 25th April at a total depth of 450 ft., 97 ft. having been sunk. In No. 5 sinking was stopped on the 20th July at a total depth of 456 ft., 192-J-ft. having been sunk during the year. The filling-shaft was sunk from No. 4to No. 5 level, a depth altogether of 574 ft., 89 ft. having been sunk during the year. The total sunk in all shafts during the year was 554f ft. 4,766 ft. was driven in country; 6,447 ft. was driven in course of lode; 1,618 ft, crosscut in lodes; and winzes sunk, 3,737 ft.: making a total of 16,568 ft., which, added to the shafts sunk (554fft.), makes a total of 17,122fft. The total depths of the five shafts are as follows : No. 1 shaft, 478 ft. ; No. 2 shaft, 643 ft. ; No. 3 shaft, 348 ft.; No. 4 shaft, 450 ft.; No. 5 shaft, 456 ft. The filling-shaft has also been deepened 89 ft. during the year, making a total depth of 574 ft. from the surface. At the No. 5 shaft the new Hathorn-Davey pump and two Babcock and Wilcox boilers have been erected, and the necessary building, flue, and chimney and pump column obtained. Two safety-cages and poppet-head pullies have also been procured, and are in use. A capstan engine was obtained for this shaft from Messrs. A. and G. Price, Thames. A change-house has been erected between the No. 4 and No. 5 shafts. Product.*—A total of 159,325 tons (dry weight) has been treated during the year, being 47,313 tons in excess of the total of 112,012 tons which was treated during the preceding year. Of this total, 95,829 tons has been dry-crushed, and 63,496 tons wet-crushed. A considerably larger tonnage as compared with last year has been obtained from the Empire reef, and a somewhat greater tonnage from the Martha, Welcome, and Eegina reefs. On the other hand, a smaller tonnage has been supplied from the Victoria reef. The product has been 483,113 oz. of bullion, exclusive of concentrates and pan-tailings shipped to Australia. The value of the product, computed on the usual basis of gold valued at £4 4s. and silver at 2s. per ounce, was as follows: 483,113 oz. bullion (excluding concentrates), £431,601 os. Bd. ; 356,851 tons of concentrates (assay-value), £20,825 14s. 4d.; net out-turn of pan-tailings, £704 17s. 6d. : total, £453,131 12s. 6d. Beduction-works, &c.—The respective tonnages crushed at the mills were as follows : Waihi mill (dry crushing), 45,389 tons; Victoria mill (dry crushing), 50,440 tons; wet crushing, 63,496 tons : total, 159,325 tons. The total average number of stamps running during the year, exclusive of Sundays and the period at Christmas during which the mills were closed down, was 276710. The total average duty per stamp per diem was 1-96 tons. Wet crushing, Victoria mill (100 stamps): Eighty-five stamps were started on the ilth January, the remaining fifteen stamps being got to work on the 15th January. Early in the year twenty head of stamps were put on to mineralised ore, the product passing over six Union vanners. Later on in the year two more Union vanners were erected, and an additional ten heads of stamps were employed in crushing mineralised ore. A Blake-Marsden stone-breaker which was in stock was erected in the wet-crushing stone-breaker building, in addition to the two Gates's crushers already erected. A small Dehne press was obtained from the Sulphide Corporation (Limited), New South Wales, and one was ordered and obtained from J. Martin and Co., of Gawler, South Australia, fitted with fifty frames, 36in. square; cakes, 3 in. thick. This has proved satisfactory. An order was placed with J. Martin and Co., of Gawler, for three new filter-presses, which have now come to hand. A contract was let to A. and G. Price for six agitators, a collecting-vat, and a sump, all of which have been delivered and erected. A second pressure-tank was also obtained from E. H. Yeoman. A chain elevator for raising the ore from the stone-breakers to the mill ore-bins was obtained from England. A con-
•There is a crushing included in the above produot scut in in the month of January, and does not appear in the returns. —J. Goutt&.
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tract was let for the supply of four sand-pumps for raising the pulp from the mortar-boxes to the trestle launder An elevator-wheel 25 ft. in diameter, for lifting the slimes into the slime-tanks, has been constructed at Waikino. During the year the permanent rolling-stock has been increased by the addition of twelve side-tip ore-trucks, six coal-trucks, four goods-trucks, and two pairs of bogies There has been an average of 1,079 men employed. The sum of £165,000 was paid in dividends for the last year, making a total of £795,629 4s. 3d. since, the commencement of the Union-Waihi Gold-mining Company (Limited).— This mine was vigorously worked up to the end of September by the company, but as the quartz operated on was barely sufficient to pay expenses, and the company having previously found a large sum of money to purchase the Waihi Silverton Mine and crushing plant, the capital became exhausted, and they found it was necessary to apply for six months' protection to give time, and thereby enable the directors to find ways and means to further carry on contemplated works. The Waihi Company holds a large interest in the above-named mine, and it is now rumoured they have taken the property over, and no doubt in a short time further development will be proceeded with to prove the value of the reefs at lower levels The following is a summary of operations carried out: In the two sections of the property a total of 238 ft. of shaft-sinking has been made. The No. 1 shaft, which stood at 612 ft. at the commencement of the year, has been sunk 55 ft., making a total depth of 667 ft. The Silverton shaft has been deepened 183 ft. The depth of this shaft at the commencement of the year was 367 ft Its present depth is 550 ft. During the year a total of 19,418 tons has been crushed at the mill This tonnage has been obtained from the various reefs in the following proportions* : Union reef 16,150 tons; Amaranth reef, 1,337 tons; Silverton reef, 1,931 tons: total, 19,418 tons. The above figures are based on dry weight after deducting the percentage of moisture contained in the ore. The product was 22,6857 oz. of bullion, valued here at £27,996 10s. 4d., which is equal to an average value of £1 4s. 9d. per ounce. The weight of bullion produced is equivalent to 13 cwt. 3 qr. 151b. The value has been computed on the basis of gold at £4 4s and silver at 2s. per ounce. The mill comprises a total of forty stamps. An average of 36-87 stamps was employed full time, the daily average duty per stamp being 1-84. Steam-power was required for 133| days, the water-power during the drier months of the year being of very little assistance. Coal has been used for steam purposes. With the exception of a short period, when 30-mesh screens were used on the mortar-boxes, the ore was crushed through screens of 40-mesh. The total value actually recovered from the commencement of milling in September, 1900, to the end of September, 1901, was as follows : Gold, £26 697 ss. 3d.; silver, £1,299 ss. Id. : total, £27,996 10s. 4d. The actual yield per ton was £1 8s lOd Of the total value of bullion recovered, 31-8 per cent, was obtained from the plates and 68-2 per cent, by the subsequent cyanide treatment. For the period ending the 23rd March however, the plates were in use for only nine days, and treated 670 tons. During that period 1 750 tons of ore was treated, so that 1,080 tons was not passed over the plates. Details of the saving by amalgamation (plates) were as follows: Gold, 2,094-580z.; value, £8,797 4s. Bd. Silver 1 132-34 oz.; value, £113 4s. lOd. Total value, £8,910 9s. 6d. The following is the tonnage treated and bullion produced from the 30th September to the end of the year 1901, prior to which the mill had been stopped : For period ending the 2nd November, 2,134 tons; bullion recovered, 3,152 oz. ; value, £3,677 4s. 3d. For period ending the 31st December, 549 tons- bullion recovered, 3,486-5 oz.; value, £4,303 14s. 7d. Total, 2,683 tons; bullion recovered, 6,638-5 oz.; value, £7,980 18s. lOd. Begular stoping has been carried on on the Union lode and about 2,000 fathoms of ore-ground has been stoped out. From No. 3 shaft at No 1 level the Mascotte lode has been driven on west 204 ft. from the shaft. The second contract for sinking the Silverton shaft was finished on the 23rd July, making a total depth below No. 4 level of 215 ft A chamber was then opened out at a point 200 ft. below No. 4, leaving 15 ft. for the pumpsump Here a second drawing-lift was placed, which pumps the water up into a cistern at No 4 level and from this cistern the No. 1 drawing-lift pumps to the plunger cistern at No. 2 level. The country formation passed through in sinking this 215 ft. is a highly mineralised andesite, and the crosscut to the lode is being driven through the same kind of formation. The following is a summary of the work done: Shafts sunk, 238 ft.; crosscuts driven, 861 ft.; drives (footage), 1,660 ft.; rises, 438 ft. ; winzes, 218 ft.; new pump and pit work put in from No. 3to No. 5 ; new pump and pit work from No. 4 to No. 6 (Silverton section). Waihi Grand Junction Gold-mining Company (Limited).— This mine has been steadily worked although in the early part of the year there was a large quantity of water to contend with which greatly retarded the work in the Grand Junction section. The main shaft has been sunk a further distance of 136 ft., making it a total depth of 635 ft. Sinking has been stopped for some time, the company having decided to direct operations to opening up and developing the reef at the 500 ft. level, where it was intersected some time ago; but owing to the large quantity of water coming out of the reef they were then unable to proceed with this work. Since operations were again resumed here the reef has been cut through at .the end of the crosscut and found to be 24 ft. in width at this place. It has been driven on in a north-easterly direction for a distance of 134 ft. This is being extended with all possible speed to a point underneath a level that has been driven from No. 2 shaft at a depth of 336 ft., where a rise will be put up to connect with the level named, for an outlet and for the purpose of ventilating the mine The reef has also been driven on for a distance of 96 ft. to the western side of the crosscut. Here it is compact, the quartz having a promising appearance, and said to carry a fair value The south crosscut at the 500 ft. level has been extended a further distance ot 694 ft., making a total distance of 947 ft. This is nearly up to the company's boundary, and m conse-
* There is a crushing included in the above product sent in in the month of January, and does not appear in the returns.—J. Conns.
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quence has been stopped; but the management does not think this level was deep enough tp intersect the Empire or other reefs (in their trend from the Waihi Company's mine) they were driving for. The West C shaft, which is on the western side of the Waihi Company's mine, has been sunk a further distance of 306 ft., making it a total depth of 516 ft. At this depth a level has been driven in a northerly direction 335 ft., where it is expected the reef will shortly be met with, when it will be driven upon and developed. A south crosscut has also been driven at the same level for a distance of 176 ft., but nothing of any importance has yet been discovered, There has been an average of sixty-five men employed in this mine during the year. Waihi Extended Qold-mining Company. —In the early part of the year sinking operations were in hand, but, owing to the surface-drainage of the water being more than the buckets could contend with, it was found necessary to procure a 4 in. Tangye pump, driven by steam, to enable the work of sinking to be continued until a depth of 300 ft. from the surface was reached. At this depth two crosscuts were driven —one in a south-eastern direction for a distance of 128 ft., the other north-west, 276 ft. in a good channel of andesite country. These crosscuts were put in with a view of intersecting some of the reefs that traverse the Waihi Company's property, but, owing to the thickness of the rhyolite and pumice sunk through in the shaft before the andesite was reached, crosscutting to discover reefs at this depth was rather shallow ; therefore nothing of any importance was met with beyond small quartz stringers and indications of reef-formations. One of these formations was driven on for 30 ft., but as no improvement took place all work at this level was suspended, and sinking operations in the shaft again resumed, a contract being let for sinking 100 ft., 84 ft. of which was completed up to the end of the year. It is the company's intention to sink the shaft to a depth of 500 ft. before again opening out, and at this depth it is anticipated something of importance will be met with in the shape of compact payable reefs. An average of sixteen men has been employed during the year. Pride of Waihi Gold-mining Company. —This property comprises an area of 100 acres, and adjoins the Waihi Extended Mine. The mine was under protection the first half of the year. Since then four men were employed in driving a crosscut drive from the Waihi Extended Company's shaft. As driving here was not as satisfactory as could be desired, the sinking of the shaft was again commenced, but only a depth of 35 ft. was attained, when it was found the water was too much to contend with by hand-labour, and sinking has been suspended for a time pending arrangements being made by the company to erect machinery to cope with the water. Waihi Consols Qold-mining Company. —Six men were employed up to the 16th April in driving a surface-level near the Waihi Company's property on the Martha Hill. A distance of 300 ft. was driven, and a winze sunk on a fiat leader to a depth of 35 ft., but as the water was too much to contend with by hand-labour this work was discontinued. Since then boring operations have been carried on almost continuously, four holes having been put down a total depth of 670 ft. The present borehole is down 130 ft., and the intention is to extend this hole down to a depth of 1,000 ft. if possible. An average of five men has been employed. Waihi Gladstone Gold-mining Company. —Prospecting and developing work has been steadily carried on in this mine during the year. The No. 2 shaft, to the west of No. 1 workings, has been sunk to a depth of 148 ft., and a crosscut drive has been driven at this depth to intersect the main reef, which has been opened up and driven on to a considerable extent from the No. 1 shaft, at the No. 1 and No. 2 levels. The reef in those levels varies from 4 ft. to 6 ft. in width, and the greater portion is said to be payable ore. A trial parcel of 2 tons of general ore was lately treated at the Thames School of Mines, which gave a return of 7 oz. 3 dwt. of gold; value, £4 15s. 2d. An average of eight men has been employed. Waihi Consolidated Company. —This property has been held under option by Mr. Ziman, who did a good deal of boring with a diamond drill. Several holes were put down (varying from 200 ft. to 600 ft. in depth) for the purpose of locating the continuation of the reefs worked by the Waihi Company, but so far without success. On account of the broken nature of the country penetrated every hole was stopped, as they could proceed no further owing to the holes getting too small, &c, and in consequence the solid or gold-bearing country has not been met with in any of the holes. Three men were employed. Waihi South Gold-mining Company. —Very little work has been done in this mine during the year, pending arrangements being made by the directors for the erection of a more powerful plant to contend with the water. There has only been a very limited amount of prospecting done in the neighbourhood of Waihi outside of the claims already mentioned. Waitekauri Gold-mining Company (Limited). —In the Golden Cross section a depth of 710 ft. has been reached, 200 ft. having been sunk during the period under review. The main crosscut from the shaft is in 210 ft., and the intersection of -the reef is daily expected. When this level has been satisfactorily developed a block of ground on the reef 200 ft. in height will be available. At No. 5 level the reef has been explored for a distance of 343 ft., and the block opened up has produced a large tonnage of payable ore. Stoping operations at Nos. 3 and 4 levels continues with satisfactory results. The work at No. 2 level has been principally confined to prospecting large blocks of ore left at the sides of the level. As a result thereof, a considerable quantity of payable ore has been forthcoming. At No. 1 level ore has also been obtained along the side of the level, and at present there is every indication that the ore-reserves will be considerably increased. The main drive north on the reef has been extended 172 ft.; this was undertaken as a prospectingwork, and the value of the reef has been proved for the full distance driven. The grade of the ore is low, but improves in value as it is driven on north. The Golden Cross low-level tunnel—after having been extended a distance of 2,610 ft.—has been discontinued. The following is a summary of work done in this section : Shafts sunk during the year, 200 ft.; winzes sunk during the year, 162 ft.; rises put up, 581 ft.; driving on reef, 1,058 ft.; crosscutting done, 431 ft.; stoping done
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on reef, 446,199 cubic feet. In the Te Ao Marama section the shaft has been sunk 130 ft., making the total depth 570 ft. A further 30 ft. of sinking is necessary to reach the Komata low level, where a connection can be effected. From the shaft driving on two of the reefs in this section has been prosecuted. The Komata low-level tunnel was undertaken with the object of establishing a connection between the Komata and Te Ao Marama section and the company's mill at Waitekauri, and also with a view to the discovery of new lodes en route. 1,363 ft. has been driven during the year, making a total distance of 3,439 ft., and about 750 ft. of driving is yet necessary to get under Te Ao Marama shaft. In view of the probability that some more advantageous method of working the Komata section will present itself, the extension of this tunnel has been suspended. The Grace Darling low level has been extended 91ft.; total length, 116 ft. As this work did not reveal anything of a payable nature, driving has been discontinued. In the old Waitekauri Mine an average of eight men has been continuously employed, and five heads of stampers are now constantly engaged in dealing with the ore obtained from small blocks. The following is a summary of works carried out in this section: Winzes sunk, 73ft.; rises put up, 110 ft.; driving done, 715 ft.; stoping on reefs, 6,300 cubic feet. An average of 285 persons has been constantly employed during the year. New Zealand Jubilee Gold-mine (Limited). —In this mine a considerable amount of work was done during the early part of the year in the upper levels—viz., the Moonstone and Horn levels —consisting principally of driving and crosscutting. As there were no fresh discoveries of any importance met with in those workings, it was decided (in view of the promising results obtained in the low-level tunnel) to temporarily suspend work in the upper levels and confine operations to the thorough exploiting of the deep-level portion of the mine. The result of this work will be looked forward to with some interest, as it is on these the ultimate success of the mine depends. The low-level tunnel has been extended a distance of 850 ft. in a southerly direction during the year, making the total distance from the mouth of the tunnel to the face 2,810 ft. At a point 2,380 ft. in from the mouth of the tunnel the two reefs known as the Point and Butler's were intersected, and the drive was then extended oil the course of Butler's or Hanging-wall reef. Some highly encouraging results were met with; assays as high as £18 16s. per ton are said to have been obtained from general samples taken over 4 ft. to 5 ft. in width of the reef. The ore is a heavily mineralised sulphide, containing copper, lead, iron, zincblende, &c. At 110 ft. south of the point of intersection a break was met with, which had the effect of throwing the reef slightly out of its course. Since picking it up again a further distance of 315 ft. has been driven on the reef, which carries values throughout varying from 12s. to £4 4s. per ton, and in places it is 20 ft. in width. The intention is to open up an intermediate level between the low and the Horn levels (a distance of 260 ft. vertical), and the levels will be connected. This will insure good ventilation, and give facilities for working out the blocks of ground between the levels. The present low-level tunnel will also be extended indefinitely towards and under the old Waitekauri Company's ground, in order to ascertain whether the rich runs of gold formerly worked in the upper levels hold down. The results of this work should prove the capabilities of the mine. At a recent reconstruction of the company in London a further sum of £6,000 odd was raised, and it is the intention of the directors to devote this money entirely on the development-works mentioned. Should they turn ■out as satisfactorily as anticipated, further capital will require to be raised in order to erect machinery to treat the ore. An average of nineteen men has been employed. New Waitekauri Extended Mines (Limited). —The above company was reconstructed in the early part of the year with a working capital of £30,000, the intention being to prove the reef at a depth below No. 3or lowest level. Operations were commenced in April to cut out a large chamber in the low-level crosscut close- to the reef to install boiler-power, winding and pumping plant capable of sinking to a depth of 500 ft., the smoke to be carried away by a rise already constructed to the surface. To expedite matters and to make use of the water-power at hand a singledrum water-hoist was erected, and two small plunger pumps were put in, and driven by a Pelton wheel. A commencement was made with the sinking of a main shaft, 6 ft. by 15 ft. 6 in. in the clear, 40 ft. west of the reef. This shaft had attained a depth of 76 ft. when cable instructions arrived to close down, pending, an amalgamation scheme with the Waitekauri Gold-mining Company, which was subsequently carried into effect; and therefore all work for the present will be concentrated in the Waitekauri Company's mine, and the Extended property tested by means of levels from the shaft, which has already attained a depth of 700 ft. An average of forty men was employed by this company during the year. Waitekauri Cross Gold-mining Company. —Work in this mine was at a standstill during the first six months of the year. On resuming operations a rise was commenced from the adit level to connect with the surface. This rise was vertical, and carried up in two compartments, one being for a ladder-way and the other a mullock-pass. The height of this rise was 80 ft. to the surface. This work was said to be a preliminary step towards the construction of a main vertical shaft. Early in December communication between the two points named was effected, and a section of 25 ft. of the main shaft completed. The shaft is 14 ft. by 6 ft. in the clear, and is divided into three compartments, and substantially constructed with 9 ft. by 9 ft. sets and 9 ft. by 2 ft. planking, all heart of kauri. The intention is to sink this shaft to a depth of 500 ft. before opening out to intersect the reef, which varies at the upper level from 6 ft. to 50 ft. in width. The company previously tried to open up and develop the mine through an underlie shaft sunk on the reef from the adit level mentioned, and on the top of the shaft an electric plant for pumping and winding was erected. This, however, did not prove a success, hence the reason of trying another mode of opening up the mine. Alpha Gold-mining Company. —Operations in this mine have been principally confined to extending the No. 4 level main crosscut, which has been advanced during the year a distance of 437 ft. Several leaders have been intersected in this drive, but apparently of poor value. The
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main reef has also been driven on a distance of 157 ft., and on reaching a point 20 ft. ahead of the present face it is intended to rise up and connect with the workings at No. 3 level, where some fair ore was obtained. This rise will prove the value of the block and improve the ventilation. An average of four men has been employed. Young New Zealand Gold-mining Company. —The work in this mine has been confined to enlarging and retimbering the main low level, also extending it a further distance of 200 ft., now making the total length of this tunnel 800 ft.; and it is expected that another 60 ft. of driving will bring it underneath the place where a rich chute of ore was worked on the surface levels. Five men were employed. Hamua Claim. —Three men have been employed in this mine prospecting and driving on small leaders which have been intersected at different levels. From these 1J tons of ore was obtained, and treated for a return of gold valued at £29 15s. 7d. Burbank Mine. —A large amount of work has been done in this mine. Six men have been constantly employed in driving a low level to intersect the Te Ao Marama reefs that are supposed to strike into this property, but so far nothing of importance has been met with. A little prospecting has also been done on the Starlight, Eclipse, and Waitekauri King, but without success. Ohinemuri Syndicate, Owharoa. —Operations in this property for most of the year were confined to extending the Elliott low-level tunnel, which has been driven a total distance of 2,764 ft.; but, as nothing encouraging was met with in this drive, all work was stopped at the end of the year, and a large portion of the ground held by the syndicate was surrendered. Six men were employed. Rising Sun Gold-mining Company. —This mine has been continuously worked during the year, four men being employed. The work consisted in prospecting and opening up the reefs which have been intersected in the different levels. The quartz is said to give high values, but no crushings have taken place during the period under review. Woodstock Gold-mining Company (Limited), Rarangahake. —A very large amount of work has been done by this company in improvements and development-work. The 4 ft. main water-power pipe-line extension has been completed, connecting the new dam with the old pipe-line, a distance of 1,800 ft. A new water-power plant has been installed, and consists of two Pelton type wheels—■ one lift. 8 in. diameter, and the other lift. 4 in. diameter —the main driving-pulley for the aircompressors being 12 ft. 3 in. in diameter and 38in. face for a 36 in. (10-ply) Balata belt, and the mill is driven by a 32 in. face 7 ft. 6 in. diameter pulley and a 30 in. (8-ply) Balata belt. Two aircompressors have also been installed—one an Ingersoll-Sergeant compound, rope-driven, lowpressure cylinder 24J in. diameter, high-pressure cylinder 15J in. diameter, 18 in. stroke, ordinary capacity 1,170 cubic feet free air per minute ; and the other a Schram single-compressor cylinder 14 in. diameter, 24 in. stroke. The compressed-air pipe-line erected during the year is of 8 in. diameter wrought-iron welded pipes with loose flanges, and is about 2,300 ft. in length, connecting the compressors and the shaft-chamber. At each end of this pipe-line there is a receiver, and in the chamber a porcupine reheater. The reheater is enclosed in brickwork, requires very little fuel, and entirely prevents any trouble from freezing at the pumps. The shaft has been sunk a further distance of 212 ft., making a total depth of 252 ft. A chamber has been cut out at this depth, and No. 6 level driven a distance of 28 ft. Two winzes are being sunk from No. 5 level on the reef to connect with No. 6 level: one is down 66 ft., and the other down a depth of 10 ft. These winzes will open up blocks of ground and insure good ventilation at No. 6 level. A considerable amount of ore has been opened up by the recent developments, which will keep the mill going for some time. Since the end of the year the mine has been closed down for want of funds, but it is said the company has been reconstructed, and it is expected the contemplated works will soon be in full swing. Ninety-two men were employed by this company. Talisman Consolidated (Limited). —On the Talisman main reef, No. 4 level has been continued in a southerly direction as a crosscut to intersect the Dubbo reef in the Bonanza section of the company's property, which it enters from the Earl of Glasgow section of the property of the New Zealand Crown Mines (Limited). On intersecting the Dubbo reef it was driven on southwards for a distance of over 500 ft., the ore-body being from 2 ft. to S ft. in width in the neighbourhood of the present face. This drive is being continued with a view to reaching a promising shoot of ore intersected by a crosscut in the Eoyal Mail section of the company's property, about 200 ft. south of the present face in the No. 4 level. The Nos. 5, 6, and 7 levels have been continued in a southerly direction on the Talisman reef for varying distances, and the crosscut at No. 8 level (which will intersect the reef at a depth of 200 ft. below No. 7 level) had attained a total distance of 1,000 ft. at the end of the year. The reef is expected to be cut at this level by the end of February, when driving on the reef will at once be commenced. On the Dubbo reef three adit levels have been driven in a northerly direction up to the Crown Mines boundary, and ore from the stopes above these levels has been forwarded to the company's mill for treatment. The reef in these upper levels has proved to be very variable and small, but it is expected a larger and more regular ore-body will be found at depth. During the year under review the Adeline Eeefs and Adeline Eeefs Extended Claims were acquired by the company. The area of these claims is 103 acres, so that the total area of the company's mining property is now 372 acres. The new claims are immediately contiguous to the company's property, being bounded on the west by the Victor and Waihou Special Claims. Gold-bearing reefs exist on the new claims, and it is proposed to develop them in due course by means of crosscuts from the Dubbo reef. On the 31st July, 1901, the company's new fifty-stamp wet-crushing and cyaniding plant, erected on the site acquired from the Talisman Extended Company, was formally opened, but, owing to necessary adjustments of the steam-power plant, regular crushing operations did not commence until the second week in September. The returns to date have been extremely disappointing
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in comparison with the results obtained with ths oid dry-crushing plant and of the assays obtained from the mine-manager's samples ; but a gradual improvement is expected to take place, and it is anticipated that a large body of profitable ore will be developed at No. 8 level. The new battery, which was erected from designs by Mr. Alfred Harper Curtis, Assoc. M. lnst. C.E., mining engineer, representative in New Zealand of Messrs. Bewick, Moreing, and Co., London, is a wetcrushing and cyaniding plant consisting of four rock-breakers of Blake type; thirty heads of 1,050 lb. stamps, and twenty heads of 950 lb. amalgamated copper plates for recovery of the coarser gold ; classifiers for separation of sands and slimes; spitzkasten for thickening the slimes prior to treatment in agitators ; fifteen 6 ft. Union and Frue vanners for concentrating; ten steel vats, 22 ft. diameter by 10 ft. deep, for cyaniding coSrse sands ; six steel vats, 22 ft. diameter by 5 ft. deep, for cyaniding fine sands; four wooden and two steel vats, 22 ft. diameter by 5 ft. deep, fitted with agitators for treatment of slimes with cyanide ; also the usual sumps, storage-tanks, pumps, precipitation-boxes, and other accessories. The concentrators, pumps, and agitators are operated by water-power; the breakers and stamps are operated by steam-power; the plant for generating the steam consisting of two Babcock-Wilcox boilers, and the engine being a Wheelock-Corliss single-cylinder horizontal engine of 245 indicated horse-power, with automatic expansion gear and Blake condenser. 11,252 tons of ore was treated during the year for 20,705 oz. of bullion, valued at £17,256 13s. 3d.; and an average of 180 men was employed. New Zealand Grown Mines Company (Limited). —This mine still continues to be one of the best gold-producers in this district, and is being extensively opened up at various levels. The large underlay shaft has been sunk a further distance of 147 ft. during the year, making the total depth now 372 ft. below the No. 6 Waitawheta level. At this depth the No. 4 B level chamber is being opened out, and when completed the main levels will be extended north and south on the reef, and. thereby open up large blocks of ground, as there is 120 ft. of backs between this level and No. 3 B level. The reef (which varies from 4 ft. to 12 ft. in width) has been driven on at No. 3 B level a distance of 1,076 ft. south, and 340 ft. north ; and at No. 2 B level it has been driven on a distance of 1,730 ft. south, and 284 ft. north. Stoping operations are being vigorously carried on over the back of this level, where a large amount of payable ore is obtained. A considerable amount of driving, rising, and stoping is in progress in the upper workings above No. 6 Waitawheta level, where there is also a large tonnage of quartz produced. The Waitawheta Tunnel has been driven on the reef a total distance of 2,894 ft. It is at present being extended on the eastern branch with very good results, and at this place the reef is intact for some distance upwards, so that the prospects are exceedingly encouraging, the recent developments showing that there is a likelihood of the mine producing payable ore for an indefinite period. As the mine is well equipped with pumping and winding machinery, there should be no difficulty in obtaining an increased supply of ore to keep the additional twenty heads of stamps (in the course of erection) constantly going. Auxiliary steam-power is being erected, which will be used to assist in driving the plant when the water runs short in the summer months. The tram-line between the mine and the mill is being widened, and relaid with heavier rails, with the intention of running a small locomotive on it to bring the ore from the mine to the battery. The quantity of ore treated was 32,028 tons for 35,660 oz. 14 dwt. of bullion, valued at £66,203 17s. 9d.; and £10,000 was paid to the shareholders in dividends. An average of 240 men was employed. Comstock United Mine. —An option was held over this property by a syndicate, who directed the operations to extending the low-level tunnel a distance of 650 ft., making it a total distance of 1,100 ft. This work was done for the purpose of intersecting a large reef which is said to exist in this end of the ground, but, not being successful in cutting the reef within the distance named, the men were discharged ; but the manager is sanguine that the reef will be met with should the drive be extended a few feet further. Six men were employed in this mine. Leap Year Mine. —A considerable amount of work has been done on this property by two men. The work has consisted in prospecting and driving on a reef that was discovered about 3 ft. in width. Assays of the quartz are said to have given results varying from £2 Bs. 3d. to £27 16s. per ton, but in this instance (as in many others) it will require capital to develop the property. Waiobongomai. Empire and Neiv Find Mine. —ln the early part of the year operations were directed to stoping on the reef in the Empire section, but, as the chute of payable quartz had been worked out above the level, a winze was sunk about 20 ft. on the reef and stoped up to the level. As the quartz had to be raised to the level with a windlass—thereby increasing the cost of getting it—the manager decided to extend the low level under this place, which has now reached within a few feet of a point immediately under the winze sunk on the reef. Twenty men were employed for most part of the year, but lately they were all discharged, and the owner has been granted six months' protection over the property. 1,289 tons of quartz was treated at the battery for a return of 851 oz. 18 dwt. of gold, valued at £2,384 16s. sd. There has been a little prospecting done in the Loyalty and Cadman Claims, but otherwise very little work has been done outside those named in this locality. No returns. Te Aeoha. The Tui ground, which was abandoned for some time, has recently been taken up by a syndicate, who are testing the reef with a view to raising capital to treat the large bodies of complex ore that traverse this ground and some of the adjacent country. Komata. Komata Beefs. —This mine has been steadily worked during the year, operations being principally directed to driving and stoping on the reef at the No. 4 and intermediate levels.
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The battery (which was erected for dry crushing) has been remodelled and converted into an up-to-date wet-crushing plant. The process adopted consists of wet crushing, amalgamation, separation of the slimes from the sands, and concentration of the sands, which are then lifted by a " tailings- wheel" into the sand-vats, and treated by the cyanide process; the slimes are also treated in agitating-vats by the cyanide process, and the concentrates produced are treated in a small agitating plant with strong cyanide-solutions. The process is said to be economical, both as regards cost and the percentage of extraction of the ore treated. Although a considerable amount of gold has been obtained from this mine, yet it has been disappointing, the ore not yielding the results anticipated ; but, as the Te Ao Marama section of the Waitekauri Goldmining Company has been taken over by this company, which adjoins this ground, the prospects of the company appear more encouraging, as rich ore was obtained in the upper levels of the section mentioned. 9,200 tons of ore was treated at the company's mill for a bullion return of 11,216 oz. 11 dwt., valued at £11,289 6s. 6d. ; and seventy-six men were employed. Byron Bay. —Prospecting operations have been carried on in this ground intermittently with four men, and the prospects met with are said to be most encouraging. Maeatoto. Hikutaia Gold Syndicate. —This syndicate has resumed operations after a cessation of work for some nine months. An addition of five heads of stamps has been made to the crushing plant, which has been kept steadily working since the month of November. It is stated that six men breaking quartz in the mine can supply sufficient quartz to keep the battery running full time. Although the ore is low grade, it is easily got, and can be put into the mill at a small cost; and the supervisor is confident, even with the small plant, it can be made to pay working-expenses. Twenty men are now employed. Maratoto Gold-mining Company. —Operations in this mine for some time past have been confined to driving a low-level crosscut for the purpose of intersecting the Maratoto and Pay Rock reefs, which are opened up to some extent in the No. 1 and No. 2 levels. The ore at those levels was rather poor to pay, as it contained a fair amount of silver, but not enough gold. As it was worked upon it was found the reef would improve in value at deeper levels, hence the reason of opening up the reefs at the level named. No returns. Six men are employed. Khartoum Syndicate. —For the last three months prospecting operations have been carried on in this mine with four men, who have been successful in discovering two distinct reefs, one of which varies from lft. to 3 ft. in thickness, and is said to carry a fair amount of bullion. So far it has not been proved to be any great depth below the surface. A crosscut is now being driven from the side of hill to intersect the largest reef at a depth of 150 ft. below the surface. Four men are employed. "Whangamata. Mananu Gold-mining Company. —The principal work carried on in this mine for the greater part of the year was confined to stoping out the Studholme reef above No. 1 level, and it was from here the bulk of the quartz was obtained to keep the stamps running. This block of ground is nearly exhausted, and the company's operations for some time past have been directed to timbering the No. 2 level and making preparations for stoping out the aforenamed reef above No. 2 level. The reef varies in size from 18 in. to 5 ft. 6 in. in width, and it is estimated there is something like 5,000 tons of payable ore in sight between those levels. At No. 3 level a crosscut has been driven a distance of 69 ft., where the Studholme reef was intersected and driven on for a short distance in a southerly direction ; but as the air was very light in this drive it was stopped, pending the erection of a small furnace as a means of procuring the necessary ventilation. Two men have been employed driving on the reef at the Fulchar drive, but assays made of the stone from time to time have not given results as expected. The Nos. 2, 3, and 4 levels have been connected by rises to give better facilities for getting the ore from the mine to the battery. An additional ten heads of stampers have been erected, and auxiliary steam-power—which consists of an 80-horse-power slide-valve engine, with tubular boiler, 16 ft. long and 5 ft. in diameter—will be complete in a few weeks, when the mill will again be in full swing. 2,219 tons of ore was treated at the company's mill during the year for 3,440 oz. of bullion, valued at £7,558 13s. lid.; and an average of forty men was employed. Whangamata Proprietary. —As far as this property is concerned, • all work was suspended in August last, when protection for six months was obtained. Previous to that date mining-work was confined to the sinking of a winze some 100 ft. in depth from the floor of the lowest or No. 3 level. The reason for suspending operations was that the future development of the mine must consist of deep sinking by the aid of a large pumping plant, which has already been ordered, and is now in Auckland. Such deep sinking, however, will necessitate heavy expenditure quite beyond the present resources of the company. A reconstruction scheme has been formulated, which will provide ample fresh working capital, and this scheme now only awaits a favourable market opportunity for completion. In the early part of the year 150 tons of ore was treated for 255 oz. of bullion, valued at £224. An average of eleven men was employed. Taieua. Chelmsford Gold-mining Company. —During the period under review a large amount of work has been done on this property. The ten-stamp battery in the course of erection in the early part of the year was completed, and crushing was commenced in the month of May. The mode of treatment is wet crushing, amalgamation, and cyaniding. The quantity of water to run the plant (from where it was first lifted from the creek) was not sufficient in dry weather, and it was found necessary to extend the race a further distance of two miles to pick up the tributaries. Since this has been completed there has been ample water to keep the mill continuously running. In the
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mine, the only reefs at present being worked are the Nos. 1 and 2 reefs, which are operated upon from No. 1 level. The No. 1 reef is also being opened up from No. 2 level, which is about 130 ft. below the outcrop. Those reefs vary in width from 1 ft. to 6ft., and are encased by a decomposed andesite formation, strongly interlaced with iron-oxide seams. During that portion of the year in which the mill has been running, 1,365 tons of ore has been crushed wet and passed over the amalgamated plates, thereby saving the coarser gold, the tailings being treated by the cyanide process, the whole yielding bullion to the value of £1,431. The slimes are saved for further treatment. The company intends putting up a filter-press to treat the slimes, the loss of which is something considerable on the value of the ore. An average of twenty-three men has been employed. Broken Sills Gold-mining Company. —The work in this mine during the year has been mostly confined to developing the property at the deeper levels. The main low-level crosscut has been extended a further distance of 164 ft. and the Blucher reef intersected, where it has been driven on east and west, and a rise put up on the reef to connect with the No. 3 eastern level, 230 ft. above the low level. This rise is a means of giving excellent ventilation and facilities for working the large block of ground out, and is used for passing the quartz down, where it is trucked direct into the battery by a ground-tramway 18 chains in length, lately constructed, on which it is intended to use a small locomotive engine to convey the ore from the mine to the-mill. The water-race, on which a large amount of trenching had been done by the original company, has now been completed, and it is expected sufficient water will be available most of the year, and will be used as a motive power to run the twenty-stamp battery, which will reduce the cost of treatment, and thus enable the steam-power to be dispensed with that was previously doing this work. As the work in the mine was mostly directed on developments, only a limited amount of ore was treated. 480 tons was treated for 1,039 oz. of bullion, valued at £1,792 19s. 9d. Forty men were employed. Taniwha Claim. —This ground was worked by three •men. At the time of my visit operations were confined to working on a body of quartz and stringers on the top of a spur, and extending a crosscut to intersect the leaders about 50 ft. below the outcrop. The prospects met with on the outcrop were exceedingly encouraging, as a trial parcel of 19 cwt. from here (treated at the Thames School of Mines) gave a return of 34 oz. 3 dwt. of gold, valued at £82 ss. This being highly satisfactory to the shareholders, they decided to erect a small crushing plant, which, I am informed, is in course of erection. There has been a little prospecting done on the Gem, Mysotis, and Golden Hill Claims, but nothing of importance has been reported to have been discovered in these claims, although several pieces of ground have been pegged out in the immediate neighbourhood. Neavbsville. Prospecting operations have been intermittently carried on in this locality, from which small returns of gold have been obtained, but nothing of importance discovered. Pueiei. Miner's Bight Claim. —This claim has been continuously worked during the year with four men, who directed their attention to extending a low level to get underneath former workings. They have also been stoping out small leaders that traverse the claim and carry a fair amount of payable gold. 42 tons of quartz was crushed from this mine for 38 oz. 14 dwt., valued at £97 14s. 4d. The same party have the Union Jack Claim, which adjoins the abovenamed claim, and from this 52 tons of ore was crushed for a return of 97 oz. 4 dwt. of gold, valued at £245 3s. 2d. Puriri Gold Estates (Limited). —There was a little work done on this property in the early part of the year, and 135 tons of ore was crushed for 51 oz. 9 dwt., valued at £129 18s. 10d. The returns being very discouraging, the mine was closed down, and work has not again been resumed. Omahu. Sheet Anchor Mine. —In February last an option was taken over this property by an Auckland syndicate, who have had six men continuously employed driving a low-level crosscut, which has now been driven a distance of 900 ft. This tunnel was put in with the object of intersecting the lode formation that Tillsley Bros, had previously worked with encouraging results in the upper workings. Although several small leaders have been cut in this level, yet nothing of what might be considered payable ore has been met with ; but the intersection of the main ore-body is daily expected, the syndicate being sanguine that when the lode is met with the success of the undertaking will be assured. Klondike Mine. —Operations in this mine for some time past have been directed to driving a low level, which is in a distance of 116 ft. It is expected it will have to be extended a further distance of 200 ft. to intersect the reef-formation that has been opened up on the outcrop, and from which encouraging prospects were obtained. The shareholders are at present making a road into the mine for the purpose of getting in a five-stamp battery before the winter sets in. They intend to erect the plant nearly on the claim, and when this is accomplished they are confident the mine will pay, as the quartz can be mined and crushed at a small cost. An average of two men has been employed. Hape Creek. Fortuna Mine. —This mine was protected for a time, but protection is now granted subject to the ground being let on tribute above water-level. Six men are engaged in working blocks of ground on tribute. They have crushed 113 tons of quartz for a return of 96 oz. 18 dwt. of gold, valued at £272 16s. lid. Ethel Beefs. —This mine has been under protection, and little or no work has been done on the property during the year.
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Occidental and Thames Special Claims. —There has been no work done on this ground by the company during the year, but an average of five men has been engaged in tributing. Eight loads of quartz was treated for 28 oz. 2 dwt. of gold, valued at £80 Bs. 9d. The management is endeavouring to raise fresh capital for carrying on development-works in the North Star low level, with a view to intersecting the Lord Nelson reef. As soon as the necessary money is forthcoming driving on behalf of the company will be commenced. Kaeaka Cebek. Neio Gloucester Mine. —This mine has been steadily worked during the year with four men, the operations being chiefly directed to driving and stoping on Cowling's leader in the Nos. 1 and 2 levels. The leader is heavily mineralised, and varies from 2 in. to 6 in. in thickness. In breaking down the leader a little picked stone is occasionally obtained. 44 tons of quartz was treated for a return of 101 oz. 15 dwt. of gold, valued at £306 ss. Gloucester Extended ground, which adjoins the New Gloucester, has been worked with two men, who have directed their attention to driving on the Lincoln lead, from which 2 tons of quartz was broken out and treated for a return of 8 oz. 3 dwt. of gold, valued at £49. Claremont.- -This is a small holding of 1 acre, and is owned by George Bryant, who works the ground on his own account. We are informed rich patches of specimens are obtained where the leaders junction with what is termed " flinties " in the Karaka ; but although we have made frequent visits to this mine, yet we have not been fortunate enough to see any gold in the mine, and the work done appears to be very limited for the large amount of specimens treated. 1,140 lb. of stone was treated for 450 oz. of gold, valued at £1,210 10s. May Queen Extended. —Operations in this mine during the greater part of the year were confined to driving on the Hokianga reef north and south of the crosscut from the shaft. As the reef did not produce as good quartz as expected, and the funds running short, development-work here was discontinued. The work was then directed to repairing the Adelaide low level for the purpose of extending a crosscut to ascertain whether the Adelaide reef makes on the southern side of the break. 120 loads of quartz was treated for 58 oz. 14 dwt. of gold, valued at £167 18s. An average of eight men was employed. Thames-Talisman. —The work carried on in this mine up to the end of July was extending the Cumberland low level to intersect the main reef, which was met with at s, distance of 740 ft. from the mouth of the drive. The reef is from 1 ft. to 2 ft. in thickness, and has been driven on for some distance on each side of the crosscut. It did not turn out as well as expected, and six months' protection was applied for and granted; but work has again been resumed, and the manager contemplates rising on a junction and driving on the reef towards the Grand Trunk shaft. Fourteen loads of quartz was treated for a return of 6 oz. 3 dwt. of gold, valued at £17 Is. 7d. Eight men were employed. Gbahamstown. Thames-Haurahi. —This mine has been under protection, and in consequence no work has 'been done on the property during the year, pending negotiations for the reconstruction of the company to raise further capital to enable the work of sinking the shaft to be proceeded with (as previously arranged) for the purpose of proving the value of the reefs in this part of the district at greater depth. May Queen-Hauraki. —The work carried on in this mine has entirely been done by tributers, some of whom have done fairly well. Their attention' has been chiefly directed to driving and stoping on the various reefs above No. 6 level in the Saxon, May Queen, and Cardigan sections, which were previously opened up by the company, but no important discoveries have been made. 1,340 tons of quartz and 2861b. of picked stone was broken out and treated for 3,503 oz. 3 dwt. of gold, valued at £9,600 12s. 7d. There has been little or no development-work done by the company, but it is fully expected that before long the company will again resume operations, and, it is to be hoped, will direct their attention to proving the value of the property at depth. An average of four wages-men and forty-five tributers has been employed. Victoria Gold-mining Company. —The most of the work in this mine has been done by tributers, who have been prospecting and trying various leaders and the reefs from the No. 3 level of the Prince Imperial shaft to the surface. Unfortunately they have not been successful in finding payable ore, and the work accomplished as a whole has not been of a remunerative character. An average of six men has been employed. They have sent to the mill for treatment 123 tons of quartz for a return of 54 oz. 16 dwt. of gold, valued at £150 3s. Bd. Boring operations on behalf of the Victoria Company (with the assistance of a Government subsidy) have been in progress on the Favourite foreshore section during the last six months, to ascertain if there exists any auriferous country on the west, or what is known as the " seaward side of the slide," and at what depth. One of the bores was put down through made or broken country to a depth of 518 ft., but the country penetrated near the bottom of the hole was of a loose or " sliding" nature; and, as the hole had been reduced to a small diameter through obstacles in the shape of boulders having been met with from time to time, it was deemed advisable to discontinue it, as the borehole would have to be enlarged from the top downwards, and in consequence it has been decided to select a new site for another bore. Waiotahi Cheek. Waiotahi Mine. —Work in this mine is being continued as usual on various leaders above No. 3 level. Although there is still a fair amount of gold produced from this mine for the number of men employed, and enough money is left after the working-expenses are met to pay the usual dividends, yet there is no new or fresh development-work being done to prove the value of this
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property at a depth. 1,096 tons of quartz was treated for 1,508 oz. 11 dwt. of gold, valued at £4,109 6s. Id. An average of sixteen men was.employed. Fame and Fortune. —This mine is under partial protection, and has for some time past been worked by tributers, pending Mr. Kersey Cooper's arrival from England, where he has been for some months past negotiating for further capital to prospect and develop the mine. Lately the work has been carried on principally from the Balmoral level, where the hanging-wall portion of the Golden Age reef is being operated on both above and below the level. Although the prospects at times are encouraging, yet sufficient payable ore has not been obtained to compensate the men for the work accomplished by them. Foxe's leader is also being operated on in the higher workings, where a little gold is occasionally seen. 25 tons of quartz has been treated for 94 oz. 10 dwt. of gold, valued at £258 12s. 3d. An average of nine men has been employed. Nonpariel Mine. —This mine has been steadily worked by tributers, their operations being directed to the Liverpool Boys and Wade reefs. Through the blocks on the reefs becoming exhausted over the back of the main adit level, winzes were sunk and the reef in places blocked out to a depth of 90 ft. below the level; but, as most of the stuff broken out had to be raised by hand-labour (thereby considerably increasing the cost of getting) the ore obtained below the level ha,d to be fairly good to pay under the conditions named. 256 tons of ore was treated for 330 oz. 9 dwt. of gold, valued at £935 10s. 4d. An average of six men was employed. There are still a few men employed on the West Coast, Little Muriel, Ballarat, and Little Maggie Claims, but the returns of gold from those mines have been very small. MOANATAIARI CBEEK. Kuranui-Caledonian.- —This mine has been entirely worked by tributers for the last twelve months. No work of any kind has been done by the company in developing the mine, but from information received it is probable that operations will again be resumed by the company. The tributers have been engaged in working on the various leaders that traverse the property on the hanging-wall side of No. 1 reef, and from No. 3 level upwards. As in gold-mining in general, some have been fairly successful and others quite the reverse. 425-J- tons of quartz and 932 lb. of picked stone has been treated for 1,524 oz. 5 dwt. of gold, valued at £4,154 18s. 4d. ; and an average of forty-five tributers and three wages-men was employed. Moanataiari Company. —There is very little new to report from this mine, as the company has done no work on their own account during the year. The upper section of the mine has been thrown open for tributers. A number of miners have consequently availed themselves of the opportunity, and have directed their attention to working on small leaders (all of which contain more or less gold), and with a fair amount of success. The management is still awaiting instructions from England as to future operations. 1,254 tons 14f cwt. was crushed for 2,262 oz. 8 dwt. of gold, valued at £6,251 12s. Bd.; and two wages-men and sixty-four tributers were employed. New Whau Company. —Operations in this mine were carried on by the company in the early part of the year. The work consisted in prospecting and developing the Sons of Freedom reef at ■the various levels; but, as the ore obtained was poor and the company's funds exhausted, protection was applied for and granted, to give time to raise money for carrying out contemplated works. Latterly there has been a party of tributers working in the ground, but so far they have not been successful in discovering anything payable. Alburnia Company. —This mine still continues to be worked by a few tributers. The company apparently have not been successful in raising the necessary capital to develop the mine, which was anticipated would be forthcoming long before this. The tributers are at present working at the surface-levels, where some leaders are being operated on, and from which 37 tons of ore has been treated for 45 oz. 6 dwt. of gold, valued at £122 6s. 2d. An average of five men was employed. Golden Drop Claim. —This mine has been steadily worked during the year with two men, who have directed their attention to extending the main level a further distance of 300 ft. on small leaders which consistently carry a little gold, and at times small patches of picked stone are obtained. 5 tons of quartz was crushed for 15 oz. 10 dwt. of gold, valued at £39 ss. A little work has been carried out in this locality on the Tudor and Sea-horse Claims, but nothing of importance discovered. KUKANUI. Kuranui Mine. —This company's prospects are more encouraging than they have been for some considerable time past, as some leaders have been met with at their low level which promise to pay for any outlay that may be incurred in opening them up. A survey lately made shows there should be 180 ft. to drive on the principal leader before the boundary is reached, and there is 80 ft. of backs. As this is situated near the place where the rich gold was obtained by the old Kuranui Company, the manager believes something good will be found here. The low level is 40 ft. below the tunnel level, but a rise is being put up to make a connection some 20 ft. to the east of the Deep Lead shaft. When this is accomplished it will give good ventilation, and the company will then be in a better position to develop these leaders. 69 tons of quartz was treated for a return of 58 oz. 8 dwt. of gold, valued at £142 10s. 9d.; and an average of seven men was employed. Taeaeu Ceeek. Tararu Creek Mine. —This mine (which was closed down during the greater part of the year) was sold by public auction, and purchased by the present owner, A. Trower. Operations were again resumed in the month of October. At present the work consists of developing the mine and making some alterations in the battery, in which an additional boiler is to be placed in position as
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a motive power to run the stamps when short of water in the summer months. At the battery level a crosscut is being driven easterly, at a point 2,700 ft. in from the mouth of the tunnel, for the purpose of intersecting the Day Dawn and other parallel reefs that may exist in this locality. About 800 ft. in from Dunedin main reef the level is being driven on to the south to prospect the unexplored portion between the main pass at battery level and the Sunbeam rise. The Sunbeam surface-workings are being reopened and the old rise repaired, with a view to more thoroughly testing the reef in this section of the mine. Thirty men have been employed since the month of October. Eclipse Mine. —A large amount of work has been done in this mine during the period under review, which has chiefly consisted in driving and stoping on No. 1 and cross reefs from the No. 1 or 150 ft. level upwards. The reef has varied from 3 ft. to 8 ft. in thickness, the whole of which is sent to the mill for treatment. The ore is not what may be considered rich, but, as it is conveyed over an aerial tramway a distance of 7,400 ft. from the mine to the battery, and there treated at a small cost (as the motive power to drive the mill is water lifted out of the creek and carried along the company's own race), a good margin of profit is left. The workings in the mine are satisfactorily timbered throughout, and the ventilation is good. 3,994 tons of ore was treated for 2,191 oz. 13dwt. of gold, valued at £6,165 ss. An average of twenty-four men was employed. Eespecting the other mines in this locality, only a limited amount of work has been done in the Iron Gap, Chicago, Argosy, and Argosy Extended. Puru. Puru Consolidated. —This mine has been worked on tribute during the year by Messrs. Tettley and party, who have a twelve-months take of the mine, with the right to use the company's battery for crushing at a small cost per ton. The work in the mine has consisted in driving, stoping, and rising on the main reef at and from the No. 3 level upwards. This level has been driven a distance of 142 ft., and is now in a total distance of 684 ft. A rise was put up on the reef to a height of 70ft. to connect with No. 2 level. This has opened up a good block of ground, and as an upcast has given good ventilation. 171 tons of ore was treated for 97 oz. 13dwt. of gold, valued at £254 12s. 2d. An average of six men was employed. A little prospecting has been done in the neighbourhood of this mine, but no important discoveries have been reported. Waiomo. Monowai Mine. —Operations in this company's mine have been steadily carried on during the year, and with most encouraging results. The main reef has been driven on at No. 3 B level for a distance of 150 ft. on a rich chute of ore. Stoping is being carried along the back of the level, and a rise has been put up from this level to the surface, and has given good ventilation. It is also used for passing the stuff through to fill in the stopes. 2,845 tons of ore was broken out of the reef at this level for a total value of £4,055 11s. 7d. The ore, being of a complex nature, requires special treatment, and only a small percentage of bullion is obtained at the company's mill. The ore is passed through the stamps in the ordinary wet process, and the tailings from the boxes are then put over Frue vanners. The concentrates obtained from here are shipped to New South Wales for treatment. The results being highly satisfactory, the directors have given instructions to the manager to carry out a scheme of development which consists in driving a low level to open up a large block of ground on the reef, and when connected with the upper workings will give better facilities for getting the ore from the mine to the mill, as an aerial tramway is to be erected to convey the quartz from this level to the sea-beach, where a batteryis to be constructed. The concentrates had for some time to be carted to the Thames, adding considerably to the cost; but this has now been done away with, as the company has constructed a wharf on the beach at Waiomo Flat, where it is shipped to Auckland, and there transhipped for Sydney. The manager is sanguine that when the works mentioned are completed the mine will be made to pay handsomely. Forty men have been employed. Broken Hills Mine. —Operations in this mine have been confined to extending the low level for the purpose of intersecting the Monowai reef, which has been opened up at the surface-workings. So far no discovery of any importance has been reported from this mine. Two men were employed. Victory Claim.— This mine is situated about 400 yards above the Monowai battery, and is being worked by Millar and party, who have discovered a reef which has given encouraging results. The ore is of a complex nature, similar to that at the Monowai Mine, and requires different treatment from that adopted on the Thames. lam informed a test parcel of 1 ton of the ore selected and sent to New South Wales for treatment gave a value to the amount of £70. Two men have been employed. There has been a little work done in the Hector McDonald and other mines in this locality lately taken up, but no fresh discoveries made. Tapu. Bullion Mine. —This mine was sold in the early part of the year, and purchased by James Hawkes. A portion was let on tribute to Plimmer and party, who are operating on a leader in one of the surface levels, and have met with a fair amount of success. 24f tons of ore was treated for 198 oz. 13 dwt., valued at £566 Is. 4d. Four men were employed. Mahara Boyal—Theie has only been a caretaker on this property; his work consisted in grinding tailings and looking after the battery, &c. No work has been done in the mine during the year.
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COROMANDEL. Rauraki Mine. —This mine has produced a large amount of gold during the last seven years, but it is to be regretted that of late the monthly returns are gradually diminishing, and in consequence the services of a number of miners working here have been dispensed with. One of the principal works carried on in the mine was in making a connection from the Hauraki shaft with the low level of the Union Beach section, thereby enabling the manager to stop the pumpingengine on the Union Beach shaft, the engine on the Hauraki shaft being capable of pumping the incoming water from both sections. Driving and stoping were carried on on the various leaders at Nos. 1, 2, and 3 levels, from which all the stone treated was obtained, and a good deal of work of a prospecting nature was done at No. 4 level, 400 ft. below the surface; but not meeting with success the water was allowed to rise in the shaft to No. 3 level. The payable reefs in the upper levels becoming exhausted, the water below No. 3 level was again pumped out, and prospecting operations at No. 4 level once more resumed. 1,030 tons 6 cwt. of ore was treated at the company's mill for a return of 1,984 oz. 5 dwt. of gold, valued at £6,089 5s. 8d. An average of fifty men was employed. The Kapanga, Blagrove's Freehold, Kathleen, Golden Pah, Hauraki Main Lodes, and Hauraki South have all been closed down. Bunker's Rill. —In the early part of the year the company's operations were directed to stoping and sinking on the 4 in. leader above and below the No. 3 level, where 82 tons of general quartz and 163 lb. of picked stone was obtained. This was treated for a return of 228 oz. 17 dwt. of gold, valued at £640 7s. 9d. This mine has always been noted for being patchy ; but, as sufficient picked stone of a payable quality was not forthcoming to meet current expenses, the funds became exhausted, and after an unavailing struggle against the inevitable the directors obtained protection in order to give the shareholders an opportunity of deciding what was best to be done with the mine, which was consequently closed down for the time being. Six men were employed. Rauraki Freeholds (Limited). —The development-work carried out in this mine for the year ended the 31st December, 1901, has been of a most disappointing nature, nothing new having been discovered in the south-west crosscut, which was driven for the purpose of prospecting this portion of the mine at No. 1 level. Although 500 ft. was driven on the course of the Hauraki North reef underneath the old run of gold, yet nothing payable was met with. A total of 1,620 ft. of crosscuts, 550 ft. driven on the course of the reefs, 40 ft. of sinking, and 70 ft. of rising was done, and the quantity of quartz treated was 3 tons for 9oz. 8 dwt., valued at £26 18s. 2d. An average of twenty-one men was employed. Kathleen Croiun Mine. —Prospecting operations have been carried on throughout the year by surface-tunnelling above the creek-level and at different heights in the main spur of the property. Several reefs have been intersected and operated upon, and test parcels of ore have been crushed with a view to determining their productiveness preparatory to the erection of a battery plant on the ground. Owing to the large area of the property and the limited number of hands employed, only a small section of the ground has been operated on. The reefs are all gold-bearing, 'and the country-rock penetrated is of a very congenial class of sandstone. It is anticipated that with further developments the mine will produce payable returns. 59 tons of ore was treated for a return of 51 oz. 1 dwt. of gold, valued at £153 lis. 6d. ; and fifteen men were employed. Hauraki No. 2 Mine. —This mine has been steadily worked during the year with two men, the operations being confined to the surface levels, where a good deal of driving has been done on several leaders, some of which are carrying a little gold. So far nothing payable has been met with, and no crushings have been made. Trig Hill Mine. —Operations were carried on in the early part of the year by Moore and Verran (tributers), who had previously done a good deal of prospecting ; but not meeting with stone of a payable quality, work was stopped after treating 2J tons of ore at Coromandel public battery for a return of 1 oz. 7 dwt. of gold, valued at £3 14s. 3d. TOKATEA. Royal Oak of Hauraki (Limited). —The operations during the year have been principally confined to opening out and proving the block of ground between Nos. 5 and 3 levels, on the No. 1 reef or Tribute lode, and a considerable amount of success has been met with, as a strong run of gold was cut, which has yielded very good results. The work done has consisted in driving 804 ft. on the reef at intermediate levels, 97 ft. of crosscutting, 342 ft. of uprises, and 1,852 ft. of stoping. A large quantity of timbering has been done, in the shape of repairs to the adit levels on the Tokatea main reef, at Nos. 5 and 7 levels, and the work of repairing No. 6 level is now in progress. This work alone has cost £700. When the opening-up of the blocks of ground now in hand is completed a further scheme of development - work will be submitted for the consideration of the directors. 618 tons 3 cwt. of ore was treated for a return of 3,693 oz. 2 dwt. of gold, valued at £9,256 lis. 5d.; and an average of forty-five men was employed. Hauraki Mines (Limited). —This mine is situated on the Tokatea Range, and adjoins the Boyal Oak and Harbour View Mines. The mine was protected in the early part of the year, but operations were again resumed in the month of May at the Nos. 2 and 3 levels. The No. 3 level is 400 ft. below the top of the range, and is in a distance of 750 ft. An intermediate drive between Nos. 2 and 3 levels has been driven on the Foot-wall leader for a distance of 115 ft., and stoping above this level is now being proceeded with. The leader has been a consistent gold-producer at the higher levels, and is still carrying gold downwards, specimen stone occasionally coming to hand. The cross-reef is also being worked above No. 2 level, on which a rise is being put up preparatory to stoping. The prospects met with on this leader are most encouraging. A crushing
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of 2 tons of general ore and 2 owt. of selected stone was treated for a return of 76 oz. 5 dwt. of gold, valued at £217 ss. 2d.; and an average of six men was employed. West Tokatea Mine. —Operations in this mine have been principally confined to driving and stoping on the No. 3 leader at the No. 2 level. The leader varies from 2 in. to 6 in. in thickness, and has been driven on a distance of 827 ft. at this level. In breaking down the leader a little picked stone is occasionally obtained. The small three-stamp battery that was in course of erection at the latter end of the previous year has been completed, and crushings have since been intermittently carried on. A portion of this mine was let on tribute, and some of the tributers were successful in getting nice little patches of picked stone near the surface. 63 tons of ore was treated for the company and the tributers for 234 oz. 11 dwt. of gold, valued at £667 15s. 4d. An average of six men was employed. Harbour View Mine. —This mine was worked for a short time by tributers in the early part of the year, but as they were not successful in getting anything payable they gave it up. Owing to the company not being in a position to work the ground for want of funds, and not employing men on it for a time, another party applied for the ground in the Warden's Court, and got it forfeited. New Tokatea. —Work in this mine is carried on by J. Kennedy and party, their attention being directed to prospecting and driving on some of the small leaders which have been intersected in the different levels, and from which 1 ton of ore was crushed for a return of 5 oz. 10 dwt. of gold. Neiv Hauraki Gold Properties. —There has been a large amount of money expended in develop-ment-works in this mine, but unfortunately with no success, and in consequence it has been closed down, and is now in liquidation. Buffalo Mine. —This mine has been worked during part of the year by A. Eoss and party, who have been principally engaged in prospecting on small leaders. From 2 tons of ore and 1 lb. of picked stone a return of 8 oz. 13 dwt. of gold was obtained. ■ Works of a prospecting nature have also been carried on in the following claims in this locality, all of which have had small returns of gold : East Tokatea, Last Chance, Josephine, Golden Lead, Eoyal, Golden Spark, and Old Britannia. Waikokomiko. Four-in-hand. —Operations in this mine have been steadily carried on during the year, and with very satisfactory results. 793 tons of ore was broken out and treated at. the company's mill for the good return of 1,421 oz. 15 dwt. of gold, valued at £4,112 15s. 4d., which left a good margin of profit after all expenses were paid, and enabled the directors to pay to the shareholders £2,250 in dividends, making a total of £4,500 in dividends since commencing work. In the mine work has chiefly been confined to driving and stoping on the Pour-in-hand reef at Nos. 1 and 2 levels, also intermediate level. The reef varies from 16 in. to 3 ft. in thicknesSj and, as will be seen by the returns, the stone is of very good quality. In the Cuirassier section an adit level has been driven in from the side of the hill, where the Cuirassier reef has been intersected at a deeper Jevel than those previously opened up by the original owners, who obtained several good returns. The manager is sanguine of again picking up the chute of gold at this level. An average of sixteen men was employed. A limited amount of prospecting-work has been done by several parties from time to time in this locality, but no fresh discoveries reported. Kennedy Bay. Macoronic Mine. —This mine has been steadily worked during the year. Six different reefs or leaders have been intersected in this property, and some of them which give encouraging prospects are now being operated on with a view to proving more fully the value of the property. Some of the shareholders contemplate erecting a small battery on the ground if the ore continues to be as good as that already tried. 8 tons of general ore was treated for 6 oz. of gold, valued at £16 4s. Baden Powell Mine. —This mine was worked for a short time in the early part of the year by W. McNeil, who had a crushing of 901b. of picked stone for a return of 40 oz. of gold, valued at £110. Cabbage Bay. Extended Quartz Claim. —This mine has been steadily worked with two men. The work has consisted chiefly in prospecting on small leaders varying from 1 in. to 1 ft. in thickness. 1 ton of quartz was treated for a return of 5 oz. 14 dwt. of gold, valued at £15 13s. 4d. Tiki. Progress-Castle Bock Mine. —Operations in this mine have during the year been directed to driving and stoping on Reynold's reef, which is about 1 ft. thick, and is carrying that class of mineral which is considered a good indication for a patch of gold, but so far only little dabs of the precious metal have been seen in breaking the quartz out. With a view to proving the reef at a lower level, a crosscut is to be started 70 ft. lower than the present level. 73f tons of ore was treated for 182 oz. 15 dwt. of gold, valued at £434 11s. Aiken's Freehold. —-Two men have been constantly employed in prospecting on this property, on which a good deal of work has been done, but so far the reefs operated on have proved to be lower grade. 15J tons was treated at the Coromandel public battery for a return of 3 oz. 4 dwt. of gold. Prospecting-work has also been carried on in the Prospero and Pukewhau Mines, with two men in each, but no important find has been reported. No returns.
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Opitonui. Kauri Freehold Gold Estates (Limited). — During the year ended the 31st December, 1901, this company's work has been mainly development, opening up the lower levels of the Bangatira and Maiden Mines, and up to August no stoping was done, except leading stopes over the levels for the purpose of testing the blocks and having them ready for stoping. Since August, crushing has been carried on with from one to two shifts only per day at the battery, pending the opening - up of the low levels in the Maiden section of the mine. In this section the main shaft has been sunk to Nos. 3 and 4 levels, 120 ft. and 225 ft. respectively below No. 2 level. The total depth of the shaft from surface is 387 ft., including the sump 17 ft. below No. 4 level. Chambers have been cut at Nos. 3 and 4 levels in readiness to commence driving on the reef. At the No. 4 level a large compound duplex Dow pump has been fixed, with steam-cylinders 14 in. and 24 in. diameter, and water-plungers 10'5in. diameter, stroke 18 in. These are capable of raising 900 gallons of water a minute when working at eighty strokes per plunger per minute. The pump is supplied with a Worthington condenser. During the year No. 2 level has been full of water, a dam having been fixed in the crosscut from the shaft to keep the water in the mine while the sinking was in progress. It is expected work will be resumed in this level at the end of January. In the No. 1 level the principal work for the year has been driving and stoping on the Geraldine reef. This has proved rather poor, but appears to be improving in depth, there being a marked improvement going downwards from the No. 2 adit level to the No. 1 level. In the Bangatira section the No. 3 level has been opened during the year, showing a greater length and width of gold-bearing stone than in any of the upper levels. Stoping has been carried on with fair results in the blocks over the Nos. 2 and 3 levels. A Dow pump, exactly the same as that already described at the Maiden, has been obtained for this section, but it is not yet in position, being intended to fix it at No. 4 level. A large Babcock and Wilcox boiler of 159 indicated horse-power has been erected on the surface, and a new smoke-stack 100 ft. high put up. In Lanigan's and Hilda sections very little work has been done for the year, a few men being kept working in the extension of No. 1 level and in stoping above the No. 1 level, also above the Hilda No. 2 adit. At the battery considerable additions have been made, rendering the treatment very complete. The slimes separated in the spitzkasten from the battery-pulp, and those overflowing from the receiving-vats in the cyanide plant, are elevated into a pair of settling-tanks, where the slime is precipitated with the help of lime. From these settlers the sludge is run out into a pair of agitating-tanks provided with paddles, which keep the slime in a constant state of agitation. From these it passes into a mentejus, from which it is forced by compressed air into a pair of fifty-chamber Dehore filter-presses, each capable of handling about 4 tons of dry slime at a charge. At first the slimes were treated with cyanide-solution in the agitators, the filter-presses then serving simply to separate the gold-solution; but latterly it was found best to use no cyanide in the agitation, but simply to separate the surplus water from the slimes in the filter-presses, and then treat the cakes in presses themselves with cyanide-solution followed by washing. The exhausted cakes of slimes dropped out of the presses are removed by sluicing. In order to increase the output of the stamps, 20 - mesh woven - wire screens are now used, and the coarsest sand resulting is separated from the tailings in spitzlutten and elevated to a Huntington mill, where it is reground to pass through a 30 - mesh screen. When the coarse screens are on the battery and the Huntington mill is working, the output of the stamps rises to slightly over 4 tons per stamp per day. During the year 9,015 tons of ore was crushed and treated at the company's mill for 6,269 oz. 9 dwt. of bullion, valued at £11,719 12s. 4d. 180 men were employed. Kuaotunu. Kuaotunu Syndicate Mine (formerly the Mariposa and Kapai-Vermont). —Operations in this mine were resumed in the month of March, 1901, after a stoppage of over twelve months. During this time an amalgamation of the Mariposa and Kapai-Vermont properties had been arranged and sufficient capital raised to enable work to be proceeded with. Through the long stoppage the water had risen up to the top of the shaft and filled all the workings and surrounding country below the main level, which involved a considerable amount of expense and trouble to unwater the mine. However, after three months' hard pumping and baling with tanks, this was successfully overcome, and the No. 5 (the lowest) level freed of water, and is now drained off to its normal quantity, the pump and appliances being quite capable of coping with it. As soon as the face of the No. 5 level was clear of water, operations to extend the south drive on the lode were started, and have since been driven on 713 ft. The lode for the first 300 ft. was small and low grade, since which it has opened out, and varies in size from 3 ft. to 8 ft. thick, carrying more or less gold. So far the chute of gold-bearing ore is about 350 ft. in length, and the prospects in the end of the south face are still fairly good. The manager is of opinion still better ore will be found further south. The No. 3 winze has also been sunk from No. 4 level a further distance of 53 ft., making it a total depth of 120 ft., where it connects with No. 5 level, and by this means gives good ventilation to all the workings below No. 4 level. An intermediate level has also been driven south on the lode from No. 3 winze a distance of 53 ft., midway between Nos. 4 and 5 levels. There has only been a limited amount of ore crushed. The principal object has been to get the mine well opened up to test the value of the lode at the No. 5 level, this being the deepest workings in this district. 650 tons of ore was treated for 381 oz. 15 dwt. of bullion, valued at £857 12s. 5d. ; and twenty-eight men were employed. Waitaia Mine. —Work in this mine has been carried on during the year with very satisfactory results. The company, in the month of October, obtained a lease of the Irene Company's crushing plant on very favourable terms. This has enabled them to have more regular crushings than previously, and, as the reefs have been opened up to a considerable extent at the different levels, there should be very little difficulty in obtaining sufficient ore to keep the mill going for
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some time to come. The operations in the mine are principally confined to stoping over the Nos. 3, 4, and 5 levels, where the reef varies in size from lft. to 4 ft: in thickness. 545 tons of ore was crushed for a return of 920 oz. 5 dwt. of gold, valued at £2,723 13s. 4d. Fifteen men were employed. Irene Mine. —This mine is still worked on tribute by White and party,, whose operations during the early part of the year were confined to extending the drive on the reef at No. 2 level, and timbering the same preparatory to stoping, which is at present being carried on. The reef varies from 4 ft. to 7 ft. in thickness, but only a portion of it is saved for the mill. 209 tons of quartz was broken out and treated for 256 oz. 6 dwt. of gold, valued at £537 9s. 5d.; and four men were employed. Great Mercury Mine. —This mine is worked by Carroll and party, who had a renewal of their tribute in the mine and the use of the battery on terms for the treatment of their quartz. The work in the mine has chiefly been confined to stoping on the Try Fluke and Hanging-wall reefs at the No. 2 level on the western side of the property, where it is connected by a short self-acting incline tramway to the main line at No. 3 level. 595 tons of ore was treated for 421 oz. 10 dwt. of gold, valued £851 10s. Seven men were employed. Handsioorth Mine. —This property comprises 5-J- acres, and is owned by Louis Woodcock, who has steadily worked the ground with two men during the year, with highly payable results. Stoping is still being carried on over the back of the low level on No. 2 reef. 58 tons of ore was treated for a return of 425 oz. 16 dwt. of gold, valued at £1,053 3s. 7d. As the gold mentioned is only that obtained from the copper plates, there must be a large percentage left in the tailings, which are saved for treatment, and will be put through as soon as the berdans are erected. Juno Mine. —This mine was worked on tribute up to the month of August by Campbell and party, who crushed 3 tons of quartz and 13 lb. of picked s]tone for 46 oz. 14 dwt. of gold, valued at £126 4s. As the leader was very small it would not pay them to work, and in consequence they gave it up. Two men was employed. Aorere Claim. —Two men are employed in extending the No. 2 level crosscut for the purpose of intersecting the Waitaia reef. This drive is now in a considerable distance, and the reef may be cut any day. No returns A little prospecting is being done in this locality, but no new discoveries have been reported. GUMTOWN. Welcome Jack Mine. —Operations in this mine are at present confined to stoping out blocks of ground on two leaders that have been intersected by an adit level driven from the side of the hill. The leaders vary in size from 6 in. to 9 in. in width; there is also another leader striking parallel to those mentioned which the manager intends shortly to operate on. Although the leaders are small, the ore is high grade, and the manager is sanguine it will pay handsomely when the mine is more fully developed. The company's crushing plant consists of a five-stamp mill with two berdans. The ore is calcined before treatment, a,nd is conveyed from the mine to the mill by means Of an aerial tramway 750 ft. in length. 123 tons of ore was treated for 282 oz. 4 dwt. of gold, valued at £539 11s. sd. An average of twelve men was employed. Kapowai Mine. —It is to be regretted that this mine has not turned out as well as was at first anticipated. A crushing plant has been erected consisting of eight stamps and five berdans, together with a Tangye engine of 12-borse power. In the mine the work done has only been very limited, and confined to rising and stoping on a reef-formation at a surface level. The reef is only a series of red-iron seams which contains the gold, and is not well defined. After crushing 276 tons 10 cwt. of quartz for a return of 233 oz. of gold, valued at £547 11s., the battery was stopped, and only two men left to do a little prospecting. Big Beetle Mine. —This mine was protected the first six months in the year, and when it expired work was again resumed with three men, who have since driven on the reef a distance of 165 ft. A winze has been sunk to a depth of 50 ft., and a rise put up 25 ft.; also a little stoping and prospecting has been done. 20 tons of quartz was broken out of the main reef (which is about 18 in. in width) and treated at the Kapowai battery for a return of 46 oz. of gold, valued at £135 2s. 9d. The ore being of high value, the shareholders contemplate erecting a small crushing plant on the ground for their own use ; and if the quartz already crushed is a fair sample, and has not been specially selected, the mine should pay well. Golden Beefs. —Two men are employed on this ground driving on a lode formation which varies from 1 ft. to 3 ft. in width, and from which 30 tons of ore was treated for 17 oz. of gold, valued at £44 10s. Prospecting-work has also been carried on in the Perseverance, Ascetic, and Prince Edward Claims, with two men in each, but no fresh discoveries have been reported from any of them. Mahakirad. Nil Desperandum. —This mine has been steadily worked during the year by Prescott and party, who directed their attention to driving and stoping on a small leader near the surface, from which they crushed 6 tons lcwt. of stone for 127 oz. 5 dwt. of gold, valued at £332 3s. As the mine is a considerable distance away from the public crushing plant, and the stone has to be packed on horses, it thereby adds greatly to the cost, and in consequence some of the men have decided to give it up, as it will not pay them to work. 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Barrier Beefs Mine. —Operations in this mine were steadily carried on up to the month of November, but the blocks of ground opened up on the reefs becoming exhausted from the low level upwards, a number of the men were discharged. The battery was stopped, and only a limited number of men were kept on in the mine, pending a reconstruction of the company for the purpose of raising further capital to open up and develop the mine at deeper levels, which will probably necessitate the erection of pumping and winding machinery. During the year the lowlevel crosscut has been extended a distance of 39 ft. southwards, where a large lode 43 ft. thick was intersected, some of the stone being of a very promising character for gold and silver. 100 ft. has also been driven eastward on the course of the main reef, and a total of 220 ft. at the No. 2 and intermediate levels, together with 100 ft. of uprises. Stoping: There has been 695 ft. on the course of the lode, by 330 ft. in height, blocked out on the main lode (the average width of it being about 15 in.), which produced 13,537 tons of quartz for 15,734 oz. of bullion, valued at £23,503. The average number of men employed in the mine and battery was 112, but five men were only employed at the end of the year. New Great Barrier Mine. —This ground, formerly known as the " Original Great Barrier," on which a good deal of work was done by the previous owners, has been taken up and worked during the past nine months by a syndicate, who have employed from two to three men in prospecting and opening up the reef, which averages 14 in. in thickness. A parcel of 4-J tons was broken out at the No. 1 level and forwarded to New South Wales for treatment: this gave a return of bullion valued at £33. The gold contained in the ore is from 5 dwt. to 7 dwt. per ton, the principal value being silver. The work in the mine has been chiefly confined to the No. 1 level, which has been extended a distance of 103 ft., and a rise put up on the reef to a height of 40 ft. It is intended to connect this rise with a surface drive, which has been extended 40 ft. to where it will come through; this, when completed, will give good ventilation, and will partly prove the value of a large block on the reef over the level. Taueanga-Tb Puke. Te Puke Gold Beefs. —There has only been a limited amount of work done in this mine during the year, three men being employed in prospecting the reef at No. 1 level near the top of the hill, and from which 5 tons of ore was broken out and treated for 31 oz. 18 dwt. of gold, valued at £86 14s. lid. This property is still under offer on the London market, and the shareholders are sanguine it will eventually be floated into a company. Clark's Freehold. —Very little work has been done on this property during the year, but negotiations are now on foot with the representative of a Erench syndicate to give them an option over the property till the end of the year, the syndicate to spend at least £100 per month developing the property. If the terms offered are acceptable an expert will be sent to report. The option has to be open to the middle of-May next.
Fatal Accidents.
There were twenty-eight other accidents reported to this office, and, being of a more or less serious nature, the cause of each was inquired into, and with the exception of slight accidents they were duly reported on. There is only one case that requires special comment here—viz., that of James Marshall, who was injured in the Waihi Company's mine on the 3rd December by an explosion of gelignite, and died a few weeks after the accident occurred. I have, &c, James Coutts, The Under-Secretary, Mines Department, Wellington. Inspector of Mines.
Mr. E. Tennent, Inspector of Mines, Westport, to the Undeb-Seceetaby for Mines, Wellington. Sib, — Inspector of Mines' Office, Westport, 15th April, 1902. I have the honour to report as follows on the gold-mines in the Marlborough, Nelson, and West Coast districts for the period ending the 31st December, 1901: — QUARTZ-MINING. Blenheim. Wellington Mine. —The mining development of this property is carried out in a haphazard and slipshod manner. Rising on No. 2 level 165 ft. is the only work in progress. Two men employed.
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Jubilee. —Since this company resumed operations development has been chiefly confined to driving a low level on No. 2 reef. Several parcels of outcrop stone yielded 136 oz. 6dwt. 10 gr., valued at £502 6s. 3d. The aerial tramway has been generally overhauled. Working-conditions of the mine are good, and it is well ventilated. Ten men employed. Luck at Last. —This recently opened property employs two men driving on a very large lowgrade formation, but the manager anticipates a payable run as developments extend. Baden-Powell Syndicate (Thomas Fowler, secretary). —A winze is sunk to a depth of 30 ft. on a 4-yard formation. The contract is let for 60 ft. Havelock. Golden Bar. —lnquiries in respect of road-construction have recently been made to facilitate the transit of milling machinery. Watei - -race construction and preparing timbers for battery-founda-tion are the only works at the mine. The machinery awaits transport from Havelock Wharf. CoLLINGWOOD. Golden Eidge (Taitapu Gold Estates; Mr. James Carrol, late of Croesus, Paparoa, minemanager). —Mining developments are confined to the low level, while a new roadway connecting the Ant-hill section of the mine with the aerial terminal is under construction to facilitate transit to the mill. Twenty-three men employed. Golden Blocks, Taitapu. —Developments are kept well in advance in order to avoid shortage of ore-reserve. The low-level crosscut is now driven 510 ft., and according to the favourable country indications the main ore-body is early expected. Stone for milling purposes stoped between Nos. 1 and 2 levels yielded 3,081 oz. lOdwt., valued at £12,122 Bs. Id., from 2,364 tons. The mine and battery works are kept in good order. Thirty men employed. Westpobt. Britannia. —The lucrative returns maintained from No. 1 reef during the year have encouraged the company to extend developments on the north section of their property, where a reef recently discovered —4 ft. to 5 ft. in width —promises to give fair average yields. Eight men employed. Stony Greek. —This property, formerly owned by the old Bepublic Company, was recently acquired by a local syndicate, who work under the title of " The Stony Creek Gold-mining Company." Since possession was taken the several works have undergone a general overhaul, and the discovery of a fresh ore-body has strengthened the position. Battery operations are hampered owing to scarcity of water, but steps are being taken to remedy this defect. So far returns are not yet to hand. Fourteen men employed. The Mokihinui Beefs have recently attracted the prospectors' attention, but beyond the old known bodies there are no fresh disclosures to note. Lyell. Alpine .Extended. —Active developments in No. 7 and No. 11 have been steadily pushed since dperations were resumed at the commencement of the year. But, with the exception of a small leader which yielded 30|- oz. to 4 tons stone, No. 7 has unearthed no fresh discoveries of importance. However, a high-grade ore-body, varying in width from 2 ft. 6 in. northward to 12 ft. southward, was struck while extending No. 11 south. Unfortunately the stone pinched out in the south face, but continues strong in the north one, which runs almost parallel with the main drive. Driving continues in the south face, but the higher values of this new ore-body will depend on deeper sinking. Tyrconnel. — Kelly and party continue to work this property as a private concern, with highly payable results. The mine is kept in a workmanlike manner and well ventilated. Boatman's. Kirwan's Beivard. —Practically developments of importance are nil, except quarrying the large bodies of quartz located on the crown of the hill, which, according to the volume of broken stone in sight, assures the investor that profitable returns will continue for a considerable time to come. Twenty-two men find employment in quarrying the stones and clearing the surface debris. Welcome. —During the past year only a small amount of exploratory work has been done, as all practical effort failed to trace the stone down to the low-level tunnel, Specimen Hill. Therefore all that remained was to mine and mill the quartz in sight, which amounted to about 240 tons. The company erected a very rough five-stamp mill, and a free-gold yield of £1,923 13s. 9d. was obtained, besides several pennyweights being left in the tailings. To make the quartz-treatment complete a small cyanide plant consisting of two 20 ft. diameter by 5 ft. wooden treatment-tanks was erected, together with an additional stamp. These tanks were nearly finished at the end of the year. Meanwhile stoping was continued by eight wages-men, it being the intention of the company to take out all payable quartz in sight. Eebpton. Wealth of Nations. —Attention has been chiefly directed to develop the bottom or 800 ft. level, the face of which at the end of the year was standing at 547 ft. north of the shaft. While driving this distance ore-bodies of considerable magnitude were met with, including one of very strong medium grade, 12 ft. in width, at 142 ft. from the shaft. Eising at 500 ft. to connect with the 700 ft. level, a very nice quartz band 3 ft. in width, carrying very fair gold, was followed the whole distance. Extending north towards the Energetic shaft, the battery level was driven 156 ft., leaving 192 ft. yet to connect. The total footages amount to 591 ft. of driving and 156 ft. of sinking and raising. The necessity for sinking a main shaft has been rendered urgent owing to the present
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undesirable method of raising and lowering men and material through a blind incline shaft, hoisting being actuated by overshot motive power, situated about 1,800 ft. from the seat of operations, a system of hoisting which is not only tedious and expensive, but must be considered as diverging slightly from the strict rules of safety. However, after much discussion, the company has ultimately decided to remove the obstacle by reopening and sinking the old Energetic shaft to a total depth of 1,212 ft. Bullion-value from 12,015 tons milled quartz was £16,448 4s. 5d., and from extractive concentrates £875 4s. Id. ; while 7,205 tons of coarse sands yielded £4,390 3s. 5d., at a cost of 3s. 5-456 d. per ton treated. Electric-light installation from a Crompton dynamo is the only mechanical addition. Golden Fleece. —Since mining and milling were commenced in November, 1900, operations have been carried on continuously, with satisfactory results. The winding-shaft was sunk 150 ft. from No. 10 or adit level, and opened at No. 11 level, driving north and south on a strong body of stone, on which the necessary connections were made to No. 10 level to provide ventilation. Stoping has been generally carried on throughout the mine from No. 5 to No. 10 levels, together with other extensive developments in driving, rising, and sinking, which in all have produced 14,987 tons of quartz, giving a bullion-value of £28,612 2s. 2d., besides sulphurets sold for smelting to the value of £2,070 ss. 9d. ; also 11,170 tons of coarse sands under cyanide treatment yielded a bullion-value of £5,416 14s. 4d., at a cost of 2s. 4-202 d. per ton, giving a profit of 7s. 4-182 d. The mechanical and other equipments being in good order, no particular alteration has been necessary. The Perseverance tunnel was generally overhauled its full length, and the south drive extension of 72 ft. exposed a small ore-body of no particular value. Golden Treasure. —This property is practically abandoned, as the hoisting plant was recently removed, preparatory to placing it on the Energetic shaft. Progress Mines. —The various departments in connection with the mining, milling, chemical and metallurgical ore-treatment on this property were satisfactorily and continuously carried on during the year; whilst mine-development (from Nos. 2 to 10 levels), comprising 3,326 ft. of driving and 492 ft. of rising and sinking, have partially exposed ore-reserves in excess of previous tonnages as compared with the preceding year, notwithstanding that the output milled was 55,207 tons. Milling-stone was generally stoped from No. 3 downwards under favourable conditions, leaving the exhausted ground well secured and filled in. The chief surface improvements were the erection of a red-pine head-gear framing of increased strength on B shaft in place of the former white-pine one, and an ore-bin of about 100 tons capacity was recently built at A shaft to faciliate tipping and loading operations. Also, head-gear and a small Ledgerwood hoist were installed at C shaft to open and unwater the workings. The adit eastward was repaired to the face, and driving commenced for the Union stone, whilst the adit westward was extended 100 ft. Aerial transport has worked satisfactorily at a minimum cost of 4Jd. per ton. The gross milled tonnage, 55,207 tons, gave a total bullion-value from amalgamation, chlorination, and cyanide of £97,680 13s. 10d. Coal for steaming purposes is mined from the company's own leases, which show a good reserve of fair quality in sight. According to notes received from Mr. Spencer, general manager, working-costs, compared with previous year, show a decrease of 2-845 d. per milled ton; but, unfortunately, general charges show a distinct increase of 7'39d., which is largely attributable to increased local taxation. Keep-it-Dark. —Operations were continuous, and the mined stone for milling and cyanide extraction was chiefly stoped from Nos. 2 and 3 levels, the ore showing no particular change either in body or value. Driving, rising, and sinking were practically confined to No. 3 level, from which the necessary connections for ventilation, ore, and filling-in passes are satisfactorily connected with No. 2 level, and thence direct to the surface. In view of working the deeper levels of the property on improved modern lines, the company decided to abandon all operations hitherto connected with the inside shaft, and carry out all future developments from deeper sinking of the main shaft. Consequently, steam-power for hoisting purposes has displaced the old overshot waterwheel. Sinking has proceeded satisfactorily, under favourable natural conditions, to a further depth of 150 ft., where a large securely timbered chamber is built (formerly the entrance to No. 4 level) preparatory to deeper sinking. The gross milling output, 12,685 tons, yielded 2,907 oz. ; from amalgamation and cyanide, 1,627 oz.: showing a total value of £16,663 9s. Id. New Scotia. —Since the present company reopened this property the head-gear, winding-ropes, chains, and cages have been completely renewed. Mining operations have been confined to driving No. 1 level east towards the Gallant block, and unwatering the shaft to No. 2 for deeper development. The Gallant adit was also cleared out and repaired to the reef, from which a parcel of stone was milled, with very unfavourable results. The cyanide treatment of the battery-tailings sands gave a very satisfactory yield of £3,532 15s. Id. The whole plant is in good order and condition. Big River. —Although the higher levels of this property have yielded considerable wealth, it would appear, from the continued unsuccessful efforts made to extend prospecting operations in the present workings, that the rich auriferous belt peculiar to the locality is confined to a very limited radius from the shaft. However, the company has finally decided to sink the main shaft and prove the deeper levels, which work is now proceeding. Big River No. 2. —After a lengthened period of unsuccessful surface prospecting and driving, operations are meantime abandoned. Last Chance. —Fleming and Morris continue to work the thin leaders in the old property in a very careful and workmanlike manner, with varied results. Golden Lead. —ln order to facilitate aerial transport and prove the deeper leads of this section of the property, the company are driving No. 2 low-level adit at a vertical depth of 150 ft. below No. 1. 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New Inkerman Mines. —Since Mr. G. Dixon, late attorney, left for England, the charge of these properties has been directly under the care of Mr. G. Boyd, late of Progress Mines and Consolidated Goldfields of New Zealand ; but so far developments are not important. Practically the whole work of the year continues of a prospecting character, crushing being confined to one small parcel in the early part of the year. A rise to connect No. 5 level with the old surfaceworkings has been cut the whole way in a fine body of quartz. Also, driving is continued from the winze at 226 ft. below No. 5 level to cut the lode in depth, as it showed fair size, and was driven on for about 300 ft. Twenty-five men are employed under authority from the Warden. Paparoa Eangbs. Paparoa Mount (formerly Grasus, Paparoa). —Mining operations have been chiefly confined to driving a low level in the western slope. Stone crushed in the commencement of the year valued at £414 2s. 2d. Owing to the dense fog during Mr. Eiehards's last visit to the locality, he was unable, after three Hours' search, to find the mine. Hence shortness of my information. Taffy. —Operations are abandoned at this property. Garden Gully. —The low-level adit is driven and timbered 160 ft. under contract. Preparations are being made to erect a ventilating-fan. General Ehmaeks. According to the statistical returns to hand for 1901, the favourable anticipations expressed in my report of last year are fully verified. The output of quartz gold from the Westland Mining District is the largest yet recorded for any similar period. This result is chiefly due to the substantial increases from the Progress Mines and the Consolidated Goldfields of New Zealand over the preceding year. Keep-it-Dark and Kirwan's Eeward show a fair increase, while the marked advance in productiveness shown by the Taitapu and Westport Mines is encouraging, and likely to continue. In view of the general and projected deep-level developments, coupled with the largely developed ore-reserves in sight, continuance of similar returns are not only anticipated, but with the scientific modes of ore-treatment now established in the Eeefton district increase of output is practically insured. alluvial and hydraulic mining. Mahakipawa. King Solomon Mine. —Although the persevering and expensive efforts made to unwater this property have proved utterly fruitless, we must commend the pluck and energy displayed by the company with the object of unearthing the precious metal. Negotiations are in progress for the sale of the property. Wakamarina Gorge Claim. —The works on this claim are suspended, and under the charge of Charles Dimante. Ericon Hydraulic Sluicing Company. —This company have suspended operations. No person in charge. Twelve miners make a living prospecting and otherwise in this district. Takaka. Sheepy Flat. —Two men are cutting a deep-level drainage-race, of which 12 chains is open channel, and 300 ft. of close driving is anticipated before payable ground is reached. Should prospecting prove successful a large area awaits development, as the syndicate has obtained the freehold rights of the district. Takaka Hydraulic Sluicing Company (Charles Campbell, manager).—The elevator is being re-erected on another part of the claim, the former site having proved disappointing. The full water-supply is expected early on the works. Sixteen men employed. Wangapeka and Sherry. For some months past this once important alluvial-mining district has enjoyed quite a revival, and several tail and water races are being cut. Also good results are obtained from a few drivingout claims. A few men are prospecting and working single-handed in some of the shallow creeks, with poor results. Dredging has so far made no move in this district. COLLINGWOOD. Parapara Hydraulic Sluicing Company. —Prior to Mr. Peters (late manager) leaving the. company's service early in May, operations had extended directly through the Hit or Miss Valley. It was evident then that sluicing could not be continued until the main pipe-line was shifted from the broken and loose hillside and relaid in the bed of the valley, a work which incurred considerable expenditure. However, these works are most substantially completed, and the powerful jets maintained command a newly opened face of coarse sandstone boulders at the lower end of the claim, hydraulic winches being used to lift the large stones. Quartz Banges. —Present operations are of a varied character. Washbourne's Pace, operated on by two nozzles, is the most important, and late results are considered satisfactory. Debtor's Face also employs one nozzle. Other works are chiefly developing. Sixteen men employed. Plant and works are kept in good order. Bocky Biver. —All works are suspended in this district. Slaty Biver Sluicing Company. —Sixteen men employed in dam-Construction for waterconservation. No other developments. Duggan's Flat. —Three miners employed sluicing. No returns to date. The Karamea district has not been visited.
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Westport District. Wellington Old Diggings, Buller Ewer.—Sluicing operations have been suspended during the greater part of the year. Mackle and party continue sluicing the tailing-deposits from the old Caledonia Claim, with favourable results. The terraces and tributaries of the German Creek still afford employment to about twenty miners. Greenhill Sluicing Company, .Rurdowre.—Hydraulic sluicing was continued in the commencement of the year, for a gold-yield of £260 ; but operations are now suspended, pending reconstruction of the company. Waimangaroa River.—- Profitable results are obtained by the parties who continue to tunnel the banks of the river. Ralligan and Party (five). —This sluicing and elevating claim, now skirting the Fair Maid Terraces, affords payable results. The plant is in good order. Moran and Party (four). —Since developments were completed the results from this claim show signs of improvement. Gould and Party (four) continue sluicing as usual, with poor results. Carmody and Party (five).—Profitable returns are still being obtained from this sluicing and elevating claim. Working-conditions of the property are satisfactory. Shamrock Claim.— This property is shut down and flooded. The owner made application for a subsidy to drive a low-level drainage-tunnel from the Dirty Mary Creek, but, as construction of the race was likely to benefit the owner only, assistance was not granted. Virgin Flat Gold-mining Company.— After very considerable expenditure, extending over a period of three years, on gigantic and substantially built water-race and tail-race developments, sluicing was commenced in full swing in the early part of the year, giving a gold-vield of £588 7s. 7d. 8 S S * Cement-crushing. Piper Flat Company .—This company had suspended operations when visited. New Venture.— The present syndicate of eight working-men recently bought this property from the old Venture Company, and continue operations with fair results. It is very regrettable that, under the existing mode of treatment, gold-extraction from these rich auriferous cemented sands is so far very unsatisfactory. Millikin and Party (eight).—Operations were confined to sluicing the south end of the claim. Battery-work suspended. Golden Sand. —This company resumed operations in the commencement of the year, and carried out extensive alterations in connection with the battery and tables, but returns not meeting anticipations all work was shut down. Charleston. Powell's Sluicing and Elevating Black-sand Claim, Nine-mile Beach. —The owners still meet with very profitable returns, the yield being 525 oz. 3 dwt. 15 gr., valued at £1,973 7s. 9d. A number of beach-combers continue to make a fair living in the locality. Lyell. Neville and Perkins's Newton Flat Hydraulic Sluicing and Elevating Company. This company employ about forty men ditching and tunnelling in connection with a large water scheme from the Newton Biver. As the various works are well advanced, it is anticipated that sluicing will commence early. Murchison. The Glenroy, Horse Terrace, and Matakitaki districts employ in all about thirty-four Europeans, and approximately thirty-two Chinese, working in parties of from two to four men. Boring and sinking for dredging purposes forms quite an industry. Boatman's. A few aged miners are making a bare living along the left-hand branch of Boatman's Creek. Ahaura. In the Ahaura, Orwell Creek, Callaghan's, and Nelson Creek districts mining has practically given place to the dredging industry, with exception of a few old resident fossickers and Chinese who earn a bare living by scratching the beds and banks of the creeks. Bellhill.— Sluicing has been almost continuous with improved productive capacities, chiefly due to the increased water-supply and other developments recently carried out by the present company. Realey's Gully (Owners, Republic Sluicing Company).—The effective hydraulic capacities of this property have been largely improved by a series of continuous alterations and improvements recently made in connection with the water-race. Sluicing is well maintained, while returns show a total output of 269 oz. 1 dwt., valued at £1,053 16s. Three Jacks Claim (three).—This claim gives very satisfactory results when water is plentiful.
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Montgomery Terrace Sluicing Company .—This recently developed property employs five men hydraulic sluicing, while a large staff of men are employed constructing an extensive water-supply scheme under contract. Grey River Sluicing Company.— thrives and party continue to work this claim very successfully, with profitable returns. Gold-value was £749 Bs. 9d. Upper Blackball Creek.—This locality afforded profitable employment to six parties groundsluicing the creek-bed at low water. Bearing Meg.— This company has made no further effort to develop the property. Geey Valley. Sulky Gully (Owners, Wills and King).—A party of Chinese continue to work this claim under sub-lease rental, but so far returns are unfavourable. Waiwhero Sluicing Company,— Water-race and other important developments in connection with this extensive section of the company's holding are scientifically and substantially completed. Sluicing has been almost continuous, with a gold-value of £5,305 18s. Twenty-five men employed. • Barry town No. 2.—Mr. Alexander MacKay, Greymouth, continues operations on a large scale on the «• blow-up" (or hydraulic elevating) principle, with profitable results. Gold-value, £3,404 13s. 9d. Twenty men employed. A few hatters make a fair living on the beach terraces where water is available. KUMAEA. On a recent official inspection of the various sludge-channels and deep levels connected with the mining operations of this district it was gratifying to note that the working and maintenance conditions of such were found in a satisfactory state of efficiency. Waimea Hydraulic Sluicing and Elevating Company.- Sluicing and elevating operations have recently been commenced on the flat sections of the freehold and other mmmg properties acquired from Mr. Looker. Attention is also directed to the terraces, where a plant is under construction. Wheel of Fortune. —Mining operations are suspended pending arrival of two up-to-date elevating plants from England. Lake Mudgie is being enlarged for water-conservation, and the drainagetunnel is undergoing extensive repairs. Hokitika. Humphrey's Gully.— Completion of the extensive developments in water-supply, saving-tables, electric-light and hydraulic installation has enabled the company to commence sluicing operations on a gigantic scale. The extended water-supply scheme is capable of keeping tpozzies operating continuously night and day on the face, which rises to a height of 300 ft. Safety and economy are practically secured by the use of powerful hydraulic winches in keeping the faces clear of heavy timber and stones. Craig's Freehold.— Chesterman and Buckland are the responsible tributers for the respective sections of this property. Buckland's party have recently opened out a virgin section adjoining the original north workings. Strict attention is observed in timbering and ventilation. Goldvalue, £1,513. Twelve men employed. Kanieri Water-roce.-Tunnelling and other preparatory works connected with this extensive water-supply scheme are being actively pushed forward. Siphon and pipe ironwork ordered from Belgium will be placed in position directly on arrival. Stenhouse, Crawford, and Noble.— Continuance of payable returns is assured with the large auriferous-ore reserve in sight. Various applications have recently been made m close proximity to the drainage-tunnel. Boss. Boss United.— -This property continues to drag wearily on under the tribute system, with no definite improvement. The gold-yield was valued at £1,222 ss. Mont dOr —Credit is due this energetic company for the legitimate and enterprising system by which developments and all working appliances are kept in advance. Ihe returns (£3,557 19s. 6d.) show a decrease of £1,748 12s. 6d. as compared with the previous year. Waiho. Westland Hydraulic Sluicing Company .-Beyond a few minor works in road-construction and otherwise, developments are not important. Sinking and boring for dredging purposes employ about twenty men in the fiat. Okarito Forks.— This locality affords a living to six men, and a few more up near the lake. Wataroa.— Arthur and party are still working in the gorge, but non-construction of the Bluff Eoad is the cause of much waiting. Lake lanthe and Duffer's Creek.— Three men find a living in each district, so far; but prospects look bad when Chinese cannot live. Five-mile and Waikwpuku.-Meven beach-combers make a fair living, and at Oamaru four miners are having a good time in the terrace about four miles inland. Sinkings and borings for dredging prospects have been put down in several parts ot this region. B—C. 3.
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DREDGING. Although dredge-construction makes satisfactory progress in point of volume, it unhappily occurs that the variable ratios of success, as indicated by the number of suspensions and liquidations officially catalogued in the mining returns, definitely show that the factor of profit in favour of the investor cannot be regarded as either universal or constant; but, speaking impartially on the merits of our best-designed and most-fully-equipped West Coast dredges, it is gratifying to state that the returns obtained therefrom compare favourably with those in other parts of the colony. A study of the various causes and conditions of recent failures that have come directly under our notice suggests a few practical precautions useful to the mining investor as a means of protecting him against the evils of haphazard speculation, .tending also to minimise loss in future operations, and quite indispensable if gold-dredging is to figure as a legitimate industry in the mining records of New Zealand. These requirements are as follows: (1.) Prior to dredgeconstruction it is essential that the deep and coarse auriferous-gravel deposits peculiar to our river-bed and lake-bed formations should be systematically prospected by shaft-sinking in preference to the undesirable system of boring hitherto practised. (2.) It is also necessary to provide an increased ratio of strength in steanf-power and working mechanical parts, combined with greater gold-saving-table capacity, with effective clean-water supply, as the shortage of these essentials not only involves the most ruinous monetary results incidental to the industry, but incurs extraordinary expenditure in repairs and loss of time, which, with properly equipped dredges, would otherwise go into the pockets of the investor. It is pleasing to note that the bonus of £2,000 promised by the Hon. the Minister of Mines, with the object of encouraging the invention of such appliances as will successfully save gold from black sand in New Zealand, has already stimulated scientific research in this direction, and that samples of these sands sent from the Charleston Mining District have been forwarded to eminent Continental schools for experimental treatment. If the results are economically successful, it will be the means of inaugurating a new era in the history of New Zealand mining. With regard to the working-conditions of modern dredges, comfort and safety to workmen have received the engineer's attention, and the strict observance with respect to the equipment appliances and fencing, in compliance with Begulation 83, have minimised the risk of accident. Nevertheless, six accidents—two of them fatal—have been reported from this district ; but all of these except Stringer's case, which was a pure accident, were clearly due to rashness and carelessness on the part of the persons injured. ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Quartz-mines. Taitapu Golden Ridge. —(27/3/1901): Patrick Byder (miner) had his leg broken by a falling prop in the working-face. Golden Fleece Mine, Reefton. —(3/6/1901) : Whilst Adolph Peterson (miner) was working on No. 2 stopes he sustained serious spinal injuries, which terminated fatally on the 14th September. Dredging. Fatal. Mokoia. —(22/4/1901) : William Tomitily, transport boatman, was drowned while crossing the river with Tobin and King at change of shift, the boat capsizing by some unknown cause. Verdict, " Accidental death." Golden Point, Wakamarina. —(9/9/1901) : A watchman named Martin Eliott was dragged round the main driving-shaft and killed. Verdict, " Accidental death ; no blame attachable to any one." Non-fatal. Waipuna. —(23/2/1901): Alfred Ahearn (not an employee) lost two fingers by the winch cogwheels. Mokoia, —(20/5/1901) : William King had his leg broken by jumping into a coil of rope while it was being tailed out. Blame was not attachable to any person. Wareatea. —(30/10/1901) : Alfred Stringer had his. leg broken whilst hauling in a large stone off the buckets. Pactolus, Nelson Creek. —(29/11/1901): Whilst James Smeaton was climbing up the gantry he overbalanced and grasped the ladder-line while it was in motion, severely crushing his left hand in" the block, and necessitating amputation of three fingers.
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Particulars of Dredges at Work or in Course of Construction, furnished by the Inspectors of Mines for the Marlborough, Nelson, and West Coast Districts, up to 31st December, 1901.
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Name of Company or Dredge. Locality of Operations Stage of Operations. Name of Dredgemaster. ' Na ™ Designed by Name of Secretary. Date of Inspector's Visit, and Notes. Top Valley Greek. Onadurman Wakamarina River. Golden Point .. Wliangapeka. Whangapeka and Sherry Westport. Stony Greek Wareatea Fairdown Buller River. El Dorado Rocklands Premier Welcome Buller Junction Old Diggings Mokoia Four-river Plain Kohikohi Top "Valley Wakamarina Whangapeka Fairdown Working Building Erecting machinery .. Working Pontoons launched .. 0. Nicholson W. D. Turnbull J. Denford .. Not appointed D. Mitchell.. W. Ensor A. Murray J. Denford G. Griffiths .. •• F. W. Marchant Cutten Bros. .. R. Sheriff E. Roberts .. Cutten Bros. .. F. W. Payne .. E. Bucholz Louis Bright W. Bell A. M. Boulton .. C. H. Statham .. J. A. Sligo 14/9/01 : Light-lines, boat-hooks, and bowfencing required. 16/9/01 : Fencing wanted on cog-wheels and main shaft. 24/9/01 : Erecting machinery. Not viaited. 30/10/01: Now standing. 30/10/01: Building at a standstill. Berlin's Rocklands White Cliffs Inangahua Junction Three-channel Flat Berlin's Three-channel Flat Murchison Upper Buller Building Working Started work Working W. J. Inwood A. Smith .. C. G. Morel.. S. Smeaton.. D. Logan W. L. Cookston J, Bunting .. B. Mills .. H. Batchelor .. R. Lawrenoe .. H. Findlayson Cutten Bros. .. J. Bishop Cutten Bros. .. S. J. Branigan .. J. W. Jack J. M. Butt E. MacRae P. N. Kingswell.. T. H. Lee T>. Crawford J. W. Jack H. J. Logan Erecting machinery. 6/12/01: Rules posted, and fully equipped. 6/12/01: Rules posted. Bow-fencing required. Not visited. Regulations sent. 6/12/01: All regulations complied with. Operations now suspended. 7/12/01: Rules posted. Dredge fully equipped. 27/9/01: Standing. J. Bunting in charge. 24/9/01: Light-lines, boat-hooks, and fencing at various parts of machinery and pontoons required. 27/9/01: Standing. , Thomas Bell in charge. StandingWorking J. Bishop Buller Dredges Boatman's. Al .. Reeves's Proprietary Grey Valley. Great Lead Standing D. Clark .. Cutten Bros. .. P. N. Kingswell.. Redman's Creek .. Boatman's Creek .. Working R. Liddicoat R. Scott W. Rollitt H. A. Bruce Grey River Building H. Orkney .. F. W. Payne .. R.T. Wheeler, jun. 11/10/01: Pontoons built and ready for maohinery. 6/10/01: Light boat not arrived; otherwise fully equipped. 11/10/01: Pontoons ready for maohinery. Totara Flat Dufier's Creek Working B. Naylor .. W. Campbell .. J. Bishop G. Ross Golden Banner Daylight No Town Caledonia Maori Gully .. Grey River Ahaura River No Town Creek .. Grey River Stillwater Creek .. Contract let Building Ready to start Working A. Cowans .. J. C. Ray .. H. Dimond.. G. Dixon J. Stewart F. W. Payne .. Cutten Bros. .. R. A. Mathewson G. Blyth W. Hoisted A. T. Finch F. W. Ponsonby 13/12/01 : Nearly ready to start operations. Now standing. 11/12/01: Boat-hooks, lines, and buoys required. 14/10/01: Pontoons ready for erection of machinery. F. W. Payne .. E. Roberts Callaghan's Callaghan's Creek.. Ready to start work .. D. Clark .. Cutten Bros. .. P. N. Kingswell.. Ruby Greek Mosquito Stony and Mosquito Erickson's Reward Grey River Mosquito Creek Nelson Creek Orwell Creek Working W. Cormack C. H. Fleming Not appointed G. Cunningham J. Roberts J. Bishop McGeorge Bros. G. Ross C. D. Morpeth .. A. Peroth J. A. Sligo 11/10/01: Not yet started work. Rules sent. J. McNaig E. Roberts 12/10/01: Fencing required on ladder-way to well-hole. 12/10/01: Regulations sent. Various fencings required. 11/10/01: Master promised to comply with regulations. 12/10/01: Light-lines, boat-hooks, and wellhole fencing required. 15/10/01: Nothing further done. 14/10/01: Pontoons ready for machinery. Orwell Greek A. E. Morel J. Simpson Grey River Consolidated Grey River D. Marshall H. F. M. Mercer Ahaura Ahaura River N. K. Sligo .. •• n • • Moonlight Trafalgar Westland Watterson's Consols Moonlight Creek .. Nelson Creek Grey River Ahaura River Building pontoons .. F. W. Payne .. D. Leslie J. A. Sligo Building T. Tymons .. E. Roberts w • • 12/10/01: Pontoons built, ready for machinery. 14/10/01: Pontoons ready for launching. 13/12/01: Dredge fully equipped, and regulations strictly observed. Victory Pactolus Nelson Creek Building pontoons .. Working J. Cowan F. W. Payne .. Cutten Bros. .. P. N."Kingswell.. J. Cowan ..
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Name of Company or Dredge. i Locality of Operations. Stage of Operations. Name of Dreagemaster. (Name of Engineer in Charge. Designed by Name of Secretary. Date of Inspector's Visit, and Notes. Nelson Creek Nelson Creek Working A. R. Edmonds A. Warne Cutten Bros. .. W. Hoisted 13/12/01: Dredge fully equipped, and regulations strictly observed. Beached. Operations are recently suspended. Not visited since work was resumed under new company. 10/10/01: Equipments not satisfactory. 15/10/01: Pontoons ready for machinery. 14/10/01: Pontoons nearly ready for launching. Ready to start; erecting machinery. 14/12/01 : Pontoons nearly ready for maohinery. 14/12/01: Ready to start work. Rules served. 14/12/01 : Fencing at well-hole and boathooks required. 4/11/01 : Require winch-wheels covering, lightline and buoys for bow, hooks for boat and punt, and gangway over well-hole. 12/12/01: Generally overhauled and fairly well equipped. 12/12/01: All work suspended at present. 12/12/01: Standing. Now working under new owners. 12/12/01: Standing. 12/12/01 : Erecting machinery. Ford's Creek Grey Eiver Grey River Extended .. Ford's Creek Grey River Beached Working Standing G. Buohan C. Curtis A. Crompton H. Green C. Curtis F.W. Payne '.'. K. S. Ramsay .. G. S. Cray " .. T. Callender North Beach Duke of Wellington Aldinga Garibaldi Kangaroo North Beach Grey River Nelson Creek Moonlight Creek .. Red Jack's Creek .. Working Building Building pontoons Ready for machinery Building pontoons .. S. C. Fache A. Latimer Cutten Bros. .. E. Roberts .. F. W. Payne .. E. Roberts J. Bishop L. G. Reeves D. Leslie J. M. Butt Shellback Red Jack's Saltwater Creek. Leviathan Caledonia Creek Red Jack's Creek .. Working William Cormack E. Swan C. Clark E. Roberts Cutten Bros. .. J. A. Dugan E. Morton Saltwater Creek .. D. Sutherland H. E. Judd .. F. W. Payne .. H. F. M. Mercer New River. Maori Queen New River J. Mailer A. Cowie Cutten Bros. .. B. Tyerman Maori King Marsden No. 3 Marsden No. 1 New River Cornwall Teremakau and Tributaries. Teremakau Greenstone Three-mile .. Building Standing Erecting machinery .. G. L. Tacon in charge E. Roberts Cutten BroB. .. J. Bishop A. C. McGeorge W. K. Middleton G. H. McLean .. H. A. Bruce E. A. Wioks G. Duncan Teremakau River .. Greenstone Creek .. Ready for machinery Working J. G. Donaldson C. Morrish Cutten Bros. .. W. T.Monkman.. N. O. White 14/6/01: Pontoons floated. 12/12/01: Hooks and light-lines required in boat. 12/12/01: Master promised to provide certain requirements. 28/10/01: Pontoons floated and ready for machinery. 12/12/01: Everything in a satisfactory condition. 25/10/01: Boat and light-lines and bow-fencing required. 22/10/01: Boat-hooks and well-fencing required. 22/10/01: Standing. 22/10/01: Erecting machinery. 22/10/01 : Regulations all complied with. 22/10/01: Standing. 22/10/01: ErectiDg machinery. Greenstone Creek W. Robertson F. H. Labatt '.. Greenstone Gold w • ■ Ready for machinery Leslie Reynolds D. Larnach Greenstone Junction .. Working J. Bennet Cutten Bros. .. W. Bernard Stafford- Waimea Rauhau Creek. Hauhau Hokitika. Perry's Reward Woodstock Hokitika River Mahinapua Dry Dredge Great Woodstock Waimea Creek Blue Spur, Hokitika Tucker Flat Hokitika River Standing Building Working Standing Placing machinery on pontoons Building pontoons .. F. Sutherland J. W. Cox .. R. Williams .. F. W. Payne .. J. Bishop E. Roberts F. W. Pavne .. Cutten Bros. .. J. Bishop F. W. Payne .. C. C. Richards .. J. W. Jack J. D. Lynch James Bond W. Rollitt J. W. Jack W. E. C. Reid .. Lake Mahinapua .. Shenandoah Creek.. D. McGregor J. Howat in charge .. D. McGregor .. Commissioner's Fla , ; Ross. Kanieri E. Roberts H. A. Bruce Pontoons nearly ready for launching. Totara Day Dawn Totara River Donnelly's Creek .. Standing Placing machinery on pontoons Ditto .. J. Crombie in charge Cutten Bros. .. G. Ross W. Hoisted 8/10/01: Still standing. 8/10/01 : Erecting machinery. Prince of Wales Kohinoor Okarito Sbenandoah Donaghue's Creek.. Mikonui River Okarito Lagoon Kanieri .. Nearly completed Building D. C.McMath.. G. H. McKenzie F. W. Payne .. J. Bishop G. H. McKenzie T. W. Bruce G. Ross G. C. Carter 8/10/01: Erecting machinery. Now working and well equipped. 28/11/01: Building operations suspended. 6/12/01 : Erecting machinery.
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HTEMATITE-PAINT WORKS.
Washbourne Bros.' Parapara Hcematite-paint Works. —The output of dry paint was 75 tons, showing an increase of 15 tons on last return. This energetic company has also recently started the grinding of haematite in oil, and 4 tons of the paint thus prepared, and put up in drums and small tins, has already been put on the market with success. About 2 tons of Kanapa knife-polish has been manufactured during the year, and the sale of this article promises to increase. This company's paint is meeting with a ready demand in the Australian States, and efforts are being made to open a market for it in India. I have, &c, B. Tennent, TheUnder-Secretary, Mines Department, Wellington. Inspector of Mines.
Mr. B. E. Green, Inspector of Mines, to the Under-Secretary, Mines Department, Wellington. Sm,— Office of Inspector of Mines, Dunedin, 7th April, 1902. I have the honour to submit the following report on the quartz-mines, alluvial mines, and gold-dredges visited during the year ending the 31st December, 1901 : — QUABTZ-MINING. Shotoveb. Achilles Gold-mines, Bullendale (P. J. Donnal, superintendent; J. Edwards, manager). — (22/4/1901): The incline shaft has been extended to No. 7 level, which has been driven 218 ft. east and 150 ft. west. At 25 ft. from the shaft a winze has been sunk 50 ft. on No. 7 level east, and at 140 ft. west a winze is down 25 ft. No. 6 level has been driven 579 ft. east and 408 ft. west, a total distance of 987 ft. on the north lode (hanging-wall). ' Almost all recent work has been done on the hanging-wall, north lode. 'The main or south lode lies on the foot-wall. The lode formation is 90 ft. wide, and quartz in sight runs from 5 ft. to 10 ft. in thickness, averaging 7 ft. Very little crosscutting has been done during the past year, the work, as stated, being confined to the north lode. Large bodies of stone have been exposed, but almost the whole of it, after careful assay, proved too poor in quality to pay expenses. The mine is standing in first-class working-order, timbering good throughout, and air-supply adequate, with the exception of No. 7 level, where the water had risen in the winze and closed the return for air; this is temporary. Owing to recent heavy rains the water-race to power-house had broken away, and pumping in the mine had to be discontinued till repairs were effected. Forty "men employed. Owing to the capital of the company being exhausted, and no promising stone in sight in the mine, the superintendent has received instructions from the London board of directors to suspend operations on the 16th May next. All hands have received notice to that effect. Shotover Gold-mining Company, Skipper's (J. B. Davis, manager).—(24/4/1901) : Low-level tunnel on west bank of Shotover River driven through hard schist to cut reef formerly worked at higher levels by the Nugget and Cornish and Gallant Tipperary Companies. The reef was struck at 1,100 ft., and at 1,300 ft. the hanging-wall came in regular and well denned, making 3 ft. of good stone, with pug on foot-wall. At 1,312 ft. a shot put in on foot-wall side exposed stone showing gold freely. The level is now 1,330 ft. from entrance ; 6 ft. of good quartz is showing in the face, gold being visible in the stone. One rise is up 54 ft., on stone all the way. Mr. Davis is confident that a permanent block of stone is being opened up. A,ir good in mine; a small fan driven by a Peltou wheel, using a quarter-head of water, is used for ventilation. 800 ft. of galvanisediron air-pipes 9 in. in diameter, balance 6 in. in diameter, are taken to bottom of rise. Good air will be obtained when communication is made with the high-level workings. The battery (which was formerly the Nugget and Cornish battery) consists of twelve heads of stamps, driven by a Pelton wheel, water for which is brought from Ballarat Creek. The race is two miles long ; the pressurepipes are carried over the Shotover Eiver; the line is 500 ft. in length, reduced from 2 ft. diameter at the head to 9 in. at the battery ; vertical pressure, 250 ft. Seven men employed. Macetown. Glenrock Consolidated (Limited). Premier Mine, Macetoivn. —(W. Patton, manager).—(26/4/1901): The face of the main incline is now 1,370 ft. from the top of the incline. The bunch of good stone recently worked in Nos. 23 and 24 rises has given out, and prospecting is being conducted in the hope that it may make again. Rises Nos. 26 and 27 are up in mullock, giving no signs of encouragement. Air good, and timbering well up to the faces. The sets in main incline are deteriorating very rapidly, and a shift of two men is kept constantly repairing and renewing. The timber used (white-birch) is very short-lived owing to dry rot. The return airway through the passes between the heads of the rises is small in area, and travelling through it is somewhat difficult. There is a heavy pressure on the ground, and, despite filling and liberal use of timber, the passes cannot be maintained full size. A new electric motor has just been landed, and is to be fitted up as a duplicate in the event of the old motor breaking down, the commutator being much worn. The concentrates are treated by cyanide. New Indian Glenrock (Wynaad) Company (Limited). —(22/11/1901) : The main incline face is now at 1,459 ft. from the top of the incline, or 2,959 ft. from daylight. The chute or shoot being worked is almost finished, and prospecting and crosscutting works are being vigorously prosecuted. The extension of the incline is shortly to be proceeded with. Timbering throughout the mine well attended to, frequent renewal being required. Air good in the travelling-ways and stopes. A
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small fall in the return airway is being cleaned up, otherwise the return is in good condition. Mr. Patton informs me that the main system (reef-formation) is 70 ft. in width between the walls, and carries three distinct reefs within, each having its own hanging- and foot-wall. The following report from the manager (Mr. Patton) gives particulars of the work, &c, for the last year:— The incline-work has been carried on almost continuously during the year, one shift of two men being employed. During the twelve months 120 ft. has been driven. The tunnel measured 1,465 ft. on the 31st December. The cost of driving this 120 ft., including all expenses, came to £384 Is. lid., or an average of £3 4s. per foot to drive and timber. The country driven through has been very hard up till the last two months, when an improvement set in, but no gold-bearing stone has as yet been discovered, the line of gold-bearing stone still being on a higher level. The tunnel has been continued at the same grade as usual (1 in 4), which so far has proved to be well under the stone. In addition to this 120 ft. drivage, a sump has been sunk 12 ft. and timbered throughout. Work in the incline face was unavoidably stopped during its construction. There has been a very great increase in the quantity of water, which has hindered the work considerably. Stopingwork has been carried on continuously during the year between passes Nos. 21 and 28. The stopes are almost worked out down to No. 26 pass. The reef has been of a very broken nature all through, and at times very difficult to trace, as it has a peculiarity of cutting out on one wall and making on another, which generally causes a very great delay in breaking stone. The reef in stopes between passes Nos. 26 and 28 is not well defined. The block of stone which we have been following during the year ran out between passes Nos. 27 and 28, but, after a considerable amount of crosscutting and prospecting, has been discovered in a crosscut between the incline and what was the bottom of the old reef, so that now, to all appearance, the top of the reef is almost where the bottom of the old block was. This disturbance in the reef has caused a delay of three months in opening stoping-ground. The new make of stone was first discovered in a crosscut from No. 28 pass, and, finding that we had not got the bottom of the stone, it was necessary to cut down the floor of the crosscut so as to -follow the stone down. This work is being pushed ahead, and it will be necessary to find the bottom of the reef before we can start our opening tunnels. The delay will be considerable owing to the hard nature of the country. The new make of stone, from what we have seen of it, looks promising, and I have good hopes that when opened up it will prove profitable. This, however, will cause a further delay of three months before a fair quantity of stoping-ground is opened up. The number of blocks of stone discovered in stoping between passes Nos. 20 and 28 are as follows: No. 1 block, between passes Nos. 20 and 23 ; No. 2 block, between passes Nos. 23 and 26; No. 3 block, between passes Nos. 26 and 28; and No. 4 (the new make lately discovered in No. 28 pass). The ventilation tunnel, which last year was started from No. 20 pass, has this year been connected with the top of the old lower stopes at No. 16 pass, thus causing a circulation of air all through the mine, except on calm hot days, when the air is a little lighter. Another cause for inferior ventilation on hot days is the great distance the air has to travel. It requires constant care and attention to keep this air-passage open, and a large amount of timber is sometimes required in repairing, in the old high level especially, and also the incline tunnel, so that at present the mine is much more expensive to work than it was a few years ago. During the year the mill ran ninety-two days (twenty-four-'hour day) twelve hours and a half. The greater part of the time fifteen heads of stamps were kept running. The supply of stone being limited, only one shift of eight hours daily could be kept going. The mill returns show a falling-off as compared with those of 1900. This is accounted for by the irregular nature of the reef and the frequent breaks. The gold from the concentrates treated by cyanide shows a decrease on that obtained last year (1900). Prom 38 tons treated bullion valued at £461 3s. 10d. was obtained. The financial result of the year's operations has not been as satisfactory as I could have wished. The mine has paid its way from start to finish, and remitted £450 to the London office. In addition to this, we have spent £384 Is. lid. on Mine-development Account, or the driving of the incline, and £49 11s. on New Plant Account, both of which works are chargeable to capital. On Mining Account—that is, rising, crosscutting, and stoping—the sum of £2,131 2s. has been spent to obtain 2,099 tons, or an average of £1 os. 3d. per ton. 2,110 tons of quartz was milled at a cost of £486 10s. 5d., or an average of 4s. 7d. per ton. 38 tons of concentrates was treated by cyanide at a total cost of £72 4s. lid., or an average of £1 18s. per ton. This average is in excess of last year's, and is accounted for by extra expense having been incurred in erecting a new precipitating-vat, and building to cover same. It has cost £323 Is. for mine-maintenance—-that is, driving for ventilation, keeping the air-passage and high-level adit (part of which is kept open for ventilation) and the main low-level adit and incline in repair. The total expenditure on revenue account for the year, all charges, amounts to £4,432 11s. 6d., an average of £2 2s. 2d. per ton mined. The total expenditure on the mine for the twelve months amounts to £4,866 4s. 5d., or an average of £2 6s. 2d. per ton mined and milled; on Insurance Account, £59 10s. 9d. ; and on Eents, Bates, and Licenses Account, £78 Is. 4d. : or a total of £137 12s. Id. was expended during the year. The Westralian and Tipperary Mines at Macetown are still closed down. Ceomwbll. Cromwell Proprietary Gold-mining Company, Bendigo. —(s/12/1901) : The mine has been standing during the year, but it is understood that negotiations are pending for working the property on an extended tribute, and the mine may be expected to soon again be placed on the list of gold-producing mines. Bendigo Tailings Syndicate, Cromwell (S. E. Brent, secretary; G. E. Thomson, A.0.5.M., manager). —(5/12/1901) : The company has been formed for the purpose of treating the tailings from the Cromwell Proprietary Gold-mining Company's battery. Experimental plane has been erected which is capable of treating 25 tons of tailings per week by the cyanide process, and with
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which it is intended to cyanide about 1,200 tons of tailings ileal , the battery. Should satisfactory results be obtained, a larger plant will be erected for the treatment of about 10,000 tons of tailings (estimated) now lying on the Lower Bendigo Plat. Ophir. Clyde Enterprise Quartz Prospecting Company, Black's (J. Crombie, manager). : —(7/6/1901) : Area of claim, 50 acres, taken up under prospecting license. An old shaft originally sunk 100 ft. deep has been put in repair, and a platform put in at 70 ft. in order to drive towards the reef, which is expected to be met with about 6 ft. in. The country-rock stands well without timber. Three men employed. EOUGH EIDGE. Bough Ridge Quartz Beef, Bough' Ridge (P. H. Perry). —(12/6/1901): No work has been done on this reef for some time. A few tons of mixed stone are stacked in the paddock behind the battery ready for trial crushing. Bald Hill Plat. White's Reef, Bald Hill Flat (B. T. Symes).—(lo/6/1901): Mr. Symes perseveres in looking for the main lode. The formation continues in regularity, and is 40 ft. between the walls. The level is now driven 400 ft. to the face. An uprise is driven 50 ft. to the intermediate level, providing good ventilation. Occasional veins of quartz are met with which carry good gold, and the owner is thereby encouraged to continue prospecting in the hope that the stringers of quartz will come together and good stone make in the solid spur, towards which the low level is being steadily advanced. Levels and rises well timbered. Stopes all carefully filled with material run in from the surface. Excelsior, Bald Hill Flat (P. W. Gray).—(ll/6/1901): The old mine on the south side is now abandoned. A shaft 40 ft. deep, 4 ft. by 3fc, has been sunk on the reef-formation, which here runs from 8 ft. to 16 ft. in width. The gold is carried in veins of decomposed quartz, from 2 ft. to 3 ft. wide, with bunches up to 9 ft. in width. The level face is 100 ft. from shaft. Timber good. Waipobi. O.P.Q. (Waipori) Gold-mines, Waipori (A. B. Inder, general manager). —(23/12/1901) : The mine has been standing for some time, pending instructions from the London board of directors. The water is kept pumped out, and repairs effected throughout the mine where necessary. The levels and travelling-ways have been retimbered, and are in good order. Black's tunnel is kept in repair as a future road for conveying timber to the stopes from the 80 ft. level. Bella BeeJ', Lammerlaiu Range, Waipori (Stewart,.McKeich, and Party). —(18/5/1901): Work has been suspended at this mine for some considerable time, pending its flotation into the hands of a larger syndicate. The stone being poor, and containing much antimony and arsenic, the present battery appliances are proving inadequate. Assays of tailings show that a large percentage of gold is being lost from the tables. Copper plates are being replaced by blanketing. (28/11/1901) : The level has been extended to 800 ft. at the face. There is said to be 5,000 tons of stone in sight, but the trial crushings made have not returned working-expenses, and it is now feared that the stone is too poor to pay. Ladders are required in the far-in passes to provide second outlet to the surface. Ventilation excellent; a " digger's regulator " is being used on the upcast rise to reduce aircurrent. The reef in its course crosses a deep gully, and danger might arise from waterspouts which occur in the Lammerlaw Eanges, or from water-races breaking away, if the stone be taken out to the surface in the gully. I pointed this out to both Stewart and McKeich, and they appeared to realise the danger. Cox's Reef, Lammerlaw Range, Waipori. —(lB/5/1901) : Not working for a considerable time. Not visited. TUAPEKA. Grey's Gully Reef, Tuapeha. —(26/10/1901) : William Hogg and party are engaged prospecting on a reef in Grey's Gully. The drive is in about 100 ft., and has exposed a small block of stone underfoot. A crosscut to the hanging-wall met with no stone. The quartz is evidently not of a permanent character. (26/12/1901): The reef is now abandoned. Waitahuna. Table Hill Quartz-mining Company, Table Hill, Waitahuna (C. P. Meyer, general manager). —(22/5/1901) : At present engaged driving a level to cut the line of reef behind the old workings. This level is dry and well timbered, and has been advanced about 2 chains. Three men are employed at present. At the time of my visit no work was going on, owing to the manager having met with an accident on the previous day while heating water for thawing dynamite which had been previously used for that purpose (for particulars, see appendix, " Accidents"). A ten-head stamper battery driven by water-power is on the ground. Milton. Canada Quartz Reef, Milton (J. Lawson, proprietor).—(23/5/1901) : Private enterprise, worked by Mr. Lawson. When I visited the mine I found two men engaged pumping water at the mouth of the old adit, one of whom informed me that Mr. Lawson intends to sink a dip drive through the old stopes at an angle of 1 in 3, with the object of picking up the solid reef beyond the old workings. The mouth of the drive where the men were at work was entirely unsupported by timber, and several tons of rock which had recently slipped down from the hillside was lying where it fell on the out-bye side of the man pumping. The timbering of the drive (which was in 25 ft.) was altogether inadequate, and, as there was no supply of timber on the surface, I cautioned the
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men against continuing work in the drive until adequate timber was provided. Mr Lawson was away from the mine, and I subsequently wrote him on the 27th May, pointing out that the timber used in the drive was inadequate, and requiring him to have an ample supply kept on the ground as the proposed drive through the old workings will in all probability require to be close-timbered inree men employed. Mackab's. Bonanza Quartz-mine, Macrae's (L. 0. Beal, owner; T. Kinvig, manager). —(1/11/1901) : Work is being pushed on in the top level on the foot-wall, where some good stone has been obtained. The quartz is trucked 250 ft. from the face, dropped down a pass 200 ft., and trucked 1,550 ft. along the low level to an aerial tramway, which conveys it to the battery. In common with other batteries in the district, scarcity of water is retarding crushing operations. Throughout the mine m the levels ana passes, the timber is in a good state, all the travelling-ways are in good order, and the ventilation is good. When the upper-level stone is stoped back a good chute of stone will remain in the 60 ft. level ready for future requirements. A solid block of stone is beinleft overhead under the creek-bed for safety in the event of heavy rain or floods. Mine well con* ducted. Eules posted, and explosives carefully handled. Crushing plant consists of a3 ft Huntingdon mill, with pyrites grinding-pan. H. N. Mills and Horn, Macrae's.— (l9/6/1901) : Quartz continues to be taken from Griffiths Bros private property a small royalty per ounce of gold won being paid. Until a few months ago all the stone was taken from a " blow " on the surface, but, this being now worked out a drive has been put in, and the reef found near the surface. I observed a certain amount of carelessness m v- v m ? nDer I , m ° dynamite and detonators were lying exposed at the mouth of the drive to which 1 drew Messrs. Mills attention, and warned them to be more careful in future (2/11/1901) ■ A quantity of surface-stone from the reef near Golden Point is being put through the battery from which fair returns are being obtained. 11 ? Ud G ' D ° naldson > Golden Point Company, Macrae's.— (l9/6/1901) : Until quite recently all the stone was obtained from surface-workings. A drive recently put in is now 200 ft to the face, and the reef is being driven to at several points. The timber used is light, and not of a durable quality. This mine continues to produce a quantity of scheelite, which is found associated with the gold-bearing quartz. Ounce Beef Macrae's (J. Williams, manager).—(l 9/6/1901) : The surface-stone having given out a drive has been put in about 80 ft., and quartz stoped out above and below. The reef lies flat and consequently the stone requires a deal of handling in the passes. The width between the walls of the reef is from d ft. to 4 ft., the hanging-wall being broken and heavy. (1/11/1901) : J Eoberts manager. The battery is idle through scarcity of water both for driving and for the tables The stone m the face continues to carry fair gold, but is pinching somewhat. Three men employed Golden Bar Gold-minmg Company, Macrae's (J. H. Cunningham, manager).—(l 9/6/1901) : A party of working shareholders are busy erecting a ten-head battery, and bringing in water for the steam-boiler and tables. There is a large body of low-grade stone in sight, which can be mined easily, and the battery should be kept going continuously for some time. (1/11/1901) : A Pbelan manager Since last visit a portable engine and boiler have been placed in position for driving stamps; but owing to scarcity of water the battery is at present idle. Six men are getting out quartz by stripping off 5 ft. to 6 ft. of overburden. . Alfred Davies, Stonebwm.— (l9/6/1901) : Low-grade stone taken from the surface on freehold land, ihe nve-head battery is driven by water-power, and, owing to the scarcity of water crushingis somewhat intermittent. (1/11/1901) : A good-sized dam for water-storage is being built One man taking out quartz. Stripping, 3 ft. Average width of lode, 3 ft. Water-supply still short. Hyde. Mount Eighlay Quartz-mining Company, Hyde (T. Brown, mine-manager) —(22/5/1901): The incline is down about 170 ft. Two levels on each side are driven about 50 ft. in stone from 6ft to 9 it. thick, which is all taken out and put through the battery. Not much filling is used and a section of worked ground where not fallen is all standing on timber, which, however, is plentifully used. The ground is good, standing, and strong. The battery is stopped for water in dry weather and work m the mine is not constant for that reason. The stone is easily got. The battery paddock is full, and many tons are lying in the mine ready for filling away. The self-acting incline tramway to battery is having a new rope put on. Nine men employed. A few Chinese working on the Mareburn, same as last year. Barewood. Barewood Gold-mining Company, Barewood.— (2l/5/1901) : The Anglo-Continental Company's No. 3 shaft at Scott s Gully had been sunk on the reef to 200 ft., from which point levels were driven 120 ft. east and 150 ft. west. Payable stone was found on the foot-wall at 50 ft west but no rises were put up on that level. At 130 ft. from surface (below which the shaft and levels are now standing full of water) levels had been driven 100 ft. east, off which two rises had been put up stone taken out, and stopes filled up. The west 130 ft. level had been driven 40 ft and then stopped. The shaft is 14 ft. by 4 ft., divided into three compartments, two for winding and one for ladder-way Mr Walters, acting for the Barewood Gold-mining Company, had the water pumped out to the ldOtt. level, and the west level was continued. After driving 30 ft., or at 70 ft from the shaft a body of stone 4 ft. wide was struck, which has been driven on 30 ft., and the stone at the face shows 6 ft. wide, of good quality, and gold-bearing throughout. A rise is up 14 ft in the stone, and an underlay shaft at surface is down 30 ft. in similar stone, proving the existence of a good block. The stone on the foot-wall gives very good crushing results, and is payable throughout thus giving the mine a new lease of life. Extensive prospecting on surface on outcrop proves permanence
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of payable stone. A battery, five head of stamps, 700 lb. weight each, has been erected. An 8-horse portable Marshall engine is used for motive power, and the plant is in good working-order. (21/5/1901) : Water is scarce in dry weather, and the battery is consequently not kept going full time. Twelve men employed. Treatment of the concentrates by cyanide is under contemplation. James Hunter, Button.—( 22/5/1901): Shaft sunk 60 ft. on a reef 3 ft. to 4 ft. wide. Trial crushings of the stone realised at the rate of 13 dwt. to 18 dwt. of gold per ton at the Dunedin School of Mines battery. A low level is now being driven on the reef towards the shaft from a deep gully. (Not visited; information from Mr. Hunter.) HYDRAULTG AND ALLUVIAL MINING. SUTTON. Hibernia Sluicing Company, Sutton (Donald Ross, manager).—(2o/5/1901): Area of claim, 20 acres, of which about acres have been worked during the past five years. The face is from 30ft. to 37 ft. high. A cut 10 chains long by from 1\ chains to 3 chains wide has been taken up on top of the false bottom. The deposit is mainly light gravels, interlaminated with bars of sandy clay. The wash on the false bottom runs from 5 ft. to 7 ft. in thickness, and carries numerous pebbles of rounded white quartz, with unusually large quantities of black sand and small "maoris." The reef can be seen cropping up on each side of the cut, and the manager is now preparing to sluice the false bottom, which is expected to be 20 ft. deep in the centre of the gutter. The gold, which is fine but " shotty " in character, is easily saved at the head of the tail-race in a run of boxes 66 ft. long by 2 ft. 9 in. wide. Angle-iron ripples are used, with cocoanut-matting beneath. The tailrace from the lower end of the boxes to the tunnel-mouth, some 7 chains, was recently washed up for only 4 oz. of gold after a run of eighteen months. The basin being rock-bound on the river side of the claim, and water for elevating not being available, a tail-race tunnel 377 ft. long was brought in from high-water mark on the Taieri River, and was driven 111 ft. in very hard blue reef. Then an uprise at an angle of 1 in \\ was put up 27 ft. to softer strata, in which the tunnel was continued for 266 ft., when it struck the old river-bed in the claim. The tailings run freely, a block in the tunnel being unknown. Water is brought in eight miles from the Sutton Stream in an open race. There are two siphons across the Sutton—one being 3 chains, the other 4 chains long—and 40 chains of pipes 18 in. in diameter carry the water across the valley of the Taieri River into the claim. Water is plentiful, and work carried on all the year round. Six men employed. Milton. Canada Alluvial, Milton. —(23/5/1901): Five men fossicking on old diggings. Manuka Greek. Stewart's Sluicing Claim, Manuka Greek. —(23/5/1901) : A ground-sluicing claim worked by one man. Owing to the small quantity of water available (viz., two heads), work is intermittent. The water is stored in a small dam and conveyed to the nozzle through 260 ft. of pipes. The material operated on is very free, and is discharged into a gully leading down to the Manuka Creek. For some time there has been friction between the claiinholder and farmers lower down on account of the dirty water from the claim. At the time of my visit the pipe-line was being shifted so as to drive the tailings into an adjoining gully. Waitahuna.
German Flat Hydraulic Sluicing and Elevating Company, Waitahuna (A. Sutherland, manager). —(24/5/1901) : A private company, consisting mainly of working shareholders. As the gold is-not distributed over the whole area of the claim, the workings are confined to a narrow strip of deep ground. The face varies from 12 ft. to 18 ft. in depth. Pressure, about 150-ft. Height of lift, 20 ft. The material is discharged over 60 ft. of boxes provided with ripples and cocoanut-matting. A race from Bungtown Creek, four miles long, brings about thirteen heads of water to the claim. The pressure-pipes range from 24 in. to 7 in. in diameter. Four men employed. Upper German Flat Hydraulic Sluicing and Elevating Company, Waitahuna. —(24/5/1901) : Sluicing claim, worked -by a party of working shareholders. Claim flooded out at the time of my visit, and the men being engaged on the race I did not see them. Three men employed. Quitter and Sons, Waitahuna Gully. —(2l/5/1901) : Small private hydraulic-sluicing plant in Waitahuna Gully. Head-race ten miles long, carries two heads to the storage-dam, from which four heads are brought to the claim. Pressure-pipes, 500 ft. ; pressure, 75 ft. Height of lift, 20 ft., with 42 ft. of boxes provided with riffles and cocoanut-matting for gold-saving. Present claim is about worked out. Three men employed. Thomson and Party (Norwegian Company), Waitahuna Gully (C. Thomson, manager).— (21/5/1901): Hydraulic sluicing and elevating claim. Race, forty miles, brought from the Waitahuna heights. Five heads of water are in use on the claim, with a pressure of 300 ft. The material is lifted 26 ft., and discharged over 120 ft. of boxes fitted with angle-iron ripples and perforated plates on cocoanut-matting. This company has 6,000 ft. of pressure-pipes, varying from 22 in. to 7 in. The bottom is very hard schist, which is also uneven. I understand this company has not much ground left for working. Five to ten men employed. Sailors' Gully Hydraulic Sluicing Company, Waitahuna Gully (A. Barr, manager). — (22/5/1901) : This company is treating old worked ground, with occasional patches of solid. The ground averages about 6 ft. in depth. Water is brought in about twenty miles from the Waitahuna heights. Pressure, 200 ft.; and height of lift, 20 ft. Six to seven men usually employed. The rock bottom is very hard and uneven.
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Golden Orescent Hydraulic Elevating Company, Wether stone's (W. Smythe, manager). — (17/5/1901) : Adjoining top end of Golden Eise Claim. Opening out new workings on the side of the flat. Working on a false bottom of cement. Golden Rise Hydraulic Elevating Company, Wether stone's (F. Whelan, manager).—(l 7/5/1901): Elevating old ground on Wetherstone's Flat. During the past year the plant has been shifted about half a mile lower down the flat, the top end of the claim being worked out. Average depth of ground is 14 ft.; false bottom of cement. Head-race to dam, seven miles ; race from dam to penstock, five miles. Five heads of water at the claim, for which 4,000 ft. of pipes, varying from 18in. to 9 in., are in use. Height of lift, 24 ft.; pressure, 300 ft., vertical head. Material passes over 96 ft. of boxes fitted with angle-iron ripples and perforated plates on top of cocoanut-matting for gold-saving. Five men usually employed. TuAPEKA. Blue Spur and Gabriel's Gully Consolidated Gold-mining Company (J. H. Jackson, general manager; J. Qren, mine-manager).—(26/10/1901): Work is being conducted on the usual lines, which have proved satisfactory in the past. Great care is exercised in regard to the safety of the men employed. On the Blue Spur side of the cement-deposit operations have been carried right back to the boundary. Thirty-five men are engaged. Local Industry Gold-mining Company, Gabriel's Gully (S. Johnstone). —(26/10/1901): The upper claim being nearly worked out, the water-race is being extended in readiness to have the plant removed to command ground lower down the gully. Kitto and Party's Hydraulic Sluicing and Elevating Company, Munro's Gully. —(26/10/1901): The claim is held and worked by a private party of shareholders. Elevating is still being conducted in the old Blue Spur tailings, which will probably last about another year, when operations will be started in the cement. Elevating, 75 ft. ; length of run of boxes, 120 ft. Seven men engaged. Mills and Party's Hydraulic Sluicing and Elevating Company, Munro's Gully. —(26/10/1901) : The company is working old alluvial diggings ground previously turned over in Tuapeka Creek. Owing to shortage of water-supply only two men are presently engaged on day-shift. Waipoei. Golden Key Hydraulic Elevating Company, Mitchell's Flat, Waipori (J. Gare, manager).—■ (17/5/1901): Private enterprise, consisting of four working shareholders. The water and ground were previously held by the Golden Key Gold-mining Company, and abandoned by them. 600 ft. of pipe-line, working under a low pressure. Height of lift, 10 ft., the material being carried over 45 ft. of boxes provided with Venetian ripples and perforated plates for saving the gold. The ground worked consists of 15 ft. of clay and about 6 in. of wash, lying on rock bottom. Four men employed. Farrell's Deep Lead, Waipori (George Gare, manager). —(20/5/1901) : Working terrace ground on private property leased from Mr. Cotton under arrangement of acreage rent and royalty on gold won. The races total about fifty miles in length, and carry about eight heads of water to the claim. The bottom is very uneven, and the face—which averages about 12 ft.—is intersected by hard bands. Height of lift, 30 ft.; length of boxes, about 48 ft., with Venetian ripples. An elevator is also in position for working the deep ground out toward the river. Five men employed. Lammerlaw Greek Hydraulic Gold-mining Company, Waipori (W. E. S. Knight, manager). — (18/5/1901): A claim on the Lammerlaw Creek above its junction with the Nardoo Creek. Eace, sixteen miles, carrying eight heads of water. With 250 ft. pressure, the material is lifted 27 ft., and discharged over 54 ft. of tables provided with Venetian ripples and perforated plates. Six men are usually employee! on the claim, but this number is increased when cleaning up the bottom, which is all picked and scraped. The face consists of 10 ft. of clay and 18 in. of wash. Sew Kew and Party, Lammerlaw Creek, Waipori. —(lB/5/1901) : Claim adjoining upper end of Lammerlaw Creek Claim. Worked by a party of Chinamen. Eace, seven miles from Timber Gully. Pressure. 180 ft.; height of lift, 20 ft. ; length of boxes, 46 ft.; length of pressure-pipes, 2,080 ft., varying from 11 in. to 7 in. in diameter. Three men usually employed; working two shifts daily. The water-supply being limited, it is stored the remaining eight hours. Six men employed. Bakery Flat Sluicing Company, Upper Waipori (J. T. Johnston, manager). —(18/5/1901) : This company has in use a total length of seventy miles of races. Five heads of water are brought in from Deep Creek, a distance of twenty-six miles, the remainder coming from Burnt Creek. The water is conveyed across Stony Creek by a siphon 680 ft. in length. This company also has a temporary lease of the Bella Beef race, carrying five heads of water. The number of heads of water in use varies from ten to thirty. The face is about 16 ft. deep, with 2 ft. of wash on the bottom. Pressure, 300 ft. vertical; lift, 30 ft. There are in use 3,000 ft. of pressure-pipes, varying from 15 in. to 9 in. in diameter. Gold-saving appliances, 60 ft. of boxes fitted with ripples and perforated plates on cocoanut-matting. Eight men employed. O'Brien and Party, Golden Point, Upper*Waipori (J. Claffey, manager). —(18/5/1901) : This company a short time ago shifted the plant- about two miles further down the riyer, and up to the present have little more than one paddock taken out. Five heads of water are brought from Stony Creek, a distance of eight miles. Face consists of 10 ft. of river-gravel, with a 2 ft. layer of clay on the top. The material is elevated 22 ft., under 160 ft. pressure. Pressure-pipes have a total length of 2,200 ft., and are reduced from 15 in. to 7 in. diameter at the claim. The boxes have the ordinary Venetian ripples and matting for saving the gold. Five men employed.
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Post-office Creek Gold-mining Company, Verterburn, Waipori (J. E. Parker, manager).— (20/5/1901) : This company is at present working terrace ground on the Verterburn, half a mile above the old claim. The area of the claim is 59 acres. One race, carrying four heads of water, is eight miles long, and another, one mile and a half, carries three heads. Pressure-pipes consist of I,oooft. of 15in. diameter, 100 ft. of 11 in., and 100 ft. of 9in. pipes; pressure, 130 ft.; height of lift, 18 ft. Working on false bottom. Five men usually employed. Pearsall and Munro, Verterburn, Waipori. —(20/5/1901) : A private hydraulic-sluicing plant. Eace, seven miles, carrying five heads of water. 1,600 ft. of pressure-pipes; height of lift, 23 ft. Face consists of 5 ft. of overlying clay and 30 ft. of gravel. Four men employed. Fortification Hydraulic Sluicing Company, Bed Swamp, Lammerlaiu Ranges. —(lB/5/1901) : A prospecting plant on the Fortification Creek, a branch of the Teviot Creek. The claim includes the upper end of a large flat. Water-rights consist of one right to twelve heads from the Teviot, and in another right to seventeen heads from the same creek. The claim is situated below the Government dam-site on the Teviot Swamp. The water is brought in four miles and a half. Pressure, 500 ft. Pipe-line consists of 200 ft. of 13 in. pipes and 800 ft. of 9 in. pipes. The sinking plant consists of a small jet swivel pump, with a 9 in. dirt-pipe, the jet being If in. and throat 4-| in. A small hydrant with If in. tip is used. Up-to-date sinking has been carried on down to 15 ft., but nothing payable has been met with. On account of its altitude this claim will be closed down about four months during the winter. Beaumont. Champion Hydraulic Sluicing and Dredging Company, Beaumont (J. Fahey, manager).— (28/5/1901) : Water is brought in four miles and a half from Little Beaumont Eiver. Pressure, 450 ft.; height of lift, 48ft. The material is discharged over 150 ft. of boxes provided with perforated plates, angle-iron ripples, and cocoanut-matting for gold-saving. The depth of the ground is between 40 ft. and 45 ft. About 20 ft. of the top material is sand. This is stripped off well back from the working-paddock. Bight men are employed, working two shifts. On account of the large quantity of timber in the claim, work is not carried on during the night. The long run of boxes, embracing several drops and turns, has resulted in the saving of a class of fine gold which would be otherwise lost. The ground near the river being too deep, and the drainage too heavy for hydraulic elevating, the company intends to put a dredge on to work that portion of the claim. Island Block. Island Block Sluicing and Elevating Company (W. Lake, manager).—(29/5/1901) : This claim is worked by hydraulic sluicing and elevating. The depth of ground is about 40 ft. On account , of the surface being very flat the material has to be elevated over 60 ft. to get fall for the tailings A second lift is also used at the tail to run the tailings away. Water is obtained from the Taliaburn and Fruidburn Creeks, and stored in large dams. There are six miles and a half of races, which convey the water to a penstock having an altitude of 700 ft. above the claim. The pipe-line which is over two miles long, has been considerably shortened lately, and taken a more direct route to the claim. As the lead joints in the main line were not a success, flanged joints have been substituted. The working-pressure at the claim is 210 lb. per square inch. The bottom is a very uneven schist rock. Thirteen men are employed about the claim. Since my visit a change in the management has taken place, Mr. James Nicholson succeeding Mr. Lake as mana f die and Kirkpatrick's Claim, Taliaburn— (29/5/1901) : Ground-sluicing claim on Curries Flat Water is brought in four miles from the Taliaburn Creek. 400 ft. of tunnelling was required in the construction of the race. The water is conveyed across the Clutha Eiver in 70 chains of siphon-pipes Twenty Government heads are brought in. The pressure available on Curries Flat is 340 ft The pressure-pipes vary from 19 in. to 11 in. in diameter. Average height of the face is 45 ft with about 6 ft. of wash on the bottom. The tail-races are provided with over 300 ft. of boxes fitted with perforated plates and cocoanut-matting underneath for saving the gold. Average number of men employed, seven. This flat will be worked out in a short time. Miller's Flat. Golden Bun Hydraulic Sluicing Company, Miller's Flat (P. McLoughlin, manager).— (29/5/1901) • Water is brought on the claim from a distance of seven miles. Pressure available on claim 225 ft Ground, 45 ft. to 50 ft. deep. Material is elevated 70 ft. Pipes vary from 13 in. to 7in in diameter. This company has also a dredge at work on a portion of their claim I warned the manager that for safety the sides of the paddock required to be sloped back where they were overhanging. Fourteen men employed. Roxburgh. Roxburgh Amalgamated Mining and Sluicing Company, Roxburgh (J. Waight, manager).— (30/5/1901) : A claim of 100 acres, opposite the Town of Eoxburgh. Forty-five heads of water brought in from Teviot Creek ; 550 ft. pressure. The working-pressure at the claim is 2001b. per square inch Two lifts are in position and working, while a third lift is being placed in position. The material is lifted 53 ft. through the first elevator and passed over 140 ft. of boxes From the tail of these boxes the tailings are lifted a second time a height of 20 ft. After oeing lifted through the second elevator the stuff passes over 120 ft. of boxes, and is lifted away from the tail through a2O ft lift The main line is 75 chains in length, consisting of 22 m., 18m., 15m., and 11 in. diameter pipes. Face, 55 ft. high. The gold-bearing wash averages about 5 ft. in thickness. Ihis
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proee vary from 18 in. to 9 in. diameter. The depth of the ground is about 55 ft. At the time of mfvilftThe claim was flooded owing to the high state of the Clutha Eiver. The bottom is very rough, and the heavy stones are lifted out by means of cranes. Coal Cbeek. Pleasant Valley Gold-mining Company, Goal Greek (E. George, manager) —(31/5/1901) : Baoe, seven miles from Elbow and Shingle Creeks; pressure, 220 ft. Water-supply varies from six to ten headf according to the season' The face is about 40 ft. high, and consists of ders with very little wash. A crane is used to lift the stones away from the working-face Total area of the claim, 11 acres. The company are at present ground-sluicmg, but will require to elevate to work the top end of the flat. Six men employed. Bald Hill Flat. Carroll and Lynch's Sluicing Claim, Bald Hill : Water is brought in from Gorge Creek, a distance of six miles. Six heads are at present available, but the supply vanes according to the season ; pressure, 180 ft. The top materia is slmced off and the rest is elevated about 20 ft. As in all the claims in this neighbourhood, iron boxes are used and they are found to be mare economical than wooden boxes. The wash is full of stones, which require a great deal of handling. The false bottom is a sandy clay. Five men employed. ofomnH Mitchell Bros., Bald Rill : A claim of 2 acres, which is worked systematically by ground-sluicing. The gold is saved in a tail-race paved with stones Ewinq's Sluicing Claim, Bald Hill Flat (A. MacPherson, manager).-(1/6/1901). Six heads of water are brought in from Coal Creek and Butcher's Creek, the race being our miles in length ; pressure at claim, 160 ft. vertical. The face is 20 ft. high. The material consists mamly of waterworn schist and quartz gravels, which is elevated 20 ft. and run through iron boxes. A nozzle is in position at the tail of the boxes, being required to blow away the tailings M.Nrish Last Chance Hydraulic Sluicing and Elevating Company Bald mil Flat (3. McNeish manager) -(1/6/1901) : This claim adjoins Carroll and Lynch's. Seven heads of water are brought in twenty miles from Shingle Creek ; pressure, 300 ft. Face, 30 ft. m depth. Nine men employed. (12/12/1901) : Shifting pressure-pipes to command ground ahead. Livingstone. F Christian, Hydraulic Claim, Livingstane.-(27fi/1901) : Mr. Christian now owns the Mosquito Company's water-race. The race is brought in twenty-five miles from the Forks on the southern branch of the Maerewhenua Eiver, with a right to twelve heads of water. Plant in use, UOOft. of piping, ranging from 18 in. to 9 in. in diameter. Pressure, 200 ft. vertical head; elevator lifting 20 ft. Three men at work. . The Pipe Company, Livingstone.-{27 J '6/1901): Five parties of working miners banded together to put a siphon over the head of Golden Gully. Three heads of water are bought from Mr Christian, and one head and a half from Mr. Cook. F. Bottmg and party have a small hydraulic-elevating plant working under a low pressure. The other members of the Pipe Company are engaged n 3an S k U J ) O f l^ c Maerew henua Eiver, on the Livingstone goldfield, a few parties are engaged ground-sluicing and driving out the wash; but owing to the intermittent water-supply their work is somewhat irregular. The Mountain Hut Water-race is now being constructed to bring water to this ground. Nasbby. John Hore and Sons, Lower Main Gully, Hogburn Greek.— (l 3/6/1901): No. 1 Claim : Special claim of 40 acres. Depth of ground, 10 ft. to 15 ft.; wash, 6 ft. Four heads of water are brought in from the Government water-race. 1,800 ft. of pipes, reduced from 19 in. to 15 in. to 11 in., are in use and a pressure of 200 ft. vertical is obtained. Three men employed. No 2 Claim- Elevating, 22 ft.; face, 7 ft. to 10 ft. in depth; average depth of wash, 3 ft. This being worked for the first time, there being six to seven years' work ahead, iour heads of water brought in from Government water-race ; pipe-line, 750 ft.; pipes, 19 m., reduced to 11 in. diameter; pressure, 120 ft. Three men employed. "„.,.,, , ~ No 3 Claim : Elevating claim (formerly the "dead level"). Six heads of water are brought by private race from the Little Kyeburn Stream; pipe-line, 750 ft.; pipes, 19 in to llm. diameter; pressure 165 ft. ; face, from 10ft. to 25ft., mainly old tailings from Surface Hill, with from 2ft. to 3ft of wash on the bottom, being portions of unworked ground in the early days, which, owing to the depth of the ground, could not then be worked, appliances not being able to cope with the water ; elevator lifting 30 ft. Area of claim, 14 acres. Three men employed. No 4 Claim, Milkman's Gully: Face, from 15 ft. to 20 ft. in depth; wash, 2 ft.; elevating, 22 ft. Plant consists of 2,700 ft. of pipes, reduced from 19 in. to 11 in. diameter. Water, four heads obtained from Government water-race. Three men employed. _■ _ W Guffie: 15 acres of the claim unworked. The ground is from 10 ft. to 13 ft. m depth; wash 6ft The "red wash" in this claim is patchy, but when met with is found to carry good gold ' Four heads of water are brought in from the Government water-race; 1,600 ft. of pipe-line, pipes reduced from 19 in. to 13 in. diameter ; pressure, 125 ft. vertical. Three men employed.
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Naseby Gold-dredging Company (H. Bavenwood, manager). — (13/6/1901): A dredge was placed on the claim and worked, but, the method of work having proved a failure, the dredge was sold and removed, and the ground is being treated by hydraulic elevating. 60 acres of this special claim are still unworked. Four heads of water brought in from the Government water-race. The pipe-lines are 3,000 ft. in length ; sizes of pipes, 19 in. to 11 in. diameter ; pressure, 130 ft. The face is 18 ft. deep, and the elevator is lifting 29 ft. The boxes are 48 ft. long by 3 ft. wide, angle-iron ripples and matting being used for gold-saving. Ten men employed. Beedßros. (J. W. Eeed, manager).—(l 3/6/1901): Elevating claim ; maiden ground. Face, 7 ft. to 10 ft. ; wash, 3 ft. ; elevator lifting 16 ft. Four heads of water brought in from the Government water-race; pipe-line, 600 ft. in length; pipes, 19in. to 11 in. diameter; pressure, 160 ft. Three men employed. Ah Fong and Party. —(l 3/6/1901): Elevating claim of 18 acres. Four heads of water brought in from the Government water-race. Elevator lifting 20 ft. Three men employed. Lock Lung and Party, Hogburn Creek, Naseby. —(l3/6/1901) : Elevating claim ; face principally old tailings from Surface Hill. One head and a half of water purchased from Hewitt's private water-race comprises the water-supply. S. Hewitt, Spec Gully. —(l 3/6/1901): Special claim of 15 acres; ground-sluicing. Water brought in by the Undaunted Bace from Undaunted Creek. Three men employed. W. Hendrickson, Spec Gully. —(l 3/6/1901) : Ground-sluicing with one head of water obtained from Government water-race. Ah Wah, Spec Gully. —(l 3/6/1901) : Claim, 10 acres ; elevating, 15 ft. ; depth of ground, 12 ft. Supplied with water from the Hit or Miss Eace ; pressure, 150 ft. Three men employed. Spec Gully. —(l 3/6/1901): About thirty Chinese miners are employed ground-sluicing and fossicking at the head of Spec Gully. They are supplied with water from the Hit or Miss Eace. Also about fifteen fossickers buying water from the Government water-race. Ah Won and Party, Home Gully. —(l 3/6/1901) : Elevating claim; area, 20 acres. Supplied with four heads of water from Government water-race. Four men employed. L. Hore, Enterprise Gully. —(l 3/6/1901): Ground-sluicing with one head and a half of water from Government water-race. Two men employed. Matthew Young, Enterprise Terrace. —(13 6/1901) : Face, 38 ft.; wash, 5 ft. Water brought in six miles from the East Eweburn Creek. Claim, 6 acres. Three men. A. and J. Brown, Enterprise Terrace. —Ground-sluicing with two heads and a quarter of water obtained from the Government water-race. Pressure being low, the nozzle-man stands close up to the face. I warned Mr. Brown that a good deal of risk was being incurred, and that great care would be required to avoid an accident. Two men employed. Enterprise Mining Company, Enterprise Gully (William Newman, manager).—(l 3/6/1901) : Ground-sluicing; face, 30ft. to 35ft. in depth, mostly stripping; 1-J-ft. to 2ft. of wash on clay, false bottom; pipe-line, 1,500 ft., reduced from 13 in. to 7 in. in the claim. The 7 in. pipes (black iron) have been in use for twenty-five years, and are still in good condition. The race is brought in fourteen miles from the West Eweburn Creek, and carries five heads of water. Three men employed. Henry Moore, Enterprise Gully. —(l 3/6/1901): Special claim of 8 acres. Supplied with four Government heads of water. The elevator pipe-line is 500 ft. in length, pipes reduced from 19 in. to 11 in. in diameter; nozzle pipe-line, 400 ft., pipes reduced from 11 in. to 7 in.; face, 13 ft.; wash, 2 ft. Two men employed. B. Moore, Enterprise Gully Spur. —(l 3/6/1901) : Ground-sluicing shallow ground. Inder and Brown, Enterprise Gully (J. Marslin, manager).—(l 3/6/1901): Claim, 21 acres; face, 17ft.; wash, sft. to 6ft. Four heads of water brought in from Government water-race; pipe-line 500 ft. in length, pipes reduced from 19 in. to 11 in. diameter at the claim; pressure, 120 ft.; elevating, 23ft. 12 acres of claim unworked. Working "red wash." Three men employed. Beck and Hewitt, Goal Pit Gully. — (13/6/1901): Special claim, 20 acres. Four heads of water brought in by the Band of Hope Water-race ten miles from the East Eweburn Creek. Face, 12 ft.; wash, 3 ft.; elevating, 18 ft. Four men. B. Baxter, Coal Pit Gully. —(l 3/6/1901): 10 acres of claim remain unworked; face, Bft.; wash, 2ft.; elevating, 16 ft. Service pipe-line, 600 ft.; pipes, 15 in. reduced to 9 in. diameter. The nozzle-line, 720 ft. of pipes 7 in. diameter. Two'heads and a half of water, bought from the Government water-race ; pressure, 100 ft. Two men. M. Lennane, Coal Pit Gully Spur. — (13/6/1901): Ground-sluicing. Water brought in six miles from Butcher's Gully; 500 ft. of pipes 7 in. diameter on the claim. One man. M. Young, jun., and J. Beck, Coal Pit Gully. —■ (13/6/1901) : Ground-sluicing. Two men employed. L. H. G. Hore, Wet Gully. —(l 3/6/1901): Elevating claim; 3 acres remain to be worked; face, 12 ft. ; elevating, 20 ft. Water from Government water-race. About fifteen fossickers, mostly Chinese, find employment cradling on the Naseby Diggings, adjacent to the town. Cutten and Inder, Little Kyeburn. —(l4/6/1901): A new water-race is being brought in over the Pig and Whistle for the purpose of working a claim taken up on the flat. Isaac Parfitt, Little Kyeburn. —(l4/6/1901) : Special claim, 10 acres ; elevating ; water-supply obtained from a small private water-right ; ground shallow. One man employed. M. and J. Brown, Upper Kyeburn. —(l4/6/1901) : Claim at the head of School Flat. Messra. Brown have bought the Little Kyeburn dredge and the old Golden Treasure dredge-buckets, which together are being erected on framework, the object being to work the claim by a stationary bucket-ladder driven by Pelton wheel 4 fo, diameter, Heavy stones are to be trucked away, and
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the finer material will be elevated and washed in the tail-race in the usual manner. Water is brought in fourteen miles from the Little Kyeburn Greek. The race carries twelve heads of water. 3,000 ft. of piping are in use, sizes ranging from 13 in. to 7 in. diameter. 400 ft. head of pressure is obtainable. The plant is at present at work ground-sluicing on the face of Brown's Terrace. Four men employed. Philip Beer and Party, Upper Kyeburn. —(l4/6/1901) : Claim situated in Eed Gully. Waterrace, five miles, carrying four heads, is brought in from Timber Creek; also race, four miles in length, brings four heads of water in from Main Creek. The men are at present erecting an elevating plant. Three men. William Bertram, Rip and Tear Terrace, Upper Kyeburn. —(l4/6/1901): Ground-sluicing. Five heads of water brought in from Main Gully. Two men. William McLeUand, Rip and Tear Terrace, Upper Kyeburn. —(l4/6/1901): Ground-sluicing. Water brought in from Main Gully. Three men. Stewart and Sons, Upper Kyeburn. —(l4/6/1901) : Ground-sluicing. Water brought in from high level and German Creek. Four men. Gee Wee and Party, German Greek, Upper Kyeburn. —(l4/6/1901) : Ground-sluicing. Two men. Sun Tye and Party, Upper Kyeburn. —(l4/6/1901) : No. 1 Claim : Ground-sluicing at Dinah's Creek. No. 2 Claim : Ground-sluicing, Monk's Terrace. Four men. Mount Buster Gold-mining Company, Mount Buster, Naseby (B. Lawer, manager).— (14/6/1901) : The claim is at an altitude of 4,000 ft. above sea-level. The water-rights of the Mount Kyeburn north race six miles, south race five miles, Mount Domett race six miles, and Mount Buster race six miles have been amalgamated, and are all held by the company. There are between 5,000 ft. and 6,000 ft. of 11 in. pipes in use as siphons and fluming in the several races. On the claim, 600 ft. of 9 in. pressure-pipes, constructed of galvanisod iron, have been in use twenty-seven years, and are still in good order. In the claim the face averages about 90 ft. in depth. The overburden of 80 ft. of white quartz gravel carrying no gold is run down the side tailrace ; the wash runs from 7 ft. to 10 ft. in depth, and rests on a soft false bottom about 2 ft. in thickness, which lies on the upturned edges of decomposed schist. Frost sets in usually about the month of May, and work is generally resumed in the month of September in each year. Six men employed. The " Maori bottom," or main false bottom, of the Naseby gcldfield has been proved to contain a payable layer of auriferous wash on the banks of Main Gully. Several small claims in the vicinity of the rifle range, Main Gully, are now being opened up, with encouraging results. Idabuen. Wheeler and Party's Sluicing Claim, Idaburn. —(12/6/1901) : Ground-sluicing and elevating. Two men at work. Blackstone Hill. Robert Johnstone, Blachstone Hill. —(l 2/6/1901): Ground-sluicing. One head of water is brought in from the Government water-race. The face consists of 20 ft. of clay overlying 8 ft. of auriferous-quartz drift. Three men at work. C. Rose, Blachstone Hill. —(12/6/1901) : Ground-sluicing at Pennyweight Flat. Water-supply obtained from Government water-race. Blackstone Hill. —(l 2/6/1901): McLennan and mate are working on Sam the German's Flat, Blackstone Hill. Ground-sluicing, with payable results. St. Bathan's. Shamrock Gold-mining Company, Haivkdun Station, St. Bathan's (J. Mooney, manager).— (11/6/1901) : Two claims are being worked. Area, 15 acres. Twelve heads of water are brought in twelve miles from the Manuherikia Eiver; eight heads are used in the elevating claim, and four heads for ground-sluicing in No. 2 claim. A pressure of 200 ft. vertical is obtained, and the elevator is lifting 12 ft. Ten men employed. Garty and Gallagher's Claim, Surface Hill, St. Bathan's. —(ll/6/1901): Area of claim, 6 acres. Two heads of water are purchased from the Scandinavian Company and stored. The claim is worked eight hours daily, six heads of water being available. The ground is becoming too deep for the pressure and quantity of water obtainable.Scandinavian Gold-mining Company. —(ll/6/1901) : This company owns three water-rights : (1.) Scandinavian Bace : Twenty-five miles from the Manuherikia Eiver, with the right to twentyfive heads. An elevator lifting 83 ft. is supplied from this race, the pressure available being 400 ft. vertical. The pressure-pipes are reduced from 22 in. to 9 in. diameter. (2.) Otago Eace: Fortyfive miles long from the Manuherikia Eiver. Eighteen heads of water; pressure, 170 ft.; pressurepipes, 16 in. to 9 in., supplying an elevator which lifts 44 ft. (3.) Muddy Greek Eace: Sixteen miles long; carries fourteen heads of water, which is used as flushing-water for the Muddy Terrace Channel. The face is composed of fine quartz drift, about 150 ft. of which overlies 20 ft. of goldbearing wash. The upper layers of the drift are ground-sluiced. No. 2 elevator elevates about 80 ft. of overburden, carrying a little gold, and is used to strip the ground ahead of No. 1 elevator. The boxes are 25 ft. in length, fitted with perforated plates and matting. 200 oz. have already been washed up, and 600 oz. additional are expected at the end of the season. Twelve men are employed. St. Bathan's Claim. —(ll/6/1901) : Ground-sluicing old worked ground. Five heads of water are used ten hours daily. The water is being supplied from the claim at Surface Hill. 6 acres have been cleaned up, and 380 oz. of gold obtained* and 200 oz. are expected next washing. Six men are employed.
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Kildare Hill Deep Claim, St. Bathan's (John Ewing). —(11/6/1901): No work has been done here for some time. Eagle and Gray's, St. Bathan's. —Ground-sluicing. (11/6/1901): Not working on the occasion of present visit. Water is brought in seven miles from Mount St. Bathan's. Four heads are available. United M. and E. Company, St. Bathan's (P. T. O'Eegan, manager). —(11/6/1901): Water is brought on to the claim by three races: (1.) The Eocks Gorge Eace, twelve miles long, carrying eight heads ; this is the old Enterprise race. (2.) A race from Mountain Creek, ten miles, carrying ten heads. (3.) The Blue Duck Eace from Dunstan Creek, five miles long, carrying six heads of water. After the top material is ground-sluiced away the rest is elevated 82 ft. in two lifts. Pressure available, 380 ft. vertical. Seven men employed. Vinegar Hill Claim, St. Bathan's (John Ewing).—(6/2/1901) : Not working. Nothing has been done for some time past in the Deep Claim, but the plant is in position. (10/6/1901) : The Deep Claim under Vinegar Hill is now in operation, having recently been restarted. Eight to twelve men employed. Cambrian's. Shepherd's Flat Claim, Cambrian's (John Ewing). —(6/2/1901) : The Vinegar Hill Claim wa.ter is being used, and one elevator is being kept working constantly. . The ground being treated is very stony, entailing much labour in raising aud stacking, but the claim is worked in a safe manner. (10/6/1901) : Work on the flat has been confined to a narrow strip, following a good run of gold up one side. The stone transit is not in use now. Mr. Ewing also has a plant erected further down the flat for testing the ground, but very little has been done. Morgan and Hughes, Shepherd's Flat, Cambrian s. —(6/2/1901) : Ground-sluicing. The face is high, and not sufficient batter kept on it for safe working. The material treated is stony, and a large amount of hand-labour is required to dispose of the blocks met with in the claim. Fordham and Gay's Hydraulic Sluicing Claim, Cambrian's. —(10/6/1901): The ground is about 20 ft. deep. 8 ft. is first sluiced off, and the rest elevated. Water is brought from Shepherd's Flat Creek, the supply being somewhat variable. Pressure, 127 ft. Length of pressure-pipes, 600 ft.; elevating, 20 ft. Three men employed. Matakanui. Ewing and McGonochie's Sluicing Claim, Tinker's (J. Naylor, manager).—(B/6/1901): The water-right consists of eight heads brought in from Thomson's Gorge; pressure, 500 ft.; elevating, 27 ft. 20 ft. of the top material, being non-auriferous, is sluiced off, and the remaining 25 ft. is elevated and passed over 48 ft. of iron boxes provided with angle-iron ripples and matting. The top material is very rough, but the lower layers are free from large stones. A nozzle is always in position to blow away the accumulated tailings at the end of the boxes. The water-supply varies with the season, and for that reason the number of hands employed is not; regular. Four men employed at present. Undaunted Gold-mining Company (Limited) (T. C. Donnelley, manager). —(8/6/1901) : Four races are brought in, giving an average of twelve heads of water. The race from Chatto Creek is twenty miles in length, and three races are brought in from Thomson's Creek. The first water-right from Thomson's Creek gives 400 ft. head of pressure in the claim, and is used for elevating the material to a height of 48 ft. The ground being worked, it is understood, is paying very well. Sugar-pot Elevating and Sluicing Company (C. Huddlestone, manager).—(B/6/1901): Eace four miles from Thomson's Gorge, carrying four heads of water, the supply, however, being variable and inadequate for the work in hand. Elevating, 27 ft.; but, as only a 5 in. throat can be used, a great deal of sorting and picking stones is necessary ; the stones being trucked away from the elevator. For last year the material treated averaged 2s. 2d. per cubic yard in value. Five men employed. /. Symes and Son's Sluicing Claim. — (8/6/1901) : Eight to eight heads of water from several gullies along the Dunstan Eange. 1,000 ft. of pressure-pipes, reduced from 13 in. to 7 in. diameter, are in use, a vertical pressure of 200 ft. being available. At present work consists of sluicing material away to make room for conveying the pipe-line to better ground. Two men employed. Owing to the free nature of the quartz drift this party has been unable to open up a paddock in their present position. Matakanui Gold-mining Company (G. Sutherland, manager).—(B/6/1901) : Ten heads of water are brought in fourteen miles from Lauder Creek; pressure, 200 ft.; lift, 20 ft. ; depth of ground, 20ft. ; pressure-pipes, 15 in-, 11 in., and 7 in. diameter. The company has recently taken up this claim, and is opening out the first paddock on a flat spur in the middle of the claim. Six men employed. Drybread Diggings, near Matakanui. —(B/6/1901) : Two parties (H. Glassford and Wilson) are engaged ground-sluicing. The former has a small water-right from the Lauder Creek. Devonshire Diggings, near Matakanui. —(B/6/1901) : Nothing doing at present. Spbingvalb. Springvale Sluicing Claim, Springvale (J. Gartley, manager).—(7/6/1901) : Ground-sluicing. Eace, sixteen miles, brought in from intermediate gullies in the Leaning Eock district. Fourteen heads of water available, with a pressure of 100 ft. vertical at the claim. 40 chains of pressurepipes are in use, reduced from 13 in. to 11 in. to 9 in. in diameter. A channel is being brought up from the river to work deep terrace ground. Alexandra. Tucker Hill Sluicing Company, Alexandra (J. Gartley, manager). — (6/6/1901): Area of claim, 12 acres. Operations are being carried on by ground-sluicing. Six heads of water are
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brought in twenty miles, from Campbell and Speargrass Creeks. 1,600 ft. of pressure-pipes are used in the claim. The dam having carried away, work in the claim was suspended at the time of my visit. Five men employed. Clyde. Anderson and Keliher, Sluicing Claim, Clyde. —(5/6/1901): Having worked the flat, which proved highly payable, work is now carried on in the gullies leading into the flat, several of the gullies having been turned over by fossickers with good results. A variable water-supply is brought in eight miles from Leaning Rock Creek. Work is being carried on at present with three heads of water. The false bottom consists of pipeclay overlying a seam of coal. Buckley and Party, Shepherd's Flat, Fraser Biver. —(6/6/1901) : Eace five miles in length from Eough Creek, a tributary of the Fraser River. 200 ft. of 7 in. pressure-pipes are in use in the claim. The party was formed to work in the bed of the Fraser River, but work has been confined to ground-sluicing on the terrace. Hookey and McConnell, Fraser Biver. —(6/6/1901) : A tail-race is being brought up in rock, the object being to divert the stream, and work in the river-bed, which is known to carry good gold, but has hitherto proved unworkable, water being too deep. Rough gold is found in the crevices of the reef, which is carefully picked up to a depth of from 6 in. to 1 ft. Ckomwell. Edwards and Party, Quartz Beef Point. —(6/12/1901) : Sinking and driving out alluvial wash on the terrace. Three men employed. Bruce and Party, Quartz Beef Point. —(6/12/1901): Ground-sluicing. Three men. Nicoll and Party, Quartz Beef Point. —(6/12/1901): Ground-sluicing. Three men. Cardrona. Loft, Miller, and Party. —(3/12/1901): Sinking and driving out the wash in a claim near the township. Scurr and Fleming. —Ground-sluicing on Criffel Face. Henderson, Little, Patton, and Others. —Sluicing on Branch Creek. Aerowtown. King Edivard Hydraulic Sluicing and Elevating Company, Arrowtown (lately Arrow Flat Goldmining Company), (A. C. Buckland). —(22/11/1901) : This plant was not in operation at the time of my visit. Arrow River. Arroio Big Beach Hydraulic Sluicing Company (James Campbell, manager). —(25/4/1901) : Present work consists of taking out a paddock on a high reef next to the terrace, and working tailings originally worked in the early sixties. Own water-supply short, and at present getting water from the Arrow Flat Hydraulic Company, which is not now at work. The race brought in from Bracken's Gully is four miles long. Pipe-line, 600 ft., reduced from 16 in. diameter at the head to 9 in. at the bottom. Giant nozzle used with different size jets. Elevator at present working 35 ft. The boxes are 96 ft. long, 3 ft. wide at the head, and taper down to 2 ft. 6 in. Angle-iron ripples are used, with sacking on the bottom. Six men employed. (22/11/1901) : Race, three miles long, carrying six heads of water for working the elevator only ; pressure, 500 ft. ; lift, 45 ft. The run of boxes for gold-saving is 120 ft. in length, and is provided with Venetian riffles and cocoanutmatting. "Work is being carried on in the bed of the Arrow River, and operations are greatly hampered by freshes and floods. Seven men employed. Arrow Falls Sluicing Company (J. A. Millar, manager). —(26/4/1901): The stone centre wall and crane travelling-way are now extended through the narrow gorge, and are entering the flat where the claim widens out. Bight men employed. (21/11/1901) : This company is engaged ground-sluicing the river-bed. The work is all done by hand-labour, ten men being employed. The centre wall, being brought up as the work advances, is now 15 chains long by 12 ft. in depth. A 3-ton jib crane is used for raising the stones. This claim has experienced many difficulties, but is now in good working-order. Maoetown. Anderson and Party, Eight-mile Hi 11 .—(26/4/1901): Driving into terrace. Three men employed. Beid Bros. — (26/4/1901) : Ground-sluicing terrace ground. Three men employed. (22/11/1901) : Water is brought across the Arrow River by a siphon consisting of 3,000 ft. of 9 in. pipes, giving pressure of 80 ft. on the claim. Thomson Bros. —(26/4/1901): Ground-sluicing. Three men employed. William Lake, Twelve-mile. —(26/4/1901) : Working on low terrace and creek-banks. One man employed. John Clayton, Homeward Bound Hi 11 .—(26/4/1901) : Small tunnel driven into hillside under a slip, where a lead of gold is expected to be found. One man employed. Moonlight. Moonlight No. 1 Sluicing Company, Moonlight (G. Heideman). —(19/11/1901): Ground-sluicing terrace ground on Moonlight Terrace ; face, 80 ft. Material consists of bands of rough and fine gravel. Race, four miles, carrying eighteen heads of water. The bottom is very rough and dipping in towards the terrace. On this account the race is being extended to command ground where the dip of the bottom will be more favourable. Nine men and one race-man employed, and in addition three men are engaged extending the race. Moonlight No. 2 Sluicing Company, Moonlight (P. Sanders). —(19/11/1901) : The ground previously being worked became too deep and heavy for the water-power, and a start has now been made to open up on the Moonlight side of the terrace.
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Arthur's Point Hydraulic Sluicing and Elevating Company, Arthur's Point, Shotover Biver (H. Angelo).—(2o/11/1901): A party of four working tributers are working this claim with satisfactory results. Upper Shotovbe. William Smith and Sons, Shotover.— (23/4/1901) : Eiver and beach claim above outlet of Skipper's Creek. By the aid of the suction pump the party has been enabled to bottom on ground, the upper part of which had been previously worked with results mainly satisfactory. Sheet iron has been used successfully for facing wing dams when shifting the current, and the pump has operated successfully, elevating water, drainage, and material at depths to 20 ft. in places. Water taken from Hardy's Gully and stored in a good dam on the terrace; 1,400 ft. of in sizes from 11 in. down to 7 in., conveys water to the claim under a pressure of 300 ft. Successive floods and rises in the river have interfered with work by filling up paddock, and work has to be suspended while the river is up. Three men employed. Sogers and Johnston, Shotover,— (23/4/1901): Eiver and beach claim similar to Smith and Sons' claim. Smith jet pump used. Pipe-line, I,oooft. from dam to paddock; 500 ft. 11 in., 100 ft. 9 in., and 400 ft. 7 in. diameter pipes in use. The river is wing dammed;_ depth of sinking, from 14 ft. to 21ft. to bed-rock. The boxes are fitted with Venetian spaced ripples 2 in. apart,"with scrub beneath, for gold-saving. Water used is the second right from Ballarat Creek, and is stored in a dam on terrace, which holds sufficient for one shift of work. Two men employed. William Palmer, Shotover. —(23/4/1901) : Eiver and terrace claim. Water in short supply. The race, being on a bad sideling, is frequently carried away. A supply of pipes on the ground, but not in use, however. One man employed. Peat and Schusted, Shotover.— (23/'4/'1901) : Water, second right from Sandhills Creek. The race is two miles in length over broken ground, and 2,300 ft. of 8 in. pipes, are used for fluming the race. The pressure-line is 1,300 ft. long, 8 in. by 7 in. pipes, under 300 ft. head of pressure. The claim is river and beach, and Smith's jet pump is to be used. Two men employed. B. Lee and Party, Monk's Terrace, Shotover.— (23/4/1901) : The company recently leased the Shotover Quartz-mining Company's water-right from Sandhills Creek. The pipe-line is 2,600 ft. in length; 300 ft. 11 in. diameter; 700 ft. 9 in., I,oooft. 7 in., and 600 ft. 6 in. pipes convey the water from the race to the dam. The race is two miles iong, and the water is siphoned across the Shotover River, a pressure of 70 ft. head being obtained in the claim. A tail-race (low level) was blasted out of the rock, and the claim is just starting in working-order. Six men employed. William McLeod, Shotover.— (23/4/1901) : Ground-sluicing. One man. Two Chinese groundsluicing in the neighbourhood. Sandhills, Shotover (Strahle and Helms).—(23/4/1901) : Eiver and beach claim. The upper layers have been worked, but the bottom is original ground, which mns from 6 ft. to 16 ft. in depth. Water brought in from Eapid Creek. The pipe-line is 800 ft. in length; pipes, 7 in. diameter; vertical head of pressure, about 250 ft. Smith's jet pump used. Two men employed. Anderson and Hood, Coolgardie Company, Shotover.— (23/4/1901) : Eiver and beach claim. Smith's jet pump used. Water brought in from Moonstone Creek ; pressure-line, 800 ft. of 7 in. pipes ; ground, from 7 ft. to 10 ft. in depth. Strenuous efforts have been made to bottom on a bend of the'river, where good gold is expected to be found, but the high river has filled the paddock up several times, and the work of opening up had to be repeated after each rise. Two men mV Muddy Greek Sluicing Company, Shotover.— (23/4/1901): ADunedin syndicate holds the claim, which is partly river and partly terrace, and, having bought the Electric Dredging Company's pipes it is expected that a start will shortly be made to bring water in to work the claim. Dwan Costello, and Cummings, Shotover.— (23/4/1901) : Ground-sluicing, Moonstone Terrace, on false bottom; face, about 300 ft. high. Water brought in from Moonstone Creek; race, one mile lone. Three men employed. .■•,-,, James E Davis, Guy's Terrace, Shotover.— (23/4/1901) :30 ft. of wash on the terrace; only partly worked owing to shortage of water. Mr. Davis is bringing in a race three miles long through hard country from Maori Gully. , ~ . ~ -, & i_ j William Crozier, Upper Shotover.— (23/4/1901): Ground-sluicmg at mouth of left-hand branch. Small quantity of water used with canvas hoses. One man ; also two Chinese working William Tobin Keating, The Branches, Upper Shotover.— (23/4/1901): Ground-sluicing on a terrace on the left branch. Three men. Mr. Keating states that he knows of a reef lying under Mount Aurum lode formation, 9 ft. between the walls, carrying quartz 4 ft. wide. Shotovek. Mrs Stevenson, AspinalVs Terrace, Shipper's Point.— (24/4/1901) : The claim is situated just below the junction of Skipper's Creek with the Shotover Eiver, and was noted for its richness in days gone by The old river-beds were originally driven out by the early miners, and the old sets of timber can be seen in the face, as the whole of the alluvial formation is now being sluiced away down to bed-rock. Two ancient river-beds are exposed in the claim, one of which was probably the old Shotover Eiver, and the other Skipper's Creek. The junction was therefore some distance down-stream from present junction. Water is brought in from Brown's Creek A race one mile lone conducts water to a dam on top of the terrace. The pressure-line from dam to nozzles is 800 ft long- 100 ft of 13 in. diameter, 400 ft. of 11 in., and 300 ft. of 9 in. pipes, under a vertical head of 200 ft The tail-race tunnel is 450 ft. in length, having a fall of linBto 1 m 10. The tunnel was blocked only on one occasion several years ago. Since that time the tunnel is examined daily before sluicing is started, and if stones are found in the tunnel they are removed, thus
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reducing liability to block. The gold is saved in the open tail-race leading to the tunnel. Longitudinal °steel rails and Aspinall's patent heart-shaped riffles are used; that they are effective is proved by the tunnel having been washed up several times when the quantity of gold won did not pay for the labour expended. Two men employed. " Shipper's Sluicing Company, Londonderry Terrace, Shipper's (William McPherson, manager).— (24/4/1901) • The tunnel tail-race being blocked, all hands were employed laying pressure-pipes down the first rise to enable water being turned on to the block. The water was turned on and the block successfully removed during the afternoon shortly after my visit. The manager intends to reduce the several right angles in the tunnel rises, and, the paddock (as now opened up) being large enough to enable stones being stacked, it is anticipated that the liability to block will be minimised. The face of the claim (which is about 140 ft. in vertical height) will also be given more batter by running top stuff off first. The water-supply is brought in from Skipper s Creek, the race bein« five miles in length. Six deep intervening gullies necessitated siphons being used, the longest of which, over Skipper's Creek, is 1,760 ft. in length, the diameter of the pipes being 28 in. Two storage-dams have been made, from which the water is taken into the claim by 1,000 ft. ot 11 in. pipes ; vertical pressure, 150 ft. Two 5 in. nozzles are used alternately m breaking down the face.' The gold-saving boxes are laid in the tunnel tail-race. They are 350 ft. in length and 3ft. wide. Longitudinal iron rails set in frames, and held in position by side pieces, are laid on top of scrub in the°boxes for gold-saving. Six men employed. Bobert Johnston, Pleasant Greek Terrace, Skipper's.— (24/4/1901) : A large paddock Has been sluiced away on the stony end of the claim. Water-supply being plentiful, the whole of the terrace is bein" sluiced away. Water is turned over the working-face from an iron box shoot, and, having a fall of 100 ft., good work is done thereby. Canvas hose is used in the claim, the owner preferring it to iron pipes, being more easily handled. The hose is well tarred before use, and is said to last from three to four years. Two men employed. Davis Bros., Stony Greek Terrace, Skipper's.— (24/4/1901): Terrace claim on west bank of Shotover River ; face, 150 ft. high. Alluvial deposit being sluiced away to the reef up the ancient riverbed Water-supply obtained from Stony Creek. 1,000 ft. of iron pipes in use. Four men employed. E Sainsbury," Maori Point.— (2s/4/1901) : Ground-sluicing. Water brought m from Maori Gully ; race, two miles long; 100 ft. of 11 in. and 200 ft. of 9 in. diameter pipes laid over the face. Two men employed. . J. Quin, Wire Rope Terrace, Maori Point.— (2s/4/1901) : Driving out a bit of old ground left in former years, not being then considered rich enough to work. One man employed. Maori Point.— (2s/4/1901) : Two Chinese are bringing in water from Wire Eope Gully, intending to sluice Boomerang Terrace, which was only partly worked in former days. Two men mF 'j y& S.' Collins and Son, Maori Point, near Deep Creek.— (2s/4/1901) : Sluicing claim on Blue Jacket Terrace; also Smith's jet pump in the river-bed claim when favourable. Water brought in from Quin's Creek. The race is one mile long, and 1,500 ft. of pipes 9 in. m diameter are laid to the river claim and siphoned across the Shotover. A vertical pressure of 375 ft. is obtained. The river claim averages 12 ft. in depth, and coarse gold is found principally in wash m crevices from 3 ft. to 6 ft. deep in places by 18 in. to 5 ft. wide and up to 90 ft. in length. Messrs. Collins are well satisfied with their recent returns. Three men employed. John McGorron and Party, near hong Gully, Shotover.— {2s/4/1901) : Eiver and beach claim. Eiver wing-dammed, and Californian pump used for unwatering paddock. Three men employed. Thomson and McLeod, Mouth of Long Gully, Shotover.— (2s/4/1901) : Eiver and beach claim. A new race just finished is two miles long ; will carry water from Long Gully Creek to the riverbank above claim. Smith jet pump to be used; pipes now being laid. Two men employed. Ward and Smith, below Long Gully, Shotover.— (2s/4/1901) : Eiver claim. Smith jet pump used. 1.000 ft. of 9 in. and 7 in. diameter pipes ; pressure, 200 ft. head. Two men employed. Beisster and Price, Shotover.— (2s/4/1901) : Turning and wing-damming river-bed. A waterwheel pump is used in the paddock. Four men employed. J. McCorniack, Shotover.— (2s/4/1901) : Beach-combing. One man. Lynch, Kelly, and Party, Shotover.— (2s/4/1901) : Turning and wing-damming river. Spear and Californian pump used. Four men employed. Durie, Shotover.— (2s/4/1901): One man. J. Kapatzo, Moke Creek.-— (25/4/1901): One man. Smith Bros., Shotover.— {2s/4/1901) : Turning' and wing-damming river. Californian pump used, Three men employed. A. Murdoch, Deep Greek, Sliotover.—(2s/1/1901) : Canvas hose turning water over the faces. One man. John Bolderson, Deep Greek, Shotover.— (2s/4/1901) : Canvas hose turning water over the faces. One man. Nevis. Our Mutual Friend Hydraulic Sluicing and Elevating Company, Nevis (Masters and Adie).— (30/4/1901) : Elevating 35 ft., and following lead into flat on reef-bottom. Care exercised in working where face high on the edge of the terrace. Four men. (28/11/1901): Six heads of water used for working the elevator, which is lifting 40 ft. The run of boxes for gold-saving is 108 ft. in length. Keep-it-Dark Gold-mining Company, Galvin's Terrace, Nevis (J. H. Eobertson, manager). — (1/5/1901) : Not working at present, awaiting the arrival of a Tangye pump from Dunedin, the water-inflow being too heavy for the pump in use. The shaft is 90 ft. deep to bottom of wash. No driving has yet been done. Bobertson and.Party, Nevis. —(30/4/1901) : Eight heads of water are brought in three miles. The bottom (reel) has ceased dipping, and is running level under the terrace. Face, 30 ft. high; elevating, 40 it. Four men employed.
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O'Connell and Graham, Hydraulic Sluicing Claim, Upper Nevis. —(2B/11/1901): Elevating, 35 ft. Working on main bottom, which is clipping steeply towards the river. Pipe-line, 1,200 ft. ; pipes reduced from 18 in. to 13 in. diameter ; pressure, 400 ft. vertical head. Eight men employed. Undaunted Company, Nevis Biver. —(2B/11/1901) : This company has been formed for the purpose of confining and turning portions of the river in the gorge near Scotchman's Creek. The fluming is in position ready for the river being turned into it, and is 5 chains in length by 12 ft. wide by 4 ft. deep, with J in. fall to the foot. McMillan's Sluicing Claim, Upper Nevis. — (28/11/1901): Ground-sluicing; face, 35ft.; pressure available, 50 ft. vertical. Four men employed. McDonald"s Hydraulic Sluicing and Elevating Company, Upper Nevis. —(2B/11/1901) : Eace, four miles; twelve heads of water brought in. Pipe-line, 2,000 ft. of 13 in. and 900 ft. of 9 in. diameter pipes; elevating, 30ft.; depth of ground, 14ft. A new race is to be constructed to give a pressure of 375 ft. vertical in the claim. Waikaia. Argyle Sluicing Company's Claim, Waikaia (J. Stewart). —(15/11/1901) : Ten heads of water are brought in nine miles from Argyle Creek. The pressure-line to the claim consists of one mile of 15 in. pipes; pressure, 330 ft. vertical head; depth of ground, 35 ft. ; elevator lifting 32 ft. Venetian riffles and perforated plates, with cocoanut-matting underneath, are laid in the boxes for gold-saving. Nine men employed. Winding Creek Hydraulic Sluicing Claim, Waikaia (Eoberfc Hay, manager).—(ls/11/1901) : The length of water-races combined is twenty-six miles; but at present insufficient water is coming to hand to work the elevating plant, the lift being 75 ft. Six men are engaged ground-sluicing. The lower part of the claim was driven and blocked out by miners in the early days. Gow's Creek Gold-mining Company, Waikaia. —(ls/11/1901) : Thirty men are at work on the water-race being brought in from Gow's Creek to work the ground. The race will be about three miles in length, and the company holds a first right to thirty heads of water from the creek. Piano Flat Gold-mining Company, Upper Waikaia. —(ls/11/1901) : The race is cut, but there is no plant on the ground as yet. NOKOMAI. Lion Hydraiilic Sluicing and Elevating Company, Nokomai (D. McGregor). — (15/11/1901) : Eace, twenty-nine miles, brought in from the Nevis Eiver. Owing to its high altitude there is a scarcity of water during the winter months, the country being frozen up. During the working season the water-supply is about twenty-five heads. This is brought on to the claim at an elevation of 800 ft. As the ground is 85 ft. deep, and deepening towards the flat, the high pressure will be all required. Pressure-elevator lifting 103 ft. For gold-saving Venetian riffles, perforated plates, and cocoanut-matting are used in a box run 80ft. in length. Sixteen men, including six race-men, are employed. Victory Hydraulic Sluicing and Elevating Company, Nokomai (W. Franz). — (16/11/1901) : The claim is situated in Victoria Gully. Owing to poor water-supply preventing constant work, this season is being devoted to the erection of a dam for storage of water. Nokomai Gold-mining Company (Limited), Nokomai, No. 1 Claim (W. Eobinson, manager).— (16/11/1901) : Eace, eighteen miles, carrying eighteen heads ; pressure, 540 ft. vertical; elevating, 70 ft. ; depth of ground, 45 ft. Sides of paddock are well battered for safety of workmen. Ten heads of water are picked up from the creek, and are used for pumping water out of back paddocks. Nokomai Gold-mining Company (Limited), Nokomai, No. 2 Claim (A. Copland, manager). — (16/11/1901) : Eace, five miles, carrying sixteen heads, which command the claim- at an elevation of 250 ft. The ground from the surface to the bottom is heavy and rough. The bottom has been driven on and blocked out in the past. Height of lift, 45 ft. The company's engineer, Mr. L. O. Beal, is at present engaged selecting a site for a large storage-dam on Donkey Flat. Seven Europeans and five Chinese employed. Nokomai. —(l6/11/1901) : Three men are ground-sluicing in Dalton's Gully, Nokomai. Waterright consists of four heads from Fiery Creek. The water is taken across the Mataura Eiver to the opposite range by means of a siphon about a mile in length. Oeepuki. The season having been a good one for water, work has been regular throughout the year. The area of gold-bearing ground is gradually becoming restricted as the claims are worked out. No doubt the water will be diverted, and other payable areas of auriferous ground found in the direction of Pahia and Bound Hill. Beach-combing is still continued, and the claimholders obtain fair returns. A dredging-machine tried on the beach for elevating the auriferous black sand has not proved a success. Three parties of miners at Papatotara, South Waiau, are reported to be obtaining good returns. Eound Hill. • The claims in this district continue working steadily. The Eound Hill Gold-mining Company is putting down a winch plant, driven by a small Pelton wheel, for the purpose of hauling logs and* large stones out of the paddock, and which is expected to be an improvement on the old system of chopping up and burning buried timber. Ourawera Gold-mining Company. —A hand-winch has been erected for log-hauling purposes. Smith Gold-mining Company. —Work is being continued up the bed of the Ourawera Creek. A drive is being put into the terrace with the object of proving whether payable layers of wash are contained in the formation.
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Name of Dredge. Owners. Dredgemaster. Bemarks. Date of Visit. Clutha River. Lioness, Rankleburn.. Lioness Gold-dredging Company J. Templeton Erecting machinery .. .. .. .. ,. .. .. .. 15/7/01. Light-lines and two boat-hooks required; main and pump driving-belts require fencing ; 18/9/01. regulations not posted Company notified on 30th July, 1901, to replace second boat, which had been lost; 200 ft. of 16/7/01. light-line required, and three boat-hooks missing Life-saving appliances out of place .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ; 23/8/01. Two boat-hooks missing .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 18/10/01. One lifebuoy and three boat-hooks required .. .. .. .. .. ■ .. 23/8/01. Shifting dredge to lower claim ; appliances in fair order .. .. .. .. 19/10/01. Erecting machinery .. .. ' .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ! 28/5/01. Dredge and life-saving appliances in good order .. .. .. .. .. I 17/7/01. Dredge and appliances in good order .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 19/10/01. Life-saving appliances not in proper order on dredge .. .. .. .. .. i 29/5/01. Hand-rail and foot-plank required as approach to elevator; otherwise in good order .. 18/10/01. Dredge and appliances in fair order .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 29/5/01. Stopped by flood ; appliances in good order .. .. .. .. .. .. 18/10/01. 100ft. light-line required for the boats; otherwise in good order .. .. .. . .■ 29/5/01. Shifting to bottom of claim ; dredge and appliances in good order .. .. .. 18/10/01. Dredge and life-saving appliances in good order .. .. .. .. .. 30/5/01. .. 17/10/01. Light-lines and boat-hooks required ; life-buoys need repairing .. .. .. .. 30/5/01. Dredge and life-saving appliances in good order .. . .■ .. .. .. ! 17/10/01. Boat-hooks and light-lines require renewal .. .. .. .. .. .. 30/5/01. Dredge and life-saving appliances in good order .. .. .. .. .. 17/10/01. Boat-hooks and light-lines required on the dredge; also a buoy and boat-hook in the boat .. ; 30/5/01. Life-saving apparatus out of order. The company was notified to provide a suitable boat in ; 22/8/01. place of the second boat, which was too small Erecting machinery .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 18/7/01. Four life-buoys, with 15 in. inside measurement, were too small. I pointed this out to the 14/12/01. dredgemaster, and the buoys were returned, and replaced with proper ones Erecting machinery.. .. .. .. * .. .. .. .. .. 18/7/01. Screen and elevator driving-gear requires to be guarded ; bar across coal-door needed ; other- 12/10/01. wise appliances in good order Ready to start .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 30/5/01. Dredge and appliances in good order .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 18/7/01. Longer handles required for the boat-hooks. Company notified on 28th June, 1901, that 30/5/01. the second boat was too small for river-work New boat provided ; dredge olosed down .. .. .. .. .. .. 22/8/01. Dredge and life-saving appliances in good order .. .. .. .. .. 18/7/01. Ready to start. Some of the after driving-gear requires to be guarded ; also main and pump 16/10/01. driving-belts to be fenced ; hatchway to be cut aft for access behind the pump Main and pump belting requires to be fenced off .. .. .. .. .. 22/8/01. Bar required across the coal-door .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 17/10/01. Regulations not posted ; only one boat; no life-saving apparatus ; new dredge just starting 31/5/01. Life-saving appliances now in good order .. .. .. .. .. .. 21/8/01. Visited dredge in connection with fatal accident on 23rd September, 1901, and found dredge 25/9/01. and life-saving appliances in good order. A. McCormack, fireman, was killed on 23rd September, 1901, caught by elevator driving-shaft while oiling, machinery being in motion Paul's Beach, below Beamont.. Paul's Beach Gold-dredging Company William McLelland J. Herbert Golden Reward, below Beaumont Golden Reward Gold-dredging ComJ. Cummings Golden Gravel, Beaumont pany Golden Gravel Gold-dredging Company T. Barnes Golden Run, Miller's Flat Golden Run Gold-dredging Company P. Brandt Pringle's, Miller's Flat Pringle and party J. Pringle Golden Gate, Miller's Flat Golden Gate Gold-dredging Company D. Ballantyne Ofcago, Miller's Flat .. Otago Gold-dredging Company R. Williamson Golden Treasure, Miller's Flat Golden Treasure Gold-dredging Company Majestic Gold-dredging Company T. Cornish W. Williamson Majestic, above Miller's Flat .. Golden Bed, Ettrick .. Golden Bed Gold-dredging Company A. Maitland Ettrick, Ettrick Ettrick Gold-dredging Company T. Thompson Excelsior, Ettrick Excelsior Gold-dredging Company .. J. Wallace Gibbs's Beach, Moa Flat Gibbs's Beach Gold-dredging Company Moa Flat Gold-dredging Company .. T. Kitto .. Moa Flat, Moa Flat T. Thompson Gold Queen, Dumbarton Rock Gold King, Dumbarton Rook .. Gold Queen Gold-dredging Company Gold King Gold-dredging Company .. C. Olsen G. Magnus Endeavour, Dumbarton Rock .. Endeavour Gold-dredging Company .. A. Rennie Teviot, Roxburgh Teviot Gold-dredging Company J. Roy P. Me Vicar
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Name of Dredge. Owners. Dredgemaster. Iieniarks. Dates of Visits. Clotha River— continued. Gold-deposit, Coal Creek Flat.. Gold-deposit Gold-dredging Company J. Guy ton S. Coard .. Ready to start; only one boat provided Platform required around tailings-cbute; light-lines and boat-hooks required; also runner on the boat-line and a gangway across the well. Company was notified on 15th October, 1901, that the second boat was unfit for river-work. Dredge on the point of closing down owing to high river One buoy required ; main and pump driving-belts to be fenced off Belts not fenced ; elevator is being replaced by stone-chute 21/8/01. 11/10/01. Long Valley, Coal Creek Flat .. Long Valley Gold-dredging Company W. Woodhouse 19/7/01. 11/10/01. Goal Creek-Alexandra Gorge (Glutha River). Sixteen-mile Beaoh Sixteen - mile Beach Gold - dredging Company R. F. Kitto Shifting to the claim ; regulations not posted ; otherwise in good order. This dredge has since been wrecked, and almost entirely lost, on 29th October, 1901, only the engines being recovered Boat-hook in boat too short; otherwise dredge and appliances in good order 1/6/01. Fourteen-mile Beach Fourteen-mile Beaoh Gold - dredging Company Golden River Gold-dredging Company G. P. Blue 3/6/01. Golden River G. Taylor Getting ready to start Hatchway to be cut aft for access to pump; screen driving-belt to be guarded, also the main and pump driving-belts ; boats to be provided with life-saving apparatus Screen driving-belt not yet fenced Shifting down river to claim. Company notified second boat unsuitable for river-work Ready to dropdown the river six miles to the claim. Found dredge not well equipped with life-saving apparatus, and had her properly equipped before starting; hatchway to be cut for access behind the pump Dredge and appliances in good order .. Dropping down river to claim ; dredge well equipped Pump-belt and main rope-drive require fencing Dredge and life-savirg appliances in good order. A. McLean, dredgemaster, fell overboard on 3rd October, 1901, and was drowned Shifting to claim ; boats equipped and dredge furniehed with life-saving apparatus Forward railing weak; ruuner required to replace shackle on coal - boat line ; fence-bar required across side opening Sleeve required on projecting end of engine-ehaft ! Dredge and appliances in first-class order, and regulations observed Main driving-belt requires to be fenced Dredge and appliances in excellent order, and regulations observed Repairing on this date Dredge and appliances in fair order; second boat laid up for repairs 29/7/01. 20/8/01. Golden Falls JFliver Molyneux Golden Falls Gold-dredging Company River Molyneux Gold-dredging Company S. Hoy .. C. Weaver 10/10/01. 3/6/01. 22/7/01. Mrst Chance First Chance Gold-dredging Company A. McLean 19/8/01. 3/6/01. 22/7/01. 5/10/01. Bendigo Bendigo Gold-dredging Company T. McMath 20/8/01. 7/10/01. Sailor's Bend Sailor's Bend Gold-dredging Company J. Dewar .. 3/6/01. 7/10/01. 3/6/01. 8/10/01. 3/6/01. 8/10/01. Manuherikia Manuherikia Gold-dredging Company L. Anderson Moa Clyde Dredging Company W. Nicholson Alexandra. Molyneux Hydraulic Molyneux Hydiaulio Gold - dredging Company Alexandra Eureka Gold-dredging Company Golden Beach Gold-dredging Company C. Simonsen Regulations not posted ; light-lines and boat-hooks not in place Dredge and appliances in good order .. 6/6/01. 9/10/01. 4/6/01. 8/10/01. 4/6/01. 8/10/01. 6/6/01. 9/10/01. 6/6/01. 9/10/01. 22/7/01. 9/10/01. Alexandra Eureka N. Bradley Dredge repairing, but appliances in good order Sleeve required on engine-shaft; elevator driving-belt requires fencing .. .. Light-lines under required length Dredge and appliances in fair order Repairing, but all in good order Regulations not posted ; life-saving apparatus requires renewal One life-belt useless ; otherwise in good order Sleeve required on engine-shaft; life-saving apparatus not in good condition Undergoing repairs Golden Beach J. Percy .. Ngapara No. 1 Ngapara Gold-dredging Company A. Schumann Enterprise No. 1 Enterprise Gold-dredging Company .. J. T. Ryan Enterprise No. 2 Enterprise Gold-dredging Company .. G. MacGregor
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Name of Dredge. Owners. Dredgeniaster. Remarks. ■Dates ol visits. CiiDTHA Riveb — continued. Alexandra —continued. . Earnscleugh No. 1 .. Earnscleugh Gold-dredging Company Life-saving appliances not on board. This was attended to at once; runner required for boat-line One life-buoy requires recovering ; otherwise appliances in good order Undergoing repairs .. Dredge and appliances in good order Life-saving appliances require renewal. While running a head-line the line fouled, the boat swamped, and the crew (five men) were thrown into the river. Having life-belts on and boots unlaced, in case of emergency, all the men got out safely. Date of accident 20th April, 1901. Well-gangway required ; engine to be railed in Railing required forward Set-screws on collar on screen driving-shaft to be guarded Light-lines and boat-hooks required Dredge and appliances in good order Undergoing extensive overhaul J. Fouby .. 3/6/01. Eamscleugh No. 2 .. Earnscleugh Gold-dredging Company 9/10/01. 3/6/01. 9/10/01. 6/6/01. Chicago Chicago Gold-dredging Company J. McDonald Glasgow Sandy Point Gold-dredging Company W. Hansen 9/10/01. 3/6/01. 9/10/01. 3/6/01. 17/8/01. 17/8/01. Perseverance No. 1 .. Perseverance Gold-dredging Company S. Cameron Perseverance No. 2 .. Perseverance Gold-dredging Company Below Clyde. Dunstan Lead Dunstan Lead Gold-dredging Company D. Brigans Getting ready to start Sleeve required on engine-shaft, also on winch-engine shaft; guard required round winch engine Regulations to be posted in a more conspicuous place ; dredge and appliances in good order Light-lines not in place ; fencing required below tables ; also guard on feed-pump, and ladder up the gantry Repairing ; life-saving appliances not yet up to the mark One life-buoy, 100 ft. light-line, and one boat-hook required Dredge and life-saving appliances in first-class order .. .. .. 23/7/01. 28/9/01. Matau Unity Matau Gold-dredging Company Unity Gold-dredging Company H. Sanders T. Barry .. 22/7/01. 23/7/01. At Clyde. Vincent Gold-dredging Company Vincent Extended Gold-dredging Company J. Hewitt.. 3. von Haast 17/8/01. 23/7/01. 24/7/01. Vinoent Vincent Extended Clyde-Cromwell Gorge. Cairnmuir Cairnmuir Gold-dredging Company .. D. McMath Dredge and life-saving appliances in first-class order Dredge closed down ; appliances in good order Ready to start, but not yet equipped with life-saving appliances.. Light-lines and two boat-hooks required. Company notified that second boat, lately belonging to the Golden Falls, was unsuitable for river- work, and that a suitable boat would have to be provided Dredge and appliances in good working-order .. Repairing; dredge and appliances in good order Belt-drive and bevel gear for screen require to be guarded Dredge and appliances in good order .. Dredge and appliances in good order ; closed down temporarily Screen driving-gear requires to be covered ; hand-rail required across the tables Dredge and appliances in good order ; rules observed Gangway required across the well Dredge and appliances in good order ; not working Dredge appliances in good order ; regulations complied with 24/7/01. 17/8/01. 17/8/01. 17/8/01. Leaning Eock Monte Christo Leaning Rock Gold-dredging Company Monte Christo Gold-dredging Company D. Murray T. Keen .. ■ Boundary Creek Half-way House Boundary Creek Gold-dredging Company Half-way House Gold-dredging Company A. Gibson J. Rogers.. A. Young.. 17/8/01. 7/12/01. 24/7/01. 17/8/01. 7/12/01. 24/7/01. 16/8/01. 24/7/01. 6/12/01. 24/7/01. 7/12/01. Kelly and Casey Kelly and Casey Gold-dredging Company Great Central Gold-dredging Company F. Williams T. Brown.. Great Central 3. Bobertson Alpine Consols .. ' . Alpine Consols Gold-dredging Company J. MacConnell
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Dredgemaster. Kemarks. Dates of Visits. Name of Dredge. Owners. Clutha River — continued. Clyde-Cromwell Gorgre-continued Alpine No. 2 Hartley and Riley Alpine No. 2 Gold-dredging Company Hartley and Riley Gold-dredging Company Junction-EIectrio Gold-dredging ComA. Johnston G. McLay Dredge and appliances in good order, and rules observed Dredge and appliances in good order; regulations complied with 26/7/01. 7/12/01. 31/7/01. Junction-EIectrio No. 2, Cromwell A. Boss Dredge and appliances in fair order 16/8/01. pany Above Cromwell. Royal Maori Royal Maori Gold-dredging Company P. Kifcto .. Gangway required across well-hole, also some fencing aft; runners to be provided for boatlines Getting ready to start; to be provided with life-saving appliances 30/9/01. Rise and Shine Rise and Shine Gold-dredging Company Point d'Or Gold-dredging Company .. D. Cormack 7/12/01. Point d'Or M. Murray Requires new second boat; otherwise appliances in good order 6/12/01. Below Albertown. Upper Clutha Prince Albert Upper Clutha Gold-dredging Company Prince Albert Gold-dredging Company A. Gibson J. Parsons Getting ready to start; no boats on the claim ; no life-saving-appliances on board Company notified on 6th December, 1901, that second boat unfit for river-work, and that a proper boat ehould be provided. Two buoys and three boat-hocks required 2/12/01. 15/10/01; 2/12/01. Kawabau Riveb. Above Cromwell. Central Electric Central Electric Gold-dredging Company Electric Extended Gold-dredging Company Junction-Electric Gold-dredging ComJ. Ledingham J. Sanders A. Bremner 26/7/01. 4/12/01. 30/7/01. Electrio Extended One boat-hook short; otherwise regulations well observed Shifting up stream ; appliances in good order 200ft. light-line required; otherwise dredge in good order Junction-Electric No. 1. A. Hedley Second boat unfit for river- work ; has since been replaced by one more suitable. Appliances in fair order Dredge and appliances in first-class order, and regulations well observed Main rope-drive to be guarded ; otherwise dredge in good order 16/8/01. Cromwell Electric (Lady Ranfurly) pany Cromwell Gold-dredging Company .. Electric Gold-dredging Company N. P. Kloogh J. Steel .. 30/7/01. 30/7/01. Kawarau Gorge. Magnetic Second Magnetic Magnetic Gold-dredging Company .. Second Magnetic Gold-dredging Company Upper Magnetic Gold-dredging Company Meg and Annie Gold-dredging Company W. Kitto J. P. Kitto Dredge and appliances in good order and condition Railing required across the tables; appliances in good order 31/7/01. 31/7/01. Upper Magnetic J. Rae .. Dredge and appliances in good order 31/7/01. 26/11/01. 31/7/01. 26/11/01. Meg and Annie D. J. Mclntosh J. McDonald Well-fencing pulled down ; hand-rails required on well-gangway Working with only one boat; three boat-hooks missing; well-fencing down; regulations not posted ; ga,ngway required over well Dredge and appliances in good order, but boating-work difficult; gorge narrow, and river very rapid This dredge refitting after being sunk An additional life-belt required ; otherwise dredge and appliances in good order Dredge and appliances in good order Gibbston. Merrimac Merrimac Gold-dredging Company .. D. McLean 1/8/01. Galvanic Eclipse Galvanic Gold-dredging Company Eclipse Gold-dredging Company Position vacant R. Woods 31/7/01. 1/8/01. 25/11/01. Above Kawarau Bridge. Kawarau Bridge Kawarau Bridge Gold-dredging Company Gangway required over well-hole, and hand-rail aoross tables; light-lines and boat-hooks required Not quite up to regulation mark yet 2/8/01. J. H. Robertson 15/8/01. -'"
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Name of Dredge. Owners. Dredgemaster. Remarks. Datea of Visits. Kawaeau River — continued. Above Kawarau Bridge —contd. Arrow Junction Kia Ora, below Frankton Arrow Junction Gold-dredging Co. Kia Ora Gold-dredging Company J. Highet.. G. S. Morris Well-gangway required ; also some light-lines Getting ready to start; life-saving appliances ordered, but not on board 2/8/01. 21/11/01. Dart Riveb. Dart River, 25 miles above Glenorchy Dart River Prospecting Company J. Hay .. Port side rail required forward; hand-rail to be fixed for ladder-way to the boxes ; life-belts not on board ; three boat-hooks required 6/8/01. Cabdrona Valley. White Star, below Branch Creek Cardrona No. 1 White Star Gold-dredging Company.. Cardrona No. 1 Gold-dredging Company Tacon's Cardrona Gold-dredging ComM. Murray P. C. McClure Dredge and appliances in good order Face, 23 ft.; fly-wheel of engine requires fencing ; appliances and dredge in good order 27/4/01. 27/4/01. Taoon's Cardrona James Lowe Fly-wheel of engine requires to be fenced; otherwise dredge in good order 27/4/01. Nevis River. Nevis. pany Success Gold-dredging Company D. Mclntosh No life-buoys, light-lines, or boat-hooks on board Standing No life-buoys on board; fencing good; dredge in good order No life-buoys, light-lines, or boat-hooks on board In good order; fencing excellent Repairing ; dredge recently raised after being sunk Only one buoy on board ; otherwise dredge in good order Only one buoy on board ; light-lines and boat-hooks required Boat being built; dredge in good order Boat not in paddock ; boat-hooks required No boat; gangway required forward ; port stern to be fenced ; regulations to be posted ; belting to be fenced 1/5/01. 27/11/01. 1/5/01. 27/11/01. 30/4/01. 27/11/01. 30/4/01. 27/11/01. 30/4/01. 27/11/01. 27/11/01. Success Carrick Carrick Gold-dredging Company J. Thomson Nevis Nevis Gold-dredging Company J. Mitchell Ngapara No. 2 Ngapara Gold-dredging Company J. McLean Ngapara No. 3 Ngapara Gold-dredgirg Company E. McDonald J. McLean C. Robertson Remarkables Remarkables Gold-dredging Company Bannockburn. Shepherd's Creek, Shepherd's Creek Bannockburn Creek, Bannockburn Creek Shepherd's Creek Gold-dredging Company Bannockburn Creek Gold-dredging Company P. Woodbouse G. S. Morris Repairing Guard required round winch engine ; no boat in paddock Dredge just started; no life-saving appliances on board; elevator-gangway requires handrails on outside Dredge and appliances in fair order 25/7/01. 30/11/01. 1/5/01. Manuherikia Rivee. Golden Link, Alexandra W. Poulter 25/7/11. Golden Link Gold-dredging Company Railing required forward; otherwise dredge and applianoes in good order Dredge and appliances in good order Being raised after sinking Fencing to be kept in repair ; life-buoy to be renewed ; devoid of life-lines and boat-hooks. Regulations posted, but defaced ; new copy required Boat not in paddock ; otherwise dredge and appliances in good order 3/6/01. 22/7/01. 6/6/01. 6/6/01. 29/7/01. Manorburn, above Alexandra .. Morning Star, above Alexandra Manorburn Gold-dredging Company.. Morning Star Gold-dredging Company H. Leicester W. Mason Olrig, Springvale Olrig Gold-dredging Company E. A. Johnston 7/6/01. Lindis Rivee. Pioneer-Eureka Pioneer-Eureka Gold-dredging Company James Watson J. Everitt 29/4/01. 3/10/01. Prospecting-dredge on Lindis River ; new dredge to be put on if ground proves payable Life-buoys, light-lines, and boat-hooks required; well-hole to be fenced; bevel gearing on elevator to be guarded; fencing required round unprotected parts of pontoons. Secretary was notified on 15th October, 1901, to attend to above
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18 Name of Dredge. Owners. Dreflgemaster. Remarks. Dates of Visits. Matakanut. Blue Duck, Matakanui Blue Duck Gold-dredging Company .. F. Williams Regulations not posted ; some fencing required forward 8/6/01. Bald Hill Flat. Bald Hill Plat Freehold, Bald Hill Flat Bald Hill Flat Gold-dredging Company J. Baker .. Regulations not posted ; screen driving-gear to be fenced 1/6/01. Naseby. Naumai, Upper Kyeburn Naumai Gold-dredging Company J. Brown .. J. McLelland Boat not in paddock ; otherwise dredge and appliances in good order Boat too large for paddock; wrote manager in reference to boat under date 4th November, 1901; otherwise dredge and appliances in good order 14/6/01. 31/10/01. Tuapbka. Evans Flat, Evans Flat Lawrence, Tuapeka Flat Reliance, Tuapeka Flat Evans Flat Gold-dredging Company Lawrence Gold-dredging Company .. Reliance Gold-dredging Company T. Gillespie A. N. Wakefield .. J. Hughes Starting to shift dredge to lower claim Light-lines required ; otherwise in good order Sleeve required on engine-shaft; ladder-way to boxes to be altered ; handles to be provided for boat-hooks ; light-lines missing Repairing tail-boxes ; appliances in good order Gangway required forward ; three boat-hooks missing 150 ft. of light-lines required, also two boat-hooks; main driving-belt to be fenced Ready for work ; dredge and appliances in good order; punt required No boat provided ; one boat-hook required Dredge and appliances in good order .. Light-lines (150 ft.) required ; otherwise regulations complied with Dredge and appliances in good order 150 ft. of light-linea required .. .. .. .. .. .. Getting ready to start; appliances in fair order Caretaker in charge; dredge in good order 19/9/01. 19/9/01. 13/7/01 Tuapeka, Tuapeka Flat Tuapeka Gold-dredging Company R. Montgomery .. 19/9/01. 20/10/01. 19/9/01. 17/5/01. 13/7/01. 21/9/01. 20/9/01. 20/9/01. 20/9/01. 24/5/01. 20/9/01. Gabriel, Tuapeka Flat Happy Valley, Wetherstone's Gabriel Gold-dredging Company Happy Valley Gold-dredging Company S. P. Uren J. Donaldson Imperial,, Wetherstone's Haveloek, Waitahuna McCormae, Waitahuna Manuka, Waitahuna Waitahuna Gully, Waitahuna Imperial Gold-dredging Company Havelock Gold-dredging Company McCormac Gold-dredging Company .. Manuka Gold-dredging Company Waitahuna Gully Gold-dredging Company J. Scott .. D. Rowe .. W. Williamson G. Hunter H. McAra Glenoee. Gold Bank, Glenore Stirling, Glenore Gold Bank Gold-dredging Company .. Stirling Gold-dredging Company A. Thomas J. Nelson Dredge and appliances in good order Two boat-hooks and some light-line required 20/9/01. 20/9/01. Waipoei. O'Brien's Patent, Lammerlaw Flat Upper Waipori, Waipori W. O'Brien and party W. O'Brien Dredge in good order and working satisfactorily. O'Brien's Patent Hydraulic Pioneer dredge Dredge and appliances in fair order 18/5/01. Waipori Consolidated, Waipori Success, Waipori Perseverance, McNeil's, Waipori Empire No. 1, Waipori Golden Shore, Waipori Empire No. 2, Waipori Waipori Gold King, Lower Waipori River Enfield, Verterburn Big Flat, Verterburn Upper Waipori Gold-dredging Compauy Waipori Consolidated Gold-dredging Company Success Gold-dredging Company Perseverance Gold-dredging Company Empire Gold-dredging Company Golden Shore Gold-dredging Company Empire Gold-dredging Company Waipori Gold King Gold-dredging Company Enfield Gold-dredging Company Big Flat Gold-dredging Company William Redpath .. T. Jefferson W. Hanley T. Aitken G. Larking R. Allen A. Dalziel J. Maxwell Gangway required forward; otherwise dredge and appliances in fair order Dredge and appliances in good order Repairing ; gangway required forward Dredge very well equipped and regulations attended to Regulations not posted ; otherwise dredge and appliances in good order .. Dredge not quite ready to work; life-saving appliances not in position on board the dredge 21/5/01. 21/5/01. 20/5/01. 20/5/01. 20/5/01. 20/5/01. 20/5/01. 30/5/01. H. Quertier A. Young Lengthening ladder ; appliances in good order.. Appliances in good order .. .. .. .. .. 20/5/01. 23/12/01.
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Dredgemaster. Remarks. Dates of Visits. Name of Dredge. Owners. Shag Biver. Ineholme, Inch Valley Inch Valley, Inch Valley Inoholme Gold-dredging Company .. Inch Valley Gold-dredging Company.. J. Guyton A. Louden J. Black .. P. Brennan Dredge and appliances in fair order Begulations not posted ; dredge and appliances in fair order Two boa r .-hooks missing Set-screws on winch-shaft to be out off; guard-rail to be erected behind winch ; main and pump driving-belts to be fenced off; gangway required forward ; bevel gear on vertical driving-shaft to be boxed in No life-saving appliances; gangway required forward ; set-screws on collar on winch-shaft | to be cut off Bar required across coal-door and after-well .. .. .. .. • • 20/6/01. 20/6/01. 2/11/01. 2/11/01. Inohdale, Inch Valley Inohdale Gold-dredging Company .. Dunback, Dunback- .. Dunbaok Gold-dredging Company .. J. McNeil 20/6/01. 2/11/01. POHAHAKA BlVEB. Greenvale, Pomahaka Ardmore, Kelso Greenvale Gold-dredging Company .. Private syndicate Not appointed G. Beid .. Almost ready to start Appliances in fair order. Company notified on 13th September, 1901, that there was not "sufficient freeboard on this dredge, to which the manager replied that the matter was receiving attention Fencing required fore and aft and around well-hole ; well-gangway to be provided with hand-rails ; three life-belts and one buoy which were perished to be replaced by suitable ones ; regulations not posted on the dredge; three boat-hooks missing ; second boat unfit for river-work; double pulley runners to be provided for boat-lines. Company ; notified on 22nd November, 1901, to have these deficiencies attended to Dredge standing ; appliances in fair order 28/8/01. 28/8/01. Matauba Bivee. Mataura Consolidated, Mataura Island Mataura Consolidated Gold-dredging Company P. Bushbridge 23/10/01. Central Mataura No. 1, Gore .. Central Mataura Gold-dredging ComW. Shore.. 13/8/01. Central Mataura No. 2, Gore .. pany Central Mataura Gold-dredging Company Dredge and appliances in very good order 13/8/01. Waikaka Bivee. Sheddon's Freehold, Waikaka Valley Lilliesleaf, Waikaka Valley .. Sheddon's Freehold Gold-dredging Company Lilliesleaf Gold-dredging Company (private) Waikaka Gold-dredgitig Company .. Gleniti Gold-dredging Company Patterson's Freehold Gold-dredging Company Celtic Gold-dredging Company 3. E. Perry W. H. Patterson .. Dredge and appliances in fair order 3/9/01. R. F. White 30/8/01. Waikaka, Waikaka Gleniti, Waikaka Patterson's Freehold, Waikaka J. Walker A. Bennie ,. J. Patterson Getting ready for work Bepairing .. Dredge and appliances in good order 2/9/01. 31/8/01. 31/8/01. Celtic, Waikaka Perry's Pioneer, Waikaka H. May .. H. Parsons Light-lines and boat-hooks required ; main and pump belts require fencing Dredge and appliances in good order .. .. .. .. • • • • s • 31/8/01. 30/8/01. Little Waikaka Bivee. Premier Waikaka, Waikaka .. Premier Waikaka Gold-dredging ComT. Lukin .. Bepairing 2/9/01. Little Waikaka, Waikaka pany Little Waikaka Gold-dredging Company (private company) Ibbotson and party Globe Gold-dredging Company Waikaka United Gold-dredging Company Waikaka Queen Gold-dredging Company Waikaka Forks Gold-dredging Company (privatecompany) J. Brownlie Dredge and appliances in good order 2/9/01. Ibbotson's, Waikaka Globe, Waikaka Waikaka United, Waikaka T. Maslin G. Lee W.Wilson.. Gangway required forward; otherwise in good order Bepairing .. Dredge and appliances in good order .. 2/9/01. 2/9/01. 2/9/01. Waikaka Queen, Waikaka J. Wallace Belt and rope drives awkwardly placed ; otherwise dredge in good order 2/9/01. Wftikaka Forks, Waikaka H. S. Molineaux .. Bepairing 2/9/01.
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Name of Dredge. Owners. Bredgemaster. Dates of Visits. Remarks. Waimumu Stream, Victoria-Waimumu .. Treasure, Waimumu Waimumu Queen Waimumu Extended Viotoria-Waimumu Gold-dredging Company Private Waimumu Queen Gold-dredging Company Waimumu Extended Gold-dredging Company Waimumu Gold-dredging Company Waimumu Central Gold-dredging ComH. Quertier F. Browne E.Reid .. To be provided with life-saving appliances Life-buoys and light-lines required Gangway required forward, also handles on boat-hooks .. .. " 11/9/01. 11/9/01. 11/9/01. G. Pettigrew Gangway required forward .. 11/9/01. Waimumu Waimumu Central .. T. Styles .. D. Caithness In good order .. .. .' 11/9/01. 11/9/01. Spec Gully (late Naseby) pany Spec.Gully Gold-dredging Company .. G. Bennett Gangway required forward; life-buoy and boat-hook required Chablton Cbeek. Charlton Creek 11/9/01. Charlton Creek Gold-dredging Company Central Charlton Gold-dredging ComC. Bennett Excellent order; best-equipped dredge in the district 4/9/01. Central Charl ton J. McCorkindale .. Light-line and boat-hooks required Lady Charlton pany Lady Charlton Gold-dredging Company 4/9/01. G. Biehan Li sl h o t uld ne begua d rde b d Oat " hOOkS reqUired ; re 1 uired ' winoh friction- shaft Ba al 1 oi > d r^ D 1 th°n V dr T dge " g0 ° d 0rd6r - Visited in with drowning a^eldix, 1 'Accent"'') ° ™ * Padd °° k ( Se " Getting ready to start; dredge provided with life-saving appliances Light-lines and boat-hooks required 4/9/01. Waikaia Rives. Mystery Plat, Waikaia Gold Creek, Chatton .. Mystery Plat Gold-dredging Company Gold Creek Dredging Company (private) E. Lawson W. Robins 21/10/01. 18/11/01. 3/9/01. Waiau Riveb. Belmont, Waiau Belmont Gold-dredging Company (private) D. O'Leary Two life-buoys missing ; life-belts to be renewed ; boat not equipped ; 200ft. heaving-line and t:Zm^:tLiTi9oi. t0 the proprietor ' s attention was directed by ietter 8/11/01.
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Summary of Dredges in Southern Mining District. Working At 31s ' March, 1901. At 31st December, 1901. InOtago ... ... ... ... 99 115 In Southland ... ... ... 26 32 125 147 Building— Otago ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 26 Southland ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 4 30 Standing — — Otago ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 24 Southland ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 1 25 Eemoving — — Otago ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 18 Southland ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 1 19 Total for Otago and Southland ... ... ... 221 Increase of working dredges —■ Otago ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 16 Southland ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 6 Total ... ... ... ... ... ... 22
The owners of all dredges working on the Clutha, Kawarau, Shotover, Dart, Lower Manuherikia, Pomahaka, Waikaia, Mataura, and Waiau Eivers have received notice that the river on which the dredge is working is deep and swift-flowing, and that the requirements of clause 2, Eegulation 83, of " The Mining Act, 1898," must be complied with. Four fatal accidents (involving the loss of five lives) and five non-fatal accidents were reported to me during the year. A.S usual, a proportion of the accidents occurred while oiling, machinery being in motion ; of these, Arthur Cormack was killed on the Teviot dredge and Albert Shirley sustained a fractured leg on the Little Waikaka dredge. Herbert Blatch and H. Ferris, Dunstan Lead dredge, Alexandra, were drowned owing, presumably, to mismanagement of the coal-boat. Had the men stuck to the boat instead of jumping into the river they would in all probability have been saved. Archibald McLean, dredgemaster, First Chance dredge, Alexandra, and James Reid, winchman, Lady Charlton dredge, Gore, were drowned. The Coroner's jury in each case brought in a verdict that there was no evidence to show how the accident occurred. Remarks. The question of reducing working-costs is receiving attention from dredge-designers and others. Two prominent innovations have been introduced during the year. Mr. William O'Brien, of Waipori, has successfully applied hydraulic power to replace steam on two dredges at Waipori, and is engaged fitting up three other dredges with similar motive power. Messrs. Payne and Peck, dredge-designers, Dunedin, have invented a revolving elevator which discharges tailings from the screen chute to some distance from the dredge, at the same time stacking the tailings to a considerable height. It is believed that by its adoption this elevator will replace the costly and cumbrous travelling elevator at present used in deep ground ; that wear-and-tear will be decreased, and first cost lessened. The Ngapara dredge has been fitted with the elevator, and the owners of the Glasgow (Sandy Point) dredge have decided to give the elevator a trial on their machine. OTHER MINERALS. Antimony. Antimony Exploration Syndicate, Alexandra (Robert Blair, manager; William Stewart, secretary). —(7/6/1901) : No. 2 shaft is sunk 54 ft. to the level. The crosscut at 3 ft. from shaft struck lode formation, which is 15 ft. between the walls; the antimony lode here is from 9 in. to 3 ft. in width. The level is driven on the lode a distance of 55 ft., giving about 150 ft. of backs in sight. 29 tons first-grade and about 200 tons of second-grade ore have been taken out, and are now lying in the paddock. The course of the lode formation is due east and west. Further prospecting has proved the lode to continue west, and at 500 yards from No. 2 shaft No. 3 shaft is sunk, cutting the lode at 40 ft. Surface-trenching on the outcrop proves the continuance of the lode between the shafts. Trial shipments have been sent to Melbourne with a view to obtaining the actual value of the metal. If satisfactory returns are received it is intended to erect smelting-works on the ground,
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Earnscleugh No.3 Dredge, Alexandra, Otago, in course of erection. This Dredge to be driven by electric power.
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Red Jack's Dredge, near Ngahere, West Coast.
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Scheelite.
This mineral continues to be produced by Messrs. Donaldson, Golden Point, Macrae's. The occurrence of the mineral associated with gold-bearing quartz is known at the other quartz-mines in the Macrae's district, but no efforts are being made to recover the scheelite, owing (it may be) to the percentage contained in the stone being too low to recoup the expense of erecting the necessary concentrating plant at the present market price of the mineral. CINNABAB. Waitahuna. —The level to the main lode has been completed in "hard" country, the lode being struck at 231 ft. Pending the construction of a company to provide funds for development, the mine has been locked up and no further work done. ACCDIENTS. QUABTZ-MINBS. Non-fatal. Two slight accidents were reported to me during the year, neither of which happened underground. 20/5/1901. —William Baird, mine-manager for the Table Hill Quartz-mining Company, was heating some water (in which dynamite had previously been thawed) in a tin on the smithy fire for the purpose of thawing dynamite when an explosion occurred and inflicted slight injuries to Baird's abdomen and hands. The tin was not suitable for the purpose, and I wrote the general manager of the company drawing his attention to paragraph (n) of subsection (2) of section 206 of " The Mining Act, 1898." 17/7/1901. —Thomas Harrison, Bare wood Quartz-mine, was leaning over the cam-shaft talking to the battery-feeder when he got caught by the crank on the end of the shaft. Nature of injuries : Fractured forearm, Hydbautjlc and Alluvial Mines. Fatal. Loo Sok, a Chinese miner, was found dead under a fall of dirt in the face of his claim, at Ophir, on the 2nd December, 1901. Non-fatal. D. O'Brien Waipori, while working alone in his claim on the 4th February, 1901, was caught by a fall from the face. Nature of injuries : Fracture of one leg and several ribs. GOLD-DBEDGES. Fatal. 23/9/1901. —Arthur Cormack, fireman, Teviot dredge, Roxburgh, was caught by the clothing on a coupling on the elevator-shaft while oiling, machinery being in motion. 26/9/1901. —Herbert Blatch and H. Ferris, engineer and fireman respectively on the Dunstan Lead dredge, Alexandra, were drowned. Coal-boat swamped owing to boat taking too much sheer, and the crew jumped into the river. The two other members of the crew got ashore safely. 8/10/1901. —Archibald McLean, dredgemaster, First Chance dredge, Alexandra, was making the dredge snug preparatory to handing her over to a caretaker when he by some means fell into the river. The jury brought in a verdict " that there was not sufficient evidence to show how it happened." 18/10/1901. —The body of James Reid, Lady Charlton dredge, Gore, was found in the paddock. After an exhaustive inquiry the Coroner's jury brought in a verdict " that James Reid was drowned in the Lady Charlton paddock, but there was no evidence to show how it happened." Hugh Cox was drowned in the paddock of the Happy Valley dredge while attempting to rescue a foal on Sunday, the 11th March, 1901; but, this not being a mining accident, I have not included it in the above list. Non-fatal. 5/2/1901. —Albert Shirley, fireman, Little Waikaka dredge, fractured a leg. He was oiling top tumbler while machinery in motion. 6/3/1901. —Arthur Lister, fireman, Manuka dredge, sustained a crushed hand with loss of thumb. He was cleaning top tumbler bearings, the machinery being in motion. 29/6/1901. —William Morrison, engineer, Central Electric dredge, Cromwell, was adjusting brasses when a wedge he was driving sprung, struck his right eye, and cut it out. 13/8/1901. —John Watt, Waimumu Extended dredge, Gore, was pressing the stern line into the lead with his foot, when his foot got caught and bruised, but no bones were broken. 27/9/1901. —William Patterson, Waipori King dredge, Berwick, while stepping ashore from the boat at midnight, fell and sustained fracture of three lower ribs. I have, &c, E. R. Green, The Under-Secretary, Mines Department, Wellington. Inspector of Mines.
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Mr. Warden Bush to the Under-Secretary for Mines, Wellington.
Sib,— Warden's Office, Thames, Ist March, 1902. At the commencement of 1901 it was hoped that the year would disclose such an advancement in the Upper Thames portion of the goldfield as hitherto had not obtained during its history, but unfortunately the miners' dispute arose, which unsettled mining business all over the field, more especially at Waihi, where it originated. With the award of the Arbitration Court, however, the mining dispute gradually was lost sight of, and a better and more hopeful feeling prevailed over the whole district than was the case for months previously. Notwithstanding this dispute, the gold-return for this portion of the district for 1901 shows an increase over the previous year of £143,284. In 1895 the gold-return was £169,134, only about £25,000 more than the increase of this year's output, the total for which is £635,004. The Waihi Company's return for February was £41,090 from 12,939 tons, making a total of £205,506 since the commencement. The New Zealand Crown Mine Company's (Karangahake) return for February was £6,388 from 2,560 tons, making a total of £40,862 since commencement of crushing. The crushingpower in the latter case is limited to sixty head of stamps, while that of the Waihi Company is 290. The Waihi Company have recently taken over the Waihi Union Company's properties ; as this includes the Silverton battery, this company will no doubt utilise that to supplement their crushing-power. This company has been engaged as actively as in past years in its mining operations, meeting with fair success in discovering new lodes, as well as the continuance of those being already worked at deeper levels. The company's works are steadily increasing in magnitude both at Waihi and Waikino, where the main reduction-works are erected. These works give every indication of becoming one of the largest in the world. The company finds employment for some fifteen hundred men. The Waihi Grand Junction Company have stuck pluckily to their development at great cost; something amounting to £100,000 has been spent without any return. The water has been one of its main difficulties, but from all appearances there seems some prospect of that being kept under now. Good prospects have been obtained at some places in this mine, and it is expected when the water difficulty is overcome the shareholders will receive some benefit for their patience and pluck. The Waihi Extended, the Waihi Consols, the Waihi South and Consolidated are endeavouring to turn their properties into gold-mines, but find it very heart-breaking work, especially as it is so difficult to procure outside assistance in the shape of working capital, without which little or nothing can be done with this class of property in country of the nature where they are situated, where the reefs are several hundred feet below the surface. Besides these, there are several other properties recently taken up which are under protection to enable the holders to raise capital to work with. Nothing worthy of note has been done by the Waihi Beach Company on its properties so far. The claims taken up beyond Waihi, towards Katikati, have all been surrendered or abandoned. Owhakoa. The Eising Sun plucky owners are still working away on their claim with a reduced number of men. They have worked the ground for some years with no payable result so far, but I hope before long to be able to report that something remunerative has been discovered on this property, from which very good prospects have been obtained. The Ohinemuri Syndicate have surrendered the bulk of their properties, and are working those retained with a reduced number of men. This company have obtained no gold worth mentioning for a considerable time, during which they have spent a considerable sum of money. The Waihi Gladstone has been worked for some years with a lesser number of men, but so far nothing to remunerate the owners for their expenditure has been discovered. Karangahake. The New Zealand Crown Mines Company's property here may, I think, at the present time be called the premier mining property in this locality. This company last year took some ground on the opposite side of the Ohinemuri Eiver to that on which the Crown Mine itself is situated, which it is intended to work from a shaft now some 300 ft. below the Ohinemuri Eiver. A tunnel is now being driven through the Woodstock ground to enable this ground to be reached as quickly as possible. It is to be hoped that this venture of this company may meet with such a reward as persons laying out their money in such large prospecting-works deserve. Should these prospeutingworks result in unearthing something fairly good, the future not only of Karangahake, but also of Paeroa and surrounding country, would be assured. An engine is being erected at the Crown Company's reduction-works to supplement the water-power during the dry season, the want of water at such season very much hampering its milling operations. The Talisman Consolidated have completed their new battery of fifty stamps, which has been crushing for some months, but, unfortunately, they appear to have got into a poorer class of ore; I shall therefore not be surprised to hear that for a time they will require to shut down the battery, and carry on development-works only, with a view to discovering more payable and richer ore at lower depths. It seems to me there are two ore-zones in the Karangahake district, one which may be termed the "surface zone" and the other the "deep-level zone." The lodes in the surface zone appear to get very poor below 400 ft., but at 700 ft. and deeper become of greater
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value. The Talisman Mine seems to have got to this portion, and it will require some months to enable it to make another start at crushing. This is unfortunate, as this is one of our most energetic companies. The Woodstock is another unfortunate company. The quartz is very hard to work, consequently expensive. A reconstruction, however, has recently taken place, which no doubt will put life into the mining operations of this company, which it is to be hoped will lead to more permanent benefits being secured to it in return for the capital expended so far without any return. Outside of these properties there is little or no mining being carried on at present. The Waverley, the Imperial, and one or two other mining properties are in existence, but are in a languishing state for want of capital to develop them. Waitekauei. The Waitekauri Company have during the past year surrendered a considerable portion of their unused area, but it has amalgamated with the Waitekauri Extended Company. I trust this union may prove beneficial to both the owners and the district. lam sorry to record that the yield of gold from this company's property has not been so frequently notified as last year, but the December return was £2,998 from 1,613 tons of ore. The Waitekauri Cross have recently commenced operations again, which it is hoped will lead to a good body of ore being discovered. Some rich discovery in one of these languishing mines is very much required just now to give a fillip to mining. The New Alpha, the Young New Zealand, and New Zealand Jubilee are not doing very much, endeavouring to find something payable. Maeatoto. The Maratoto Company and the Hikutaia Syndicate are still carrying on mining operations, but not on a very extensive scale. The latter syndicate are 'securing a little gold, but their crushing plant is small and the ore low grade. The ore at present coming to hand is said to be of better value. Komata. The Komata Beefs Company's property produced bullion to the value of £11,092, but the mill was not working the whole time. This, however, is not up to expectations. Some new properties have been taken up in this locality, which are reported as showing fair prospects ; but with respect to them it is the old cry, " without capital to develop, nothing can be done." WH AEEKIBAUPUNGA. The Eoyal Standard, a property on which a large sum was spent, and which at one time promised to be the making of the country surrounding it, has so far proved an absolute disappointment. This is now owned by Captain Hodge, of Coromandel, who is making every effort to secure capital to work it with. He evidently considers the property worth spending money on. CoBOMANDEL. Mining throughout the past year has continued much the same as during the previous year, the area worked and men employed being practically the same. Kauri Block. The Hauraki Mine is working steadily, but with reduced number of men. Bunker's Hill Mine is under protection. The Hauraki Freeholds is also under protection. The Hauraki No. 2 is being prospected and developed, with latterly a small show of gold in defined leaders. The old Central Claim, on the north side of the Coromandel Wharf, has lately been taken up as the Mermaid Sea-beach Claim, and vigorous operations have commenced. Freehold Land. In the Kathleen Crown Mine developing-work is being pushed on, and the ground systematically prospected. Driving Greek. The Eoyal Oak of Hauraki Mine is being steadily worked, and has shown very regular crushing results during the year, averaging about £1,300 per month. The New Four-in-hand has also continued a gold-producer, though lately it is not doing quite so well. The Hauraki Mines (Limited) have carried on developing and prospecting work consistently. The West Tokatea Mine has now been largely developed, with encouraging results. It is suggested that more men will shortly be employed. Tiki. In the Progress-Castle Eock good work has been done, and a quantity of payable ore is on hand. Kennedy Bay. Work here is exceedingly quiet. Mα tamataharakeke. Prospecting continues very encouraging.
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Several good prospects have been found, a few small returns being obtained. KUAOTUNU. The amalgamation of Try Fluke, Try Fluke Extended, and Kapai-Vermont Claims, spoken of in my last report, has now been accomplished, but is of recent date, and the new owners have not had sufficient time to carry out to any extent their lower-levels-development scheme. The Waitaia Gold-mining Company have continued crushing with regular results. The Handsworth Claim has given very consistent returns. The Irene Special Quartz Claim, worked by a party of tributers, continues to give fair returns. Kapowai Block. The Kapowai Gold-mining Company's battery is now completed, and we may look for regular returns from this comparatively new district. Opitonui. There is nothing new to report in this district, the crushings of the Kauri Freeholds being much as they were last year. It is rumoured that this company intends reducing the number of workmen at present employed, which is to be deplored. The public battery in Coromandel continued to work satisfactorily throughout the year, and has been, as anticipated, of great service to persons wishing to test their ore before erecting a battery. Tβ Akoha Disteict. Practically the only mining in this district has been at Waiorongomai. A certain amount of prospecting has been done at the Tui Mine, and some of the ore has been sent away for treatment, but nothing further has been done. At Waiorongomai Mr. Hardy's mines, the Premier Special Quartz Claim (late Empire Special Claim, New Find Nos. 1 and 2 Special Claims), and the Big Blow Special Quartz Claim are the only ones that have been worked to any extent. At the Premier Mine a low level has been extended 300 ft., and a rise 85 ft. high made ; while 945 tons of ore has been sent to the battery for a return of 580 oz. 12 dwt. of bullion, valued at £1,490 13s. 7d. In the low level have appeared bands of the white, curly, gold-bearing quartz which in the upper workings formed a compact mass 15 ft. ahead of the face of the drive. Assays of these bands show a value of £2 os. sd. per ton. The ore is more refractory in silver-sulphide than in the upper level, but samples in bulk passed over vanner3 readily yield concentrates containing gold 2 oz. 18 dwt. 20 gr., silver 56 oz. 5 dwt. 8 gr., valued at £17 7s. 9d. per ton, which can be profitably shipped to the smelter. The proprietor has treated Premier ore-concentrates by berdanning with lime. This extracts some free gold and amalgam, but leaves a residue containing gold s dwt., and silver in the form .of sulphide 23 oz. 3 dwt. 18 gr., valued at £3 6s. 4d. per ton. Cyanide treatment fails to give good results, due to the presence of copper; but retreatment by hydraulic ejector and over vanner, lam informed by Mr. Hardy, produces a concentrate profitable for smelting as under: Wilfry concentrator—Gold, 4 oz. 8 dwt. 4gr.; silver, 83 oz. 15 dwt 20 gr.: value per ton, £26. Union concentrator—Gold, 3oz. 5 dwfc. 8 gr.; silver, 86 oz. 3 dwt. 3 gr.: value per ton, £21 13s. 6d. At the Big Blow portion of the property an immense amount of surface excavation has been done, exposing a fine reef for a length of 50ft. In the floor the reef is oft. wide, making strong and compact towards a junction with the mother lode at the Big Buck reef. Similar junctions at the New Find, Colonist, and Premier Claims produced a rich deposit of gold and silver. About 30 tons of a highly mineralised quartz has been paddocked. Mr. Hardy states that the bulk ore is worth about £3 per ton, but it can be sorted out at the mine to produce £10 per ton, and that samples had been treated by vanner, producing concentrates worth £25 per ton for gold and silver, and £1 12s. for copper, and that experiments have been made upon 5,000 tons of tailings lying near the battery. The value of these by 120 assays has been found to be 19s. 6d. per ton, and a profitable method of treatment has been devised by passing the materials by hydraulic ejector on the vanners. This produces concentrates containing gold 2 oz. 12 dwt. 6 gr., and silver 43 oz. 18 dwt. 17 gr., valued at £24 16s. 7d. per ton, suited for shipment to smelter. A third vanner 6 ft. wide, by Gates, has been installed in the battery to expedite the treatment of the said tailings. The only other claim working in this locality is the Cadman Special Quartz Claim. Two men have been employed on this, but I understand the work they have been engaged on has been principally of a prospecting character. Tapu. Bullion Mine. —This mine has been worked on tribute, four men being employed. Work has been carried on upon a leader, from which good returns have been obtained. For the year 24 tons of ore was treated for a return of 198 oz. 13 dwt., valued at £566 Is. 4d. The mine is now owned by Mr. James Hawkes, who purchased it at public auction early in the year. The old company has been wound up. Mahara Royal (Limited). —This mine has been under protection for most of the year. The company spent £35,000 in developing the property and erecting machinery, but the results have not been payable, and now, owing to its connection with the Standard Exploration Company (Limited), the working capital has been withdrawn. It is anticipated that if the affairs of the Standard Company are satisfactorily arranged work will be resumed.
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Monowai Mine (Monowai Gold-mines, Limited). —This mine has been vigorously worked during the whole year, forty men being employed. The ore, being very complex, is concentrated at the company's battery, and the concentrates shipped to Newcastle, and there treated with highly payable results. The directors are so pleased with the prospects that they have decided to erect a plant of their own on the beach at the mouth of the creek, and to connect it with the mine by means of an aerial tramway, the site for which has been surveyed and plans prepared. A wharf has been erected at Waiomo, and the concentrates are now shipped direct to Auckland, instead of being carted to Thames, as in the past. The return for the year was £4,055. Broken Hill Mine. —Two men have been employed in putting in a drive to intersect the Monowai lode. The ore from this mine is of the same class as the Monowai, and requires the same treatment, but the company are not in a position to concentrate and ship oi*e as the Monowai Company does. Negotiations are pending for amalgamation with the Monowai. Victory Mine. —This is a small claim not far from the Monowai. A reef which the holders claim is the Monowai has been worked with encouraging results, the ore being similar to the Monowai, and requires a similar treatment. A parcel was sent to Newcastle for treatment, and gave a return of £70. This was considered to be highly satisfactory. Several parties are engaged in prospecting the vicinity, and several reefs have been discovered, but all more or less complex. If a suitable plant is erected I have no doubt this locality would be well worked. Pueu. The Puru Consolidated has been worked on tribute. A good block has lately been opened up, and it seems as if the tributers are to be rewarded for their labour. Tababu. Eclipse Mine (Eclipse, Limited). —This mine has been well worked, twenty-four men having been employed, and 3,994 tons of ore treated for a return of 2,191 oz. 13dwt. bullion, valued at £6,165 ss. The ore is low grade, but with economic treatment it pays well. The mine is connected with the battery by an aerial tramway 7,400 ft. in length. Tararu Greek Mine. —This mine was sold by auction on the 16th September last by order of the mortgagee, Mrs. A. Trower, and bought in by her. Shortly after operations were resumed, and a crosscut from the battery level, about 2,700 ft. from the mouth, commenced for the purpose of intersecting the old Day Dawn reefs. About 800 ft. in from the Dunedin main reef a level is being driven southwards through new country towards the Sunbeam rise. It is intended to more thoroughly test the reefs in the old Sunbeam Claim, "and for that purpose the old workings are being cleaned out and repaired. In the battery a new boiler is being fixed up, so that in summer, when water is short, the driving-power can be replaced by steam. Thames. Kuranui Mine (Kuranui Gold-mines, Limited). —This company have had seven men at work during the whole year. Several leaders have been found which will probably pay to open up. The principal leader is 180 ft. from the boundary, and has 80 ft. of backs. Near where this leader is rich gold was obtained by the old company. A rise of 80 ft. for ventilation purposes has been put up from the low level to the tunnel-level, some little distance to the east of the Deep Lead shaft. When this rise is completed the mine can be more easily developed. Gold to the value of £142 10s. 9d. has been won from 69 tons of quartz. New Alburnia (New Alburnia Gold-mining Company, Limited). —This mine is being worked by tributers, who have been taking out some small leaders in the surface levels. They crushed 37 tons for £122 6s. 2d. Efforts are being made to raise more capital for this property, but so far without success. New Whau Mine (New Whau Gold-mining Company). —The ore obtained from this mine was so poor that the six-month protection was applied for and granted, pending the raising of more capital, and to let the directors consider future operations. A few tributers have been working, but have not been able to find anything payable. ' Moanataiari Mine (New Moanataiari Gold-mines, Limited). —This company have employed two wages-men during the year, and let the upper portion of the mine out on tribute. A large number of miners have been employed in working on small leaders, and returns have been fairly remunerative. These men crushed 1,254 tons 14 cwt. for a return of 2,262 oz. 8 dwt. of gold, valued at £6,251 12s. Bd. The directors in England have not yet made up their mind as to future operations. Kuranui-Caledonian Mine (Kuranui-Caledonian Gold-mining Company, Limited). —This mine has also been worked by tributers. The company has not been doing anything towards developing the mine, but I am led to understand that it is intended within a short period to resume operations. The tributers have been working on the many small leaders on the hanging-wall side of the reef, generally with fair results. They crushed 425J tons of general dirt and 932 lb. of picked stone for a return of 1,524 oz. of gold, of the value of £4,154. An average number of forty-five men has been employed. Fame and Fortune Mine (Fame and Fortune Gold-mines, Limited). —This mine has been worked by tributers for some time past. They have been employed on the Golden Age reef, both above and below the Balmoral level. The ore obtained has not been of sufficient value to reimburse the men for their outlay and labour. In the higher levels Fox's leader has been worked, and gold seen occasionally. Mr. Edward Kersey Cooper went to England some months ago for the purpose of raising more capital to further prospect the property, but I have not heard whether he has been successful or not. He is expected back in about two months.
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Waiotahi Mine (Waiotahi Gold-mining Company).—This well-known mine continues to give payable returns, due, no doubt, to the careful and systematic manner in which it is managed. An average of sixteen men has been employed ; and 1,096 tons of quartz crushed for a return of 1,508 oz. 11 dwt. of gold, valued at £4,109 6s. Id. Victoria Mine (Victoria Gold-mining Company, No Liability).—Boring operations were going on for some months on the seaward side of the slide, and a bore put down to a depth of 518 ft. The country through which the bore traversed was loose and full of boulders, making the work tedious and unprofitable, for now it is found that a new site will have to be selected. A few tributers have been working in other parts of the mine, but have not met with much success. May Queen-Hauraki Mine (May Queen-Hauraki, Limited). —The company have not done anything further towards developing this property, no doubt due to the stoppage of the Thames-Hauraki pump. The mine has been well worked by tributers, some of whom have had handsome and continuous returns, particularly McConnell and party. The tributers have been engaged on the reefs and leaders in that block of ground above the No. 6 level, and in the Saxon, May Queen, and Cardigan sections, which had been previously opened up by the company. lam informed that in a short time the company will resume work, directing its operations to developing the low levels. I hope this is true, for a great deal depends on the testing of the reefs at the low levels. Thames-Hauraki Mine and Pump. —This property has been under protection for the whole year, pending the reconstruction of the Standard Exploration Company (Limited), of which the company is an offshoot. May Queen Extended Mine. —This company has been working on the Hokianga reef, north and south, but the reef did not turn out as well as was anticipated, and work in this portion of the mine ceased. The old Adelaide low level was then repaired, and the crosscut extended to ascertain if the reef existed on the south side of the break. The drive has not yet reached the point where the reef should be, if it does extend on that side. ' Claremont, Karaka Greek. —This is a most valuable little mine (1 acre), owned and worked by Mr. George Bryant. It is situated some two or three miles up Karaka Creek, a locality celebrated for its specimens, which are found where the reef is intersected by what are called " flinties." The licensee obtained 1,1401b. of stone, which he crushed in his own battery, yielding the handsome return of £1,210 10s. The Inspector of Mines has visited the mine on several occasions, but he informs me he has never been fortunate enough to visit when the specimens are showing. Neiv Gloucester Mine (New Gloucester Gold-mining Company, Limited). —This claim has been worked with four men, who have been employed on Cowling's leader driving and stoping. A few pounds of picked stone was obtained. 44 tons of quartz crushed for a return of 101 oz. ldwt. ; value, £306 ss. ]od. Occidental Mine (Occidental Gold-mining Company, No Liability). —No work has been done by the company during the year. Five tributers have been employed, who crushed eight loads of quartz for a return of 28 oz. 2 dwt. Efforts are being made to raise more capital to further prospect this mine, more particularly in the North Star section, at a lower level than that in rise. Ethel Beefs Mine (Ethel Eeefs Gold-mining Company, Limited). —This ground has been under protection pending the raising of further capital. I am informed that the directors have not been successful in doing so, and have decided to abandon the ground. This company spent a lot of money in opening up and prospecting their property, but the reefs were all too small to pay to work on a large scale. Fortuna Mine (Portuna-Hauraki Gold-mines, Limited). —The company, having spent most of its capital without any payable results, obtained permission to work with a reduced number of men. Six tributers have been employed, and have crushed 113 tons of ore, which yielded 96 oz. 18dwt. of gold; value, £272 16s. PUEIEI. Miner's Bight Mine (George Greenaway and party).—The owners of the claim have been working steadily during the whole year. They have taken out several small leaders, and have been extending the low level for the purpose of getting under the workings of the upper level, when it is expected good payable ore will be found. They crushed 42 tons for 38 oz. 14 dwt.; value, £97 14s. 4d. The same party own the Union Jack Claim adjoining, and have had a crushing of 52 tons for a return of 97 oz. 4 dwt.; value, £245 3s. 2d. Puriri Gold Estates Mine (Puriri Gold Estates, Limited). —The results from this mine have been very unsatisfactory. Early in the year 135 tons of quartz was taken out and crushed for a return of 51 oz.; value, £129 13s. This did not pay expenses, so the mine was closed down. Omahu. Sheet Anchor Mine (Tilsley and party).—An Auckland syndicate have had an option over the property. A low-level tunnel has been put in 900 ft., the object being to intersect the reefs worked on the surface by the licensees, which gave very good returns. The lode may be met with any day now. Six men have been employed. Klondike Mine (Odium and party). —A low-level tunnel to intersect the lode which was opened up at the surface is being driven. It is now in 116 ft., but it is estimated that it will be 200 ft. more before the formation will be met with. Some very good returns were obtained from small parcels of ore taken from the surface. An Auckland syndicate have undertaken to erect a fivestamp battery on receiving a half-interest in the property, and are now engaged in making a road for the purpose of bringing up the machinery. If this property turns out well I have no doubt more land will be taken up and prospected. It is said there are other reefs seemingly as good as the Klondike in the vicinioy. The country is new and well worth trying.
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A little prospecting has been going on, but nothing of any importance has been discovered. The Golden Belt is held by a syndicate who are trying to raise capital to erect machinery and further develop the mine. I hope they will be successful, for there are many reefs in this locality which I think are well worth opening up and testing. Taieua. Tairua Broken Hills (Tairua Broken Hills Gold-mining Company, Limited). —During the year this property has been well opened up at the deeper levels. The main low-level crosscut has been extended 164 ft.,-and the Blucher reefs intersected. A rise has been put up on the reef to connect with the No. 3 level (230 ft. above the low level). Good ventilation is thus provided, and the company can now vigorously and systematically work the block of ground between the levels, in which good payable ore exists. Tenders have been called for driving and stoping, and it is expected that in a few weeks the battery will be kept going continuously. A ground-tramway 18 chains long has been constructed. This connects the mine with the mill, and it is intended to use a small locomotive to take the quartz to the mill. The water-race has been completed, and now the battery will be run by water-power instead of by steam ; thus the cost of treatment will be reduced. Pakibarahi. Chelmsford Mine (Chelrnsford Gold-mining Company, Limited). —This mine is situated upon the Kauri Timber Company's freehold property, and is held under license issued under section 56 of " The Mining Act, 1898." The battery has been completed, and commenced running in May. Since then 1,365 tons of quartz has been put through for a return of £1,431, and a large quantity of slimes saved for future treatment. These slimes contain a large percentage of the value of the ore, and when treated should add considerably to the returns. It is intended to erect a filteringpress to treat these slimes. Whangamata. Whangamata Proprietary (Whangamata Gold Corporation, Limited). —The upper portion of this mine having been worked out, operations were suspended and protection obtained. The future developments of the mine must be at deep levels, and for this purpose heavy pumping machinery and more capital will be required. The machinery has been obtained, and is now. in Auckland, but the capital is next to be found. A scheme of reconstruction has been decided upon, and, if successful, ample capital will be produced for vigorously developing the lower levels. Good returns were obtained from the upper levels, and there is no reason to suppose the reefs do not continue down. In the early part of the year 150 tons of quartz was crushed, and yielded 255 oz. of bullion, of the value of £224. Mananu Mine (Mananu Gold-mining Company, Limited). —The prospects of this mine are very favourable. It is estimated that 5,000 tons of payable ore are in sight between No. 1 and No. 2 levels. The work of the year has been driving and stoping on the reef (Studholme's) above No. 1 level, and it is from this reef that the bulk of the ore treated has been won. Preparations have also been made for taking out the block between No. 1 and No. 2 levels. An extra ten head of stamps are being erected and auxiliary steam-power supplied, which should be completed in a few weeks. When everything is in working-order the returns should show an appreciable increase on last year's. During the year 2,219 tons of ore was treated for a return of 3,440 oz. of bullion; value, £7,558. Great Babbieb Island. Barrier Beefs Mine (Barrier Beefs Gold-mining Company, Limited). —This mine has now been shut down, and the company (after attempting to reconstruct) has gone into voluntary liquidation. Up to November work had been going on steadily, but then the ore gave out from the lower levels upwards, and the battery was stopped. Any future works must be at the deeper levels, and for this purpose large and expensive pumping machinery must be provided. Up to November the average number of men employed was 112. The total output of gold from the Hauraki Gold-mining District for 1901 was £758,600 14s. lid. This is an increase over the year 1900 of £123,666 15s. Bd. Of the total output, the Upper Thames produced £635,004 17s. 2d. ; Thames County, £54,504 2s. 3d.; Coromandel County, £69,091 15s. Id. The only thing unsatisfactory with these figures is the fact of the reduced amount of gold coming forward from the mines in the Thames and Coromandel Counties. Taken, however, as a whole, remembering that the mining industry was for some months very much disorganized, owing to the miners' dispute, it is a matter for congratulation that the returns are as good as they are. The Thames-Hauraki Company, whose properties some year and a half ago were taken over by the Standard Exploration Company, has carried on no operations during the past year, owing to the Standard Company (which was connected with other larger financial companies) being compelled to go into liquidation in consequence of having to fall with these larger concerns, which were forced to do the same. Communications have, however, recently been received from the Official Receiver in London, stating that the Standard Exploration Company's reorganization scheme had passed shareholders' meeting, and that application for the Court's approval was pending. Further information on the subject is expected by mail. In the meantime there are no funds available even to pay the drainage assessment, for which the Drainage Board has judgments recorded in the Warden's Court. Should the scheme under consideration be approved, no doubt further capital will be forthcoming to continue the work of sinking on this property. The works upon which this company are engaged are of such a costly nature that no one could carry them on unless backed
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c\ y aLro7tt rg Lr s k h n a f g t oapitaL The PrOteCti ° nS Me SUbJeCt t0 tributeS bein § let beyond a few consZtd T a tS Ult T'r T maDy POiDtS haV6 t0 b6 C ° nSl dered - As the Boarf is "™ n eonsti uted, I think, entirely of persons connected with the various mines within its area the difficulty is much greater than it would probably be if the assessment were left o some Person m no way connected with either of the mines. As far as I have bee Table to udge from he appeals from time to time brought before me in the Warden's Court there is a desL the part of the Board to assist struggling companies as much as possible, bat such 1 system of assess ment cannot be satisfactory to companies which are fortunate enough to pay theTwly Ithink the time has come to remodel the regulations under which the Board exerc ses iurisd,VHo. h« others ,r e e,th er worked by Iributer. or with .8 »m,H . number ol ? me"Yp" ibi Tbe" e « 8 " I have, &c, E. S. Bush, Warden.
Mr. Warden Roberts to the Undbe-Secebtabt for Mines. Tu Q + ~, . Warden's Office, Tauranga, 31st January 1902 spected—viz., the Te Puke Gold Eeefs Company and the Sisters Special Claim /£ the year an option (which has not yet expired) was taken over the Te Puke Gold Eeefs Company's property by a Mr. Thompson, of Auckland It is understood the? The Undersecretary for Mines, Wellington. EoBBETS> Warden _
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Hydbaulic Sluicing. T,r aP ttlT lly if SPe ? ng '/ .good deal of developing-work has been done and some encouraging Ereithas Sent 7 th 811106 1 ? 8t 1 re P°l'-' wUI be noticed under the head «f localitief wnere it has taken place, the principal of which is COLLINGWOOD. 37 S Tl Cial ° lai T aD f fiV6 e * tended claims w ere registered, comprising 628 acres 3 roods fromthe d * he a 216 acres and 10 perches. The returns irom the Golden Blocks Mine at Taitapu have continued satisfactory month after month the yield account of this operations since May have been confined to opening up th reS withthe resuit that a large amount of payable stone has been proved, and it is now intendedUo resume crushinas soon as improved means of ore-transport are devised and adopted. During the first of the 8 Y6ar ™ am rrr still employing considerabie iab -' * from P tZlZ™3!™ltt Sluicin9 an t Minin9 Gom P an y (Limited).-I understand that the returns irom the operations of this company have not come up to expectations, and that for a time work was suspended pending consulting shareholders. The rate of wage paid by th com 2 ™ Court Th[TV f C l °" CiliatiOn ?° ard ' and their award was cSmed fy thTlrbLaSn Court. This doubtless has had some influence on the plans of the directors who have expended great energy and capital in the development of their various properties forThich they a? e now applying for extended protection pending reconstruction and decision as to Tuture pkns The company has always found the ground extremely difficult to work, consequent on the wash being found in patches only, and having to contend with dangerous slips It has until recently emnloved continuously twenty men, and often more, and has provided constant work EnwS wot ha been resumed, but on a smaller scale for the present, and ground which was bdng worked has had hashSTo F ' &B r\t S allthe Pkns f ° r o P enin gthere:and a new face on entLTy other ground has had to be opened with a view to prospecting thoroughly g*ounu I hear resul a have been encouraging. The material and machinery lor two drS»es™ve Sivrf Goal. Three coal-mining leases of a total area of about 700 acres have been registered Of th* odercoal-minmg leases three are paying royalties, and when the wharfand are com pleted at Puponga the output will be more satisfactory, as there is plenty of coal ofXd aXvTn view there Prospecting by steam-boring has also been done at Pupongl with somf success • bit I should like to be able to report more definitely as to the output and the immedTate prosScts of getting a steady supply of coal to market from this part of the district. At hear that an outcrop of superior coal has been discovered, and application is in for a lease o?500 acres ff°gSed S 1S n ° Wn aS CaldWell ' S - An influential S "" dicate has beea f ™" to develop it Takaka. c% y n e e ar refu 1 s:d een appli ° ati ° nS f ° r ™™% V™ H es were made-sixteen granted, two t v T he Q? par A° f the - ie - W^ ere there is much activit y in mining is at the Bubu The Takaka Sluicing Company (Limited) have bought up Mr. Whelham's freehold property and have ■ brought in a race, capable of carrying twenty heads of water from fh P ™v,t i J i v' T. 7 , Bubu Eiver at a cost of £2,500, a/d Lye Sy W tytad one ckamng-up, but, from what I can learn, the shareholders are satisfied with their pSecw If the company continue to get payable results from their properties at the Bubu I am?Sed thaJ they intend bringing in fifty heads additional from the Anatoki Eiver at a cost of £20 000 Thts the Zltokf :1 granted ' Md WheQ r nplete WIH ° Ommand all the terracefbetween th" S?o£ l^{^Sl W W i. < Ser%SS!? y ° f MW gr ° Und kQ ° Wn tob —iferous. Th e 6 A Anat ° kl Wi s at h r aS h , een knoWn as Jackson 's Claim has been idle on account of the death of the owner, and is, I understand, for sale. At Sheepy Flat, Baird and Co. areS bringing
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up a tail-race from the Anatoki Eiver for working their claim. During progress a little gold is being got, which only part pays expenses. The shareholders seem very confident of getting payable gold when they reach their ground. There are only two old men fossicking in other parts of the Anatoki. All the dredging claims taken up in the Takaka, Anatoki, and Bubu Rivers have been abandoned. MOTUEKA. The following licenses have been issued during the year, viz.: Two for prospecting for asbestos, two tail-races, one main tail-race, one water-race, one extended claim, and one drainage area, all in the Mount Arthur Table-land district. Wan gape ka. Blue Greek and Boiling River. —With the exception of a party of two, who are prospecting for a reef near the old machine-site at Blue Creek, only three men have been working in the vicinity during the past year, and their returns are reported to be very small. Wangapeka Biver. —The Wangapeka Dredging Company's new dredge is now nearly completed, and in a few months the question will be settled as to the fitness of the river for dredging purposes. The company have called for tenders for cutting firewood for the use of the dredge, and have also erected huts for the men to be employed in working the dredge. Nothing has yet been done on Mr. Tinlin's property. Sherry. —Gardiner's party are still working on private property at the Sherry, and are reported to have been on payable gold during the year; but, owing to their ground dipping, have had to deepen their tail-race, which is not yet completed. Tadmor Hill. —No one is now working on the old diggings at Tadmor Hill. Some prospecting has been done during the year, but nothing remunerative has been discovered. Baton. —These diggings have been deserted during the year. The men previously working there have found employment on the railway-extension works in Motueka Valley. I have not heard of any prospecting being carried on in the vicinity of the Crow Diggings during the year. I have, &c, The Under-Secretary for Mines, Wellington. Wilson Heaps, Warden.
Mr. Warden Hawkins to the Undeb- Secretary for Mines, Wellington. Sib,— Warden's Office, Greymouth, 20th March, 1902. I have the honour to present my report on the mining industry in the several centres under the jurisdiction of the Wardens' Courts over which I preside. Eeefton-Inangahua Disteict. From the opening of the district to the 31st December last 976,771 tons of quartz has been crushed, from which 617,833 oz. of gold has been obtained, representing a value of £2,433,298, out of which £734,917 has been distributed in dividends. The total amount of alluvial gold for the same period is approximately estimated at 148,572 oz., representing a value of £554,420. The total production of the district is, as far as can be ascertained, 766,405 oz. of gold, of a value of £2,987,718. The two following tables show the calls made, dividends declared, &c, by the various companies in the district during the year 1901, and the comparative returns for each year since 1880 :—
No. 1. Gold Returns, &c., for the Year ending 31st December, 1901.
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Company. Calls. Dividends. Quartz crushed. Yield of Gold. Value. Progress Mines „ (sulphates) Consolidated Goldfields of New Zealand : Wealth of Nations .. „ (sulphates) Golden Fleece „ (sulphates) Welcome Kirwan's Reward Victoria Range Keep-it-Dark New Inkerman Mines Big River New Scotia Snowy Creek Golden Lead Private oompany—Last Chance £ a. d. £ s. d. 27,500 0 0 Tons. 55,207 Oz. dwt. gr. 23,399 1 5 £ a. d 95,131 12 0 2,549 1 10 22,499 18 0 | 12,015 ] 14^809 '240 2,821 5,221 17 5 8,880' 8 1 20,838 17 10 764 15 9 34,217 12 6 1,594 11 5 1,923 13 9 9,171 11 9 4,206' 0 0 496'l5 3 2,299 13 0 833 6 8 4,489 1 0 43 17 3 30 6 0 1,101 3 9 3 4 0 4,006' 0 0 12,442 81 75 16,669 10 9 172 2 4 120 13 10 3,139 9 10 12 10 02,100 0 0 1,500 0 0 1,200 0 0 600 0 0 * 20 "l60 102' 0 0 413 2 0 Dredging Companies — Al Reeves's Proprietary Alluvial 6,233 6 8 58,199 18 0 97,870 46,067 6 2 186,719 5 7 425 0 0 610 0 0 907 12 6 787 13 20 3,608 0 0 3,576 5 7 3,141 3 8 14,002 0 0 Totals .. 6,233 6 8 59,234 18 0 97,870 51,370 12 4 207,438 14 10 * 5,350 tons of tailings.
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New Inkerman Mines (Limited). —Mr. E. W. Boyd, legal manager of the above company, reports as follows : Practically no crushing has been done during the year; a small' test parcel of 81 tons, which yielded 43 oz. of gold, was the total put through the battery. The whole attention has been given to the development of the ore-body below and. above No. 5 level, with fairly satisfactory results. The winze has been sunk a further distance of 100 ft. vertical, making a total of 200 ft. Total footage for the year : Driving, 737 ft.; crosscutting, 149 ft.; stopes, 37 ft. ; sinking, 115 ft. ; uprising, 126 ft. : total, 1,164 ft. Last Ghance (private company).—Messrs. Fleming and party supply following particulars of work done : (1.) Work done on the sandstone-formation block: Driving tunnel 150 ft.; stoping same 30ft. in depth ; put up a rise 30ft. to connect with airway; crushed 150 tons of stone from this block. (2.) Work done on leader stone : Driven tunnel 150 ft.; stoped same 25 ft. in depth. Extended No. 2 tunnel 40 ft. Future operations : Driving and stoping, should results warrant same. Kinvan's Reward Gold-mining Company (Limited). —Mr. P. N. Kingswell, legal manager of the company, furnishes the following report: During the last twelve months the developments have been most satisfactory. A very large quantity of payable ore has been opened up, and future prospects are very encouraging. Owing to the large quantity of ore opened up, it is intended forthwith to increase the present battery from ten to fifteen heads. This is estimated to cost about £750, and, besides reducing the cost of production proportionately, will insure regular monthly dividends being paid. Tenders are now being called for driving a prospecting-tunnel a distance of 200 ft. on a reef-track in the Earl Brassey Claim. This reef-track carries stone of low grade for a depth of 1,000 ft. down the sideling, and it is hoped that this tunnel will prove a solid and better-quality lode further south and under the crown of the bill. With the exception of about eight weeks' stoppage last winter owing to an exceptionally heavy fall of snow, and through one of the main passes carrying away, necessitating the erection of an incline tram, the battery has worked almost continuously, and for the year 2,821 tons has been milled, yielding 2,299 oz. 13 dwt. of gold. This enabled the company, after prospecting and opening up the mine and setting aside £600 towards cost of additions to battery, to pay four dividends amounting to Is. 6d. per share during the year, The shareholders are to be congratulated on possessing an exceptionally valuable property, and one that, it is believed, will pay for many years to come. Victoria Range Gold-mining Company (Limited). — Mr. P. N. Kingswell, legal manager, reports as follows: The work done by this company during the year ending the 31st December, 1901, has consisted of driving a prospecting-tunnel a distance of 502 ft. This is a low-level tunnel driven into the Victoria Eange, and it was expected that some of the outcrops on the surface would have been cut, but so far no stone was met with. Keep-it-DarJc Quartz-mining Company (Limited). —Mr. W. Hindmarsh, legal manager, supplies the following report on the year's operations : —Mine department : The quartz crushed during the year has been stoped out of Nos. 2 and 3 levels, and the reef in these levels has continued fairly regular. The stone being worked is fully 220 ft. long in No. 3 level, and there is also a block
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of quartz on this level 42 ft. in length, on which no stoping has yet been done. In No. 2 level the reef is somewhat shorter, being 185 ft. in length. From the stopes in No. 2 level up to the floor of No. 1 level there is yet a height of 42 ft. of reef to be stoped out; and from the stopes in No. 3 level up to No. 2 there yet remains 56 ft. perpendicular to be worked, which will be ample to keep the battery going until other levels are opened up. A winze has been sunk from the floor of No. 3 level 92 ft. in solid stone all the way. At that level the reef turned off very flat, and sinking was discontinued until No. 4 level is driven, when the reef can be followed at much less expense. A contract has been entered into with Messrs. Anderson, King, and party to sink the main shaft 250 ft. The contractors have been two months at work, and have sunk 67 ft. The bottom of the shaft is now 97 ft. below the floor of No. 3 chamber, and it is the intention of the company to open out No. 4 chamber at 150 ft. below No. 3. During the twelve months 12,685 tons of quartz has been raised from the mine and sent to the battery at a cost of £6,748 ss. Bd. This amount includes all contracts and development-work in the mine, extending levels, crosscuts, and all repairs to old adits and levels. It also includes sinking of winze, but does not include sinking of main shaft. The cost per ton was 10s. 7-J-d. The winding-engine which was ordered last year from Messrs. Fowler and Sons, of Leeds, England, arrived here in June last. It was at once conveyed to the site and erected in position. The engine is a good one, and is doing the required work very satisfactorily. The water-wheel which was used for winding is now out of use, but will be available for working a pump, should it be found necessary in the future to place one in the mine. Immediate use will be made of the , wheel in driving a dynamo to light the battery, cyanide plant, brace, and all surface-works. Battery department: The battery has been running steadily for the year, with the exception of two or three small stoppages on account of slips on the head-race. 12,685 tons has been crushed, giving a return of 2,907 oz. 12dwt. 3gr. of melted gold, being just a small fraction over 4dwt. 14 gr. per ton. The battery expenses for the year, which include wear-and-tear and all renewals of plant, and also the upkeep of head-race and tail-race, amount to £1,384 ss. lid., being just a shade over 25,. 2d. per ton. Cyanide department: The whole of the tailings as run from the battery have passed through the leaching-vats. On the whole, the extraction has been fair, though on several occasions the percolation has been bad—notably in frosty weather during the winter months. The sand, being run into the vats with water as it leaves the battery-tables, requires to be turned over in the vats to assist the percolation, and occasionally when the sand in the bottom of the vats is very wet the turning is of very doubtful benefit. It has been decided to erect settling-tanks, into which the sand will be run from the elevating-wheel; it will then, after draining, be trucked into the leaching-vats in a dry state. This method will insure a freer percolation, and will not increase the working-expenses. The overflow from the vats passes over canvas tables, and upwards of 30 tons of sulphides, the product of these tables for the year, was last month shipped to Melbourne for treatment, the assay-value being £18 per ton. There is still a loss caused by the coarser pyrites escaping in the residue, and in order, as far as possible, to prevent this loss it is intended to put down canvas tables at the tail of the battery streaks, so that all the sand will pass over them before it is lifted into the settling-tanks. The total amount of gold obtained by the cyanide process during the year is 1,627 oz. 16dwt. 15 gr., value £5,317 19s. lid., being an extraction value of Bs. 4£d. per ton on the gross tonnage crushed. .The working-expenses for the same period, including wages, cyanide, zinc, royalty, and all alterations and additions to plant, have been £2,446 7s. 3d., being 3s. lOjd. per ton, thus leaving a profit on the year's work of £2,871 12s. Bd., or a profit of about 4s. 6£d. per ton on the gross tonnage. Owing to the low grade of the quartz operated on, and the cost of the winding-engine, the company has been unable to declare the usual monthly dividends, but trusts that the incoming year will make good the deficiency. New Scotia Mine. —Mr. T. H. Lee supplies the following report: During the year 173 tons oi quartz was treated at the crushing-battery for 17 oz. 10 dwt. 6 gr. gold, valued at £63 ; and at cyanide plant 5,350 tons of sand was cyanided for 1,011 oz. 3 dwt. 9 gr. of bullion, valued at £3,139 9s. 10d. In the Gallant section of the mine a considerable quantity of prospecting was done from the No. 1 level, and a trial crushing of 173 tons was put through the battery from a block of stone disclosed over level, but the results from battery were found to be too poor to warrant further work. The yield from the tailings produced from such crushing was, however, payable. At present No. I level of Drake is being extended north from main shaft to intersect the Gallant big blow, and about 150 ft. further extension should bring the face under the perpendicular of the reef showing on the surface. This drive will intersect lode about 400 ft. below its outcrop on surface. Driving has been slow owing to hard ground. In Happy Valley section the extension of the No. 2 level from main shaft has been commenced south along this line of reef. This work will test ground some 300 ft. deeper than was previously worked. The ground showing in face is very promising. The cyanide plant has been shut down, all the sands stored on the tailingsdump having been treated. Snowy Creek United Mine. —Mr. T. H. Lee supplies the following report: In this mine operations have been confined to prospecting on the surface and above the level of the creek in which the first outcrop was found. Surface results did not discover anything permanent, so a drive was put in on the north side of creek at back of the old winze. This intersected the original reef-track, and it is now being extended north on line of lode with fair indications. Before cutting this line, however, a reef about 5 ft. was intersected, which carried a little gold. It is about 12 ft. to the east of old line of reef. Later on a prospecting-drive will be carried, along north on this to thoroughly develop it and ascertain its value. Golden Lead Mine. —Mr. Lee supplies the following report : The company's No. 2 level was being extended at the beginning of the year, and this work was continued until the following June. Some crosscutting was then done in the level, and the leader that was followed in the earlier
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portion of drive was again intersected. In order to save a long and expensive shoot to convey the ore from the mouth of this level to a suitable place at which the loading-station of the aerial line could be re-erected, and to convey material to the battery, it was decided that a new level should be driven into line of lode. This level (No. 4) is now in progress, and to date about 275 ft. has been driven. It is anticipated that the lode will shortly be cut here, after which the aerial line will be shifted to mouth of this level, and the lode in both levels will be worked from No. 4. This will greatly facilitate operations in the mine, and also minimise the outside handling. Lord Edward Mine. —The late legal manager, Mr. Lee, reports : This mine was sold in August, 1901, to the adjoining company, the Big Eiver Gold-mining Company (Limited), and is now being developed from the latter's main shaft. The Lord Edward Company has therefore been wound up. Big River Mine. —The legal manager, Mr. T. H. Lee, reports as follows: During the year 75 tons of quartz was produced from some stone found in the No. 1 intermediate level, which yielded 30 oz. 6 dwfc. gold, valued at £120 13s. 10d. Operations in the mine have been confined to No. 1 intermediate level, Nos. 2 and 6 levels. In No. 1 intermediate 80 ft. of driving has been done; a small payable block of stone was cut, which has been risen on and taken out. The drive was then extended a short distance on reef-track, but nothing payable was found. Over No. 2 level two rises were carried up on stone, one 34 ft. and the other 75 ft., but as the stone ran out operations were discontinued. In No. 6 level a large amount of prospecting, consisting altogether of about 772 ft. of crosscutting and driving, has been done, but without anything of a permanent character being disclosed, although indications at different places were very favourable. At present a drive is being carried on in this level in a north-westerly direction with two men. Owing to the failure to strike any extent of payable stone in the upper levels, it has been decided that the mine shall be explored at a greater depth. With this object the sinking of the main shaft is to be commenced early in the new year, and it is intended to sink it .150 ft. deeper before opening out for a new level. Mr. E. W. Spencer, engineer for the Consolidated Goldfields of New Zealand (Limited), submits the following reports :— Wealth of Nations. —In this mine our attention has been almost entirely restricted to the bottom level, as far as development-work is concerned, with the result that at the end of the year the 800 ft. drive was cut 547 ft. north of the shaft. Along this distance a considerable amount of quartz was encountered, for at 142 ft. from the shaft we struck a very strong body of stone, which at this point was 12 ft. in width, but of only medium grade. This drive was connected to the winze from the 700 ft. level at 500 ft. from the shaft, the drive at this point following a very nice band of stone 3 ft. in width, carrying very fair gold. The battery level at the Wealth has been extended north towards the Energetic shaft 156 ft., having 192 ft. more to go to connect. The total footages driven during the year amount to 591 ft., and 156 ft. of sinking and rising has been done. This mine has been very seriously handicapped during recent years by the awkward means of raising ore through a blind incline shaft, operated by means of an overshot water-wheel situated some 1,800 ft. away from the shaft. Hoisting a skip from the bottom level by this means occupies about eight minutes for each complete trip, allowing just time' to fill and empty the skip, hence making it necessary to hoist on two shifts when one should be sufficient with efficient means. To overcome these obstacles permission was received from London last September to start a new main shaft to handle the output of this mine with, so a start was then made to retimber the Energetic shaft from the bottom (about 40 ft. above the Wealth of Nations battery level) up to the surface. At the end of the year 70 ft. had been stripped and retimbered from its original size of 9 ft. 3 in. by 4 ft. 6 in. to its new size of: 13 ft. 2 in. by 6 ft. 2 in. There are in all 362 ft. to retimber; then the brace of the shaft will be lifted 12 ft., a temporary hoist installed, and sinking started. By the time this shaft reaches the present bottom of the Wealth of Nations it will be 1,212 ft. deep. During the past year 12,015 tons of quartz has been milled for a return of 3,987 oz. 9 dwt. 8 gr. bullion, valued at £16,448 4s. 5d., and concentrates to the value of £875 4s. Id. have been extracted; 7,206 tons of coarse sands have been cyanided, yielding bullion to the value of £4,390 3s. 5cL, at a cost of 3s. 5456 d. per ton treated. During the year the battery has been lit with electric light supplied from a Crompton dynamo. Besides this no alterations have been made in the equipment, the other machinery having given satisfaction. Golden Fleece. —During the year a considerable quantity of development-work has been done, amounting in all to 1,730 ft. of driving and crosscutting and 300 ft. sinking and rising, besides which the shaft has been sunk 150 ft.—that is, from No. 10 or the low level down to No. 11, a vertical distance of 125 ft., plus sump-room. Stoping has been carried on throughout the mine from No. 5 level downwards to No. 10, and producing in all 14,807 tons of quartz, yielding 7,227 oz. 19 dwt. 20 gr. of bullion, valued at £28,612 2s. 2d., besides which sulphurets to the value of £2,070 ss. 9d. have been sold ; also 11,170 tons of coarse sands have been cyanided, yielding bullion to the value of £5,416 14s. 4d., at a treatment-cost of 2s. 4-202 d. per ton, leaving a profit of 7s. 4-182 d. No alterations have been made in the equipment during the period under review, the whole of the machinery doing good work. Percival. —Early in the year the Perseverance tunnel was repaired for its full length, and the south drive extended 72 ft., exposing a small body of quartz of no particular value. Golden Treasure. —No work has been done on this property, with the exception of removing the hoist from the Treasure shaft preparatory to placing at the Energetic shaft. Welcome Gold-mining Company (Limited). —During the past year only a small amount of exploratory-work has been done, as all attempts at tracing the stone down to the low-level tunnel, Specimen Hill, failed ;so all that remained to be done was to pull out and mill the quartz. About 240 tons was stoped by the company and stacked at grass; then tenders were called for letting the
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mine on tribute, but apparently the public had small faith in the value of the quartz, so the company put up a very rough five-stamp mill, and crushed the 240 tons for a free-gold yield of £1,923 13s. 9d., besides several pennyweights being left in the tailings. After this crushing was finished tenders were again called with a view to tnbuting the mine, but although many favourable tenders were received none were accepted; so in order to make the treatment of the quartz complete a small cyanide plant consisting of two 20 ft. diameter by 5 ft. wooden treatment-tanks were erected, and one sump of the same dimensions. These tanks were nearly finished at the end of the year. Meanwhile stoping was going on in the mine by eight men. It is our intention to take out all payable quartz in sight. Progress Mines of New Zealand (Limited). — In the mine, development-work comprising 3,326 ft. of driving and crosscutting and 492 ft. of sinking and rising has resulted in the opening up of large ore-reserves, so much so that the tonnage in sight at the end of the year exceeds that exposed at the corresponding period of the previous year by about 4,000, notwithstanding the fact that 55,000 tons has been milled. Developments have been carried on from No. 2 to No. 10 levels, but the principal ore-reserves opened up by such are on Nos. 5 and 8 east, where large tonnages have been partially exposed. Stoping likewise has been carried on in a general manner from No. 3 level downwards under the same conditions as heretofore. On surface a new headgear of red-pine has been erected at B shaft, and at A shaft an ore-bin of (approximately) 100 tons has been built, into which trucks are tipped as they come from the mine. At C shaft a small Lingerwood hoist has been installed and head-gear erected. The adit level has been repaired up to the face on the eastern side, and driving for the Union stone commenced. On the western side of the shaft the adit has been extended 100 ft. The aerial line has given very little trouble during the past twelve months, and the cost of transportation has been reduced to per ton. 55,207 tons of quartz has been milled during the year, yielding by amalgamation bullion to the value of £81,394 2s. 5d.; also 931 tons of concentrates, a portion of which was shipped to the smelter, but 738J tons was chlorinated at the works, yielding bullion to the value of £9,284 7s. Bd. At the cyanide-works 14,988 tons has been treated for a return of £4,585 10s. lid., or 6s. l-427d. per ton, Of this amount, 3s. 0'246d. is consumed in working-expenses, leaving a profit of 3s. riBld. per ton. These works have been enlarged by the addition of two 25ft. diameter by 6ft. steel tanks. The whole of the coal required for the hoisting-engines has been mined from the company's own leases, the workings of which are in a satisfactory condition, and show a good reserve of fair-quality coal in sight. The working-costs show a slight decrease as compared with the previous year of 2'845d. per ton. The cost of mining, milling, and transportation all stand at a lower figure than for 1900, but general charges, unfortunately, show a distinct increase, attributable largely to the increased local taxation, which now amounts to 7 p 39d. per ton milled. The works throughout have been maintained in good order, and a prosperous year for 1902 is anticipated. Beeves's Proprietary Gold-dredging Company (Limited). —Mr. H. A. Bruce, secretary, supplies the following : Considerable difficulties have been met with in working the claim, the dredge, through the roughness of the ground met with, being unable to cope with same without continuous alterations and breakages, which necessitated considerable delays and the outlay of a large amount of the dredge's earnings in repairs and reinstatements. However, the dredge is now working much more satisfactorily, nearly all the wearing-parts having been renewed and strengthened, and a good run is expected without further mishap. The ground has proved, so far as worked, uniformly good, and compares well with other good claims on the West Coast; and, had it not been for its excessive roughness and consequent breakages to machinery, would have paid very handsomely. The balance-sheet shows that the whole of the previous year's expenses, £1,392 Bs. 5d., including flotation of the company, have been wiped off, and the sum of £1,464 3s. Bd. off the first year's expenses account, leaving a debit to Profit and Loss Account of £1,100 11s. 2d. The whole of the liabilities have been paid, and there remains a cash balance in the bank of £115 19s. 10d. The amount of gold won since commencement of operations, November, 1900, to 30th November, 1901, is 709 oz. 13 dwt. 13 gr.; value, £2,829 2s. Id. In accordance with the resolution passed by the shareholders on the 28th October last, an option has been granted over the claim and property to Mr. A. P. Harper. Mr. Harper has left for England, and will place the company's property upon the market there. This option does not prevent the directors from purchasing a suitable dredge should the chance occur, as, in the event of the company being floated in London, the new company is to take over any dredge or dredges purchased during the term of option, provided the same have been submitted to their engineer and approved of by him as suitable for working the claim. Since the closing of accounts the returns for the two weeks ending the 6th and 13th December have been 26 oz. and oz. respectively. Alluvial Mining. Except in the Eiding of Antonio's and at Boatman's, alluvial mining is very slight. The Chinese are still numerous at Blackwater, although gradually decreasing in numbers. An equal number of Europeans also are occupied in sluicing and driving there. No new finds of gold are reported. At Antonio's Plat and Creek Chinese and Europeans are also to be found mining, but, as in other places, the numbers are growing less year by year. At Boatman's and at Soldier's Creek about forty miners are employed. During the last two years the returns from alluvial mining have greatly decreased, owing, no doubt, to the assistance derived from the old-age pension by the old miners who came to the Coast during the first " rushes," and who never changed their occupation.
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In this district, though a large amount of work has been done in the dredging industry on the various claims, and though in many instances the returns obtained have not been equal to expectations, the results, on the whole, can be said to be fairly satisfactory. In some cases the unsuitability of the dredges employed fully accounts for failure to give payable returns. During the year 134 applications for ordinary mining privileges and fifty-one applications for special claims were received at the Lyell Court, which includes the whole for both Lyell and Murchison districts. Four-river Plain Gold-dredging Company. —This company's claim is situated on the Upper Buller, near the mouth of the Matakitaki Eiver. After working a few months with extremely disappointing results the company went into liquidation, and the dredge has now been sold. Buller Dredges (Limited).- —This company's claim is also on the Upper Buller, above Fern Plat. The dredge has been working for about three years, and for a time gave highly payable results, but on getting further up the river the ground became very poor, and the company ceased operations early in the year, and have now sold the dredge. Fern Flat Gold-dredging Company. —This company has recently been formed to work a claim on the Buller Eiver at Fern Flat. The company has bought the dredge belonging to the Buller Dredges Company, and intends carrying out extensive alterations to the machinery. The dredge should be working in a few weeks. Mokoia Gold-dredging Company. —This company's ground is situated on the Buller Eiver, about seven miles below Lyell. During the year the dredge has been working steadily, and has given payable returns. Buller Junction Gold-dredging Company. — This company's claim is situated near the Inangahua Junction, and about two miles below the Mokoia Company's ground. This dredge has been a success from the start, and, working splendidly all the year, has paid handsomely. Welcome Gold-dredging Company and Premier Gold-dredging Company. —Both of these claims are situated just below Inangahua Junction. Both dredges have just started work, and are said to be on payable ground, but no returns are yet available. Bocklands Beach Gold-dredging Company. —This dredge is working near Eocklands, about six miles below Inangahua Junction. During the year the dredge has worked badly, and has lost much time from various causes. The returns obtained have been unsatisfactory. El Dorado Gold-dredging Company. —This company's ground is immediately below that of the Eocklands Beach Company. The pontoons are completed, but no machinery is yet to hand. Old Diggings Gold-dredging Company. —This ground adjoins the El Dorado Company, and is situated at the Old Diggings, near Berlin's. The company purchased a very old dredge, with the result that it has met with a series of breakdowns from the day that it started to work. The ground is reported to be good. Feddersen Gold-dredging Company. —This company has two special claims on the Buller Eiver, about three miles below Lyell. A start has been made with the building of the pontoons. Kohikohi Gold-dredging Company. —This company's claim is situated on the Matakitaki Biver, near Murchison. The dredge commenced work a few weeks ago, and has obtained very profitable returns, but has lost a good deal of time through breakages. Amikitea Gold-dredging Company. —This company's ground adjoins that of the Kohikohi Company. The company have purchased the Four-river Plain Company's dredge, and expect to commence operations in a few months. The ground has been prospected, and reported to be very good. It may be noticed that out of the eleven dredging claims not in liquidation or abandoned only two are nearer Murchison than Lyell, and these are registered in three offices situate in Wellington, managed by a directorate there. Quartz-mining. Very little has been done in quartz-reefing during the year, the Alpine Extended Company's mine at Lyell being the only mine in active operation. About fifteen men are employed by the company, and lately a payable body of stone has been obtained in the No. 11 level. Alluvial. There has not been much interest taken in alluvial mining during the past year. In the Maruia and Upper Matakitaki districts a few individual miners manage to get a fair living. On the Buller but very little gold is now obtainable, and only a few Chinese are able to obtain a bare existence. At Newton Flat, twelve miles from Lyell and thirty-three miles from Murchison, the Neville and Perkins Hydraulic Sluicing Company have recently brought in fifty heads of water from the Newton Eiver with which to work a large flat there, but the company has not yet commenced operations. At Lyell a project is on foot to bring in sixty heads of water from New Creek with which to work some flats and high terraces on the north bank of the Buller Eiver, five miles below Lyell. The necessary water-rights have been secured, and a Wellington syndicate has the matter in hand. Addison's. Addison's Long Tunnel Company. —This company has employed five men continuously during the past year. A great deal of prospecting has been done on the outside lead, which becomes poorer towards its northern end. The company is now working north of the rig on the main lead, with fair returns. A tunnel is also being driven 1,500 ft. southward to secure sufficient fall to work the southern portion of the claim. Golden Sand Claim. —A considerable amount has been spent in repairs and improvements. A new tunnel 200 ft. long has been driven on the water-race and secured; other portions of the race have been cleaned and newly timbered in places. The dam has also been strengthened
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and the face risen about 4 ft. New tramway-bridges have been erected, and 18 chains of new line constructed. The old amalgamatmg-tables have been removed and replaced by new ones 60 ft. in width and consisting of thirty copper plates of the best quality procurable. A stone-breaker has also been added to the plant to facilitate the working of stony patches, which occur in different parts of -claim A teal crushing of 410 yards was completed on the old tables, which showed a return of 4s 6d per yard, but owing to the state of the tables a considerable quantity of the cement not get tair treatment. Crushing operations will be commenced shortly, when it is intended to give the battery a three-months' run before making a final clean-up, and much better results are expected when the new tables and plates are in good working-order. New assay plant and balances nave been procured, and will be in use as soon as a suitable building has been erected for their reception. Virgin Flat Gold-mining Company.—Nine men are employed upon this claim, and sluicing operations have been carried on almost continuously for the past ten or eleven months. Durin" that time about 2 acres of ground, averaging 16 ft. in depth, has been sluiced away. The washdirt is treated at the tables nearly three-quarters of a mile by tunnel from the face. The cement met with is broken up at the face and gets ground to powder during its passage through the tunnel, me tables are the largest in the locality, measuring 150 ft by 24 ft _ Neil and Party.-A new tunnel 1,600 ft. long has just been driven, the last section of which is now being boxed, and a new water-balance is being erected MoCann and Party. -After two years' dead-work this party is sluicing. During the past fZJbnL T wlTnf ° f u Unnel thr ° U S h § rayel ' which has been boxed and blocked ™», "gtout A shaft 40 ft. m length, to reach the washdirt, has been cut, and a new set of tables by It. in width has also been constructed. Senior and Party. -A new battery of ten heads of 6001b. stampers, with self-feeding apparatus, has been constructed, together.with an additional water-wheel to increase the driving power. b Gould and Party .-This party has driven a branch tunnel 300 ft. in length to give them sufficient fall to work the southern end of their claim. Wakeatea. Fairdoivn Gold-dredging Company (Limited).-Fontoons had been constructed and floated arHofninf 7 T ,T n *6 C ?7>'. ai r ld a dredge P urchased > &° directors heard that the adjoining claim had been ■'salted." It was then resolved to reprospect the claim, and the result ami ontoons Sectors either to secure another claim or sell the dredge Wareatea Gold-dredging Company (Limited). -After considerable prospecting had been done on this claim with highly satisfactory results a dredge and pontoons were procured and dredgmg operations commenced in September. After working for some weeks with very poor results further prospecting was done. In places where previously from 10 dwt. to 15 dwt per yard were obtained only a few colours were procured, the gold appearing to be different in sample from that obtained previously. Five bores and tbxee%hafts were put down with equally unfavourable results. Further operations were then abandoned, and the company is now in -β-i S3 w ,loJvw W lfw^^ OZ tf e^^' 7 r l CWisα,l2/ •~ The Career of this company corresponds very closely with that of the Wareatea Company. Highly favourable results of prospecting operations nduced the directors to build a dredge and all other necessary plant to work their claim. At first the poor returns were attributed to defects in the plant; but when these defects were remedied at considerable expense, it was found that the ground was still very poor and quite unpayable The gold obtained by prospecting was different also from that won by the dredge. Many shareholders are in favour of prosecuting alleged " salters," but no steps have been take/in the Waimangaeoa. Britannia Gold-mining Company (Limited). -This company has had a fairly successful year 696 tons of quartz has been crushed for 1,111 oz. of gold, worth from £3 16s to £4 0s 3d per ounce. _ Prospecting is now being vigorously prosecuted, and indications are all in favour of the reef being met m the various drives at an early date. Timber is very difficult to get, and owing to the loose nature of the ground the large quantity required makes it a heavy item in the work!ng° expenses. The construction of a further section of the new road near the claim wou d open up a good supply of mine-timber, which would be available for other claims besides the BritannFa The company uses a twc.-head Hendy battery with 8501b. stamps, and finds it a highly suitable m ! shareholders are now in the happy position of having received back the money invested by them, and a substantial profit in addition money Stony Creek Gold-minmg•Company (Limited).-This company was incorporated in October last with a capital of £12,000 divided into 12,000 shares at £1 each, and all shares were promptly subscribed. The company was formed to work several reefs at Stony Creek prospected and driven on by Mr. William Silke and a small Westport syndicate. The company took over the old Eepublic Company s battery and aerial tramway, and at considerable expense put them in good working-order. At the present time 150 tons of quartz has been broken out ready for crushing and there is a good show of stone considered payable in sight. The stone already taken out prospects i oz. to the ton and there is apparently a promising future in store for the company • Old Diggings.- During the past year A. G. Hill and party have taken up a special claim in this locality, and pushed on energetically with preliminary works. Water-race, tail-race &c have been completed, and sluicing operations are carried on whenever the water in the Buller Biver
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is low enough to allow tailings to discharge from the race. They frequently have to submit to periods of enforced idleness through freshes and floods in the Buller River ; but despite this heavy handicap their average earnings have been about £4 per man per week since they commenced sluicing. Peterson and party have a good claim about half a mile lower down the river than Hill and party's. They have constructed a tail-race about 500 ft. long at a lower level than Hill's race, and they are consequently thrown idle whenever the Buller Eiver rises a couple of feet. Kennedy's Claim adjoins Hill and party's. The ground is considered fairly rich, but, like nearly all the other claims in this locality, much time is lost through the Buller Eiver rising and blocking up the outlet from the tail-race. Fitten and party's claim is next up the river. Their tail-race being at a higher level and their water-supply larger than some of the adjoining claims, they are less liable to stoppages, and are consequently getting a good return for their labour and outlay. The ground in this locality is undoubtedly rich, and I think would pay handsomely if worked by means of elevating plant. Ahadba Distbict. Noble's, Duffer's, and Half-ounce Creeks. The population in the above districts remains about stationary. There has been no new find in alluvial mining during past twelve months. There have been three dredges built and working m Grey Eiver. Two have closed down—one apparently for good, the other in order to finance. The one at work (Great Lead Gold-dredging Company's dredge) has done about a week's work, therefore nothing can be said as to prospects of success or otherwise. There are also two dredging companies floated to work at Duffer's and Sullivan's Creek, a tributary of Duffer's Creek. Orwell Creek. The population at Orwell Creek remains about same—a. slight increase consequent on the two dredges at work. Erickson's Eeward has been giving moderate returns for some time (20 oz. to 30 oz.), and is likely to improve, as layer of pug seems to get thinner towards upper boundary of claim. Orwell Creek dredge has been at work about two months, but so far has not reached bottom. Depth reached, about 48 ft.; maximum depth of ground, 60 ft. There has been no new find in respect to alluvial ground. Ahaura. Several new claims have been opened along north bank of Ahaura Eiver, mostly by Chinese, with very good results. There is a large area of ground along the banks of river of payable nature if water for sluicing purposes were available. A dredge has been at work in river for about six months past, with variable results. The dredge lacked power, and has sunk in flood. Watterson's Consols Company's pontoons also sank. Whether any way damaged is not ascertained at present. The population remains about stationary. Nelson Creek. There has been no new find in alluvial ground in this district during past twelve months. There is a considerable amount of sluicing carried on, water at all times being plentiful. There are now five dredges built—viz., Nelson Creek, Pactolus, Victory, Aldinga, and Trafalgar. The two first named have so far given the best yields obtained on the West Coast. The contracts for erecting machinery on the others have been let, and the whole are expected to be at work within the next three months. Moonlight. The population in this district continues about the same. No new ground of any extent has been opened during the past year. The projected waterraces to be constructed by the Shetland Terrace Sluicing Company should make a great change for the better, and open up a considerable area of ground for working. There are two dredges being built in the creek. The contract for erection of machinery on one has been let. Sluicing is still carried on extensively at Healey's Gully, and when the new water-race now under construction by the Montgomery Terrace Sluicing Company is completed a large area of ground will be commanded by same and worked. Blackball. There is a slight increase of population in this district, mostly located at the township. There has been no new find in respect to alluvial. There has been one dredge working at the foot of Blackball and Ford's Creeks, but only indifferent success has been met with. It has been contended that this is mostly through the want of power in engine and the shortness of ladder to reach the bottom. No Town and Bed Jack's Creek. There have been no new finds in these districts. There is one dredge working in each creek. The No Town has only just commenced work, and therefore it is premature to speak with any certainty about it. The dredge at Red Jack's Creek has been working for about seven weeks past, and the returns have not been good. Considering locality, should be much better. The following shows the condition of the dredges in the district : Waipuna—Mosquito, working; Grey Consolidated, temporarily stopped; Waipuna, closed down; Great Lead and Totara Flat, working. Orwell Creek—Erickson's Reward and Orwell Creek, working. Ahaura—
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Ahaura Eiver, stopped temporarily ; Watterson's Consols, pontoons only. Moonlight—Garibaldi, machinery being erected; Moonlight, pontoons building and machinery obtained ; Caledonia, working ; Shellback, machinery erecting. Nelson Creek—Pactolus, Nelson Creek, Victory, Aldinga, and Trafalgar, machinery in course of erection. Eed Jack's (Bed Jack's Gold-dredging Company), working. No Town (No Town Gold-dredging Company), working. Blackball (Ford's Creek Gold-dredging Company), stopped. Geeymouth Distmct. In this section of my district, from information which has been kindly furnished me, I gather that the returns from the river-dredges have been disappointing during the past year. The Grey Eiver dredge, which at one time gave promise of yielding profitable returns to shareholders, has been working throughout the year, but the returns have been barely sufficient to cover the workingcost, and the directors of the company have recently decided to lay the dredge up. The operations of this company have made it manifest that river-dredging on the West Coast will be attended with greater difficulty and cost than most people have reckoned on. Frequent stoppage of work through the river being in fresh or flood has involved considerable expense in protecting the dredge from damage by collision with drifting timber, whilst useful work when the dredge has been able to work has been hampered by the difficulty of extracting submerged trees, which- have been deposited on the river-beaches during floods, and subsequently covered by drift shingle. The Dobson No. 2 Company's dredge was employed during the early part of last year in working a stretch of the Grey Eiver near Dobson Township, but the returns proved unprofitable, and the company has abandoned work and gone into liquidation. The Dobson No. 2 dredge has been purchased by the Grey Eiver Extended Gold-dredging Company, and this company has lengthened the ladder of the dredge, and restarted work on the Dobson Company's claim, but sufficient time has not elapsed to show whether there is any probability of profitable returns being obtained under the altered conditions. On the New Eiver the New Eiver Company's dredge is still working, but the results have not been profitable, and the directors have in hand a proposal to overcome the company's financial difficulties by a scheme of reconstruction. Higher up the river the Marsden No. 1 Company's dredge worked unprofitably for a brief period, and, owing to the fact that the company was in financial difficulties from the start, no adequate test of the company's claim had been secured when the company was compelled to suspend its operations and go into liquidation. The dredge has been purchased by a private party for about £800, and during the last week or two work on the company's claim has been resumed by the new owners, who hope to be able to secure profitable results under the altered conditions. Two miles higher up the river, and in proximity to the Marsden Township, a dredge owned by the Marsden No. 3 Gold-dredging Company is in course of construction, but the work has been interrupted owing to the necessity of providing further capital. The only other dredge on the New Eiver is the one owned by the Cornwall Gold-dredging Company, which recently made a start on a claim some two miles above the Marsden Township. The results so far have been sufficiently good to cover the working-cost and leave a margin of profit, but it is somewhat premature as yet to give any opinion concerning the probability of the company's operations being attended with success ; all that can be said is that the prospects are encouraging. At the junction of the New Eiver with Maori Creek, near the Township of Dunganville, a dredge belonging to the Maori Queen Gold-dredging Company, of Wanganui, has been working with indifferent success during the greater part of the year under review ; but owing to financial embarrassment work has recently been stopped, and the company has gone into liquidation. Those connected with the management of the company are of opinion that the failure is largely due to the inefficiency of the dredge, and a proposal is on foot to reconstruct the company, and provide further capital to cover certain proposed alterations. Under existing conditions the machine is only able to lift about one-third of the maximum working quantity which it was supposed to be able to lift, and, as the results under such conditions have almost covered the working-cost, it follows that treatment in greater bulk without additional workingcost may enable the new company to make a substantial profit where the previous company failed. The marine deposits in proximity to the ocean beach are being worked in this district by the Leviathan Gold-dredging Company and by the North Beach Gold-dredging Company, and dredges belonging to the Stony and Mosquito Lead Company and the Leviathan Freehold Company are in course of construction. The operations of the Leviathan Company are connected with a claim which is situated about three miles south of Greymouth. For the greater part of the year the company's operations were not attended with profit, and owing to financial stress additional capital had to be raised by the issue of preference shares. Since the issue of these shares was effected the results have been very satisfactory, and at the time of writing there is reasonable evidence that profitable returns will be forthcoming for a considerable period, and redeem the outlay in this enterprise. The North Beach dredge is working a claim some two miles north of the Cobden Township, and, although the dredge is engaged in treating material which has been worked by miners in the early days of the Coast, the returns have averaged about 30 oz. a week during the past few months, with a reasonable prospect of this average being improved on in the near future. The Stony and Mosquito Lead and the Leviathan Freehold Companies' dredges will be completed within three or four months from now, and will be set to work virgin ground in proximity to the Leviathan Company's claim. Prospecting operations carried out on these claims serve to show that there is a probability of rich returns being obtained.
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Taking the past operations as a guide, it is evident that the marine deposits on the fringe of the ocean will likely afford better results to dredging companies than river claims. For one thing, work on the beach claims can be prosecuted almost continuously, whilst in the rivers there is frequent interruption from flood, and also many ojiher disadvantages to contend with. Even on the beaches it cannot be said that there is any warrant for the outlay of large sums of money in providing dredging machinery, but there is a reasonable prospect that dredges which have proven unprofitable on the rivers might with advantage be removed, and, with certain alterations, be set to work with profitable results on auriferous marine wash which can be found in many places along the coast-line in this locality. Waiwhero Sluicing and Dredging Company (Limited), Barrytoiun. —Since the* date of last report this company has been in full work with continuous sluicing, excepting when water was shut off for repairs, shifting plant, and other dead-work. The amount and value of gold won for the year ending the 31st March, not including a return yet to come in, was 1,416 oz. 9 dwt., at £4 per ounce, valued at £5,665 16s. The amount expended by the company in wages for the year ending the 27th February last was £3,855, much of which was for dead-work. The gold is fine, and occurs in black-sand gravel, but there is no difficulty in saving it, as the washing is cheaply and effectively performed on the excellent tables in use. Goal-mining and Timber. CoaZ.—Brunner Colliery : 1899,103,085 tons; 1900,125,403 tons ; 1901,127,016 tons. Blackball Colliery : 1899, 65,300 tons ; 1900, 82,516 tons ; 1901, 79,152 tons. Timber.— Quantity exported : 1898, 11,783,292 superficial feet; 1899, 15,116,175 superficial feet; 1900, 14,549,433 superficial feet; 1901, 16,939,982 superficial feet. General. The following is a return of cases disposed of in the .Magistrate's and Warden's Courts at Greymouth for the year ending the 31st December, 1901 : Civil, 212; criminal, 324; Warden's, 22. The revenue for the year amounted to £5,700 13s. 10d., made up as follows : Warden's Court, £5,248 os. 4d. ; .Magistrate's Court, £397 13s. 6d.; licensing fees, £55 : total, £5,700 13s. 10d. The particulars of revenue collected in the Warden's Court at Greymouth for the year ending the 31st December, 1901, are as follows : Miners' rights, £231 155.; water licenses, £1 7s. 6d.; rents, £2,054 15s. lid.; fees and fines, £78 10s. ; miscellaneous, £2,881 11s. lid. : total, £5,248 os. 4d. Dhedging Claims. Table A (appended) gives the number of prospecting licenses and special claims granted and expired or surrendered in my district for the year ending the 31st December, 1901. As to prospecting licenses, it will be seen that 660 expired by effiuxion of time during the year ended the 31st December last, and that they covered an area of 47,831 acres; while in the year 1901 the renewals and new grants only totalled 219, with an area of 15,837 acres. That shows a reduction of the number of prospecting licenses by no less than 441, and of the prospecting areas by 31,994 acres. As, however, nearly all the special dredging claims have been granted out of prospecting areas, the above result of the numbers of prospecting licenses and areas expired may be reduced by the number of special dredging claims granted and the areas of those claims. There were 111 new special claims granted, with a total area of 7,495 acres; and, if these are taken from the net reduction of prospecting licenses and their areas, the actual total abandonment of prospecting licenses during the year 1901 may be put at 330, with areas to the extent of 24,499 acres. The figures of acreage are not absolutely exact, since the surveyed areas of special claims do not entirely coincide with those of prospecting areas. The variance is trifling, and the above figures contribute one substantial testimony to the evidences of the decline of the boom of 1900. Besides the above abandonment, it will be seen by the table that fifty special dredging claims were surrendered, with an area of 2,575 acres. Some of these surrenders were made for rearrangement or amalgamation in other special claims. Table B (appended) shows that there were in my district, in the year 1901, thirty-one companies having dredges actually at work on their claims, two of which companies are now in liquidation. The total share capital taken at par on which these companies would have to pay dividends is £296,269, and besides this there is a debenture debt of £19,965. The minimum normal annual working-expenses and repairs of an ordinary effective dredge, I am advised by a competent authority, should be put at £2,400; and this, with, say, the sum'of £200 for office and directors' expenses, would make the total expenses £2,600 for the year, which for thirty-one dredges would make £80,600 a year. So that the thirty-one dredges would need to obtain 20,150 oz. a year, taking the ounce at a value of £4, to pay normal expenses, without paying any interest or paying off any capital. I endeavoured to arrive at some average from B return of the full number of weeks per year a dredge might be expected to work, taking the week to consist of the full number of 128 hours. But owing to the want of details in the returns of some dredges I could only take fifteen dredges, and those fifteen excluded the Mokoia, from which I had no return of hours worked. Besides this, the greater number of the fifteen dredges had only begun to work during the year, and the first five months of working would hardly give a fair test of what the dredge would do when in full working-trim, both as to machinery and crew. I therefore abandoned the idea of drawing conclusions based on those data as unreliable and unfair to the industry. Since the 31st March, 1902, however, a return of the yield and number of weeks' dredging of dredges at work in the district has been published in the Greymouth Evening Star. I have no
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reason to doubt the accuracy of the statement. It accounts for twenty-five dredges, but affords no indication of the proportions won by ipdividual dredges, nor of the number of hours worked by each individual dredge. There is one result which may be worth noting—that is, that it indicates that the average working-time of these dredges would be forty-two weeks a year. I should imagine this to be rather a high average, and much higher than that of dredges working on the Clutha Eiver. It is certain that claims which lie in the beds of the large rivers must incur a loss of time from floods, to whiqh the great majority of the Grey district claims are not liable. I give hereunder the Greymouth Evening Star return, and also a return of some individual dredges, kindly furnished me by the secretaries of some of the most successful dredges, for the same period. Evening Star Return of the West Coast Dredging for the First Quarter of 1901-2. The following is a comparative statement showing the number of working dredges, the total yield of gold per week, with average yield per dredge per week, for the first quarter of 1901 and 1902:—
Returns of Seven Dredges given by Secretaries for Quarter ended the 31st March, 1902. Gold. Value. Oz. £ Nelson Greek ... ... ... ... ... 901 3,515 Pactolus ... ... ... ... ... ... 798 3,141 Al ... ... ... ... ... ... 323 1,291 Buller Junction ... ... ... ... ... 237 917 Beeves's Proprietary ... ... ... ... 215 852 Leviathan ... ... ... ... ... 436 1,744 North Beach ... ... ... ... ... 301 1' 204 Total ... ... ... ... 3,211 £12,664 I think it will be apparent from the latter return that no advantage is obtained by averaging the returns of dredges, but that averages are apt to be misleading. On the other hand, it is°important to note the total return of gold won, and the amounts won by the several dredges. Those returns do prove that gold is in the district in considerable quantities; that in some cases the claims are very rich, and in some other cases in payable quantities. As to the actual or apparent failure of some dredges, and the unsatisfactory returns of some others, it must not be taken as conclusive evidence that gold is not found in payable quantities on their claims. Without naming particular dredges, it is certain that the cause of failure has been either the ill design or the ill construction of the_ dredge—want of adaptation to the heavy work required of it. In other cases there has been inefficient management. I append a list of companies on the Coast which have gone into liquidation. They are thirtytwo in number, and of these the first eighteen are in my district. Those marked with an asterisk (nine in number) had dredges constructed: —
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1902. Week. Dredges working. Total Yield. Average per Dredge. | Week. wj&g.j Total Yield. Average per Dredge. an. 5 „ 12 „ 19 „ 26 ?eb. 2 „ 9 „ 16 „ 23 ilar. 2 „ 9 „ 16 „ 23 „ 30 1 5 5 3 6 7 5 6 6 4 6 7 Oz. dwt. gr. 14 7 12 149 0 0 60 2 0 82 17 0 152 10 0 223 13 0 146 0 0 136 9 0 87 1 0 83 9 0 120 4 6 107 1 14 Oz. dwt. gr. 14 7 12 29 16 0 12 0 9 27 12 8 25 9 6 31 16 0 29 4 0 22 15 15 14 10 3 20 17 6 20 0 16 15 3 2 Jan. 4 ... „ 11- ••• , 18 ... „ 25 ... Feb. 1 ... 8 ... „ 15 ... „ 22 ... Mar. 1 ... „ 8 ... „ 15 ... „ 22 ... „ 29. ... 5 14 21 18 20 24 25 24 24 23 18 23 25 Oz. dwt. gr. 72 12 0 408 15 0 612 6 0 494 7 0 515 1 0 602 17 12 739 10 0 692 15 3 617 8 9 628 15 23 502 15 12 ,596 16 12 632 11 6 Oz. dwt. gr. 14 10 9 29 3 22 29 3 2 27 9 0 25 15 1 25 2 11 29 11 2 28 9 0 25 14 10 27 6 18 27 18 14 25 18 23 25 6 12
Time. Yiold of Gold. Number of Weeks Dredging. Average per Dredge per Week. luarter, 1902 iuarter, 1901 Oz. dwt. gr. 7,116 13 5 1,353 4 22 261 61 Oz. 27 22 dwt. 5 2 Increases 5,763 8 7 200 5 3
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List of West Coast Dredging Companies in Liquidation.
Name. Locality. Buller Dredges Co.* .. .. Buller River. Clifton Gold-dredging Co. .. .. New River. Crown Diamonds Company.. .. Grey Eiver. Dobaon No. 2 Gold-dredging Co.* . .. Grey Eiver. Four Rivera Gold-dredging Co.* .. Buller River. Golconda Gold-dredging Co. .. Cameron's. Golden Banner Gold-dredging Co.* .. Grey River. Golden Grey Gold-dredging Co. .. Grey River. Island Creek Gold-dredging Co.* .. Weatport. Jones' 3 Plat Gold-dredging Co. .. Grey River. Lee's Perry Gold-dredging Co. .. Grey River. Marsden Lead Gold-dredging Co. .. New River. New Marsden Gold-dredgiug Co. .. New River. Ngahere Gold dredging Co. .. .. Grey River. Ponsonby Gold-dredging Co. .. Grey River. Waipuna Gold-dredging Co.* .. Grey River.
Name, Locality. Wieklow Gold-dredging Co. .. Grey River. Yellowstone Gold-dredging Co. .. New River. Auckland Back Lead Co. .. .. Waimea Creek. Blake and Auckland Lead Co. .. Chesterfield. Brandy Jack's Co. .. .. .. Greenstone. Foley's Extended Gold-dredging C 0... Greenstone Creek. Pox's Creek Gold-dredging Co. .. Arahura. Greenstone Gold-dredging Co.* .. Greenstone Creek. Kohinoor Extended Gold-dredging Co. Ross. Mahinapua Gold-dredging Co.* .. Hokitika. Mikonui Gold-dredging C 0... .. Ross. Perry's Reward Gold-dredging Co.* .. Hokitika. Princess i f Wales Gold-dredging C 0... Ross. Reefton United Gold-dredging Co. .. Ross. Ross Plat Gold-drtdg'.ng Co. .. Ross. Tucker Flat Gold-dredji'ig Co. .. Hokitika.
The total nominal share capital of these dredging companies in liquidation in my district is £149,000. It is impossible without further information to ascertain how much of this capital was paid up. In those cases where no dredge was built it may be, I think, assumed that the shareholders have lost all that they have paid. In the cases where dredges were built the loss must be considerable, the value to be obtained for the dredge being often the only asset. In order to furnish some standard of the conditions which would make a dredging claim a thoroughly sound investment, it is well to take the case of a company with a capital of £10,000. Then assume that it has a claim which is of such extent and has such other conditions and circumstances as will justify the ascription to it of a life of ten years' steady working before it is exhausted. The minimum ordinary working-expenses and repairs of such a dredge, with the office expenses, are £2,600 a year. The interest on a mining venture, with all its risks, should not be less than 20 per cent. Given, then, a life of ten years, the investor should look for a return of his principal in ten years, with interest at 20 per cent. Then, supposing that the company paid off one-fortieth of the capital every quarter from the first start of the dredge, the amount required to pay off the principal, with interest at 20 per cent., would be £2,025 a year. That makes, with the £2,600 expenses, a total net sum of £4,625 a year—say, 1,156 oz. a year, or something under 100 oz. a month. It does not appear that any company has set itself to deal with the capital and interest on such apian. There are great fluctuations in gold returns of most dredges from quarter to quarter : fluctuations arising not only from interruptions by weather and mechanical defects, but also by the varying depths and character of the ground worked and the ever-changing value of the wash dealt with. These fluctuations have no doubt deterred companies from ever making the attempt so to deal with their output on such a plan. With returns of suoh richness as the Nelson' Creek and Pactolus dredges have hitherto yielded, such a scheme would be hardly necessary. In less profitable claims it may by argued that the shareholders are an ever-shifting body, and look for profits more from the market prices based on the fluctuations of weekly. returns than through the administration of the returns of the claim throughout its life. In fact, the majority of'shareholders are speculators rather than investors. Still, it must always be remembered that some shareholders must be left with shares on hand when the claim is worked out. It seems to me at least worthy of notice that, if a dredge could produce annually 1,200 oz. for ten years, it could pay off in ten years the whole capital and 20 per cent, interest. Unfortunately we have almost always to deal with the " madness of the market." What this can do was shown in the case of the Hartley and Eiley dredge, where, with a paid-up capital of £6,500, the £1 shares were forced up to £25, thus making the capital to be recouped to shareholders who bought at that price £162,500, with yearly interest calculated at 20 per cent, to be added. It does not need, however, such extreme cases as this to point a moral. There are £1 shares now changing hands at £2, £3, and £4, thus doubling, trebling, and quadrupling the capital to the buyers, and with a £10,000 share capital there would be £20,000, £30,000, or £40,000 to be recouped to the buyers; and this, with interest on the purchase-price of the shares at 20 per cent., would require from 200 oz. to 400 oz. a month to put the buyer in the sound position of the hypothetical case of the shareholders of a £10,000 company with £1 shares at par which is stated above. It would require far more elaborate and extensive returns of dredging claims on both coasts than are at present available to enable any one to say if any, or how many, dredges have up to the present realised the conditions of such a dredging claim as.l have set up in my hypothesis. The various tables above given should, I think, furnish material for reflection to the investing public. The large returns made by some of the dredges have, I think, revived somewhat a tendency to renewed speculation. In the interests of the public, no less than of the industry itself, it is still necessary to urge prudence and caution. The list of abandoned licenses and of companies in liquidation are so many danger-flags hung out to warn the public to go cautiously. As I have before said, it does not follow that every claim abandoned or every company wound up was necessarily abandoned or wound up because there was not payable gold in the claim. But owing to the " madness of the market " the industry was thrown into a wild confusion. Schemes ill-officered and ill-found were everywhere wrecked, and the first thought of those involved was to escape to land with as little loss as might be. We must all hope that the widespread suffering is passing away, and that nothing will be done to induce a recurrence of the causes of it. The problem to be solved on this coast was a new one, and it is, I think, rather surprising that so much success has been achieved in so short a time. Experience is being continually gained and a better understanding as to the conditions on which success depends. There is no reason
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why a solid and healthy enterprise should not be built up if the investing public will only insist"on the fullest guarantees that all the known conditions of success are complied with before they provide the capital for any new enterprise. I have, &c, Eobert S. Hawkins, Warden. The Under-Secretary, Mines Department, Wellington.
A.—Number of Prospecting Licenses and Special Claims granted and expired or surrendered during 1901.
B.—List of Companies having Dredges actually at Work on their Claims on the 31st December, 1901.
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Prospecting Prospecting Areas expired Areas granted during Year during Year ending ending 31st Deeem- 31st December, 1901. ber, 1901. Special Claims surrendered during Year ended 31st December, 1901. Special Claims granted during Year ended 31st December, 1901. No. Area. No. Area. Dr. i idging. Sluicing. Reefing. Dredging. Sluicing. ; Reefing. No Area. No , Area. No. Area. No.I Area. No. Area. No. Area. rreymouth ... ihaura teef ton Vestport jyell lurchison ... lharleston ... 60 359 88 94 7 46 6 Acres. 3,921 28,910 5,842 5,980 255 2,443 480 53 104' 24 10 6 20 2 Acres. 4,050 7,421 1,942 775 300 1,253 96 17 19 1 3 5 5 Acres. 974 780 12 244 182 383 8 9 7 5 Acres. 63 99 147 226 1 18 2 1 Acres. 100 807 107 49 27 44 6 9 13! 10 2 Acres. 1,880 3,263 338 721 699 415 179 3 16 3 1 7 7 Acres. 31 382 39 10 279 225 6 5 Acres. 406 256 1 4 20 55 66i 47,831 219 15,837 50 2,575 34 610 22 1,063 111 7,495 37 966 11 662
Name of Gold-dredging Company. •HUH £°33 <D co fl c8 j-tP-i o a fl o M to §80; ■a £.3 „H O cD Q n Location of Dredge. Date of Completion of Dredge. ID uX ■8 * n OcttrH S* CD CD GJ K«oS ■" a-"-2 oa.gg No. of Ounces of G-old won to the 31st December, 1901. Amount paid or declared in Dividends to Shareholders. Maori Gully Grey River Ruby Creek North Beach Leviathan Maori Queen Ahaura River Brickson's Reward Caledonia £ 8,900 8,500 9,860 8,025 15,000 9,750 8,538 10,000 10,000 £ 1,200 1.000 1,570 1,450 760 1,645 200 Maori Gully Grey River Norm Beaoh, Greymouth Near Greymouth Maori Creek Ahaura River Orwell Creek Above junction of Ahaura and Grey Rivers Junction of Ford's and Blackball Creeks Grey River Dec. 7, 1901 Sept. 1, 1900 Oct. 18, 1901 Aug. 8, „ Deo. 5, 1900 April 13, 1901 June 14, April 6, „ Dec. 3, „ 67 6,048 1,873 4,750 3,023 2,482 2,600 412 Oz. dwt. gr. Nil 1,274 11 14 3 9 0 283 15 12 865 10 9 292 15 13 304 13 20 340 0 0 5 12 0 £ s. a. Nil Ford's Creek 7,702 2,000 Dec, 1900 4,680 223 9 15 Great Lead Grey River Consolidated Mosquito 7,500 10,000 10,000 420 690 Dec, 1901 June 10, Dec. 10, „ 2J 430 255'17 12 Orwell Creek Paotolus Red Jack's Totara Flat Waipuna Wareatea* Welcome Rocklands Beach Reeves's Proprietary Al Buller Junction The Premier (Buller) Old Diggings Mokoia Kohikohi New River 12,000 9,375 9,000 8,940 6,000 8,250 9,900 10,854 12,200 8,500 9,375 10,600 9,000 9,000 12,000 7,000 1,222 1,025 2,000 1,900 Between Noble's and Napoleon Hill, Westland Orwell Creek Nelson Creek Red Jack's Creek Totara Flat Upper Grey River Fairdown, near Westport Inangahua Junction, Buller River Oct. 23, „ Feb. 25, „ Oct. 12, „ Nov. 15, „ June, 1900 Oct. 7, 1901 Dec. 31, „ Feb., Nov., 1900 June 6, 1901 Jan. 28, „ Nov. 30, „ Aug., Oct., 1900 Sept. 4, 1901 March, 960 4,714 1,299 13 15 154 12 12 6 0 0 934 16 4 2 19 0 3!l20 335 238 566 131 1,000 948 Boatman's Creek, near Capleston Cronadon, Reefton Buller River 4,492 4,734 3,439 4,419 170 846 179 0 0 829 3 1 907 12 6 1,169 2 11 5 10 0 79 1 3 1,046 15 23 213 14 0 199 9 18 t610 0 0 425 0 0 937 10 0 On Buller River Matakitaki River New River (seven miles from Greymouth) Nelson Creek No Town Creek 1^130 Nil Nelson Creek No Town Creek 8,500 12,000 Jan. 1, „ Deo. 31, „ 5,043 2,061 1 18 2,550 0 0 Nil 296,269 19,965 61,767 12,938 6 14 4,522 10 0 * In liquidation. + Payable in January, 1902.
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C.—List of Companies having Dredges in Course of Construction on 31st December, 1901.
Mr. Warden Macfablane to the Under-Secretaby for Mines, Wellington. Sib,— Warden's Office, Hokitika, 26th March, 1902. I have the honour to forward the statistical returns for the twelve' months ended the 31st December, 1901, together with my report on mining matters generally in the district under my charge. Hokitika District. Aside from dredging operations, which may be said to be still in the initiative stage, the returns from ordinary mining operations have been fairly satisfactory. The exceptional rainfall during 1901 has enabled many of those connected with hydraulic mining to prosecute their work with few, if any, stoppages. In the larger undertakings—such as those at Humphrey's Gully, Kumara, Goldsb'orough and Stafford, and the Waiho Hydraulic Sluicing Companies—the rainfall does not materially affect them, seeing that they have gone to great expense in utilising large streams forming their source of supply by the construction of costly races, pipe-lines, and dams; but to those who are dependent on dams, drainage areas, and small streams, the fact of a wet_ or dry season makes all the difference between steady work and generous returns and enforced idleness with its accompanying reduced wages. A very considerable amount of the gold obtained is derived from claims dependent on this uncertain supply. To the ample rainfall of last year is mainly due the prosperous condition of the Back Creek and Seddon's-terrace Claims. Nevertheless, the district is heavily handicapped owing to the want of a plentiful and continuous supply of water not only to further supply the claims already opened,
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Name of Gold-dredg-ing Company. 43 C3 M _ >,a <3 9 0) to/2 S ° u ca p! so a g °«« III Location of Dredge. Condition of Works. Aldinga £ 9,000 £ 2,000 Nelson Creek Pontoons completed; machinery delivered ; erection of dredge in progress. Expect start early April next. In negotiation for purchase of dredge. Dredge almost completed. Starting work early next month. Pontoons launched ; machinery delivered and in course of erection. Expeot to oommence work early in April. Pontoons floated ; machinery in course of erection. Expect to work by end of April, 1902. Pontoons partly built; machinery delivered ; work delayed on account of calls not being paid. Expect to go on in about two months' time. Erecting machinery. Blackwater River .. Callaghan's Creek.. 10,000 9,375 Blackwater River Callaghan's Creek Garibaldi 8,000 2,500 Moonlight Creek Kangaroo Creek .. 9,500 Karjgaroo Creek (above junction with Red Jack's Creek) Moonlight Creek Moonlight 10,000 Trafalgar.. 9,000 1,750 Nelson Creek (next below Paetolus) Nelson Creek (between Aldinga and Nelson Creek Claims) Grey River (below Moonlight Creek) Victory 9,000 Started erecting machinery. Duke of Wellington Maori King Stony and Mosquito Lead Leviathan Freehold 8,500 7,000 12,000 2,500 New River, Dunganville South Beach, Greymouth • Adjoining Leviathan Gold-dredg-ing Company's claim, about four miles from Greymouth Pairdown Creek (adjoining Wareatea and Island Creek Claims) On Blaukwater Creek.. Pontoons commenced ; machinery ready to go forward. Waiting result of debentures before proceeding to erect. Machinery very nearly finished ; engine and boilers in Dunedin ; timber for pontoons stacked on claim to dry. Tenders not called for building pontoons or the erection of machinery. The frame of the pontoon is ready to receive the sheeting ; will probably be launohed within four weeks; the machinery is nearly all on the ground. The company will likely start dredging during ooming May. Pontoons in course of construction; maohicery in course of delivery. Operations will commence about May. Pontoons floated; no machinery on ground except boiler ; the claim has been further tested since registration, and proved worthless. Pontoons in course of construction ; maohinery being delivered ; some on company's ground at present. Pontoons launched ; machinery finished. Should be at work shortly. 14,000 700 Fairdown 8,000 Greymouth Lagoons 9,135 El Docado Feddersen 10,000 11,000 On Buller River (between Old Diggings and Rocklands Claims) On Buller River, Horse-shoe Bend Sullivan's Creek, near Grey Rivet Pontoons and machinery in course of construction. Sullivan's Lead Watterson's Consols Marsden No. 3 12,000 10,000 8,000 1,350 Ah aura River Marsden, near Greymouth Pontoons in course of construction; machinery in course of delivery. Dredge will be working in course of few months. Pontoons floated ; machinery delivered. Pontoons floated, and machinery nearly all erected, but stopped for want of funds. Pontoons building ; machinery all on claim. Amikitea.. 12,500 Adjoining Kohikohi Claim, near Murchieon 196,010 30,800
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but to enable those who have no water to open up the large areas of ground now unoccupied, but known to be payable if water in quantity was available. The Kanieri Lake Water-race Company have done a good deal of work in this connection, but, as a considerable amount of additional capital is required to carry out the undertaking, it may be some time before the work is completed. If completed, the output of gold would be increased in a marked degree, and employment given to hundreds of men. The claims about Kanieri Porks are giving good returns, and their prosperous condition is due to the fact that they have a continuous supply of water from a pipe-line from the Kanieri Eace. What is known as Craig's Claim, situated on the sea end of Brighton Terrace, consists of 460 acres of freehold land. A very large amount of gold was taken out of this ground—over thirty thousand pounds' worth. This property changed hands some time ago, and lam informed by the secretary that the company was registered under the Companies Act, capital £30,000, to be worked by dredges. In the meantime the claim is being worked on tribute. The gold won by them for the twelve months ending the 31st December, 1901, was 335 oz. 7 dwt. 20 gr.; capital called up, 4s. per share on 13,000 shares, £2,600. The intention to work the flats by dredging has been abandoned for the present, and negotiations are now going on to write down the capital to £10,000, and subsequently work the terraces by means of sluicing and driving. Four new tributing parties, consisting of six men each, are now at work driving, with every prospect of making good wages. Prospecting during the Year. A considerable amount has been spent on prospecting, mostly under the auspices of the Rimu Miners' Association, and in a lesser degree under the supervision and control of Mr. A. H. Richards, the Assistant Inspector of Mines. The subsidies granted by the Government to and expended by the association have not, so far as we know, shown payable results. Prom what appears in the papers, we learn that so-many feet of tunnelling has been driven and so-many shafts sunk, that the work has been measured and passed,- and the men paid—results nil—but no particulars to guide future prospectors. On the subsidised tunnels driven by Johnston and Stewart, Seddon's Terrace ; Stenhouse and Co., Hauhau; and Eoosvelt and Co., Kellett's Terrace, Blue Spur, under the immediate supervision and control of the Assistant Inspector of Mines, who examines and passes the work when properly done, and pays the amount due on the subsidies to the men direct without passing through the hands of the association, which appears to be a grievance with them, but the men who do the work are better pleased—on the above tunnels Mr. Richards reports as follows : In the case of Johnston and Stewart payable gold was struck some time ago through a jump-up from the tunnel, as they are driving under the washdirt. The tunnel is still being driven, and there is every likelihood that it will open up payable ground at the back. Stenhouse and party's tunnel on the Hauhau has been completed. In driving; they struck wash that will go from £2 to £2 10s. per week per man ; they are at work blocking back. Roosvelt and party, on Kellett's Terrace, Blue Spur, have driven over 1,000 ft. to drain the terrace to the south of the No. 1 Hauhau lead that crosses the Blue Spur Creek. They expect to pick up the two lost leads that were lost where they cross the Blur Spur Creek, with a reasonable hope of success, seeing that the same leads have been found to the north. The party worked on the No. 1 lead, knowing the country well, and, being old and experienced miners, are very hopeful of succeeding in finding the lost leads. If they do succeed the discovery will be one of considerable importance. It would appear from the meagre return from the expenditure of the prospecting vote that more careful inquiry into the merits of each case should be exercised before recommending grants, and a strict supervision over the work afterwards. Quarterly reports at least of work done, and also full particulars of the nature of the country passed through, with exact return of gold (if any), furnishing a record that may be of use to future prospectors. Mr. E. W. Spencer, engineer to the Humphrey's Hydraulic Sluicing Company (Limited), has kindly supplied the following particulars of the work done and results obtained during the year : " In the early part of the period under review our energies were concentrated on the race-construc-tion principally, endeavouring to get the race-extension complete to the river. One of the tunnels (No. 16) was the cause of much delay, as very bad ground was encountered, necessitating close timbering for some considerable distance. At the head-works, also, progress was exceedingly slow on account of the heavy nature of the work required to stand against the rush of waters descending the Arahura River in time of flood. The climatic conditions were also very much against us, inasmuch as the men could not put in anything approaching full time, the months of May and June being especially bad, causing a large number of slips, &c, on portions of the race considered as finished. However, early in October I was able to report to London that the water was satisfactorily running over the new portion of the race. Since that date about six men have still been employed repairing any doubtful places, putting in a little timber, cutting by-washes, and generally making things more secure. At the claim considerable alterations have been made, consisting of replacing the 24 in. tail-boxes by 36 in. boxes ; gold-saving tables have also been erected, presenting 1,660 square feet of surface for the retention of the fine gold. To insert these tables it was necessary to lift the boxes above the tables 10 ft., so as to give sufficient head-room. The separatingboxes were designed to work with perforated plates 6 ft. by 4 ft. by -J- in., with -|in. perforations ; but these in actual work, using forty heads of water, proved too expensive, lasting only a short period (approximately three months), so they were gradually substituted by cast-iron grizzly bars 3 in. by 1-J-in. by 48 in., placed crosswise Jin. apart. These are effecting a very fair separation of the fine stuff from the coarse gravel, and the pulp as it falls into the separator-box is divided, half going to the right- and half to the left-hand side. The portion flowing from either side is again subdivided into twelve equal parts, flowing over twelve tables, placed in two rows of six each, back to back. The tables have a fall of 6 in. in 4 ft. The surface of the tables, which are planed kauri,
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is covered with one thickness of hessian, and then coeoanut-matting on top of hessian. Each table is 8 ft. wide by 8 ft. long, fed by a V-shaped box tapering from 1 ft. to 8 ft. The pulp as it goes on to the table passes through a riffle with a diving-board in it, and at the end of the first 4 ft. passes through a second riffle. All the tables discharge into launders, so arranged that the whole stream of pulp again converges immediately under the separating-box whence it left the coarse gravel; the latter, falling over a steeply inclined shoot into the main tail-race, has no opportunity of coming to rest before it is carried away by the rush of water and pulp which has passed over the tables, the boxes at this point having a steeper grade (8 in. to 12 ft.) to enable the pulp to get well under way and thus prevent a block in the tail-race. Just below the tables, when the pulp is moving at a good speed, the grade on the tail-race is reduced to 6 in. to 12 ft.; that is about as flat as it will be.possible to run the boxes on account of the class of material treated. The first half of the tables started work about the 20th June, and the second half about a month later; since when 262 oz. lOdwt. 18 gr. of gold has been recovered from all sources. Of this amount, 71 oz. 7 dwt. 18 gr. has been collected on the tables, representing 27 per cent, of the gross yield. This high percentage is largely due to the fine class of gold met with in the gravel sluiced, practically no coarse gold occurring at all. For the year 1901 379 oz. 19 dwt. 7 gr. of gold was obtained, valued at £1,488 11s. 10d. This was all won from No. 1 face on Humphrey's Gully, and is the result of using water obtainable from Mount Brown downwards (very little water having been taken from the river in 1901). The claim is well lit with two Jandus arc lamps of 800-candle power each, besides a quantity of incandescent lamps ranging from 100- to 16-candle power each. A small rough sawmill has been erected, and is of great service for cutting the timber required for tail-race boxes, &c, and has already paid for itself twice over. At the close of the year preparations were being made for the systematic opening-up of No. 2 face (on the right-hand side of Humphrey's Gully-Guileri's claim). This is where the best results were obtained by prospecting some few years back, and we confidently look forward to meeting better ground here than we have been sending away during the period under review.. A small four-roomed house has been built for the convenience of the manager and engineer, in such a spot that the works are easily visible from the residence. No sluicing operations whatever have been carried on in McDonald's Gully during the past year. The expenditure incurred during that period on water-race and claim amounts to £5,793 4s. 10d., and on property to £1,685 7s. 4d." The most notable feature in connection with the above report is the fact that by the addition of suitable gold-saving tables as supplementary to the ordinary wood- and stone-paved sluice-boxes 27 per cent, of the gold won was recovered from these tables. This gold under the old method went into the tailings-heap, and was lost to the company. Yet not one in four of those who call themselves mine-managers will admit the fact, or, if admitting it, take the necessary steps to prevent this waste —so clearly demonstrated by the above-named company—but grub along in the old fashion, to the manifest loss of the shareholders of the company they represent. This company is now opening out new and richer ground that I trust in the near future will enable them to rank in the list of dividend-paying claims. On the Hokitika, Kanieri, and Arahura Eivers and flats large areas were taken up as prospecting areas, of which a considerable number have since been converted into special claims ; but •a much larger number has been allowed to lapse. The bulk of the special claims are under option and have been sent Home for flotation, and I am informed that a mining engineer and expert is now on his way out to examine and report on the option so held. The Hokitika Company's dredge is the only one at work in this district. This is a powerful and well-appointed dredge, and is on good gold; but the company had to borrow money, having underestimated the cost, and this has not yet been liquidated, hence the absence of dividends. The tightness of the wash and the number and large size of the boulders met with prevents the working of the ground in as rapid a manner as could be wished. Operations have been confined to the north bank of the river, where a large amount of tailings has to be dealt with, as well as the large boulders found in the untouched wash. They have not yet tried the middle nor the south side of the river, and it is premature to give an opinion as to how the venture will turn out. It is possible the ladder may have to be lengthened before reaching the bottom. Perry's Reward dredge, imported from Otago and erected on Tucker Mat, was at work, but, not being able to contend with the cemented wash, has been shut down for some time. The Lower Woodstock dredge has just been completed, and is to start to work in a few days. The Shenandoah and Commissioner's Mat dredges are nearing completion, and should start soon. The Hauhau dredge at Blue Spur is working steadily, and I understand is on payable gold. This dredge is the smallest, but works well, although hampered for room and bothered with buried timbers. The Mahinapua dry dredge has not yet started work; the machinery is said to be unsuitable for the work, and I see by the papers that the company have gone into liquidation. This dredge was on one of the old beach leads, but failed in getting a start. Insufficient capital is one of the reasons for the winding-up. Stafffoed and Goldsboeough Sub-disteicts. The returns from the ordinary sluicing claims in the above-named districts have been fairly satisfactory, and about the same number of men are engaged in this work. The Stafford-Waimea Gold-dredging Company bought a second-hand dredge in Otago, and had it erected on their claim on the Waimea Creek. This dredge has been at work for some time with varying success. The company has been somewhat unfortunate in meeting with heavier ground and more buried timber than was expected. Through this a number of breakages have occurred, and considerable time has been lost. A much stronger dredge is required for the work;. there is every indication that the ground is payable, but stronger machinery is required.
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The Waimea Hydraulic Sluicing Company is another company that has come into existence during the year. This company has laid pipes from the Government water-race above Goldsborough to their claim at the back of the township. They are washing away the terrace by sluicing, and the flat by hydraulic lift, or blow-up. It is too soon to judge of the success or otherwise of their venture; but the returns are encouraging. They are using from twelve to fifteen heads of water. The Waimea Middle Branch Plat is showing more activity than has been apparent for a number of years. Besides the mining that has been carried on heretofore, other parties have opened out into the main drainage-channel. The Government race having been extended to this ground, a good deal of gold may be looked for from this locality during the current year. I am indebted to Mr. J. Park, solicitor for the Wheel of Fortune Company (Limited), for the following particulars : The claim consists of some 98 acres, situated at Piper's Mat and Ballarat Hill. It is a British company, registered under the English Companies Act. The company has spent some £5,000 in opening up, and has satisfied itself that the ground is sufficiently auriferous to warrant it putting on adequate machinery to work the claim. A large dam at Lake Mudgee has been bought, and this has now been enlarged to a great extent, and will, when completed, be one of the largest dams in Westland. From this dam it is proposed to draw thirty heads of water per day to work two elevators on the claim. For this purpose six miles of water-race is being enlarged to 6 ft., and a new tail-race tunnel is to be driven to carry the water away from the paddock. It is expected that the new elevators will be at work by the end of April, as the buckets and machinery are shipped from London, and should arrive here during March. Kelly's Terrace Tunnel.—The following is the report sent to me by Mr. A. H. Bichards, Assistant Inspector of Mines, on the above-mentioned work: The total length of this tunnel from starting-point at Flowery Creek to Hinemoa shaft is 5,817 ft. The present prospectors have driven 252 ft. beyond the shaft in various directions. At present they are in a nice body of washdirt worth from 18 gr. to ldwt. per load—not payable. Further encouragement should be given to this party. All their work is very creditably done and carefully timbered, so as not to cause any difficulty or damage to the main tunnel. The party consists of six men. I saw them each this day. They have great hope of picking up something good if they persevere, which they are determined to do, for another two months or more. I may add that this is one of a number of drainage-tunnels subsidised by the Government. A large amount has been expended on the work, and so far with very meagre results. The present prospectors are not receiving any subsidy, but they have the prior right to peg off an acre per man within the 50 acres reserved. Kumaka Sub-district. This district carries a fair number of miners. The sluicing claims about Dillmanstown are in some instances giving fair returns, but a number of them, as they work back, find the ground getting poorer. In the neighbourhood of the No. 3 channel some good ground has been opened, and a number of new claims pegged off. This is said to be a new run of gold in the back terrace ; but to enable the men to work an extension of the No. 3 channel is absolutely necessary, and I understand the necessary steps are being taken to obtain a subsidy from the Government. The workings on both banks of the Greenstone Creek have benefited by the wet season. The large races projected have not yet passed the promoters' stage. The dredges at work on the Greenstone Creek are the Greenstone Junction, the Three-mile, and the Greenstone Creek, and the Greenstone Gold is now in course of construction. The Junction has had a fairly successful run since the repairs were completed, and the company is now out of debt, having paid off over £2,000. This dredge has been hindered by tailings and buried timber, an overburden of some 20 ft. to 25 ft. havrhg to be disposed of before reaching the pay-dirt. The prospects of the company are exceedingly good, and it ought soon to rank in the dividend list. The upper dredge has been fairly successful, being out of debt, but no dividends so far. The Greenstone Creek, or what is known as the " Bun Tuck," has had much to contend with, and has not yet reached the paying stage. The plant built for the Teremakau Gold-dredging Company is still lying where it was built, and I see by the paper the company have gone into liquidation. BOSS SUB-DISTEIOT. With the exception of the dredging departures, mining matters are much the same as last year. The Mont dOr still continues to pay dividends to the fortunate shareholders. The primitive appliances used by this company for saving the gold should be superseded or supplemented by up-to-date tables, whereby the fine gold now being run into the tailings-heap could be saved, and put into the pockets of the shareholders. Both washdirt and gold are very similar to that found at Humphrey's Gully, and I have no doubt the same saving—viz., 27 per cent. —would be effected if suitable tables were added to the present plant. The Boss United Company is in liquidation, and the whole of the property is to be sold in April. Some six or eight men are still working some of the old ground on tribute, making small wages. Several attempts have been made by the old company to put this property on the market; but even with the promise of a £15,000 subsidy from the Government they failed in their efforts. The terms were not acceptable to the investing capitalist, the loading of some 30,000 paid-up shares to the shareholders in the old company being considered too heavy. This, with labour, troubles, where about three hundred men would be employed, has proved a fatal bar to the flotation of any company. The sale will remove the heavy burden, and the buyers will then have a free hand to develop this most valuable property. The reopening of this mine and the early completion of the Boss andHokitika Bailway means a very large increase of population and wealth to Boss, and consequent prosperity to Westland.
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Other mining ventures in this district are the dredges. The Kohinoor is the only one at work, having just started. This is one of the most powerful dredges on.the Coast, and is at present opening out the claim at the mouth of Bedman's Creek. The prospect obtained by boring with the Keystone borer (6 in. pipes) showed very rich wash on the 37 ft. bottom, and it was to work this that the present dredge was built; but the borer proved that what the old miner considered the main bottom was only a false bottom, the bore going down 26 ft. through very rich wash before the bedrock was reached. This will necessitate the building of a more powerful dredge, as the present plant can only work to 45 ft. or 50 ft. This deep ground is in the bed of the Mikonui River, the ground in Eedman's Creek being only 40 ft. This the present dredge will be able to work, leaving the deeper ground for a more powerful plant. The Prince of Wales dredge at Donohue's is not yet out of the hands of the contractor, but good progress is being made with the erection of the machinery. Thia claim is already opened up, and the dredge will get to work on a good face as soon as she starts. The Day Dawn dredge, in Donnelly's Creek, after having their pontoon built for some time, are at a standstill for want of the machinery—insufficient capital. However, I understand they have got over their financial difficulties, and the erection of the plant will now be proceeded with. The Totara dredge has ceased working for some time, and is now for sale. As this was a private company, I cannot say how much gold was won ; but I understood that when the machine was at work they were on fairly good gold, but the plant was unable to deal with the washdirt in a satisfactory manner, a more powerful plant being necessary. A special claim on the Alymer lead has part of their plant on the ground, and are about calling for tenders for the erection of same. This being a beach claim, there will be less difficulty in dealing with the auriferous wash. On the south side of the Mikonui Eiver, what is known as McLeod's Terrace has been taken up as a special sluicing claim, 100 acres. This terrace, lying on the western slope of Mount Rangitoto, has been known to carry gold, and has been prospected by various parties many years ago, but the difficulty of getting water on to the ground was the great drawback. Some time ago McLeod and party, on behalf of a Wanganui syndicate, undertook to prospect the ground, and for this purpose drove a tunnel 154 ft. into the terrace. This tunnel was driven through what appears to be glacial silt, distinctly laminated, and standing at an angle of 43 degrees. At 154 ft. they struck the washdirt, and out of a 6 ft. jump-up washed 2 yards of dirt, giving a return of 22 gr. of gold. A shaft was also sunk about 28 ft. on the south-west side of the claim, with similar results. The washdirt is similar to that found on the Mont dOr, Eoss, and is favourably situated for sluicing, there being plenty of fall and tailing-room in the bed of the Mikonui Eiver. Prospects can be got on the surface, but before going to great expense it would be wise to sink a few more trial shafts and prove the ground thoroughly. The company propose taking eighty heads of water from the Waitaha Eiver. Length of race, from nine to ten miles. A portion of the race has been surveyed, but unforeseen difficulties have arisen that may modify their plans. This is a very promising piece of country, and will warrant further expenditure. Nothing is being done in quartz-mining. The last work done in this direction was the driving of a tunnel in one of the spurs of Mount Greenland by the late well-known prospector Antonia Zala, who had been at work for a number of years, but without results. Okabito Sub-distbict. The principal mining operations going on in this district are on the Westland Dredging and Sluicing Company's claims on the Waiho. The company's claims consist of about 170 acres, situate near the Waiho Eiver. The company is registered in England under the English Jointstock Companies Act. During the year the company has spent £2,000 in race-extensions and race-improvements, and in providing plant for an efficient hydraulic elevator to work the flat on the banks of the river. Want of steam communication to carry this plant to Okarito has hindered operations in this direction very considerably, otherwise this plant might now be at work. In sluicing the company has found great difficulty in coping with the large stones and boulders. To deal with these a derrick has been ordered from a pattern by Mr. Mace, of Collingwood. Prom practical experience of the working of these derricks (which are operated by the Pelton wheel), it is confidently expected that this serious stone difficulty will be got over, and the remaining wash will then be easily dealt with by the water, and the result should be a handsome return of gold as indicated by the prospects obtained in the face. Owing to the difficulties of transit the elevation plant will be some time yet before it is ready to commence work. A small sawmill plant has been erected to cut timber required by the company, the whole plant being worked by water. A small dredging plant has been placed on the Okarito Lagoon for prospecting purposes ; but work has been suspended owing, I understand, to financial difficulties. On the Five-mile a special claim of 100 acres has been taken up on the north end of the beach. The water from Alpine Lake, 310 ft. above sea-level, is to be brought down two miles and a half in pipes, and hydraulic elevators erected. This should prove a payable venture if properly handled. Other dredging claims are held further south, and some of them are under option to investors. A few men are still working on the beaches and in the back gullies, but nothing new has been found. There are several claims on the Saltwater, and a Wanganui company is calling tenders for the erection of a suitable plant to work same. The engine and boiler are already on the ground. There is very little to report from the extreme south. The means of communication are so uncertain and the want of tracks is so well known that many men, who would otherwise be glad to go out prospecting if any such inducements were held out to them, under present circumstances prefer to take their chances in the older and more settled districts.
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The tourist traffic connected with the Franz Joseph, the Balfour, and Cook Glaciers exists more in the imagination than in reality, and will continue to be so until some of our most important rivers are bridged and better access provided. The timber business in Westland promises to develop into a large and profitable industry. To the number of sawmills already in existence a number of others are being added. Leases have been granted by the Hokitika Harbour Board for mill-sites near the mouth of the river, the timber to supply the mills being obtained from Crown lands and the Board's reserves, will be floated across the lake and down the creek to the river-bank, in front of the mills, when it will be hauled up on to the skids and cut up in the mill. The timber thus cut will be shipped direct from the mill's landing-stage, thus saving extra handling and railage to Greymouth. This will give employment to a large number of men, and will be a great benefit to the business-people of the town. Direct shipment from the port means a larger profit to the sawmillers, and an increase of work to the men who are engaged in loading and unloading the vessels. A large busines is being done in silver-pine railway-sleepers, mostly hand-sawn, and men are making over the average rate of wages at this work ; and it would materially increase their profits if the sleepers and telegraph-poles could be shipped direct from this port instead of sending them by rail to Greymouth. Generally speaking, Westland has had a fairly prosperous year, and I anticipate that the current year will chow in gold returns and timber-getting a very marked increase in both. The gold purchased by the Westland banks for 1901 was as follows : Kumara, 6,540 oz., value £25,586 ; Hokitika, 7,200 oz., value £28,350; Ross, 1,515 oz., value £5,917: total, 15,255 oz., value £59,853. Sawmill licenses issued over 2,582 acres ; length of lease, forty-two years; certificate of registration issued over 2,511 acres 2 roods 30 perches (for one year, renewable) in connection with the above licenses. I have, &c, D. Macfarlane, Warden. The Under-Secretary, Mines Department, Wellington.
Mr. Warden Keddell to the Under-Secretary for Mines, Wellington. Sir,— Warden's Office, Oamaru, 23rd May, 1902. I have the honour to report, with respect to the gold-mining industry in that portion of the Naseby district known as Livingstone or Maerewhenua, that very little mining has been done during the past twelve months ending the 31st December, 1901. My report for the first portion of that year, dated the 15th June, comprehended all that could be said of the yield up to the date, though the report was for the year ending the 31st March. There has occurred since June last no noticeable event worthy of record. The Mountain Hut Race Company are working still, and the race slowly approaches completion, and it is confidently assumed, when that event comes off, that the field will improve in yields. The failure of the dredges has had a most dispiriting influence on the industry, and it is much to be regretted that the abortive attempts at this branch of mining—dredging—should so affect the enterprise of the miners. The dredge on the Maerewhenua was thoroughly unsuitable, but, nevertheless, after its failure, though its incompetence is well known, it will be a long while before a further effort is made to test the ground. I have, &c, Jackson Keddell, Warden. The Under-Secretary, Mines Department, Wellington.
Mr. Warden Caeew to the Under-Secretary for Mines, Wellington. Sib,— Warden's Office, Dunedin, 28th January, 1902. I have the honour to enclose herewith the statistical returns for the Hindon portion of the Otago Mining District, made up to the 31st December, 1901. The only gold-mining operations of importance during the past year have been those conducted by the Deep Stream Amalgamated Hydraulic Sluicing Company (Limited) and by Walter and party. The company, as its name suggests, carries on sluicing operations, and employs, when sufficient water is available, an average of sixteen men. The gold won by the company during the year was 772 oz., and two dividends of 6d. per share were paid. Walter and party hold and mine a special quartz claim at Barewood, and report that they employ twelve men in all, and crushed 1,787 tons of quartz for 910 oz. of gold. A few old miners obtain a little gold by fossicking about the old workings. I have, &c, The Under-Secretary for Mines, Wellington. E. H. Carew, Warden.
Mr. Warden McEnnis to the Under-Secretary for Mines, Wellington. Sic, — Warden's Office, Naseby, 12th April, 1902. In forwarding the mining statistics for the Mount Ida district for the year ending the 31st December, 1901, I have the honour to add a few general remarks, as follows: — At Hogburn Creek, Naseby, ten small claims are being worked on the " Maori bottom," as it is called here, being a lower depth than has hitherto been worked, seemingly with satisfactory results, about fifteen men being employed. Ido not think a large area is likely to be worked, for as the lead goes into the terrace bars of clay are met with, and the deep ground is more expensive
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to work thereby making the results poorer. The working on " Maori bottom, 'as described, is the only new departure from the old systems—chiefly hydraulic elevating-in vogue in this district The water season was fairly good until June; then, generally speaking, until about the Ist December very dry weather prevailed, especially in the spring months, when the weather was unusually dry, with cold harsh winds, lessening, as a matter of course, the water-supply, however, a full supply of water is expected by the miners here next spring-time. It is to be hoped that thenexpectations will be realised. , , . At Patearoa and Serpentine the usual state of mining matters exists, and those engaged in mining appear to be doing fairly well. ■ At Hyde the same state of things prevails. Twelve to sixteen men are employed at quartzmining at Mount Highlay, but nothing good has as yet been found. Nevertheless there are several who have still faith in Mount Highlay as a quartz district. , , ~,,,. At Kyeburn the miners are jogging along the same as usual, and seem contented with their earnings. The Naumai dredge—the only one in this vicinity-has not been a success so tar, and is now closed down and the company in liquidation ; but I have been informed that a syndicate ot local men has been formed to purchase the dredge and claim and have another try, with, it is to be hoped, better success. , At St Bathan's there are some good claims. The Scandinavian Company employing sixteen men, has, I have been informed, obtained upwards of 5,000 oz. of gold during the year. The Shamrock Claim, too, has been doing well. ■ The United M. and E. Company has a good water-supply, and is elevating wash from a depth of 82 ft. This, I think, is the greatest depth at which elevators work in Mount Ida district, ihe company employs six men, and is obtaining very satisfactory results. . . ~ , Vinegar Hill Gold-mining Company.-A new company formed of the mining properties of Messrs. Morgan and Hughes and the trustees of the late James Nicolson. _ Capital £6,000, divided between those parties. The ground held by the company is good, and evidently the company has a prosperous future before it. , , . , „ Besides these principal claims there are some smaller ones—sluicers and fossickers—and all seem content with their earnings. ■ , At Matakanui (Tinker's) mining affairs seem to be much us usual, the only thing of any importance occurring there being the amalgamation of properties owned by Messrs hwmg and McConnochie and the Sugar-pot Company, and forming same into a company, with a capital of £15,000, divided amongst themselves. It is intended to work the ground by means of hydraulic eleVa At n Macrae's a dredge was built during the year and put on some ground near the township; but after ten weeks' working it was found that the ground would not pay, and the dredge has since been closed down. There is very little mining now in this once prosperous goldneld, merely a tew Europeans and some Chinese, whose earnings are small. The prospects of quartz-mining however, are rather cheering. I have been favoured by Mr. Griffen, mining agent at Macrae s, with the following notes on quartz-mining in the Macrae's district: — _ H Mills and Sons' Quartz Claim, Macrae s .-This party have an eight-head stamper at work. ' Their mine is on private property, and they pay a royalty to the owner on the gold_obtained. During the year they crushed 2,000 tons of stone for a yield of 327 oz. 13 dwt. 11 gr gold. Donaldson Bros., Golden Point, Macrae's. -This mine is worked by tunnelling and driving on the lead about 3 ft. thick, and the stone carried to the mill by means of an aerial tramway and treated by a five-head battery and Huntingdon mill.- In addition to quartz in this claim there is some alluvial gold and scheelite. The claim is believed to be paying well, but the shareholders do not Care^LT b S g Mrit-This mine is owned by Mr. L. O. Beal, and a good deal of work towards developing the mine has been done during the year. This mine uses an aerial tramway, a Huntingdon mill, a rock-grader, and an amalgamatmg-pan, all gold being saved by the amalgamation process. This mine, too, is said to be paying well, but yield of gold not ascertained. Ounce Mill, near Dunbach HtiZ.-Thie mine is owned by Spiers and Boss and an eight-head battery is in use. The stone has to be carted about three-quarters of a mile to the mill. .Tarty Mie Sii^ b |ar o M«i' l mine was originally taken up by a Dunedin syndicate, who spent a considerable amount of money in prospecting the reef. Had various trial crushmgs, and eventually found that the mine did not pay, so abandoned it In February, 1901, a party of six miners took up 10 acres on line of reef, and started to work prospecting. Made roads, races, and dams. Took out trial crushmgs with results of 5 dwt. to the ton Next they purchased a battery of ten heads of stampers, erected it, hired a traction-engine started crushing in August last, and have crushed 900 tons of stone up to the end of year, with a result of 6*dwt. to the ton. Since then they have purchased a 12-horse-power engine and dispensed with the traction-engine. The reef averages from 6 ft. to Bft width and is a yet all worked on surface of the ground. This syndicate has spent about £1,800 on mine, but it would seem there is a prosperous future ahead of it. The Dunback dredge as yet has not been a success. It has been shut down for some time past but it is expected that it will start to work soon again, with better results it is to be hoped. P Gold to the value of £48,021 15s. 6d. has been purchased by the banks m this district during 16 Statements showing total revenue under the various heads is also forwarded herewith. Courts at the appointed places have been held regularly during year. I have, &c, The Undersecretary, Mines Department, Wellington. J. McEnnis, Warden.
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Statement showing Eevenue kecbived in Naseby District during the Year ending the 3ist December, 1901. £ s. a. Miners' rights (190 at 10s., twenty-seven at 55.; Consolidated—two at £1, one at £1 10s., one at £3, one at £4) ... ... 112 .5 0 Water-race licenses (150 at 2s. 6d., eight at 55.) ... ... 20 15 0 Registrations (five at Is.) ... ... ... ... ... 050 Application fees ... ... ... ... ... • 30 7 0 Eents and royalties ... ... ... ... ... 615 0 9 Warden's Court fees and fines ... ... ... ... 580 Miscellaneous receipts ... ... ... ... ... 55 16 9 Total ... ... ... ... ... ... £839 17 6 Statement showing Revenue received in Brack's Sub-disteict during the Year ending the 31st December, 1901. £ s. d. Miners'rights (fifty-four at 10s., and seven at 55.) ... ... 28 15 0 Water-race licenses (eight at 2s. 6d., and two at 55.) ... ... 110 0 Registrations (at Is.) ... ... ..." ... ... 310 Application fees (thirty-six) ... ... ... ... ... 312 0 Rents and royalties ... ... ... ... ... 186 18 9 Warden's Court fees and fines ... ... ... ... 996 Miscellaneous receipts ... ... ... ... ... 170 Total ... ... ... ...■ ... ... £234 13 3
Mr. Warden Buegess to the Undbb-Seceetaey for Mines, Wellington. g IK> Warden's Office, Queenstown, 25th March, 1902. I have the honour to forward herewith the annual statistical returns, and to submit the following report on mining matters in the sub-districts under my supervision, for the year ended the 31st December, 1901. Queenstown and Akbow. Dredging. Dredging in this district has proved singularly unfortunate. There is not at the present time one dredge that is paying its way. The Dart Company's dredge on the Dart River, at the head of Lake Wakatipu, ceased operations towards the end of the year, and the company went into liquidation. The dredge proved unsuitable, and the company was subjected to many delays and inconveniences, so that in the end they were compelled to suspend operations before they had the opportunity of properly testing the ground. A new company has been formed to acquire the claim and dredge, and operations will shortly be resumed. The claim is certainly worthy of a good trial. There are no dredges at present at work on the Shotover River. The Arthur's Point Company's dredge, after a very unsatisfactory career for several months, is now closed down permanently, and will probably be removed from the claim. Only a very small portion of the claim was dredged, and that proved almost worthless. The company, finding itself in financial difficulties, discontinued operations, leaving the nature of the other portion of the claim undetermined. It is not likely the claim will be again worked. Further up the river the pontoons of the Moke Creek dredge are completed. The machinery is not yet erected, but it should not be long before this is done and the dredge at work. The riverbanks and bottom are rocky, and this may interfere with the successful dredging of this claim ; otherwise, from its position and the past known auriferous nature of the surrounding country, it should prove a payable investment. The Maori Point Company has purchased the Tacon's Cardrona dredge, which has been carted over piecemeal from Cardrona Valley. The re-erection of the machinery is now going on at Deep Creek, and the dredge will soon be at work. At the Lower Shotover the Shotover Company's dredge, which has been lying idle for many months, has been taken to pieces, and is now being removed to Gore. On the Upper Kawarau the Galvanic, Eclipse, Kawarau Bridge, Arrow Junction, and Kia Ora dredges were completed and began operations during last year, but so far the results obtained have been unsatisfactory. The Arrow Junction dredge has had by far the best returns, but not sufficiently good to prevent the company from going into liquidation. The dredge and claim have been acquired by the United Morven Company, who are about to resume operations. The Merrimac and Metallic dredges have also been completed, but have not been working. The former has been sold to the Golden Molyneux Company for removal to its claim between Alexandra and Roxburgh. The Metallic Company, having built their dredge on the banks of the Kawarau River, outside their own claim, found it impossible, after many attempts, to get it over the natural obstacles in the river, and were obliged to abandon the undertaking. The dredge has been sold, and is now being removed to Island Block. On the lower parts of the Kawarau, within this sub-district, matters remain in much the same condition as they were left at the time of my last report.
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Alluvial Mining.
The past season has been an unusually good one for alluvial mining, the frequent rains having supplied abundance of water. The majority of these claims are situated on the Upper Shotover, and I am able to record for most of them a very successful year. The claims of Aspinall and Stevenson, Davis and party, B. Johnson, and the Londonderry Company have been yielding very profitable returns throughout this period ; while the claims of Ward and Smith, Smith and Son, Schusted and party, and others have all done well. Davis and party have a second claim, which they are about to develop in a very systematic manner, and are now bringing in a water-race at a cost of £1,500. At the Sandhills Lee and party have been to a large expense in preparatory work. The returns so far have not been large, but during the ensuing year I expect to hear of a good yield of gold from this claim. On the Lower Shotover Tyrrell and party have been continuously working with their hydraulicelevating plant, and have had some very good returns. On the whole the present condition of alluvial mining in the Shotover is generally prosperous. On the Arrow Eiver the King Edward Company has taken over the late Arrow Flat Company's claim, situated in the bed of the Arrow Eiver, close to Arrowtown. This is the tenth company that has in the course of many years essayed to work this ground. The company possesses a hydraulic plant, and has about six miles of water-race, carrying fourteen heads of water, boxed and piped one-half of the distance, and giving a pressure of 500 ft. at the claim. Eich gold is known to exist at a considerable depth, and large sums of money have been spent in endeavouring to " bottom," but with indifferent success. The present company, with very inadequate plant and much broken time, can obtain, when able to work, from 25 oz. to 36 oz. each washing-up. The gold is very fine. The Big Beach Hydraulic Sluicing Company's claim is situated three miles up Arrow Eiver from the township. The ground at this part of the river, when worked by miners in the early days, was exceedingly rich. The present company has been fairly, successful, and has every prospect of remunerative work for years to come. The last washing-up for four weeks was 36 0z., the two previous ones 25 oz. and 27 oz. The company has two dams or reservoirs, by means of which they are able to work continuously. The Arrow Falls Company, after years of patience and hard work, are about to reap the fruits of their labour. They have recently met with some good returns, and there is every reason to expect their continuance for many years. The claim is worked in shifts of eight hours, about ten men being employed. Above this claim on the hillside is the once famous Bracken's Gully. Here two parties of miners are holding most of the water for sluicing at an altitude of 2,000 ft. above the Arrow Eiver. These parties have been working for the past thirty years. The present method of working is by pipes with a heavy pressure, enabling them to turn over large areas of ground. Washing up once a year. The returns are very good. Quartz-mining. The only quartz-mines at work in the district are the Shotover Company's mine on the Upper Shotover and the Indian Glenrock Company's mine at Macetown, on the Arrow Eiver. The Achilles Mine at Bullendale, on Skipper's Creek, has been shut down for several months, the returns from the mine not being sufficient to defray expenses. The funds at the disposal of the company have become exhausted, and they are endeavouring to raise sufficient additional capital to enable them to resume operations. The Shotover Company has been at work during the whole year, employing from seven to nine men. The low-level tunnel is in a distance of 1,400 ft., and the reef now in hand promises well. The company contemplates shortly building a larger and more complete battery. It is also their intention to apply cyanide to the extraction of the gold, and a small experimental plant is now in course of construction to test the value of the ore when treated by this process. The Indian Glenrock Company has been regularly carrying on operations throughout the year, but there is no change of any importance to report. The returns from the mine suffice, with economical management, to cover all expenses, but the net profits are very small. CBOMWELrj. Dredging. In the Kawarau Eiver below the Victoria Bridge, and above the gorge, the only dredge which has been successfully at work is the Meg and Annie, the returns from which, with the exception of a short time during which it was working at the lower end of the claim, have been invariably good. Arrangements have been made for the removal of the Upper Magnetic dredge to the Annie Queen Claim (next above the Meg and Annie), where there is every reason to believe it will be more profitably employed than on its own claim. In the vicinity, but some distance lower down the river, the Gentle Annie dredge is nearing completion. The Grand Junction pontoons are finished and launched, and in condition to receive the machinery, a greater part of which is lying on the ground. The operations of the Upper Magnetic dredges have proved quite unsuccessful. The unusally high river prevailing during the greater part of last year has seriously interfered with the working of the gorge dredges, and operations have been almost entirely suspended. It is extremely unfortunate that the condition of the river has prevented these claims from being worked, as most of the dredges have been completed during the past twelve months, and high expectations were entertained of their success. The loss occasioned by this enforced idleness has been most serious to the companies concerned, and, though the majority have so far managed to tide over this trying period, more than one has been driven into liquidation. The probabilities are in favour of there being a low river during the corning autumn and winter, and unless public opinion is altogether at fault these gorge claims will give a good account of themselves during the ensuing year.
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The dredges working that portion of the Kawarau Eiver between the Kawarau Gorge and the Township of Cromwell, not being so much affected by the high river as those in the gorges, have been more constantly employed, and the results of their operations for the past twelve months are on the whole satisfactory. This is especially the case with respect to the Electric and Cromwell Companies, whose dredges have maintained very handsome returns for the greater portion of the year. The only dredges that have been anything like constantly employed between Cromwell and Clyde are the Junction Electric and the Hartley and Eiley. Both of these dredges have done good work, and have given excellent returns. The latter especially has kept to its work in a remarkable manner, even when the river was running very high, and other dredges had been compelled to suspend operations. Most of the dredging claims taken up in the Upper Clutha have been surrendered, but attention has again lately been directed to this portion of the river, and the results of the dredging by the new companies which are just starting to work, or where dredges are nearing completion, will be looked for with great interest. The exceedingly good returns during the last few months of the Eoyal Maori dredge, working in the Clutha River above Cromwell, have created fresh confidence in this locality, and afford great encouragement to the Eise and Shine Company, whose fine dredge is now complete and ready to begin operations. This company has a very valuable property in their special claim. Trials made by boring and otherwise have demonstrated the auriferous nature of the claim, and it possesses the great advantage of being so situated as to provide ample dredgingground at any state of the river. The results of this company's operations are regarded as of great interest to the community at large, for its success will lead to the working of the Clutha Eiver above Cromwell with better and more efficient dredges than have been employed in the past. Two dredges, the Prince Albert and the Upper Clutha, have lately commenced operations on the Upper Clutha near Albertown, but it is too early yet to form an opinion of their prospects. The pontoons of the Golden Standard Company's dredge, built for their claim at Luggate, were constructed at the head of Lake Wanaka, and after many difficulties were floated down the Clutha Eiver to the claim. Unfortunately, the expenses were so much greater than anticipated that the company was forced into liquidation, and beyond bringing the pontoons to the claim nothing was done. At Cardrona the only dredges that have been working are the White Star and the Cardrona No. 1. The returns from the former were encouraging, but not sufficiently large to save the company from liquidation. The dredge, however, will not be removed from the claim. Another company is being formed to take over the claim and dredge, and operations will again be resumed, and, I think, with a strong probability of success. The Cardrona No. 1 Company's dredge did not earn sufficient to defray expenses, and the company has been wound up and the dredge sold for removal to Victoria. The Lady Cardrona dredge is being removed to W.aikaka. The Tacon's Cardrona dredge has been dismantled and removed to Deep Creek, on the Shotover Eiver. The Boiling Stone Company's dredge has been standing idle during the whole year. Le Franchi's Company has acquired the pontoons of the late Cardrona Valley Company, and is re-erecting same on its own claim. This dredge will be worked by water-power, O'Brien's patent being used for the purpose. Cardrona as a dredging-field has proved a sore disappointment, but there is reason to believe that if the dredges had been constructed so as to be able to dredge at much greater depths than those at present on the ground the result would have been different. At the Nevis the Success, Carrick, Nevis, and the two Ngapara dredges have been at work, but have been securing only moderate returns. Alluvial Mining. Alluvial mining in this district is growing less each year. At Bannockburn Aitken and party still continue to carry on somewhat extensive operations—sluicing the Pipeclay Terrace—but the returns are gradually but surely diminishing. Carroll and Son, who a few months back purchased the All Nations Water-race, are terrace-sluicing for fair returns. At Quartz Eeef Point, on the eastern side of the Clutha Eiver, a few miles from Cromwell, several small claims are still at work. Some of these have been in existence for years, but none of the men enaged are making more than a fair living. The ground is of a gravelly nature —the wash about 12 ft. deep. There is a small group of alluvial mines in the Kawarau Gorge, one or two of which have been worked very profitably by their owners. Eobertson Bros, have discovered what is believed to be a new lead close to the foot of the mountain, and at a considerable height above the river. Very little work has yet been done, but the prospecting so far carried on by them seems to indicate that the wash is more than payable. There are other small parties employed in various parts of the district, but the returns are poor. Quartz-mining. The only quartz-mine in this sub-district is the Bendigo Mine, the property of the Cromwell Proprietary Company. This once-famous mine will probably resume operations within a short time. The mine has been let on tribute to Mr. Leo Salmond, who is sanguine of securing the necessary capital to work the undeveloped portions of the mine. I understand that it is the intention to drive a low-level tunnel which will prospect the claim at a greater depth than before attempted. There are strong indications that the reef so profitably worked in the upper levels extends downwards to this point, and if this proves to be so this old mine will enter upon a new era of prosperity. The company has sold the battery-tailings —the accumulation of years —to a syndicate which has been formed for the purpose of extracting the gold therefrom by the cyanide process. This is a new industry in this district, and the venture, there is every reason to believe, will prove a success.
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Dredging still constitutes the chief form of mining in this part of the district. There are a tew claims worked by means of hydraulic sluicing, and a fair number of men are apparently profitably employed in the surrounding gullies and terraces. Year by year however, they are slowly but surely diminishing in number. This is to be accounted for by the decreasing area of available land and in some measure to the fact that the old pioneer miner is dying out, and the younger men seem disinclined to follow the precarious occupation of their fathers. Dredging affords by its "reater certainty of steady income a much more attractive occupation to the younger generation, who prefer a regular wage to the uncertain result of striking out on their own account. I think however, that alluvial mining will continue to exist for many years. There are terraces and gullies yet unworked which will as time goes on yield profitable employment to miners This applies more particularly to a large stretch of country on the Galloway side of the Manuhenkia Eiver, where at the present time it is very difficult to obtain sufficient water tor cradling purposes It is hoped that the water-race now nearly completed by the Alexandra Bonanza Company will supply a long-felt want. The race under construction, assisted by the reservoir proposed to be formed, will bring in at least forty heads of water, and, as it is possible the company may not at all times require the whole of it in its sluicing operations, a few heads may be available for distribution at a reasonable rental. If so, I have no doubt that there is ground in the locality sufficient to profitably employ at least fifty men. ~,!,-, i -i The Alexandra Bonanza Gold-dredging and Sluicing Company, which holds a large special claim in the Manuherikia Valley, a few miles above Alexandra, has during the past year been engaged in an enterprise of some magnitude. It is at present constructing the water-race previously alluded to, capable of carrying from forty to fifty sluice-heads of water. The race is about twenty miles in length, and is 8 ft. wide by 2} ft. deep, and runs from a dam idi the Greenland Swamp over a great portion of the Galloway Eun to the terrace which it is intended to work. The dam at the head of the race will be very extensive, covering some 12,000 or 13 000 acres The total cost of dam and race will be about £12,000. The race is now nearing completion, but it will be some months yet before the dam is ready. As soon as water is available it is the intention ot the company to vigorously push on operations on the claim. At Tucker Hill, near Alexandra, Eivers and party have been successfully carrying on operations on their claim. This claim has been in existence for some years, and is worked by means of a water-race some ten miles in length, heading from the locality of Mount Campbell. _ . . The unusually high level of the Clutha Eiver for a lengthened period has here, as in other portions of the district, operated to the detriment of the dredging industry. The present condition of the river is generally regarded as abnormal ; but the fact is dredging in the gorges has only recently been attempted, and in consequence the rise and fall of the river is more closely watched now than formerly Closer observation in the past would probably have disclosed the fact that the present state of the river is only a repetition of what has frequently happened before, and a recurrence ot which must always be regarded as a not unlikely contingency. Apart however, from the condition of the river, a very serious obstacle, in my opinion, to gorge- ' dredging was caused by defects in the dredges themselves. In the hurry and bustle of the " boom " and the anxiety on the part of the shareholders to get a dredge on the claim, no sufficient effort was made to ascertain the depth of the ground to be dredged, in consequence of which there are several incapable dredges that cannot properly work the claims, no matter what condition the all the drawbacks and disappointments, there are many dredges doing remarkably well in this portion of the district. That part of the river which lies between Clyde and Alexandra has not been so adversely affected by the continuous high river as the narrower and more confined portions running through the gorges, and in this dredging has been more regular y carried on. Ihe Perseverance and Earnscleugh dredges, as well as those of the Enterprise, Manuherikia, Alexandra, Eureka Molyneux Hydraulic, and Chicago Companies, have maintained fairly steady work through the vea'r with very satisfactory returns. Several new dredges began operations during the year; amongst' others, the Dunstan Lead, between Clyde and Alexandra, a very large and complete dredge—the largest vet on the river. Among the gorge dredges the Monte Chnsto, near the Clyde end of the CromwenGorge, promises to be most successful. It started with some splendid returns, but after a few months , operations had to close down owing to the increasing river. Of the two remarkably fine dredges being constructed to work the Earnscleugh Flat, the Fraser Eiver dredge is lyin« incomplete, and all work has been abandoned. The company having called up all their capital" the property was sold by the mortgagee, and the purchaser has not so far done anything towards its completion, although from first to last some £18,000 has already been expended upon it The Earnscleugh No. 3, a very fine-looking and powerful dredge—to be worked by electricity —is still in process of construction ; but the progress is slow, and it will be some months yet before work on the claim can be commenced. In the early part of last year the Golden Falls Company s dredge was completed and a trial made. This dredge was a reversion to the old-time current-wheel as the motive power It was believed that with the improvements which years of experience had suggested and with more powerful and efficient gear than formerly, this system could be made effective and thus save a large expenditure in working-expenses. The result has proved a disappointment, and it is unlikely that any new dredges will be built on this principle. An entirely new kind of elevator for removing the tailings resulting from the working of the dredge has been introduced during the course of the year. It is the invention of Messrs. Payne and Peck of Dunedin, and consists of a rapidly revolving apparatus against which the tailings are directed dv means of a shoot. They are struck by the rapidly revolving beaters and flung to a considerable distance. This form of "elevator has been applied to the Ngapara dredge, near Alex-
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andra, and is working most satisfactorily. It is in contemplation to provide the City of Glasgow dredge, a large and powerful dredge working a bank claim, with this elevator. If it proves a success here it will no doubt lead to its adoption on other dredges, as it is much cheaper and less cumbersome than those at present in use. I append hereto a list showing the returns of fifty dredges, working in various parts of the district, for the year ended the 31st December, 1901, with the average for each working-week and the dividends paid. Some of the dredges commenced operations late in the year, and it is fairer therefore, to take the average for each working-week. The capital of the forty-seven companies' with fifty dredges, aggregates £442,076. The dividends actually paid amount to £45,358, or 10| per cent, per annum upon the whole capital. Looking at these figures, and adverse conditions prevailing last year, we cannot fail to regard hopefully the success ofthis industry. Eoxbubgh. Dredging. With a few exceptions, dredging has proved disappointing in this portion of the district. No doubt the high state of the river and the large amount of drift to be contended with have to a considerable extent contributed to this unsatisfactory position, and, with a fairly long winter and a low river, I have no doubt that the returns will increase, and public confidence be re-established. Alluvial. The Eoxburgh Amalgamated Company at Eoxburgh Bast and the Golden Eun at Miller's Plat are the two most important sluicing claims now at work in this end of the district. Both have been obtaining payable returns. There are a number of smaller claims working along the banks of the river, but their profits are not large. Bald Hill Flat.—This once-prosperous locality is undergoing what it is to be hoped is only a temporary depression. Two or three sluicing claims which a year or two ago were being worked to advantage have now ceased operations. Of the claims still working, the Last Chance Company (late Hesson and others) has probably done the best. The Bald Hill Flat dredge worked for a few weeks on a its claim adjoining Kemp's freehold, but the ground proved to be not payable, and the company went into liquidation. The dredge has been sold for removal. Quartz. Nothing worth reporting has been discovered during the past year. Both White's and the Excelsior reefs are still being persevered with, but, so far as I can learn with not very good results. Gbnekal Eemaeks. The result of the year's operations, so far as dredging is concerned, it must be admitted has on the whole been disappointing. The season has been a particularly unfavourable one for this industry. The Clutha and Kawarau Eivers have been for a great portion of the year unusually high, and have not permitted the ordinary amount of work to be carried on. As a necessary consequence of the enforced suspension of dredging operations, the return of gold for the year is not nearly so large as it was confidently expected to be. Several companies which held what were considered to be payable claims have gone into liquidation during the year, in some instances after the dredge had been completed and all necessary preparations made to work the claim. The experience of the past year has shown that it is a dangerous policy to limit the capital of the company to an amount which is only, and in some cases barely, sufficient to put a dredge upon the claim. The fate of too many companies shows either a want of foresight on the part of the management, or grievous miscalculation as to the cost of erecting and equipping the dredges If the dredge is not fortunate enough to at once get gold, operations have to be suspended for want of the necessary funds to continue, and unless financial assistance is obtained—latterly a very difficult matter—the company is inevitably forced into liquidation. The directors would almost seem in many cases, to have proceeded upon the assumption that gold is to be found everywhere along the bed of the river, and that it was only necessary to start the dredge working to at once secure payable returns. 'The consequences have proved disastrous to the companies concerned and the pity of it is that in several instances it seems evident that, but for the want of the necessary capital to enable the company to carry on for some time unremunerative operations while testing the claim ventures now abandoned would have in the end proved payable. We should have been spared moreover, the unsatisfactory experience of companies only just commencing operations being unable to pay the wages of their employees. In other cases sufficient care does not appear to have been exercised by those whose duty it was to do so to ascertain the depth of the river and drift to be dredged, and the dredge, when completed and started, has proved to be unsuitable for the work it has had to do. The consequence has necessarily been great delay and expense to the shareholders ■ and m some cases absolute loss. ' The result of dredging operations in the gorges so far seems to point to the conclusion that anything like constant work on these claims cannot under ordinary conditions be looked for with any confidence for more than five or six months in the year.. Among the inconveniences arising from this fact will undoubtedly be the difficulty of inducing competent men to accept positions on these dredges unless compensated for loss of time by a much higher rate of wage. During the past year thirty-six mining companies possessing claims in this district have been wound up, but against this must be recorded the fact that several new companies have been registered—in many cases to acquire and work the claims lately owned by the liquidated companies Although the output of gold for the year has fallen shorD of well-founded expectations there is considering the unfavourable conditions obtaining during a great portion of the time no'reason to feel discouraged at the result of the year's operations. The total yield, notwithstanding the tact that so many dredges had to suspend operations for long periods, only falls short of that of
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last year by an amount of between 4,000 oz. and 5,000 oz. The total yield of gold, as far as can be ascertained from reliable sources, was—for the year 1900, 71,579 oz. ; and for the year 1901, 65,963 oz. There is every probability that there will be a marked increase at the end of this year. Public confidence in dredge-mining has no doubt been recently injuriously affected by the want of success attending the operations of many of the new companies which came into existence during the last two or three years, but the steady and satisfactory returns from so many dredges now at work in various parts of the district are a convincing proof of the value and possibilities of this class of mining.
Returns of Fifty Dredges, showing the Average for each Working-week and the Dividends paid, for the Year ended 31st December, 1901.
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Name of Company. Average Eeturn per Workingweek. Number of Weeks working. Amount of Gold Number of Shares. Dividends paid. won. Matau Monte Christo Unity Dunstan Lead Leaning Eock Perseverance No. 1 ... Perseverance No. 2 ... Earnscleugh No. 2 ... Earnscleugh No. 1 ... Manuherikia Golden Beach Alexandra Eureka ... Enterprise No. 1 . ... Enterprise No. 2 Clyde (Moa) Molyneux Hydraulic Olrig Chicago Sailor's Bend Golden Link Fourteen-mile Beach Golden Eiver Oz.27 72 33 19 50 6233 61 31 . 67 35 27 26 27 48 13 20 22 71 15 48 167 41 10 20 9 3 41 14 37 30 31 32 38 36 33 19 45 42 35 10 38 10 2 Oz. dwt. gr. 1,111 10 0 723 1 0 659 17 0 174 15 0 151 0 0 2,563 15 13 ■ 472 17 21 2,279 19 12 925 17 11 2,080 1 14 1,110 1 6 1,034 12 0 932 13 3 890 17 10 923 16 8 868 2 6 864 4 9 762 0 21 715 18 0 594 1 20 483 5 14 335 14 0 7,000 10,000 10,500 17,500 12,700 I 14,000 } 11,000 12,000 13,000 12,000 £ a. d. 1,750 0 0 1,430 0 0 1,400 0 0 275 0 0 2,400 0 0 1,300 0 0 1,500 0 0 J 7,000 2,625 0 0 4,000 6,000 7,000 5,000 8,000 7,000 16,000 40,000 at 5s. 11,000 11,000 2,500 4,500 13,000 2,876 11,000 6,500 10,000 10,000 11,000 9,000 10,500 26,000 7,000 700 0 0 300 0 0 750 0 0 First Chance Bendigo Golden Gate Otago Golden Bed Golden Treasure Golden Bun Majestic Gold Queen Teviot Endeavour ... Long Valley Gold King ... Electric Cromwell ... ... Junction-Electric No. 1 Junction-Electric No. 2 Hartley and Eiley Electric Extended ... Meg and Annie Alpine No. 2 Magnetic ... Eoyal Maori Alpine Consols Ngapara No. 3 Central Electric Nevis Second Magnetic 22 19 32 24 24 21 31 21 21 19 26 16 15 143 92 57 110 40 55 38 39 26 56 38 15 32 19 20 8 4 47 42 37 39 23 28 19 12 9 10 4 36 24 32 7 30 21 26 17 23 10 14 32 15 19 18 179 12 0 76 3 0 1,489 17 13 1,018 19 4 886 16 0 821 3 3 724 0 0 589 3 0 404 18 0 234 10 20 240 5 6 164 4 3 61 9 0 5,143 8 10 2,213 7 6 1,824 4 0 774 2 0 1,205 0 6 1,161 2 0 937 10 14 674 11 14 609 0 0 560 18 0 535 10 13 495 18 7 483 12 4 374 3 0 372 7 0 2,500 0 0 500 0 0 1,653"14 0 14,300 0 0 4,375 0 0 J 26,000 3,900 0 0 7,000 10,000 7,000 6,500 7,000 8,000 7,500 7,000 7,000 4,500 9,000 1,625 0 0 1,000 0 0 800 0 0 275 0 0 44,913 18 3 472,076 45,358 14 0
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Mr. Warden Ceuickshank to the Under-Secbetaey for Mines, Wellington. Sm, — Warden's Office, Lawrence, 28th February, 1902. I have the honour to forward you herewith statistical returns for the year ended the 31st December, 1901, and submit the following report on the several mining districts under my charge for the same period : — Blue Spur. The Blue Spur and Gabriel's Gully Consolidated Gold Company (Limited) has been subject to frequent stoppages during the last winter and spring, owing to the numerous heavy falls of snow, the first one taking place on the 22nd April, 1901, and the last on the 17th December of the same year. The yield of gold for the period mentioned was 1,400 oz., valued at £5,460. Messrs. Kitto and party and Mills and Browne are still working in the vicinity of Munro's Gully, with fair returns. Wetherstone ' s. Messrs. Smyth, Adams, and Donlau are still working on Wetherstone's Plat by means of hydraulic elevating and dredging. Being a private company, the returns are not made public, but are said to be very satisfactory. Golde,n Orescent Sluicing Company (Limited). — This is the adjoining claim, and is doing very well, having paid 4s. 6d. in dividends for the half-year en"ding the 31st December, 1901. Happy Valley Dredging Company (Limited). —This dredge has started to work since my last report on the freehold formerly belonging to Messrs. Pope and others on Wetherstone's Plat, and has been getting from 15 oz. to 20 oz. per week for some months. TUAPEKA FIiAT. The following four dredges — viz., the Gabriel's Gully, the Tuapeka, the Eeliance, and the Lawrence — have been working steadily throughout the year on the Tuapeka Eiver, yielding fair average returns. The Eeliance Dredging Company perhaps deserves special mention. The dredge started work since the last report, the company paid off a debt of many hundred pounds out of gold won, and up to date 2s. in dividends has been paid. The Evans Plat Dredging Company worked out the whole of its claim at Evans Plat, and has shifted the dredge on to a new claim situate on the Tuapeka Eiver, about ten miles below the Lawrence Township. The dredge is now being rebuilt, and should commence work in about six weeks' time. Deedgbs on the Clutha Eiver, Since the last report several up-to-date dredges have been completed to work claims on the Clutha below the Beaumont, but owing to the unusual high state of the river during the last nine months the dredges have not been able to work to advantage for any length of time. Then, again, between the Beaumont and Miller's Flat several new dredges are being built, and should be at work during the coming winter. Waitahuna. There is nothing new to report in this locality. Four dredges are working, but as they are all privately owned the returns are not made public. At Waitahuna Gully Messrs. Thomson and party and the Sailor's Gully Gold-mining Company (Limited) are still working their hydraulic-sluicing claims, with fair returns. Waipobi. This locality maintains its prosperity. Ido not think it possible to point to a single failure in any claim that has been taken up for dredging purposes. About a dozen dredges are now at work, giving employment to eighty or ninety men. Those owned by public companies ar*e all yielding good returns, and those owned privately are also said to be doing very well. The old Jutland Flat dredge has been sold during the year to a new company called " The Jutland Hydraulic Dredging Company." A new dredge of very large dimensions is being built; it is to have 4 ft. buckets, and be worked by water-power, known as " O'Brien's Patent Hydraulic System," which means a great saving in*the cost of working. Under O'Brien's patent the cost of working a dredge per week is from 6oz. to 7oz.,in place t of 12 oz. to 14 oz. per week by steam, coal being a very costly item at Waipori. O.P.Q. Gold-mines. —This reefing claim is owned by a London syndicate, and they have spent an enormous amount of money in developing the mine and procuring very costly machinery, and in doing so just about exhausted all the available capital; but, of course, they expected the returns from the mine would be sufficient to carry on, as the claim was in proper working-order and yielding good returns, with about seventy hands employed ; but unfortunately very severe winter weather set in, with heavy falls of snow, said to be the severest winter in the locality for the last twenty-four years, and it continued for several months, entirely stopping all work at the mine, and all hands, except the manager and a few others to look after the machinery, were thrown out of employment. As good yields of gold were obtained while the mine was being worked, it is to be hoped that satisfactory financial arrangements will be made for carrying the work on again. The principal hydraulic claims in this district are worked by Messrs. W. J. Farrell, Gare and party, Caudwell and Knight, Claffey and party, and the Bakery Plat Sluicing Company (Limited). Goee. Since the last report, in April last, several new dredges have commenced working, and only one —the Premier at Waikaka—ceased operations. The returns obtained from the dredges at Waikaka, Charlton, and Waimumu for the nine months ended the 31st December, 1901, have been very satisfactory, and the outlook in every respect appears bright; but I might mention that at
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the two latter places the industry is considerably hampered on account of the Waimumu and Charlton Streams not having been declared sludge-channels. In two cases, farmers in the vicinity have obtained injunctions against two of the companies, and many others are threatened with proceedings. Under these circumstances it is to be hoped that a settlement of the water difficulty between the miners and farmers will be arrived at as soon as possible. I regret having to report that most of the claims granted on the Mataura Eiver, near Gore, have been surrendered, and only those acquired by the Central Mataura Company are now held. This company had two dredges at work, but a few months ago one of them sank at its moorings and is a total wreck. There are now in this district thirty dredges, the capital value being about £120,000. Nearly all are in active work, and give employment to about 250 men. Tapanui. There is nothing new to report in this sub-district, except that the large dredge, the property of the Greenvale Dredging Company, mentioned in the last report as just about to commence operations on the Pomahaka Eiver, did start a few months ago. The claim has proved a failure, and the company goes into liquidation. The Ardmore dredge (owned privately) is still working away near the Pomahaka Eiver, doing, I understand, fairly well. Waikaia. I have to report that, as far as hydraulic sluicing is concerned, this sub-district keeps on a very even tenor ; but dredging, so far, has been a failure.* For the nine months ending the 31st December last, no less than twenty-seven special-claim licenses were surrendered and the claims given up. The Argyle Hydraulic Sluicing Company has done very well during the last nine months, having obtained gold to the value of £2,480. It is estimated on good authority that at least 3,000 oz. of gold (valued at £11,625) has been obtained in the Waikaia and Nokomai districts for the period mentioned. The Gow's Creek Gold-mining Company has had a bigger undertaking than it anticipated in bringing in the water-race from Gow's Creek. It is 5 ft. wide on the bottom, and for chains in many places had to be cut out of solid rock; in other places very high fluming had to be put up, the total cost being about £4,000. The work has just been completed, and operations in the claim will be commenced next week. There are about 150 Europeans at work on this field, and about fifty Chinese. The Mystery Flat Dredging Company's dredge has recently started, and gives promise of turning out a success, having obtained 72 oz. of gold for one week's work. The above dredge is the only one at work in the district. The total revenue collected at the Warden's office at Waikaia for the nine months ended the 31st December last amounted to £331 6s. 6d. I have, &c, G. Ceuickshank, Warden. The Under-Secretary, Mines Department, Wellington.
Mr. Warden McCarthy to the Under-Secretary for Mines, Wellington. Sic, — Warden's Office, Eiverton, 12th March, 1902. Orepuki. The year 1901 has been rather uneventful so far as mining for gold in Orepuki proper is concerned. The nature of the workings is such that startling events or developments are not looked for, but, upon the whole, results have been satisfactory. The area available is getting quickly less, and, as I pointed out last year, new ground is being looked for. The beach at Orepuki still supports a number of men, but the Patriotic Elevating Claim has been shut down owing to the difficulty in contending with the tides. A dredge has been at work on the beach, but so far with very indifferent results. The principal claims are located on Klondike Spur, which has proved very rich. Propertyholders in that locality are taking the gold from under their freehold sections, and some of them have had handsome returns. The population is about the same as last year: but other industries are coming in, which will gradually take the place of mining in years to come. Eesidence areas are in brisk demand, and applicants are getting their grants and settling, with every appearance of becoming permanent residents. Bound Hill. From March of last year the water-supply at Bound Hill has been phenomenal for sluicing purposes. The quantity of material passed through the elevators has been very great. The Bound Hill Mining Company have been fairly successful, working patches of ground in the vicinity of the claims. The Ourawera Company have been very successful during the year. The Smith Goldmining Company have been adding to their plant by way of pipe-lines, while they have held their own during the year just closed. With increased plant they are expecting and hoping for increased results during the ensuing year. The number of hands at work is about the usual average. Owing to plenteous water-supply work, of course, has been more constant than usual. West Waiau. A party of speculators in West Waiau have lately consolidated their rights and put their races in good working-order. Although their yield has not been very startling, yet with steady
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work and yields the partners do not feel despondent. There are those who prophesy that a bright future lies before West Waiau. If patience and perseverance will bring prosperity about, Messrs. Shaw, Hinchy, and party may yet have success crown their efforts. Referring to dredging on the Waiau River, considerable money has been invested in dredging claims; but up to the present time little or no success has resulted. In fact, judging by the number of claims surrendered during the past year, it would appear that a want of confidence in the Waiau now prevails. Possibly in the near future some new method of prospecting may be developed and gold yet found in abundance. Pkesebvation. During the past year various claims have revived, although we do not hear of dividends having been paid; yet there are those who find it pays them to continue operations. Reefs have in the past proved themselves to be very faulty in this part of my district. I have, &c, S. E. McCaethy, Warden. The Under-Secretary, Mines Department, Wellington.
WATER-RACES. Mr. Alexander Aitkbn, Manager, Government Water-races, to the Dndbe-Seceetaet for Mines, Wellington. Sib,— Kumara, May, 1902. I have the honour to forward the following report on the working of the Waimea-Kumara water-races for the financial year ended the 31st March, 1902 : — Waimea Race. The total sales of water from this race for the year ended the 31st March, 1902, amounted to £729 6s. 3d., and the expenditure for maintenance and repairs during the same period was £838 18s. 7d:, showing a debit balance of £109 12s. 4d. on the year's transactions. The average number of miners supplied with water for sluicing from the race was 2875, and the approximate quantity of gold obtained by them was 2,150 oz., the value of which was £8,385. The sales of water are £169 ss. 10d. greater than during the preceding year, and the quantity of gold obtained was 433 oz. more, having a value of £1,688 14s. The number of miners employed in sluicing with water from the race was about two less than during the preceding year. The expenditure on maintenance and repairs during the year was £44 12s. 4d. greater than during the preceding year, but that is more than compensated for by the increase of £169 ss. 10d. in sales of water. Water was plent'fcl during the year. The miners had very few stoppages; they have been perfectly satisfied in i jspect to the supply. There is still a great extent of ground unworked in the district, which, although poor, will all be sluiced, as the miners of the place are satisfied to work ground that was not considere.d payable some years ago. The earnings of the miners using water from the race must have been much better during the past year than formerly, and all of them seem satisfied with the results of their washings. At the request of the Waimea Hydraulic Sluicing Company (Limited) considerable repairs were effected on the race during the year for the purpose of increasing its carrying-capacity, and the race is now not only carrying a much larger quantity of water, but is throughout in a good state of repair. The Waimea Hydraulic Sluicing Company has made a start to work the ground held by it; but, like in all new undertakings, unforeseen difficulties have considerably retarded the progress of the company. The plant placed on the ground by the company is a good one, and is. thoroughly up to date. The cost must have exceeded-£3,000. Should the operations of the company fail to be a financial success it will be no fault of the plant, as everything in connection with it works in a most satisfactory manner. The following tabulated statement shows the receipts and cost of maintenance of the Waimea Race for the year ended the 31st March, 1902, together with the approximate quantity and value of gold obtained by parties using water from the race : —
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Month. Sales of Water. Cash received for Sales of Water. Expenditure. Outstanding Number Moneys at the of End of each Men emMonth, ployed. Approximate Quantity of Gold obtained Value of Gold obtained. 1901. £ s. d. 52 5 5 71 18 9 60 3 4 54 19 2 62 15 0 49 17 6 58 14 7 56 13 4 28 4 3 £ s. a. 54 0 9 70 9 3 59 19 6 54 19 9 62 4 0 49 13 4 58 17 6 44 6 9 39 5 7 £ s. d. 73 7 4 61 6 0 54 9 2 69 14 2 55 19 2 67 11 8 S2 1 8 69 19 2 68 14 10 £ s. d. 23 10 5 23 10 6 23 11 10 23 11 10 23 13 0 23 13 0 23 3 0 32 10 10 23 0 6 Oz. 156 216 180 165 189 150 177 171 87 £ 8. d. 608 8 0 842 8 0 702 0 0 643 10 0 737 2 0 585 0 0 690 6 0 666 18 0 339 6 0 Lpril Hay "une Fuly August September )ctober .. November December 29 23 26 27 30 28. 36 27 80 1902. 47 15 10 91 10 10 94 8 3 43 15 10 84 2 1 89 10 4 64 4 2 85 1 6 86 9 9 25 15 6 33 9 3 37 19 11 24 29 86 144 230 285 561 12 0 897 0 0 1,111 10 0 'anuary February ilarch Totals 729 6 3 731 10 8 838 18 7 28-75 (average) 2,150 8,385 0 0
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Branch Race to Callaghan's and Middle Branch.
The total sales of water from this race during the year amounted to £203 12s. 6d., and the expenditure for maintenance and repairs for the same period was £145 13s. 2d., leaving a credit balance of £57 19s. 4d. on the year's transactions. The average number of miners supplied with water for sluicing from this race during the year was eight, and the approximate quantity of gold obtained by them was 510 0z., having a value of £1,989. The sales of water are £21 17s. 6d. more than during the preceding year, and the approximate quantity of gold obtained was 35 oz. more, having a value of £136 10s. The average number of miners employed was slightly greater than during the preceding year. The expenditure on maintenance and repairs was £8 Is. 10d. less than during the preceding year. In Callaghan's very little has been done during the year, and no new ground has been opened up; but there is still a prospect of new developments taking place, as there is a very large area of auriferous ground in the locality on which little or no prospecting has been done. Parties of miners who have been engaged in prospecting have been supplied with water to test the ground on which they were working, but this was mostly in wet weather and when all paying parties had been fully supplied. The race to the middle branch of the. Waimea Creek (which is a portion of the Callaghan's branch race) has been extended a distance of 34 chains during the year, and no further extension of this race will be required in the future. The 34 chains of race referred to are • altogether on private property, and the owners have executed the necessary deeds to occupy the ground required for the race without compensation. A right to construct this race has also been granted by the Warden, and duly registered in the Warden's office at Goldsborough. The dam in the Middle Branch has been fairly tested by floods, and the by-wash has been enlarged as a safeguard against heavy rains. The embankment of the dam has been raised a little during the year, and the men employed on the race will occupy their spare time in adding to it, till the full height has been attained. All the platforms, from which the screws which regulate the outlet-gates of the dam are worked, have been constructed so as to allow the embankment of the dam to be raised 5 ft. higher than at present, which will give ample storage-room for night-water. Two claims in the Middle Branch Plat have started to sluice into the Waimea Main Tailrace with water supplied from the dam and races, and two more will start at once, so that a fair revenue may be expected from this source during the current year. The following tabulated statement shows the receipts and cost of maintenance of the Callaghan's branch race for the year ended the 31st March, 1902, together with the approximate quantity and value of gold obtained by parties using water from the race : —•
Waimea Main Tail-race. The Waimea Main Tail-race has been extended a further distance of 602 ft., out of a total distance of 660 ft. authorised. The full distance will be driven, boxed, and blocked by the end of May, and three more parties will then be enabled to construct their private tail-races to connect with it. The Waimea Main Tail-race has the lowest gradient of any in the district —3 in. to the 12 ft. box—yet it works well, and fully comes up to expectation. It now serves two parties at a time, and when a few slight alterations are made at the point where the private tail-races join the main tail-race it is expected to serve three. Kelly's Terrace Drainage-tunnel. This tunnel has been driven during the year a further distance of 557 ft., and its total length is now 5,817 ft. The tunnel at its present termination struck the Hinemoa shaft, and drained the ground where payable gold was supposed to exist, but no payable gold was struck there. The contractors for driving the tunnel, however, had made an arrangement with the trustees of the drainage-tunnel that they were to continue prospecting in the locality of the head of the tunnel, and should they succeed in striking payable gold they would have the right to mark out and occupy a claim of 7 acres, out of a reserve of 50 acres which the Warden had exempted from occupation for that purpose. All of the contractors did not continue to prospect the ground, but some of them, along with other miners, did a considerable amount of prospecting, and succeeded in. obtaining prospects that they consider payable. Since then the party of prospectors have marked out a 7-acre claim, and are sinking a shaft to work their ground. Several other claims have been marked out and applied for.
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Month. Sales of Water. Cash received for Sales of Water. Expenditure. Outstanding Moneys at the End of each Month. Number of Men employed. Approximate Quantity of Gold obtained. Value of Goia obtained. ipril .lay une uly Lugust .. September )otober .. November December 1901. £ s. d. 16 10 0 16 10 0 20 0 0 10 15 0 18 15 0 £ s. d. 33 0 0 30 15 0 £ s. a. 12 0 0 10 0 0 11 5 0 10 0 0 18 10 0 14 '0 0 16 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 £ s. d. 16 10 0 8 8 8 8 8 Oz. 41 40 50 27 47 £ s. d. 159 18 0 156 0 0 195 0 0 105 6 0 183 6 0 18 15 0 % 12 0 0 12 0 0 8 30 117 0 0 21 12 6 21 12 6 7 55 214 io 0 1902. 29 12 6 13 15 0 44 2 6 11 10 0 18 2 6 54 10 0 13 8 2 I 10 10 0 10 0 0 I 18 2 6 13 15 0 4 7 6 8 4 13 75 35 110 292 10 0 136 10 0 429 0 0 anuary .. February ttareh Totals 203 12 6 200 5 0 145 13 2 8 {average) 510 1,989 0 0
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KUMARA EACE.
The total sales of water from the Kumara Eace for the year amounted to £2,250 12s. 2d., and the expenditure for maintenance and repairs during the same period was £1,706 10s., showing a credit balance of £544 2s. 2d. on the year's transactions. The average number of miners supplied with water for sluicing from the race was 4608, and the approximate quantity of gold obtained by them was 4,504 oz., having a value of £17,565 12s. The sales of water are £69 Is. 2d. greater than during the preceding year, and the approximate yield of gold is 627 oz. more, having a value of £2,445 6s. The expenditure on maintenance and repairs is £371 6s. 10d. less than during the preceding year, and all the races and pipe-lines have been kept in an efficient state of repair. The most of the ground sluiced away during the year was poor, and several claims were abandoned on that account; but other ground formerly abandoned has again been taken up, with fair prospects of payable returns. All the races, tunnels, and pipe-lines have been maintained in an efficient state of repair, and no accident or breakages, except of a minor nature, occurred during the year. The reduction in the price of water has had a beneficial effect, and kept many claims going that would otherwise have had to be abandoned, and the revenue has not suffered by the reduction. The supply of water has been at all times ample for all requirements, and for the first time since the race was constructed the water has not been short for a single day throughout the year. During the year water was running to waste over the dams ninety-nine days, and during that time 204-| days' water for the whole field was lost for want of storage-room. The miners observed twenty-one holidays during the year. The attached table shows the number of days in each month on which water was running over the dams, and quantity lost, and also the number of holidayson which no water was used for sluicing:—
Besides the sales of water above referred to, water to the value of £111 2s. Id. was supplied to claims having a succession of poor washings. Full inquiry was made in each case before any concession was made. Flushing-water was supplied to each of the channels without charge, in accordance with authority from the Department, to the following extent: No. 2 channel, ten sluice-heads; No. 3 channel, twenty-three sluice-heads; No. 4 channel, ten sluice-heads ; No. 5 channel, twenty sluice-heads. In no case was less than the above quantities supplied, and, as water was plentiful during the whole year, quantities much in excess of the above were supplied instead of letting it go to waste, which would benefit no one. Washing-up water was supplied to miners using water from the race free of charge, and the Borough of Kumara was supplied with water for fire purposes. The following tabulated statement shows the receipts and cost of maintenance of the Kumara Eace for the year ended the 31st March, 1902, together with the approximate quantity and value of gold obtained by parties using water from the race : —
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Month. ater running over Dam. Quantity of Water lost. Holidays. No Water for Channel. Dams empty. April ... May ... June ... July ... August... September October November December 1901. 1902. Days. 8 11 9 2 4 7 14 13 13 Days. 15i 12 17* li 2* 14 42 39 24 Days. 8 Days, Days. *6 January February 'March ... 7 7 4 19 14 4 6 i Totals 99 20421
Month. Sale* of Water. Cash received for Sales of Water. Expenditure. Outstanding ! Number Ap P^?J i_ Moneys at of OuMrtHv the End of Men emeach Month, ployed. 0 $^. Value of Goli obtained. 1901. April May June July August September October November December £ a. d. 203 18 9 236 8 2 199 19 2 209 17 9 174 8 7 172 4 10 215 9 6 213 17 1 167 15 7 i 1 £ s. d. 256 16 7 256 0 6 244 18 7 150 14 5 162 10 0 139 12 0 203 12 0 66 2 6 209 10 0 £ b. d. 136 12 5 136 5 8 134 8 1 145 9 5 147 9 11 152 13 9 128 8 11 146 6 4 168 3 4 £ s. d. 490 11 0 468 3 7 427 7 11 482 8 9 494 6 1 526 18 11 538 16 5 686 11 0 644 16 7 54 62 60 52 49 47 40 43 37 Oz. 405 472 400 420 350 345 432 428 336 £ a. d. 1,579 10 0 1,840 16 0 1,560 0 0 1,638 0 0 1,365 0 0 1,345 10 0 1,684 16 0 1,669 4 0 1,310 8 0 1902. 127 11 6 161 15 10 167 5 5 95 0 0 57 0 0 127 8 6 139 5 6 128 7 1 142 19 7 677 8 1 782 3 11 822 0 10 39 35 35 256 324 336 998 8 0 1,263 12 0 1,310 8 0 January February March Totals 2,250 12 2 1,969 5 1 1,706 10 0 4608 :»verag 4,504 17,565 12
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Waimea-Kumara Water-races. The following tabulated statement shows the revenue, cost of maintenance, approximate quantity and value of gold obtained, and number of men employed on claims using water from the Waimea-Kumara and Callaghan's Races for the year ended 31st March, 1902: —
The following statement shows the claims that have been sluicing on the Kumara goldfield during the year ended the 31st March, 1902 ; also the number of men in each claim, fall and width of boxes in each tail-race, number of sluice-heads used in sluicing, number of cubic yards sluiced away per hour, and race from which the water used was supplied :—
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Month. Sales of Water. Cash received for Sales of Water. Outstanding Expenditure. Money.it each Month. Number of Men employed. Approximate Quantity of Gold obtained. Value of Goia obtained. 1901. April May June July August September October November December £ 5. a. £ s. a. 272 14 2 : 310 17 4 324 16 11 359 9 9 280 2 6 335 13 1 275 11 11 205 14 2 255 18 7 243 9 0 222 2 4 I 189 5 4 286 4 1 274 9 6 270 10 5 110 9 3 217 12 4 i 270 8 1 £ s. a. 221 19 '9 207 11 8 200 2 3 225 3 7 221 19 1 234 5 5 226 10 7 226 5 6 £46 18 2 £ a. d. 530 11 5 491 14 1 450 18 11 506 0 7 517 19 1 550 11 11 561 19 5 719 1 10 667 17 1 91 98 94 87 87 75 84 70 74 Oz. 602 728 630 612 586 495 639 599 478 £ . d. 2,347 16 0 2,839 4 0 2,457 0 0 2,386 16 0 2,285 8 0 1,930 10 0 2,492 2 0 2,336 2 0 1,864 4 0 1902. January February March 204 19 10 150 5 10 267 1 8 : 159 4 7 305 16 2 [ 271 14 10 216 17 10 223 18 7 239 9 4 721 6 1 829 8 2 864 S 3 71 68 84 475 589 731 1,852 10 0 2,297 2 0 2,850 18 0 Totals 3,183 10 11 2,881 0 9 2,691 1 9 815 (average) 7,164 27,939 12 0
Name of Party. a c a> -* p © © a Cβ o y> PR a M o . m g "S S I 1 o g o 53 Si's M a $2 ■SSI Cβ Pi OS Cβ Us •a 3 3 Race from which the Water is supplied. Remarks. No. 2 channel— Dillon and party No. 3 channel— , Light and party Neame and party Eochford and party Bochford and party 4 5 3 4 3 In. 7 6 5 8 4* In. 24 22 22 22 22 12 10 9 10 10 Cub. yd 84 60 45 80 45 Kumara Eace Sluiced six months. // Late Neville's. Sluiced five months. Williams and party Neame No. 2 ... 3 2 6 5 22 22 10 10 60 50 Sluiced one month. No. 4 channel— Cullen and party 6 7 24 11 77 Sluiced ten months. Long Tunnel Company. . No. 5 channel— Burger and party Thomson and party Morgan and party . . Thorn and party Candy and party Giffney and party Private races— Lee and party 8 5 4 3 4 4 5 7 8 8 8 8 8 7 26 24 24 24 24 26 26 22 10 10 10 10 10 11 154 80 80 80 80 77 Private race Kumara Eace )! It 3 '8 24 12 96 Sluiced four months. Pascoe and party Bowden and party 6 3 7 8 26 24 16 10 112 80 Sluiced one month. Sluiced two months. Eoberts and party 3 8 22 8 64 Moynihan and party Arnerich and party Carlssen and parsy 10 3 5 8 8 8 24 24 24 22 15 14 176 120 112 Private race tt Kumara Eace Sluiced seven months.
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Kumara Deep Level. No work of any kind has been done in connection with the Kumara Deep-level Tunnel during the year, except keeping the mouth clear for the free discharge of drainage-water. Wainihinihi Race. The dam at the head of this race has stood the test of very severe floods without showing any signs of weakness, and is perfectly watertight, so that the whole of the water in the river is picked up by the race, except in flood-time, when there is more water than the race will carry. A slip from the mountain above the race came down and crossed the race, but no portion of the race was carried away; it was only filled with debris on the track of the slip. The race has been cleared out and covered to prevent any damage from a recurrence of slip. Portions of the race where the ground was bad have been timbered, and the by-wash which takes the water during floods has been completed, and acts well. The whole of the race is in good condition, and the supply of water has been of great service during dry weather. The supply, however, has sometimes been very limited, as the whole of water available in the creek has more than once during the year been less than fifteen sluice-heads. I have, &c, Alex. Aitken, The Under-Secretary, Mines Department, Wellington. Manager, Water-races. [For table showing the result of working the Kumara Water-race for nineteen years, see page 128 a.]
Mr. E. Murray, Manager, Government Water-races, Naseby, to the Under-Secretary, Mines Department, Wellington. Sir,— Naseby, 17th May, 1902. I have the honour to submit the following report on the Mount Ida and Blackstone Hill Water-races for the year ending the 31st March, 1902 : — Mount Ida Water-race. The total sales of water from this race during the year amounted to £1,210 155., a falling-off of £341 19a. as compared with last year. The expenditure on maintenance and repairs for the same period was £1,396 15s. 9d., an increase of £150 3s. 9d. The total cash received was £1,208 os. 10d. On account of payment in advance, free water to the value of £51 6s. lid. was supplied. Free water to the value of £2 4s. 2d. was supplied to assist in opening up new claims, and free water for washing up was also supplied to the value of £86 4s. 7d. The total value of water supplied from this race during the year amounted to £1,350 10s. Bd. The average number of miners supplied with water was 58-4, an increase of ten over that of last year. This increase is principally due to the discovery last November' of a layer (6 ft. thick) of payable wash in the "Maori bottom" in Main Gully, immediately above the Town of Naseby. The approximate quantity of gold obtained by parties using water from this race was 1,889 oz., valued at £7,272 13s. From the Ist April to the 23rd May, the weather being so dry and the reservoir empty, there was barely sufficient water to keep the miners going on half-time. A heavy fall of snow on the 22nd May so increased and kept up the supply that there was plenty to meet the demand until the 25th June, when all mining was suspended on account of the hard frost. The winter was a very long one, with hard frost and very little snow, lasting from the 25th June to the 24th August (fifty-four days). On this date a thaw set in, and on the 26th I started to clean out the race with all the strength available. Having got as far as the reservoir on the 3rd September, the water was turned on to the miners, enabling them to make a start. The cleaning-out was completed on the 13th October. On account of hard frost setting in several weeks before any snow fell, it penetrated deeply into the hanks of the race, especially the high, clayey gravel sidelings; thus, when the thaw set in, it loosened and brought down a heavy lot of stuff into the race, making the cleaning-out in many places very heavy. The snowfall on the range supplying the race was less last winter than it was for nine years previously. It was practically gone by the end of August, and in consequence of the weather from this date to the 19th November keeping dry there was barely a half-supply, the reservoir having run dry on the 27th September. Heavy rain set in on the 19th November, raining almost daily, and on the 15th December a thunderstorm broke along the race from Coal-pit Gully as far as Pearce's Gorge, filling up the race in this and Johnstone's Creek, Wedderbum West Sideling, and a large amount from Coal-pit to Home Gully Dam. Again, on the 10th January, the rainfall was so heavy from Johnstone's Creek upwards that large quantities of shingle were carried down the creeks off the mountain-range and along the race sidelings. Assistance had to be sent to the two upper maintenance men, as they were unable to cope with the effects of the flood. On the 19th March heavy rain set in, continuing for five days, when on the 22nd and 23rd there was an extraordinary flood in the creeks from Hill's Creek downwards, especially in the East Bweburn, which was dangerous to cross. The ground became so saturated that a large number of slips into the race took place, the worst being in Coal-pit Gully, where the material is of a sticky lignite clay, hard to shift; while on both sides of the Wedderburn Creek a large amount of debris was brought down. Only three small breaks occurred during the year. The large amount of extra labour that had to be employed during the last four months, and the dryness of the period during the whole of April to the 23rd May, and from the beginning of Sep-
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tember to the 19th November, accounts for the heavy increase—£lso 3s. 9d.—in the expenditure over that of last year, and the reduction in the price of water is largly responsible for the falling-off in the revenue this year. The number of days on which no water was supplied to the miners was : Winter, fifty-four; Christmas holidays, one ; New Year, one ; while cleaning out slips, seven : a total of sixty-four days. ' J The parties working in the " Maori bottom " are, I believe, earning about wages. They are very much handicapped for the want of sufficient pressure, the ground being very light. Two new elevating claims have been taken up during the year—one of 5 acres in Milkman's Gully, and one of 18 acres at the bottom of Mulholland's Gully. There are fifteen elevating claims at work in the district, eleven of which are supplied from the Government race ; all, I believe doing fairly well. ° Blades tone Hill Water-race The total sales of water from this race during the year amounted to £74 9s. 6d. The total cash received was £78 4s. 6d. The total cost of maintenance and repairs was £13 ss. The approximate quantity of gold obtained was 125 oz., valued at £481 ss. A good side-trimming was given this race during the dry weather in April; further slight repairs during the season had to be given to it on account of rabbit-burrowing. It, like the Mount Ida Eace, suffered from the want of water during the dry season. There have been only two parties—E. Johnstons and G. Eose—using water from this race during the y ear - I have, &c, The Under-Secretary, Mines Department, Wellington. E. Muebat, Manager.
WATEB-CONSEBVATION. Mr. T. Pbrham, A.M. Inst. C.E., to the Under-Seceetaey for Mines, Wellington. SlB >— Mines Department, Wellington, 21st May, 1902. I have the honour to forward my report, for the year ending the 31st March, 1902. Noeth Island. Domestic Water-supplies, Thames-Hauraki Goldfields. Several plans and reports in connection with the above water-supplies have been revised and recorded. The Mackaycown reticulation extension by means of smaller pipes has been approved and is being carried out. With regard to Waikino and Golden Cross supplies, no further action has as yet been taken. An examination and report was made early in the year on an encroachment by the sea upon the foreshore at Tapu, Thames, and also an exhaustive examination and survey in relation to the silting-up of the junction of the Ohinemuri and Waihou Eivers by the slime or fine tailings from the mines at Waihi, Karangahake, and Waitekauri, and copies have been supplied to the local •bodies interested. South Island. The West Eweburn Storage-reservoir, near Naseby, is now completed and in full workingorder, securely fenced, and a commencement has been made towards planting the reserve with suitable trees. The weeping has entirely ceased, and the water-level risen to 57 ft., or within 8 ft. of the by-wash, in spite of the water being constantly drawn on for mining purposes since the caulking of the eastern wing was completed. In this connection Mr. Hayes, Inspecting Engineer who has recently visited the dam, reports : " The grouting recommended in the joint report of Mr. Perham and myself appears to have been well done, but its efficiency will not be fully proved this season owing to the reservoir being largely drawn upon for supply purposes. The present level of the water has, however, enabled me to see clearly that some of the soakage observed at the time referred to in a former report is due to percolation down a spur from a higher level than the top of the dam, and is not, in this part at least, due to any weakness in the dam itself." I have before reported on this percolation down the spur mentioned above. It is entirely separate from the constructed portion of the dam proper. Since the stripping of that end of the water-face and the subsequent grouting, all weeping at the junction has entirely ceased. The water-race manager reports : "The dam has been severely tested lately by heavy floods in the creek, and by the water being also intermittently drawn off for exceptional mining purposes." I am of opinion there will be no further trouble now that the seepage has been stopped, and the bank settled down and become well consolidated. In my last year's report I mentioned that this weeping is no sign of weakness in the construction of the dam, as it is well known that all earthen dams, especially of this magnitude, sometimes take years before they completely tighten up. A re-examination and survey has been made of the locality of the proposed wrought-fron pipesiphon across the Wedderburn Valley to cut off about four miles and a half of very treacherous country through which the race runs. For the length named the race is liable to damage owing to continuous slips and consequent erosions. Amended plans and estimates have been formed, and a contract for 39 chains of 27 in. pipes let to a Dunedin firm; but owing to the plate iron not being obtainable in the colony the work of construction cannot be commenced until next spring. Pull working-plans of the proposed irrigation reservoir in the Idaburn Gorge are completed and plans for a reservoir on Hill's Creek, five miles from the township of that name, are in course of preparation. This will form a valuable addition to the Mount Ida Water-race for
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mining purposes, and the proposed reservoir will, if constructed, serve hereafter for irrigating the upper portion of the Ida Valley. 6 8 In connection with dredging operations on the Charlton Creek at Gore, and on the Waimumu Creek at Mataura, channels have been laid out and the necessary plans prepared for relieving the creeks of the flood-waters, and disposing of the tailings into the Mataura Eiver. Arrangements have been made between the miners and the farmers of the district of a satisfactory nature and the construction of both channels will probably be commenced at an early date. Several claims having recently been taken up and worked on the Naseby side of the Hogburn Gully (in the "Maori bottom"), it has become necessary to increase the water-storage in Home Gully for working those parts of the field hitherto supplied direct from the Mount Ida Water-race A moderate supply of water and an excellent site has been secured for a new dam in Home Gully • a survey has been made, plans prepared, and tenders called for. ' Eepoets, etc., fok othbe Departments. Beyond finally deciding the amount of indebtedness of the Wairoa Harbour Board to the contractors on the construction of training-walls, &c, in the Wairoa Eiver, no other work has been taken outside this Department. I have, &c, T. Peeham, A.M. Inst. C.E., m , TT , „ ... Engineer, Water-conservation. The Under-Secretary, Mines Department, Wellington.
MINE-MANAGEES , AND BATTEEY-SUPEEINTENDENTS' EXAMINATION PAPEES. Questions used in Examination of Mining Managers fob Ceetificates. Subject A.—The Laying-out and Construction of Shafts, Chambers, Main Drives or Levels, Adits, Uprises, and Stopes. 1. A lode dips at an angle of 30° eastward, the outcrop of which is visible on the surface State where you would sink a vertical shaft in relation to the lode, and give reasons for your answer. } 2. An adit-level is driven 300 ft. to cut a vertical reef, and, allowing a fall of 1 in 12 in the drive, a straight line from mouth of adit to outcrop of reef is 500 ft. What depth would you require to sink a shaft from the outcrop to connect with the adit ? _ 3. A drive is 6 ft. 6 in. high, 4 ft. 6in. wide at the bottom, and 3 ft. 6 in. at the top the whole being solid quartz. How many feet of driving would be required to provide ore for a forty-stamp battery for twenty-eight days, working full time—capacity per stamp 1 ton per eight-hour shift and assuming 1801b. as the weight of a cubic foot of quartz? 4. Compare the relative merits of rectangular and vertical shafts. Give an estimate of cost tor sinking 100 ft. of each, having approximately equal areas. 5. Define the terms " winze," " stope," "pass," " adit," "drive," and " crosscut." What is the use of a pass, and what distance would you have them apart if you were working a 4 ft. reef ? Subject B.—On the Timbering of Shafts, Adits, Main Drives or Levels, Passes, Stopes and generally on the Systems of Timbering Mine, and also in Filling up Old Workings. •i I '/i? i 7 e Che dimensions of timber for a main adit in heavy ground—(a) if for a double line of rails, (6) tor a single line of rails. State how you would make each set, and what provision you would make if the ground was liable to swell. Give your reasons fully. _ 2. How far apart do you consider it most economical to have passes, and how would you timber them in heavy ground ? Give dimensions of passes and size of timbers. Give your reasons 3. State how you would timber a shaft with formed sets if the shaft were 12 ft by 6ft in the clear: give the dimensions of timber you would use, and show by sketch how you fit the timber and the distance you would place the sets apart if the ground was heavy. 4. How would you secure the ground in stoping out a lode 6 ft. wide—(a) timbering the stope {b) to secure the ground after being stoped out—if the ground were liable to crush, and the lode underlying at an angle of 40° ? 5. Describe how you would secure the timber in the main adit so as to prevent more than two sets ot laths coming down in the event of a cap breaking; also give your reasons why all empty spaces should be filled up on the top of the laths. Subject Q.—The Ventilation of Mines, and Composition of Gases. 1. Under what conditions is CH 4 likely to be found in metalliferous mines? How would you detect it ? State generally what you know about this gas. _2. Give the compositions, gravities, and characteristics of CO and CO 2 . Describe the conditions under which they are likely to be found in mines. 3. If in reopening an old filled-up shaft the men became overpowered by CO, what steps would you take to promptly rescue them ? Safety of rescues must be taken into consideration 4. Explain the various methods for obtaining positive ventilation and the reason for splitting the air-currents. c 8 5. A fan is exhausting 150,000 cubic feet of air per minute ; water-gauge readme 3in • engine cylinder, 24 in. diameter by 36 in. stroke; piston-rod (one side only) 3* in diameter' revolutions, sixty per minute ; mean steam pressure, 401b. per square inch. Allowing for 15 per cent, of the steam-power being absorbed by frictional resistances, &c, what percentage of useful effect does the fan yield ? .
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Water supplied. Year. Bate per Sluicehead per Week. April. May. June. July. August. September. October. November. December. January. February. March. Total Vfilns Total Value Total Value of Water sold Free for Free Ior 01 water sold. Assistance. Deviations. Total for Construction of No. 3 Channel. Total Value Water supplied. Average Number of Sluice-heads Expenditure, supplied Daily. Water sold Free . 1883-84 . 1883-84 £ s. d. 3 0 0 £ s. d. 371 16 5 46 2 6 £ s. d. 465 2 1 44 5 0 £ s. d. 700 2 6 183 11 8 £ s. d. 583 9 7 108 19 2 £ s. d. 702 7 6 108 0 0 £ s. d. 626 16 3 85 7 6 £ -e. d 808 10 5 244 7 6 £ s. d. 777 3 9 172 18 9 £ s. d. 774 17 11 63 12 6 £ s. d. 698 2 6 103 9 2 £ s. d. 1,064 0 0 86 5 0 £ s. d. 774 6 0 139 3 4 £ s. a. 8,346 14 11 £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d £ s. d £ a. d 1,386 2 1 Water sold Free 1884-85 1884-85 3 0 0 417 18 11 509 7 1 883 14 2 692 8 9 810 7 6 712 3 9 1,052 17 11 950 2 6 838 10 5 9,732 17 0 46-35 2,153 5 5 801 11 8 1,150 5 0 913 9 4 580 4 4 92 5 0 937 19 4 56 19 7 667 3 11 78 18 9 906 16 10 55 13 9 882 6 10 149 0 10 997 1 5 18 11 3 919 12 3 145 13 4 1,126 11 10 69 3 9 819 17 3 39 15 0 289 4 2 26 12 6 756 9 2 45 3 9 821 0 10 2 16 8 9,704 8 2 780 14 2 Water sold Free 1885-86 1885-86 2 10 0 672 9 4 994 18 11 746 2 8 962 10 7 1,031 7 8 1,015 12 8 1,065 5 7 1,195 15 7 10,485 2 4 49-92 1,656 0 1 859 12 3 315 16 8 801 12 11 823 17 6 665 16 0 24 13 9 796 6 9 9 2 0 893 5 3 745 19 7 773 19 10 23 15 0 943 13 5 31 3 4 953 15 6 22 1 3 997 7 8 18 11 10 697 13 5 18 7 2 686 4 0 49 1 4 708 15 8 15 0 935 19 7 13 2 6 9,788 16 8 221 3 2 Water sold Water sold Free ■ 1886-87 1886-87 1886-87 2 10 0 2 0 0 690 9 9 805 8 9 893 5 3 745 19 7 797 14 10 974 16 9 975 16 9 1,015 19 6 716 0 7 735 5 4 710 0 8 949 2 1 10,009 19 10 57-20 1,454 19 5 758 0 4 6,470 14 4 19 10 8 776 0 11 488 3 9 242 0 11 315 '7 11 40 13 9 599 5 0 120 9 7 643 7 11 83 15 10 682 8 9 74 5 0 686 7 5 45 9 2 562 0 10 32 15 0 345 12 7 46 8 9 673 0 0 49 16 8 747 9 2 36 3 4 I 1,547 18 11 758 0 4 Water sold Free 1887-88 1887-88 795 11 7 730 4 8 356 1 8 719 14 7 727 3 9 706 13 9 731 16 7 8,018 13 3 56-19 1,398 18 10 594 15 10 392 1 ■ 4 722 16 8 783 12 6 2 0 0 535 5 10 26 11 8 679 7 8 40 19 2 167 10 10 15 13 9 656 4 7 23 10 0 684 16 1 47 7 11 694 5 0 4 11 8 591 12 1 34 16 8 710 0 0 42 10 0 535 10 10 27 10 0 519 15 5 28 6 8 670 17 6 19 11 8 7,169 10 3 734 4 5 15 17 3 347 6 5 Water sold Free 1888-89 1888-89 2 0 0 561 17 6 720 0 10 183 4 7 679 14 7 732 4 0 698 16 8 626 8 9 752 10 0 7,516 16 8 53-68 982 12 0 553 0 10 548 2 1 690 9 2 750 1 8 490 6 8 107 17 3 338 7 7 90 18 0 532 1 1 87 1 4 626 19 10 75 1 10 667 8 3 32 10 0 542 8 4 16 9 5 702 12 6 38 1 4 664 1 7 13 0 0 395 12 3 34 9 2 465 2 1 58 6 8 623 18 4 90 10 10 667 8 4 74 13 4 6,716 6 10 492 0 0 227 0 0 598 3 11 429 5 7 619 2 5 Water sold Free Free, No. 3 Channel 1889-90 1889-90 1889-90 2 0 0 702 1 8 699 18 3 558 17 9 740 13 10 607 1 7 430 1 5 523 9 7 714 9 2 742 1 8 7,435 6 10 53-10 1,024 1 9 401 13 4 45 15 0 495 16 4 55 3 4 256 16 8 43 0 0 377 10 3 92 15 0 353 4 2 105 15 0 122 19 1 237 7 11 93 1 8 335 1 3 318 10 10 41 10 0 330 11 8 293 8 4 103 18 4 275 8 0 159 18 9 105 13 4 97 13 4 219 15 10 48 17 6 6 0 0 248 19 7 54 8 4 221 18 1 186 16 8 71 5 0 102 11 5 3,550 4 8 396 2 6 465 0 0 1,492 2 10 447 8 4 Water sold Free Free, No. 3 Channel 1890-91 1890-91 1890-91 550 19 8 299 16 8 470 11 3 581 18 3 665 10 10 690 12 6 672 14 8 363 5 5 5,903 10 0 42-16 1,424 13 3 274 13 4 525 6 0 360 13 1 2 0 0 300 12 6 113 5 0 272 11 11 355 11 11 119 14 2 247 3 6 368 3 2 70 7 11 246 17 10 6,665 12 8 423 9 0 71 17 6 115 2 11 622 17 11 82 9 7 32 2 2 666 7 1 110 16 8 720 16 1 93 13 9 701 5 10 106 0 10 578 1 8 57 5 5 546 17 11 113 6 8 691 17 11 133 2 6 689 11 8 130 5 10 409 5 5 793 0 5 91318 4 1891-92 1891-92 686 9 5 722 9 7 685 8 11 610 9 5 737 9 8 777 3 9 8,781 16 10 62-72 1,766 4 3 Water sold Free 2 0 0 814 9 10 807 6 8 635 7 1 660 4 7 825 0 5 819 17 6 616 5 10 143 11 5 655 4 11 191 16 8 542 9 1 44 3 6 179 11 11 426 16 1 82 16 11 769 15 5 151 14 7 784 13 8 118 10 1 642 4 2 233 1 8 469 10 0 213 11 3 291 3 9 137 0 10 543 7 6 64 11 8 724 8 8 28 9 2 6,645 11 0 996 4 5 413 3 4 759 17 3 847 1 7 586 12 7 179 11 11 8,054 18 9 57-53 1,584 10 11 Water sold Free 1892-93 1892-93 2 0 0 509 13 0 921 10 0 903 3 9 875 5 10 683 1 3 428 4 7 607 19 2 752 17 10 495 17 1 44 18 9 505 12 11 80 2 6 493 5 10 72 4 2 495 13 6 61 2 1 602 2 8 43 5 10 635 1 3 38 2 6 571 1 8 44 0 10 458 7 1 66 2 6 382 2 1 157 6 8 390 19 2 94 4 2 450 7 6 77 10 10 308 10 0 64 2 6 5,789 0 9 444 15 8 398 "7 8 Water sold Free 1893-94 1893-94 540 15 10 585 15 5 565 10 0 556 15 7 645 8-6 673 3 9 615 2 6 524 9 7 539 8 9 485 S 4 6,632 4 1 47-35 1,782 11 0 527 18 4 372 12 6 2 0 0 451 16 5 101 ,5 2 480 13 7 119 5 7 541 11 11 99 4 6 542 9 6 110 7 1 575 10 5 92 9 10 486 9 2 147 16 2 539 8 4 112 11 0 402 11 11 164 18 5 451 5 5 82 0 4 303 0 10 112 3 10 415 5 5 132 15 10 392 1 8 70 6 10 5,582 4 7 1,306 0 3 30"4 4 Water sold Free 1894-95 1894-95 553 1 7 599 19 2 640 16 5 652 16 7 668 0 3 634 5 4 651 19 4 402 8 6 927 9 2 49-48 1,917 8 5 567 10 4 533 5 9 415 4 8 548 1 3 2 0 0 477 1 8 76 11 8 437 17 4 98 12 8 501 3 4 103 1 3 482 1 3 92 17 11 513 7 11 83 5 0 413 0 5 122 17 6 213 19 2 96 4 2 375 7 6 105 6 8 428 8 9 81 11 8 298 2 5 74 14 2 198 7 1 72 17 6 308 2 11 86 12 6 4,646 19 9 1,05412 8 40 0 0 5,74l'12 5 41-01 1,976 17 7 553 13 4 536 10 0 604 4 7 574 19 2 480 14 2 Water sold Free Free, No. 4 Channel 1895-96 1895-96 1895-96 596 12 11 535 17 11 310 3 4 510 0 5 372 16 7 271 4 7 394 15 5 2 0 0 277 5 10 95 3 4 379 15 0 96 1 8 349 12 1 139 19 2 322 15 10 81 16 3 345 1 8 76 19 7 5 12 6 354 1 8 77 10 10 39 14 2 351 16 8 110 9 7 62 7 6 336 5 5 114 12 1 56 9 2 331 0 0 . 67 3 4 65 4 7 315 15 5 92 8 4 3210 0 336 3 4 90 18 11 36 1 3 406 18 4 86 16 3 34 15 10 4,106 11 3 1,129 19 4 33215 0 5,569' 5 7 39- 78 1,943' 8 7 Water sold 1896-97 |2 0 0) 11 10 01 372 9 2 475 16 8 489 11 3 404 12 1 427 13 9 471 6 8 524 13 9 507 6 8 463 7 11 440 13 9 463 3 6 528 10 5 1896-97 1896-97 286 13 4 307 0 0 166 9 6 387 13 8 318 10 7 310 7 4 356 16 4 322 8 10 144 13 3 319 1 3 284 1 3 299 1 8 3,502 17 0 Free Free, No. 4 Channel 100 5 0 15 0 0 99 4 10 14 16 8 22 18 2 4 0 10 31 1 10 18 0 0 12 19 4 7 0 0 22 16 10 18 0 0 13 18 4 9 0 0 12 11 3 12 0 0 12 18 9 7 0 0 51 18 9 6 0 0 58 16 2 10 0 0 39 19 9 13 0 0 479 9 0 133 17 6 4,116 3 6 40-41 1,786 15 9 Water sold Free Free, No. 4 Channel 1897-98 1897-98 1897-98 401 18 4 421 1 6 193 8 6 436 15 6 338 9 11 351 4 2 379 14 8 347 0 1 164 12 0 377 0 0 352 17 5 352 1 5 243 11 2 29 1 3 240 5 1 39 16 3 204 19 1 18 1 10 210 11 1 29 5 0 266 15 6 29 0 0 147 4 8 51 5 0 296 9 10 49 14 4 213 1 9 52 10 0 255 19 11 38 2 6 2 10 0 208 16 2 29 1 3 14 0 0 415 13 9 185 15 3 48 15 0 2,889 3 3 414 12 5 33 10 0 17 0 0 3,337 5 8 1,841 0 0 Water sold 1898-99 1898-99 1898-99 272 12 5 280 1 4 223 0 11 239 16 1 295 15 6 198 9 8 346 4 2 265 11 9 296 12 5 251 17 5 432 13 9 234 10 3 Free Free, No. 4 Channel 160 6 6 28 15 0 194 11 5 59 1 3 171 13 0 30 7 6 226 15 6 42 3 9 224 0 6 45 13 9 251 9 1 54 7 6 202 2 11 33 15 0 233 18 5 37 10 0 258 15 4 28 8 1 196 19 9 28 2 6 320 17 10 37 10 0 270 4 2 44 1 3 2,711 14 5 469 15 7 3,181 10 0 2,174 3 11 Water sold .. 1 1899-1900 1899-1900 1899-1900 189 1 6 253 12 8 202 0 6 268 19 3 269 14 3 305 16 7 235 17 11 271 8 5 287 3 5 225 2 3 358 7 10 314 5 5 Free .. .. 1 Free, No. 5 Channel 1 1 10 0 227 5 6 44 7 6 312 9 1 52 9 0 251 19 9 46 17 5 244 19 2 55 18 9 196 14 3 43 7 7 157 7 1 40 6 3 218 13 4 46 2 6 129 12 10 44 7 6 177 13 11 46 17 6 122 1 4 41 5 0 193 0 2 45 0 0 36 11 2 226 19 3 42 15 0 93 14 11 2,458 15 8 549 14 0 130 "6 1 3,138 15 9 43-60 1,904' 7 9 271 13 0 364 18 1 298 17 2 300 17 11 240 1 10 197 13 Water sold .. 1 1900-1901 264 15 10 174 0 4 224 11 5 163 6 4 274 11 4 363 9 2 (1 10 0) U oof 108 8 6 259 2 0 167 4 3 220 5 9 265 12 4 220 6 10 235 19 2 143 2 5 ill U 1 122 2 7 196 2 1 132 5 0 2,181 11 0 Free .. .. 1 Free, No. 5 Channel 1 1900-1901 1900-1901 34 7 6 68 18 2 49 6 3 14 1 3 35 18 1 47 10 0 41 5 0 78 18 1 44 4 4 21 14 4 53 8 8 4 4 5 61 14 4 4 4 4 51 3 8 26 11 3 50 17 5 11 17 6 12 15 8 1 12 1 13 8 1 12 16 8 435 0 11 305 16 2 2,922' 8 1 45-91 2,077 10 10 1901-1902 1901-1902 211 14 2 322 9 6 250 12 4 340 8 10 ■ 331 11 0 277 19 11 301 17 10 220 17 4 173 15 0 136 10 4 209 10 2 145 1 8 98,926 17 2 12,894 6 11 2,375 15 9 3,308 15 11 117,505 15 9 30,849 15 9 Water sold .. 1 Free .. .. 1 10 0 203 18 9 8 12 6 236 8 2 15 15 0 199 19 2 12 15 0 209 17 9 7 17 6 174 8 7 7 12 1 172 4 10 6 5 0 215 9 6 9 7 6 213 17 1 7 3 9 167 15 7 5 6 3 127 11 6 ' 19 17 6 161 15 10 10 10 0 167 5 5 2,250 12 2 111 2 1 2,361 14 3 48-0 1,706 10 0 212 11 3 252 3 2 212 14 2 217 15 3 178 9 10 182 0 8 224 17 0 221 0 10 173 1 10 147 9 0 172 5 10 107 5 5 101,177 9 4 13,005 9 0 2,375 15 9 3,308 15 11 119,807 10 0 32,556 5 9
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6. Show by arrows, &c, how you would conduct air through the workings shown on accompanying sketch, ventilation to be by some power which will prevent the reversals of current which occur when natural ventilation is relied on. State what power you would adopt and show where you would apply it. (Note.—Levels connected to main shaft by crosscuts.) Subject D.— Tapping Water in Mines, and the Mode of constructing Dams in Underground Workings to keep the Water back. 1. If you were driving in the direction of old workings known to contain water in large quantity, what precautions would you adopt ? Explain fully. 2. Describe the construction of a suitable dam to be built in a tunnel 6ft wide by 7ft high and to resist water having a pressure due to a vertical head of 170 ft. Give leading dimensions and state total pressure on the dam. 3. Explain how you would construct a water-tunnel in ground subject to swell. 4. What methods are adopted in shafts to obviate feeders of water having to be pumped ? Particularise as far as possible. Subject E. — On Blasting and the Use of Explosives. 1. What explosives do you consider the best to use in crosscutting in hard rock ? Give your reasons fully. •' 2. What is the relative strength of dynamite, rackarock, compressed powder, and blastinggelatine in comparison with the ordinary blasting-powder ? 3. What method would you use to thaw dynamite when in a frozen condition, and at what temperature does it freeze ? 4. What explosive do you consider the best to use in wet and hard ground ? Give your reasons fully. J 5. If a shot were to miss fire, what precautions would you take, and how would you proceed to disintegrate the rock that the miss-charge was in ? Subject F.—A Knowledge of Arithmetic, and the Method of keeping Mining Accounts. 1. The wages of 9 men and 5 boys for 48 hours in doing a certain piece of work was £36 Assuming that 4 boys did as much as 3 men, how much did each receive, and how lons would it have taken 5 men and 3 boys to do the same work ? 2. The excavation for a battery on the side of a hill was 90 ft. long. At one end the width was 30ft., and the height of the bank measured on a slope of 1 in 4 was 21 ft. ; at the other end the width was 13 ft., and the height of the bank on a slope of lin 4 was 9 ft. 2iin How many cubic feet were there in the excavation ? ' 3. How many cubic feet of timber are there in two poppet-head legs, each 90 ft lon» 2 ft. 4 m. m diameter at the one end and 1 ft. 3 in. at the other ? 4. The distance between two levels vertically is 100 ft. A quartz lode is lying on an angle of 45 degrees, the average thickness of the lode is 6 ft. 5 in. at one end of a block 150 ft in length arid 3 ft. 9 in. at the other. At 75 ft. from either end the lode has an average thickness of 7 it. 7 in. How many tons of quartz are there in the block between the two levels allowing 16 cubic feet to a ton ? 5. A bar weighing 415 oz. bullion contained gold of 2251 fine and silver 5632 fine Taking pure gold at £4 4s. an ounce, and silver at 2s. 3d. per ounce, required the value of the gold and silver. ° Subject G.— A Knowledge of Part V. of " The Mining Act, 1898." Subject H.— Pumping Appliances and the Drainage of Mines. 1. Describe the leading features of a large steam-pump to" be placed underground and to work against a vertical head of 800 ft. Economy of steam and accessibility of parts most'liable to derangement to be fully considered. 2. What is a pulsometer ? Explain its action, uses, and limits of application. 3. In sinking a shaft, a considerable amount of water is met with, and has to be raised in tanks. Describe how this may be effected without the tanks dipping into the water or being filled by baling. ° 4. An ordinary bucket pump working sixteen hours daily has a diameter of 18 in. and a travel of 88 ft. per minute. It has to be replaced by a steam-pump capable of raising the water in twelve hours. Assuming the latter to have two double-acting rams, and to work at a speed of 100 ft per minute, what will be the diameter of the rams ? ' Subject I.—The Haulage in Shafts and on Underground Planes; also the Strength of Haulage Ropes and Chains. 1. Give diameter of cylinders, length of stroke, and diameter of drum (on first motion) required to raise 500 tons per shift from a depth of 800 ft. Boiler pressure 80 lb. per square inch 2. Explain how (at deep shafts) the weight of winding-ropes is balanced, and also the advantages and disadvantages attending any system of balancing. 3. Sketch the ground plan and general arrangements of an endless-rope tramway and explain its leading features. Give reasons for and against the rope being placed (a) under and (b) over, the trucks, and show how you would secure the trucks to the rope when the tramway has undulating gradients. 4. Give in detail the particulars of steam plant required to haul 20 tons per hour up an incline 75 chains long with one line of rails only, and having a gradient of 1 in 3 17—C. 3.
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Subject J. — The Effect that Faults, Slides, aud Mullock-bars have on Lodes, and hoiv to ascertain the direction of Slides and Heavals. 1. Are breaks, slides, and faults/from your own experience, frequent in New Zealand mineral lodes ? and give examples fully described. 2. When a " throw" cuts off a lode having a N. and -S. course, how would you proceed to prove and overcome it in the working of the mine ? 3. What is a " heave," and how does it affect a " lode fissure " ? 4. What is the difference between a " slide " and a " fault," and when they are encountered in underground workings by what signs are they to be distinguished from each other, and from " throws " and " heaves " ? Subject X.—A knowledge of Underground Surveying, and of making Plans of the Underground Workings, showing the Dip or Inclination and Strike of the Beefs or Lodes. 1. State what instruments and implements are used in ordinary surveying. 2. What is a vernier ? Describe how it is constructed. 3. Find the bearing and distance of the line vi-i; co-ordinate and tabulate the traverse; compute the area. Distances given in links.
4. Describe the adjustments of a plain theodolite. 5. Explain the respective merits of a plain and a transit theodolite. 6. Describe the adjustments of a " Dumpy level." Subject L. — A knowledge of the different Bocks where Gold, Silver, Tin, Copper-, Zinc, Lead, and Antimony are found, and the Formation of Lodes and Leads. 1. What metallic ores have been found in New Zealand? 2. Give their chemical composition. 3. If they occur in " lodes " or " veins," what rocks do they intersect? 4. Give an example of the considerations which would guide you in reporting on a proposed mining venture. Questions used in Examination of Battery Supeeintendents fob Ceetificates. Subject A.—The Different Modes of Beducing and Pulverising Ores. 1. State where, and by whom, and in what capacity you were employed in crushing-batteries. Give the dates that you were employed at a cyanide plant where auriferous and argentiferous ores were subjected to cyanide treatment. 2. Describe the mode of pulverising ore by stamps, Blake-Marsden crushers, Huntingdon mills, and Krupp mills. Give the dimensions, speed, and capacity of each, and the horse-power required to work them. 3. Describe how you would construct the foundation for a stamp mill. How would you fax the mortar-box to the foundation ? Give the dimensions of the framing for stamps having a weight of I,ooolb. 4. If you were using a Pelton water-wheel for driving twenty heads of stamps, having a weight of I,loolb. each, with a drop of 7 in., making 100 blows per minute, show by calculation the diameter of the nozzle you would use to give the necessary horse-power, with the head of water on the nozzle giving a pressure of 60 lb. per square inch. 5. Describe how you would fix the dies in the mortar-box, and what height you would place the screens about the dies for dry and also wet crushing, and give the reason for same. 6. Give the maximum number of drops per minute that stamps having a drop of 8 in. can be safely worked at without falling on the cams, and show by calculation how you arrive at the result.
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1. How is amalgamation effected in the mortar-box of a stamp mill? Describe fully. _ 2. State what amalgamating-machines you have used; their action, speed, capacity, and horse-power required to work them. . 3. Give the dimensions of a settler, its use, and the number of revolutions per mmute as being the most economical speed that it should be worked at. 4. Give the speed and capacity of a combination pan, McKay pan, and Watson-Denny pan; the quantity of pulverised ore that each would treat in twenty-tour hours, and the horse-power required to work them. Subject C— Quicksilver, and the Methods of using it in connection with the Extraction of Gold and Silver from Ores. 1. State the quantity of quicksilver you would use for amalgamation in a combination pan, Watson-Denny, and in a McKay pan, and state your reasons for same. 2. Describe how you would coat copper plates with quicksilver; how you would remove the bullion from the plates, and how you would keep the quicksilver in a lively condition. 3. What effect has ore containing lead, antimony, and copper on quicksilver ? 4. State how you would remove all base metal and impurities from quicksilver. Describe 5. Describe fully the method you would adopt in cleaning up, and how you would separate the bullion from the quicksilver and put in a marketable condition. Subject D.— Cyanide, Chlorination, and other Chemical Processes of recovering Gold and Silver from Ores. . • 1. Give a sketch of cyanide plant with four percolating-vats, showing all dimensions, and the relative position in which you would place sumps and all appliances for a complete plant. 2. State how you would ascertain the strength of KCN solution, and also the strength of the solution that is most economical to use with ore you are treating. 3. How many tons of a solution containing 12 per cent, of KCN would you require to make up 40 tons of a sump solution containing 0-012 of KCN to a 025 solution? 4. How many pounds of crude salt containing 65 per cent, of KCN would be required to make up 14 tons of a stock solution containing 15 per cent, of KCN ? 5. If there were 50 tons of a sump solution containing 001 per cent, of KCN, how many pounds of crude salt containing 75 per cent, of KCN would be required to make up a 0-3-per-cent. solution ? 6. How many tons of 0-9 per cent. KCN solution would be required to make up the strength of 30 tons of sump solution containing 0-12 per cent, of KCN to a 03-per-cent. solution? 7. If dry pulverised ore had a weight of 100 lb. per cubic foot, show by calculation the number pf tons of 2,240 lb. there would be in a vat 30 ft. in diameter and filled, with ore to a depth of 4 ft. 7$ in. . . 8. A sump 26 ft. 4| in. in diameter and 6 ft. deep : show by calculation the number of imperial gallons it would contain. ' , 9. Describe fully the remedies you would apply if any of the workmen were suffering from cyanide poisoning. 10. How is chlorination effected ? Describe fully the process which ores containing gold are subjected to. 11. Describe the process of making chlorine solutions, and how these are used to extract the gold from auriferous ores. 12. Describe the difference between a Newberry-Vautin chlorination and a plant required to chlorinate ores by the Plattner process. 13. Describe fully how gold is precipitated from cyanide and also from chlorine solutions. 14. Describe fully how you would recover gold from chlorine solutions, and also bullion from cyanide solutions, and put it in a marketable condition. Subject E.— The Sampling and Testing of Ores. A hundredweight of lode stuff is sent to a mill for valuation: describe in detail how you would proceed in order to make a report on its value—giving reference to your own experience. Subject F.— Knowledge of Arithmetic and Method of keeping Battery Accounts. 1. If 700 oz. of bullion contained gold 0-2354, and silver 05345, find what would be its value, taking pure gold to be worth £4 4s. per ounce and silver 2s. 4d. per ounce. 2. The wages in a battery for one month where 23 workmen were employed amounted to £275 There were four divisions of the men, A, B, C, D : 9 men in A division got twice as much as the 7 men in C division; 4 men in B division got £25 less than the men in C division; and 3 men in D division got one-half as much as the men in C division. How much did each man receive ? 3. A round spar 70 ft. in length was 25£ in. diameter at the one end and at the other. Give its measurement in cubic feet. 4 Show how you would enter the following accounts in journal, cash-book, and ledger. The goods received were—H. Jones, 10 shoes for stamps, £21 Bs. Id.; 500 lb. KCN., £29 3s. 4d.;
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4201b. quicksilver, £52. J. Bobertson, 20 tons coal, £20; assay material, £34 6s. Bd. P. Brown, advertising tenders, £4; stationery, £7 15s. The amount paid as wages was £234 3s. 4d. ; J. Eobertson, £65 ; H. Jones, £60;' and P. Brown, £7 ss. 5. A circular brick chimney-stack was 60 ft. in height. The outside diameter at bottom was 8 ft., and at the top 4 ft. The wall was 18 in. thick for 25 ft. up from the bottom, 13i in. thick for the next 25 ft., and the upper portion the wall was 9 in. in thickness. How many bricks would it require to build it, allowing each brick to be 9 in, long, 4-| in. wide, and 3in. thick? • Subject G.— A Knowledge of Part V. of " The Mining Act, 1898." Oral.
List op Mine-managebs and Battebt-supebintendents who have obtained Certificates under the mlning acts. As there have been several inquiries rnatle as to the names of persons who hold certificates as mine-managers and battery-superintendents, the annexed is a complete list of those holding certificates at the date of this report, taken from the register : — THE MINING ACT. Fibst-olass Service Certificates. Issued under " The Mining Act, 1886," toithout Examination. Adams, H. H., Waiorongomai. Greenish, J., Reefton. Nasmyth, T., Reefton. Anderson, P., Thames. Greenville, W., Ohinemuri. Newman, W., Naseby. Andrews, R., Coromandel. Hall, J. P. Northey, J., Thames. Andrews, T., Thames. Hansen, P. 0., Thames. O'Sullivan, D. E., Thames. Barclay, T. H., Thames. Harris, J., Owen's Reefs. Polton, A,, Karangahake. Bennett, J., Alexandra. Harrison, R. H., Coromandel. Porter, J., Waipori. Benney, J., Coromandel. Hicks, T. 8., Thames. Purvis, G., Ross. Black, T., Waiomo. Hilton, G. P., Bendigo. Quinn, E., Te Aroha. Bollersley, N., Boatman's. Hodge, P., Coromandel. Radford, T., Thames. Bradbury, M., Reefton. Hollis, W., Thames. Ralph, J. G., Thames. Bray, John, Lyell. Hunter, R., Thames. Ranger, J., Reefton. Burch, W. H., Thames. James, F., Thames. Rasmussen, C. L., Mokihinui. Byrne, J. F., Stafford. Jamieson, A., Coromandel. Rasmussen, C. P., Mokihinui. Cameron, A., Macetown. Jenkins, M., Wakatipu. Reid, P., Coromandel. Cameron, E., Te Aroha. Johnstone, H., Bluespur. Resta, L., Macetown. Chapman, J. A., Dunedin. .Julian, J., Boatman's. Roberts, E., Ross. Clarke, G. S., Thames. Kelly, J., Lyell. Rooney, F., Reefton. Comer, R., Thames. Kerr, J., Thames. Scott, T., Waiorongomai. Conradson, M., Lyell. Lawn, E., Black's Point. Searight, A., Reefton. Corin, W., Thames. Lawn, H., Boatman's. Senior, J., Thames. Comes, C. A., Karangahake. Lawn, J., Reefton. Smith, J. E., Thames. Coutts, J., Thames. Littlejohn, W., Karangahake. Stone, F., Karangahake. Crawford, T. H., Thames. Lowe, E. W., Thames. Steedman, J. 8., Thames. Crowley, C, Reefton. Malfroy, J. M. 0., Ross. Sturm, A., Waipori. Cummings, W., Reefton. Martin, W. G., Thames. Taylor, N., Thamea. Davis, J. E., Queenstown. McCallum, J., Reefton. Todd, C., Heriot. Davey, C, Ross. MoCullough, R., Thames. Treloer, J. S., Reefton. Donald, J., Cromwell. McGruer, G. N., Karangahake. Tripp, R. S., Arrowtown. Dryden, S., Thames. Mollhaney, J., Thames. Vivian, J. G., Thames. Dunlop, T. A., Thames. Mclntosh, D., Bluespur. Vivian, S., Reefton. Edwards, J., Skipper's. McKay, J., Ross. Waite, C. D., Thames. Elliott, J., Macetown. McKenney, J., Reefton. Waite, E., Thames. Evans, F., Skipper's. McKenzie, W., Thames. Walker, J. W., Thames. Evans, J. H., Skipper's. McLeod, G., Coromandel. Watson, T., Reefton. Fitzmaurice, R., Reefton. McLiver, F., Thames. Wearne, J. E., Endeavour Inlet. Frewen, J. 8., Queensfcown. McLiver, H., Thames. Wearne, T., Endeavour Inlet. Gavin, T., Te Aroha. McMaster, J., Reefton. Wilcox, J., Thames. Gilbert, J., Reefton. Moore, H. W., Thames. Williams, J., Skipper's. Gilmour, T., Thames. Moore, J. H., Thames. Wright, G., Boatman's. Giles, G. F., West Wanganui. Morgan, R., Otago. Wylie, W., Ross. Glass, W. M., Naseby. Morrisby, A. A., Glenorchy. Young, G., Skipper's. Goldsworthy, J., Waiorongomai. First-class Mine-managers' Certificates, issued after Examination, under " The Mining Act, 1886," and Amendment Acts. Adams, 8., Thames. Crawford, J. J., Thames. Hosking, G. F., Auckland. Baker, W., Thames. Cummings, W., Reefton. Kruizenza, W., Reefton. Black, G., Reefton. Donaldson, W., Otago. Lawn, T., Reefton. Caples, P. Q., Reefton. Fleming, M., Thames. Logan, H. F., Wellington. Carter, J., Thames. Gardner, W. P., Reefton. Mangan, T., Thames. Casley, G., Reefton. Harris, W., Thames. Mouat, W. G., Dunedin. Cochrane, D. L., Reefton. Horn, G. W., Thames. Truscott, G., Thames. Colebrook, J. D., Coromandel. Home, W., Coromandel. Watkins, W. E., Reefton. Coombe, J., Reefton. Hornick, M., Thames. Wilkie, J., Reefton. First-class Mine-managers' Certificates, issued on Production of Certificate from a Recognised Authority outside the Colony, under " The Mining Act, 1886," " The Mining Act, 1891," and " The Mining Act, 1898." Argall, W. H., Coromandel. Griffiths, A. P., Auckland. McKenna, Thomas, Dunedin. Beckwith, L. H., Wellington. Griffiths, H. P., Auckland. Williams, W. H., Auckland. Datson, J., Manaia. Hailey, R. C, Dunedin.
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Agnew, J. A., Thames. James, T., Thames. Prince, F. H., Reefton. Annear, William, Eeefton. Keam, P. E., Thames. Robertson, D. 8., Stafford. Bennett, E. P., Thames. Lane, J., Reefton. Ross, Richard, Thames. Boydell, H. 0., Coromandel. Lawn, 0. H., Capleston. Russell, Murray, Dunedin. Bradley, R. J. H., Te Puke. . Linck, P. W., Thames. Shepherd, H. F., Thames. Bray, E., Thames. Marshall, F., Reefton. Stanford, W. J., Macetown. Bruce, Malcolm, Thames. Morrison, R., Thames. Steedman, J. G., Thames. Carroll, J., Lyell. McDermott, J., Thames. Sutherland, Benjamin, Reefton. Oartwright, E., Thames. McDermott, G., Thames. Tierney, R., Thames. Crabb, J., Eeefton. McDermott, W., Thames. Vialoux, F., Ooromandel. Dobson, J. A., Auckland. McGregor, W. T., Thames. Warne, George, Thames. Evans, H. A., Wellington. McKenzie, H. J., Coromandel. Waters, D. 8., Skipper's. Fahey, P., Reefton. McPeake, J., Thames. Watt, J., Thames. Flannigan, Francis, Reefton. O'Keeffe, M. D., Thames. White, G. H., Thames. Gilmour, J. L., Thames. Paul, Matthew, Thames. Whitley, A., Thames. Hodge, J. H., Thames. Paltridge, Henry, Thames. Williams, C, Capleston. Hughes, D., Thames. First-class Mine-managers' Certificates, issued after Examination, under " The Mining Act, 1898." Arscott, R., Waihi. Evered, N. J., Waihi. Morrison, William, Waihi. Barker, 8., Thames. Fry, S., Waimangaroa. Stewart, F., Waihi. Bennie, Boyd, Waihi. Hooker, John, Coromandel. Thomson, Thomas, Waihi. Bolitho, Soseph, Reefton. Irwin, Samuel, Waihi. Tucker, E. S., Coromandel. Bower, J. W., Coromandel. Johnson, J. H., Coromandel. Turnbull, E. V., Coromandel. Carter, R. P., Waihi. Langford, G. S., Waihi. Turner, C. E., Murchison. Cooper, J. H., Thames. McOonachie, W., jun., Waihi. Webber, J. H. A., Reefton. Cooper, Thornhill, Waihi. Mac Duff, R. 8., Thames. Weir, Thomas, Waihi. Docherty, W. H., Coromandel. MacLaren, J. A. J., Coromandel. Whyte, N. McG. H., Waibi. Ellery, John, Reefton. First-class Mine-managers' Certificates, issued under Section 313 of " The Mining Act, 1891." Edwards, George, Westport. Rickard, John, Thames. Trelease, J. H., Thames. Homibrooke, H. P., Coromandel. Snow, Thomas, Huntly. Williams, John, Kuaotunu. Martin, James, Reefton. Thomas, James, Thames. White, John S., Karangahake. First-class Mine-managers' Certificates of Competency granted to Holders of Provisional Warrants under Sec tion 32 of " The Mining Act Amendment Act, 1896." Alexander, Thomas, Deep Creek. Harvey, A. G., Coromandel. Moorecraft, Walter, Ooromandel. Argall, A. E., Coromandel. Howard, Samuel, Karangahake. Morgan, William, Owharoa. Battens, H., Coromandel. James, Robert, Thames. Moyle, Thoma3, Thames. Begley, Thomas, Reefton. Jamieson, John, Reefton. Patton, William, Maeetown. Bennett, Charles Henry, Kuaotunu. Johns, Thomas, Waihi. Pearce, Francis, Reefton. Bunney, Joseph, Waihi. Kennerley, W. H., Thames. Potter, William H., Thames. Campbell, Alexander, Cullensville. Langford, James, Goromandel. Rabe, Henry, Karaka. Carlyon, Samuel, Coromandel. McOombie, John, Karangahake. Rillstone, Charles, Waipori. Comes, C. A., jun., Karangahake. Mac Donald, H., Coromandel. Somervell, John, Thames. Daldy, Edward Arthur, Goromandel. McEnteer, James, Tararu. Stackpole, Robert, jun., Karangahake. Draffin, Samuel, Waitekauri. McFarlane, Charles M., Tokatea. Thomas, Archelaus, Tapu, Thames. Farmer, C. S., Waitekauri. McLean, Benjamin J., Waitekauri. Turnbull, Thomas A., Whangamata. Goldsworthy, Thomas, Tokatea. McLean, Charles, Thames. Willets, Henry, Thames. Goldsworthy, William, Karaugahake. McLean, James, Tararu, Thames. Wilson, James R. S., Kuaotunu. Govan, Joseph, Thames. Meehan, James, Westport. First-class Mine-managers' Certificates, issued to Insvectors of Mines, by virtue of Office under the Mining Acts, 1886, 1891, and 1898. Binns, G. J., Dunedin. Gow, J., Dunedin. McLaren, J. M., Thames. Cochrane, N. D., Westport. Green, E. R., Dunedin. Tennent, R., Westport. Gordon, H. A., Wellington. Hayes, J., Dunedin. Wilson, G., Thames. Second-class Service Certificates as Mine-managers. Issued under " The Mining Act, 1891." Adams, W. J., Thames. Ellery, John, Reefton. Kerr, George, Kamo. Agnew, J. A., Coromandol. Flannigan, Francis, Reefton. Kirker, Thomas, Thames. Allen, Richard, Reefton. Foster, Thomas, Wellington. Laughlin, David, Thames. Argall, A. E., Coromandel. Gale, C. W., Goromandel. Law, John, Thames. Bennett, C. H., Coromandel. Gill, George, Thames. Lough, H., Thames. Begley, Thomas, Reefton. Glasgow, T. M., Thames. Loughlin, S., Thames. Beard, W. T., Reefton. Goldsworthy, Henry, Thames. McLean, James, Thames. Bone, William, Reefton. Govan, Joseph, Thames. McLean, Alex., Coromandel. Bowler, John, Thames. Griffin, Patrick, Thames. McLean, Charles, Thames. Blair, Thomas, Kuaotunu. Grimmond, Joseph, Ross. McCormick, Charles, Coromandel. Bray, Edwin, Reefton. Goldsworthy, William, Mauku, Auck- McQuillan, John, Reefton. Brownlee, Thomas James, Thames. land. McNeill, Daniel, Thames. Brokenshire, James, Thames. Gemmings, Charles, Thames. McNeill, George, Upper Kuaotunu. Bolitho, James, Reefton. Gribble, James, Norsewood. McCombie, John, Karangahake. Brown, John, Macrae's. Guthrie, John, Wellington. McEwen, James, Reefton. Bremner, John, Goromandel. Guy, Robert, Kuaotunu. McLoghry, Archibald, Karangahake. Borlase, J. H., Capleston. Harvey, William, Reefton. Mackay, William, Nenthorn. Bunny, Joseph, Thames. Hardman, James Edward, Thames. Martin, James, Reefton. Byrne, John, Karangahake. Harris, R., Thames. Meagher, John, Karangahake. Gaird, Alexander McNeil, Reefton. Hetherington, William, Thames. Mills, George, Thames. Campbell, J., Kuaotunu. Hicks, W., Thames. Mayn, John, Coromandel. Climo, Noah, Coromandel. Hill, Alex. Grey, Waikakaho. Martin, David, Black's Point. Comer, George, Thames. Hore, John, Wellington. Morgan, William, Upper Thames. Gowan, Hugh, Kuaotunu. Hollis, Fred. J., Waihi. Moorecroft, Thomas, Thames. Corbett, T., Paeroa. " Hornibrook, H. P., Kuaotunu. Milne, John, Thames. Comer, W. W., Thames. Jamieson, John, Reefton. Moyle, Thomas, Thames. Crabb, Thomas, Reefton. Johnstone, William, Collingwood. Naysmith, James, Reefton. Daniel, P. F., Greymouth. Jobe, James, Thames. Newdick, Alfred, Thames. Dobson, John Allen, Kuaotunu. Johns, Thomas, Thames. Notman, Alexander, Reefton. Edwards, George, Westport. Kendall, Henry, Thames. O'Keefe, M. W. D., Thames.
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Issued under " The Mining Act, 1891 "—oontinued. Page, John, Lyell. Radford, Thomas, Thames. Tregowefch, William, Thames. Parkiss, Jos. W., Reefton. Rogers, Charles Henry, Reefton. Wells, Charles Lewis, Thames. Potts, W. H., Thames. Rogers, William Henry, Kumara. Willets, Henry, Thames. Primrose, J., Kuaotunu. Ross, J., Thames. Williams, James, Thames. Pettigrew, Robert, Sydney. Rowe, James, Thames. Williams, John, Thames. Peebles, Alexander, Kuaotunu. Shaw, James, Karangahake. Whisker, Charles, Thames. Phillips, W. H., Thames. Sligo, Alex., Nenthorn. White, John S., Karangahake. Pollock, John, Thames. Thomas, James, Thames. Wilson, James R. S., Kuaotunu. Rabe, Henry, Thames. Thomas, A., Thames. Wilson, J. G., Thames. Reid, Thomas Groat, Thames. Thomson, John, Dunedin. Woodcock, James, Thames. Rickard, John, Thames. Tregellas, James, Reefton. Worth, Robert, Waihi. Richards, A. H., Kuaotunu. Second-class Mine-managers' Certificates, issued after Examination, under " The Mining Act, 1891." Benney, J., jun., Paeroa. Evans, H. A., Skipper's. McNeil, A. H., Coromandel. Christie, William, Waitekauri. Gatland, V. V., Coromandel. White, F. H., Kuaotunu. Draffin, S., Waitekauri. Mathewson, A., Hyde. White, G. H., Thames. Dunkin, T., Coromandel. Second-class Mine-managers' Certificates, issued after Examination, under "The Mining Act, 1898." Bennie, Boyd, Coromandel. Cahill, T. M., Upper Kuaotunu. Carroll, John, Upper Kuaotunu. Second-class Mine-managers' Certificates, issued under Section 313 of " The Mining Act, 1891." Connon, William, Thames. Edwards, E., Coromandel. McOormick, W. J., Waitekauri. Coran, Henry, Thames. Kelso, Archibald, Coromandel. Second-class Mine-managers' Certificates of Competency granted to ' Holders of Provisional Warrants under Section 33 of " The Mining Act Amendment Act, 1896." Allen, W. J., Coromandel. Gardner, James, Waimangaroa. Martin, William, Tararu, Thames. Barney, Montague T., Waitekauri. Howe, Albion S., Waitekauri, Murphy, Joseph, Coromandel. Brownlee, Henry, Thames. Johnson, Frank H., Collingwood. O'Brien, John, Westporfc. Collins, Charles, Waitekauri. Kirwan, William, Reefton. Prescott, Arthur J., Coromandel. Curtis, Charles, Taylorville. McDonald, John, Tairua. Radford, Samuel, Waihi. Davis, James, Coromandel. Mclnnes, John, Puriri. Ruffin, Richard, Manaia, Coromandel. Batteby-sopebintendents' Certificates. Issued under " The Mining Act 1891 Amendment Act, 1894," without undergoing Examination. Adams, H. H., Waihi. Hope, John S., Waitekauri. Napier, James, Karangahake. Aitken, R. M., Reefton. Hutchison, William, Karangahake. Noble, James R., Karangahake. Banks, Edwin Gripper, Waihi. Margetts, Frederick Ernest, Kuao- Park, James, Thames. Barry, Hubert Percy, Waihi. tunu. Shepherd, Henry Franklin, Waihi. Goldsworthy, Henry, Kuaotunu. MoKenna, T. N., Tararu. Sims, C. F., Tararu. Goldsworthy, John, Kuaotunu. MeLellan, William, Waitekuri. Walker, James A., Kuaotunu. Greenway, H. Howard, Auckland. Mellett, Richard Sheridan, Waite- Wilson, Arthur E., Waihi. Heard, G. St. Clair, Waihi. kauri. Wilson, James Kitchener, Auckland. Battery-superintendents' Certificates, issued after Examination, under " The Mining Act 1891 Amendment Act, 1894." Adams, A. A., Thames, Doveton, G. D., Thames. Morrin, W. S., Thames. Allen, F. 8., Thames. Fleming, G. 0. S., Thames. Noakes, H. L., Waihi. Allom, H. 0., Thames. Gray, J. W., Waihi. Raithby, R. W., Reefton. Ansley, Comyn, Paeroa. Hayward, F. W., Komata. Robinson, J. R., Waitekauri. Ansley, Walter, Thames. Jackson, J. H., Paeroa. Stafford, B. H., Waihi. Banks, J. H., Waihi. ' Jones, Achison, Waihi. Taylor, G. H., Tararu. Bowers, W., Thames. Kidd, F. D., Thames. Thorpe, A. H., Thames. Brown, A. E., Thames. Lee, J. W., Reefton. Vercoe, R. 8., Thames. Clarke, R., Waitekauri. Macdonald, W., Waihi. Wingate, H. M., Maratoto. Clarke, W. J., Waihi. McKenzie, H. J., Thames. Winslow, G., Thames. Day, A. T., Thames. McMicken, S. D., Thames. Williams, A. G. R., Thames. Dixon, Clement, Waihi. Morgan, P. G., Thames. Battery-superintendents' Certificates, issued after Examination, under " The Mining Act, 1898." Adams, J. H., Thames. Draffin, Eugene, Kuaotunu. Montgomery, A. E., Opitonui. Allen, D. V., Thames. Ellis, L. L., Waitekauri. Moyle, W. T., Upper Tairua. Auld, James 8., Crushington. Empaon, J. 8., Karangahake. Pond, H. C, Auckland. Baker, W. H., Thames. Evans, W. 8., Reefton. Quick, J. N., Thames. Banks, Ernest J., Thames. Fletcher, H. T., Katikati. Reid, J. E., Great Barrier. Barrett, J. J., Karangahake. Fraser, J. M., Reefton. Reynolds, E. A., Auckland. Bishop, T. 0., Reefton. Grayden, J., Waitekauri. Rosewarne, R. EL, Thames. Bradley, R. J. H., Karangahake. Grayden, Peter, Thames. Royse, W. G., Reefton. Browne, E., Waitekauri. Grumitt, P. H. (Oamaru), Thames. Sanford, A. G., Waihi. Burns, William, Waiomo. Gwilliam, Ben., Karangahake. Stephens, H., Dunedin. Bush, E. F., Parawai. Hargraves, E. P., Waihi. Thomson, G. W., Bendigo. Bush, H. R., Thames. Haszard, T. R. C, Waitekauri. Thurlow, J. R., Coromandel. Campbell, Colin, Thames. Hay, Adam, Karaugahake. Tomlinson, A., Karangahake. Carpenter, W. E., Karangahake. Hogg, Bain, Karangahake. Tomlinson, W. F., Dunedin. Coote, J. M., Thames. Kidd, R. 8., Waitekauri. Ulrioh, Herstall, Whangapoua. Corbett, G. L., Waitekauri. Kingsford, A., Karangahake. Watson, A. 8., Waitekauri. Couper, J., Thames. Launder, G. H., Waitekauri. Watson, A. P., Crushington. Croucher, Herbert, Waihi. Lawless, L. J., Paeroa. Watson, T. R., Raefton. Crumpton, H., Maratoto. Maltman, Albert, Reefton. Williams, A. C. Waihi. Donnelly, Thomas, Waihi. McEwin, J. A., Reefton.
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Number of Machines employed in Quartz-mining in the Auckland District, and the Value thereof, for the Year ended the 31st December, 1901.
Statement showing the Whole of the Quartz-crushing Machines and Appliances for treating Auriferous and Argentiferous Ores in the Hauraki Mining District for the Year ended the 31st December, 1901.
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Machinery employed in Quai •tz-mining. Mining District. Steam ployi crus L-engines em- , ed winding, ehing, &c. Crus hing- ; machines. Approximate Value of all Mining Plant included in this Return. Stampheads. Waterwheels. Whims. Whips and Pulleys. Derricks. Berdans. Number. Aggregate Horse-power. I )hinemuri forth Hauraki .. iouth Hauraki .. 'e Aroha rreat Barrier Isl'd 60 48 37 1 4 4,390 1,708 1,172 125 ■ 17 19 35 1 J 639 193 463 10 20 18 2 53 1 1 1 54 . 61 192 2 3 £ 374,470 154,750 181,735 2,750 11,125 ISO 7,395 73 1,325 74 312 724,830
Locality where Machine is situated. Name of Machine. Name of Owners. o o P3 to ft rfi o to © A a 0 'A ID U V J! m 3 u cb O o Vh CD A 6 a to ■V to <D W O CD A a tH a Ph <M O to CD A 0 CD <D <D 02 O © a 0 m O a r +-i o to CD A a 0 to O "cD o to 03 A H 0 o to Ml !H CD O O 4-1 cS CD a h W FH a o Ph on a 4H.M N CD as a o to O «w co 03 O . 03 CD ■ S 03 ' 3£ 53 t>. 3 m a« to O CO fs ■ u 1) CD w.3 S3 a>i 4H C3 H a CD O a o o . 1/1 o 3 ag> a-s to « \* O ft a Cti CD -to xn t» A a CD > 'u a Q IS O a *H C-i ll A 0 0 > to 'to o p O to to as Coromandel County. Coromandel Kapanga Telephone Corby Hauraki Associated Success Kapanga Gold-mining Go. Hauraki Gold-mining Co. Scotty's Gold-mining Co. Hauraki Mines (Limited) Hauraki Properties Goldmining Co. Royal Oak of Hauraki Gold-mining Co. West Tokatea Gold-mining Co. Progress-Castle Rock Gold-mining Co. Four-in-hand Gold-mining Co. Cabbage Bay Extended Gold-mining Co. School of Mines Board in trust Kauri Freehold Gold Estates Gold-mining Co. Ditto .. Kuaotunu Syndicate 10 15 9 12 10 2 8 8 4 4 1 2 1 2 1 2 3 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 W. H. 1 1 '(■'■ 1 l" 1 1 Tokatea 15 1 1 1 West Tokatea 3 11 1 Progress - Castle Rock Four-in-hand 1 2 1 1 2 10 1 1 1 1 Vizard's.. 4 1 1 1 1 Publio battery 5 1 1 1 1 Opitonui Opitonui 40 5 2 2 2 2 2 1 Kuaotunu Owera Try Fluke Kapai-Vermont .. Great Mercury 16 16 4 3 1 1 2 1 1 2 2 1 4 2 2 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i *i Great Mercury Gold-min-ing Co. Irene Cold-mining Co. .. Louis Woodoock New Zealand Government plant 10 Irene Handsworth Mahakirau 10 3 3 2 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Mahakirau i 1 1 Thames County. Gumtown Welcome Jack Welcome Jack Gold-mining Co. Kapowai Gold-mining Co. Bullion Gold-mining Co... Mahara Royal Gold-min-ing Co. Monowai Amalgamated Gold-mining Co. Puru Consolidated Goldmining Co. New Alburnia Gold-min-ing Co. Tararu Creek Gold-mining Co. Charles Berry Eclipse Gold-mining Co... Chicago Gold-mining Co. George Bryant McGregor and Taylor Ethel Reefs Gold-mining Co. 5 2 l 1 1 1 Tapu Kapowai Bullion Mahara Royal 8 15 20 3 4 18 l 3 2 1 3 2 1 1 1 1 1 l" 1 Waiomo Monowai 10 1 2 1 1 1 1 Puru Puru 10 1 1 Tararu New Alburnia 20; 1 3 1 Tararu 30 3 2 1 1 1 Berry .. Eolipse .. Chicago .. Claremont .. | Junction .. Anchor .. .. I 1 10 10 1 5 4 3 3 1 2 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 i i 1 1 1 3 1 1 Karaka 1 Hape 1 1 1 * Otis mill.
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Statement showing the Whole of the Quartz-crushing Machines and Appliances for treating Auriferous and Argentiferous Ores in the Hauraki Mining District for the Year ended the 31st December, 1901 — continued.
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Locality where Machine is situated. Name of Machine. Name of Owners, A o o O to to © rQ CO as 3HO to ft a co CO o to 03 P CO Ch CD A CO 3 u CD CD P4 o O U CD A a a CO a 03 >o H CD m o u CD A a a CO a a o H CD A a a 03 r- © 4= © CO «H O to © A 3 0 to to 3 o Sect 1-4 o © A a 0 to c&4 O CD P3 o © A | 4H 4J CO H O ° 3° 3S sa O <M co CD O CO 0 to d-i 03 ■3 co " ft o 3 a- -, ~ a I 1 o IH CO oa a cc. d CD a p 4hPh °<D cn'a • a 30 iz Li I * 0 © a o 0 . co 1 m co ss a w g.s to © \* O ft CO" © CO >> A 0 © 'to p © O ft e ° £> a n * §E fl o R Thames County— ctd. Hape Kerikeri Puriri Fortuna Kerikeri Puriri Fortuna Gold-mining Co. Fleming Puriri Gold Estates Goldmining Co. John Mclnnes and party 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 W. H. 1 2 1 i 8 Tairua Hit or Miss Bonnie Scotland.. Ajax Cannon's Broken Hill 6 20 12 4 20 2 6 4 1 6 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 l l i l l Broken Hill Gold-mining Co. Whangamata Proprietary Gold-mining Co. Mananu Gold-mining Co. J. Mackay Tillsley Bros. Kuranui Gold-mining Co. New Moanataiari Goldmining Co. Charles Judd Kuranui-Caledonian Goldmining Co. May Queen Gold-mining Co. Moanataiari Gold-mining Co. Waiotahi Gold-mining Co. Fame and Fortune Goldmining Co, School of Mines Board in trust May Queen Extended Gold-mining Co. W. Manning Bank of New South Wales "l 1 1 Whangamata Luck at Last 2 *2 6 1 1 1 1 1 l Mananu Ohui Sheet Anchor Kuranui New Moanataiari.. 1 10 2 2 20 60 1 1 1 6 21 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 6 1 l l Ohui Ornahu Thames Borough .. 1 4 3 1 1 1 l Judd's Comer's '20 2 5 9 9 i 1 1 1 l l May Queen 33 8 3 2 3 2 l Cambria 21 13 1 2 5 1 l Waiotahi Fame and Fortune 21 21 5 16 2 1 2 1 1 1 1 i' School of Mines .. 2 1 1 1 3 3 1 1 l May Queen Extended Fairmile Bank of New South Wales Bank of New Zealand 23 14 2 4 1 l 1 1 1 1 1 1 l l Bank of New Zealand .. 2 3 l Ohinemuri County. Paeroa Bank of New Zealand Crown Bank of New Zealand .. l 2 1 1 1 Karangahake New Zealand Crown Mines Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) Woodstock Gold-mining Co. Talisman Extended Goldmining Co. Komata Reefs Gold-min-ing Co. Waitekauri Gold-mining Co. Ditto .. 60 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 l Woodstock 40 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 l Talisman 70 5 Komata Komata.. 20 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 l Waitekauri Waitekauri 40 1 3 1 4 2 1 1 1 l Golden Cross Grace Darling Jubilee Mangakara Alpha Waitekauri Extended Owharoa Jubilee Gold-mining Co. Reginald Smith Alpha Gold-mining Co... Waitekauri Extended Gold-mining Co. Ohinemuri Gold Syndicate Maratoto Gold-mining Co. Hikutaia Gold Syndicate 1 10 10 10 9 20 40 2 3 5 3 i 1 2 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i 'i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 l Maratoto *3 i' Owharoa 15 1 2 1 2 1 1 Maratoto Hikutaia Gold Syndicate Waihi .. Victoria Union-Waihi 10 5 2 3 2 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i Waihi Waikino Waihi Waihi Gold-mining Co. .. 2 4 2 90 200 40 1 12 2 3 3 2 6 4 2 1 4 1 l 1 1 1 1 1 1 l l l 1 Piako County. Waiorongomai Waiorongomai E. H. Hardy l 10, City of Auckland. Auckland Fraser's Bank of New Zealand Fraser Bros. Bank of New Zealand .. 1 2 1 2 1 2 2 2 6 1 4 1 2 1 l Great Barrier Island Barrier Reefs Goldand Silver-m. Go. Barrier Reefs Gold- and Silver-mining Co. 20 40 1,375 5 293 36 36 123 128 j 45 5 63 37 25 8 J44 * Krupp mill.
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Statement showing the Whole of the Quartz-crushing Machines and Appliances for treating Auriferous Ores in the Marlborough, Nelson, and West Coast Mining Districts for the Year ended the 31st December, 1901.
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Locality where Machine is situated. Name of Machine. Xa.ine of Owner. I ■m ! a :og o ill |S5 J S5 CO 3 V g c I a 03 03 I co o i 3 Oh "S ? ' ffi 00 >* ■ 2 +a O w g U S i 2 S o o o fcj h h o o o i S S ! 3 S 3 B S CO a -I rail 'II, IS £ ■Is jfi I '£* ■|i I CO 1"' «* 8 r 9 IS a 2 :°! $@ II a <x> o a \ ° I.a o i o a a 1 QQ .q" o t> q c ft is «^ If A So 1C Marlborough County. Top Valley Jubilee Wellington w. H. Jubilee Gold-mining Co. .. Wellington Gold-mining Go. 10 10 ] 1 1 1 Collingwood County, West Wanganui, or Taitapu Ditto Taitapu Taitapu Gold mining Co. .. 20 1 1 1 Golden Blocks Golden Blocks Gold-min-ing Co. 8 1 2 1 Greymouth County. Paparoa Ranges .. Taffy Croesus (Paparoa) .. Taffy Gold-mining Co. Oroeaus (Paparoa) Gold-min-ing Co. Julian Gold-mining Co. .. 5 10 1 1 i 1 1 1 1 Lower Paparoas .. Julian "5 1 Buller County. Lyell Alpine Extended .. Alpine Extended Gold-min-ing Co. Croesus Syndicate Britannia Gold-mining Co. 20 1 Stony Creek, Westport Waimangaroa Croesus Britannia 10 21 2 1 1 1 Republic Republic Gold-mining Co. 10 2 1 Inangahua County. Reefton Progress Mines of New Zealand Consolidated Goldfields of New Zealand Ditto .. Keepit-Dark Gold-mining Co. New Inkerman Mines Golden Lead Gold-mining Co. New Scoiia Gold-mining Co. Last Chance Syndicate .. Big River Gold-mining Co. St. George Gold mining Co. Consolidated Goldfields of New Zealand W. P. Gardiner and Sons .. 1 Progress 65] 1 1 Wealth of Nations.. 20| 1 1 Golden Fleece Keepit-Dark 1 2o| 20} 4 1 1 2 1 1 i 1 1 Merrijigs New Inkerman Golden Lead 3,5 10 3' 1 l| 1 1 1 1 1 New Scotia 10 1 1 1 1 Big River Last Chance Big River King George Welcome 5 10 5 10 "i\ 1 2 1 1 I 2 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Capleston i 2 Bourke's Creek Gardiner's 12 1 1 2 ' ' 6 300 43 4 20 30' ' 4 *1 7 2 3 17
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Statement showing the Quantity of Quartz crushed and Gold obtained in the Auckland District for the Year ended the 31st December, 1901.
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Locality and Name of Mine. Mi-, a J, a 2 cs o v a > to 03 O MO Quartz crushed. Gold obtained. Estimated Value of Gold Amalgamation. Cyanide. or lion. Gbeat Baeeiee Island. Barrier Reefs New Great Barrier Tons. cwt. lb. 120 13,537 0 0 2 4 10 0 122 13,541 10 0 Oz. dwt. 3,687 0 Oz. dwt. 12,047 0 £ s. d. 23,503 0 0 33 0 0 13,541 10 0 3,687 0 12,047 0 23,536 0 0 Cabbage Bay— Extended Quartz Claim Cobomandel County. 2 10 0 Cobo: ANDEL COUNTY. 2 1 0 0 5 1.4 15 13 4 Kennedy Bay— Macoronic .. ... Baden Powell 6 8 0 0 1 0 0 90 6 1 8 0 0 0 0 90 6 0 40 0 16 4 0 110 0 0 7 8 0 90 8 0 90 46 0 126 4 0 Waikoromiko — — Four-in-hand New Trilby Lillies Royal Ophir 16 ■ 793 0 0 2 0 0 15 2 13 0 1 0 3 -14 ft-i hc,a a oo 16 2 2 1 793 0 0 0 0 15 13 0 0 3 -14 1,421 15 14 7 8 10 4 6 4,112 15 4 39 8 3 23 7 6 11 16 6 Tokatea— — Royal Oak Hauraki Mines (Limited) West Tokatea East Tokatea Last Chance Josephine Golden Lead Golden Spark Old Britannia 21 794 6 29 45 618 3 8 6 2 2 0 5 63 0 0 1 0 10 0 2 0 10 0 2 3 15 0 2 8 0 0 1 10 9 1 15 0 &rz csno k i n 21 794 6 29 1,448 18 4,187 7 7 45 6 5 1 2 2 2 1 1 618 3 2 2 63 0 0 10 0 10 3 15 8 0 1 0 1 5 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0 3,693 2 76 5 234 11 2 5 1 10 4 4 8 10 3 3 5 16 9,256 11 5 217 5 2 667 15 4 6 3 9 4 4 0 11 15 2 24 16 0 8 16 5 16 4 9 Kapanga — - Kapanga Scottv's New Hauraki Gold Properties Kathleen Grown Buffalo ... 65 698 5 17 4 15 10 0 6 8 0 0 2 10 0 0 15 59 0 0 2 2 0 1 65 698 5 17 4,029 6 10,213 12 0 4 6 2 15 2 15 10 0 8 0 0 10 0 0 59 0 0 2 0 1 66 5 14 2 19 18 51 1 8 13 185 10 1 40 17 9 55 16 3 153 11 6 25 5 10 29 94 10 1 159 19 461 1 5 Hauraki Block— Hauraki Bunker's Hill Hauraki Freehold 29 94 10 1 50 1,030 6 12 6 82 0 0 21 3 0 0 50 6 21 1,030 6 12 82 0 0 3 0 0 1,984 5 228 17 9 8 6,089 5 8 640 7 9 26 18 2 6,756 11 7 Tiki-Progress-Castle Rock Aitken's Freehold 77 1,115 6 12 4 73 3 18 2 15 10 0 77 1,115 6 12 2,222 10 4 2 73 3 18 15 10 0 182 15 3 4 434 11 0 8 12 10 Opitonui — Kauri Freehold Gold Estate .. .. - 6 180 6 88 13 18 180 9,015 0 0 88 13 18 185 19 443 3 10 9,015 0 0 6,269 9 11,719 12 4 Kuaotunu — Waitaia Irene Kuaotunu Syndicate (late Mariposa) .. Great Mercury Handsworth Juno 15 545 0 0 4 209 0 0 28 650 0 0 7 595 0 4 3 58 1 2 2 3 0 13 15 4 28 7 3 2 545 0 0 209 0 0 650 0 0 595 0 4 58 1 2 3 0 13 920 5 273 0 256 6 108 15 421 10 2,723 13 4 537 9 5 857 12 5 851 0 0 1,053 3 7 121 8 5 425 16 46 14 59 2.060 1 19 786 11 6,144 7 2 59 2,060 1 19 1,665 15 Mahakirau — Nil Desperandum oy a,uw i J.y 3 6 10 6 1 0 127 15 332 3 0 Sundries 6 99 9 44 99 9 44 94 18 154 9 4 Totals, Coromandel County 455 13,980 13 6 455 13,980 13 6 9,986 14 7,056 0 40,554 5 7 1 Tapu— Mahara Royal Bullion Thames G Thames County and Boeo 1 *267 0 0 4 24 10 84 iUNTY AND BOEOl ran. 1 4 *267 0 0 24 10 84 85 10 198 13 287 10 9 566 1 4 291 10 84 284 3 853 12 1 * Tailini (s.
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Statement showing the Quantity of Quartz crushed and Gold obtained in the Auckland District for the Year ended the 31st December, 1901— continued.
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Locality and Name of Mine. cd o . | § £ lua i as cC3 CD CD 'o V a cd-5 a >>v & Quartz crushed. > a o o dco Gold obtained. Estimated Value of Gold or Bullion. Amalgamation. Cyanide. Thames Cou :s County AND BOBOUGH—i lontinued. Waiomo— Monowai .. .. . • 40 Tons cwt. lb. Oz. dwt. Oz. dwt. £ s. d. 40 *2,845 0 0 4,055 11 7 Puru— Puru Consolidated .. .. . . 4 171 0 10 97 13 254 12 2 Tararu — Tararu Creek .. .. .. 3 Eclipse .. .. .. . ■ 24 3 24 +153 0 3,944 0 0 0 2|191 13 398 19 354 19 4 6,165 5 0 6,520 4 4 27 Kuranui — Kuranui .. .. .. . ■ 7 27 4,097 0 0 2,191 13 388 19 7 69 0 0 58 8 142 10 9 Moanataiari — Moanataiari (tributeri-) .. .. 66 Kuranui-Caledonian (tributers) .. 48 Alburnia (tributers).. .. .. 5 New Whau .. .. 2 Golden Drop .. .. .. 2 66 48 5 2 2 1,254 14 101 425 8 36 52 0 0 37 0 0 5 0 0. 2,262 8 1,524 5 76 7 45 6 15 10 6,251 12 8 4,154 18 4 210 9 1 122 6 2 39 5 0 123 Waiotahi— Waiotahi .. .. .. .. 16 Nonpariel .. .. .. 6 Fame and Fortune .. .. .. 8 Ballarat .. .. .. .. 2 West Coast .. .. .. 2 123 1,774 3 25 3,923 16 10,778 11 3 16 6 8 2 2 1,096 0 0 256 1 100 25 0 0 14 0 0 12 0 0 1,508 11 330 9 94 10 25 11 10 19 4,109 6 1 935 10 4 258 12 3 68 19 9 29 11 3 34 34 1,403 1 100 5,401 19 8 1,970 0 Oft Grahamstown — — May Queen .. .. .. 49 Victoria .. .. • . .. 6 49 6 1,340 2 62 123 0 0 3,503 3 54 16 9,600 12 150 3 55 Karaka — May Queen Extended .. 8 Claremont .. .. 1 Thames Talisman .. .. .. 6 ' Gloucester .. .. .. 4 Gloucester Extended .. .. 2 55 1,463 2 62 3,557 19 9,750 16 8 1 6 4 2 120 0 0 0 10 20 14 0 0 44 0 0 2 0 0 58 14 450 0 6 3 101 15 8 3 167 18 1,210 10 17 1 306 5 34 9 21 180 10 20 21 624 15 1,736 3 7 Una Hill and Hape Creek — Thames Special .. .. .. 3 Fortuna (Hauraki) .. .. .. 6 3 6 8 0 113 0 0 0 28 2 96 18 80 8 9 272 16 11 9 Kerikeri— Horseshoe.. .. .. .. 1 Challcotte.. .. .. .. 1 2 121 0 0 125 0 353 5 1 1 0 0 8 0 0 12 4 3 38 15 10 7 96 17 2 0 0 20 42 18 107 5 Puriri —, Puriri Gold EBtates .. .. 2 Miner's Right .. .. .. 4 Union Jaok .. .. .. 2 8 2 4 2 135 0 42 0 52 0 0 0 0 51 9 38 14 97 4, 129 18 10 97 14 4 245 3 2 229 0 0 187 7 472 16 4 8 Whangamata— Whangamata Gold Corporation .. 11 Mananu .. .. .. .. 40 Broken Hills .. .. .. 40 Chelmsford .. .. .. 23 11 40 40 23 150 0 2,219 0 480 0 1,365 0 0 0 0 0 758 12 488 0 526 3 255 0 2,681 8 551 0 272 16 224 0 2 7,558 13 11 1,792 19 9 1,431 13 11 114 114 4,214 0 0 1,772 15 3,760 4 11,007 7 Gumtown — ! Welcome Jack .. .. .. j 12 Kapowai .. ., .. .. 6 Big Beetle .. .. .. .. I 4 Golden Reefs .. .. .. 2 24 123 0 276 10 20 0 30 0 0 0 0 0 282 4 233 0 46 8 17 0 539 11 547 11 135 2 44 10 449 10 0 1..266 15 578 12 Sundries .. .. .. .. i 10 Tailings .. .. .. .. J 6 193 1 44 210 10 568 7 i 6,369 0 0 688 7 1,858 11 l: Totals, Thames County and Borough | 489 l_ 4,159 3 55,128 10 I 23,870 0 29 16,313 16- * Quartz crushed and concentrated; treated in New South Wales. t Tailini !S.
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Statement showing the Quantity of Quartz crushed and Gold obtained in the Auckland District for the Year ended the 31st December, 1901— continued.
Number of men employed in prospecting and development-work in the whole district from which no returns of gold have been obtained, 310,
Battery Returns from Quartz-mines in the Marlborough, Nelson, and West Coast Mining Districts for the Year ended the 31st December, 1901.
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Locality and Name of Mine. Quartz crushed. 3 a> o mO J 7 y £ o ; Gold obtained. Amalgamation. Cyanide. Estimated Value o( Gold or Bullion. Ohi: iemdei County. Oz. dwt. Waihi— Waihi .. .. .. .. 1,079 Waihi Union .. .. . . 180 1,079 180 Tons cwt. lb. 154,159 0 0 18,746 0 0 Oz. dwt. 460,985 0 23,868 0 £ s, d. 433,451 2 4 28,972 11 1 1,259 Waitekauri— Waitekauri .. .. .. 285 1,259 172,905 0 0 484,853 0 462,423 13 285 24,629 0 0 42,558 1 1 Karangahake— New Zealand Crowu .. .. 240 New Zealand Talisman .. .. 180 Woodstock .. .. .. 92 240 180 92 32,028 0 11,252 0 3,517 0 0 0 0 35,660 14 20,705 5 6,129 0 66,203 17 17,256 13 4,476 2 512 Komata— Komata Reefs . . .. . . 76 512 46,797 0 0 62,494 19 87,936 13 76 9,200 0 . 0 11,216 11 11,289 6 Maratoto .. .. .. .. 4 75 0 4 127 0 0 30 0 Sundries .. .. .. .. 4 4 6 3 4 31 9 39 5 9 Totals, Ohinemuri County.. 2,140 2,140 253,664 3 i61 9 558,564 10 604,322 0 6 Pi Wai orongomai— Empire and New Find .. .. 15 15 Pi. .KO County 1,289 0 0 •2,384 16 5 851 18 Taub tANGA County. Tβ Puke— Te Puke .. .. .. .. 3 5 0 0 bl 18 86 14 11 I G-rand totals .. ..Iβ, 224 308,350 6 39 30,900 17 581,858 11 726,012 7 11
Name and Locality of Mine. Quartz crushed. Yield of Gold. .pproximate Values. Marlborough District— Jubilee Gollingwood District — Aorangi Golden Ridge .. Westport District — Britannia Stony Greek Cascade Creek .. Reefton District— Alpine Extended Welcome Kirwan's Reward Viotoria Range .. Progress Mines Golden Fleece Wealth of Nations Keep-it-Dark New Inkerman New Scotia Golden Lead Last Chance Big River Snowy Creek Paparoa Ranges— Crcesus Taffy .. V Tons. 307 Oz. dwt. gr. 136 6 10 £ a. d. 502 6 3 2,364 616 3,081 10 0 429 0 0 2,122 8 1 1,575 11 10 696 1,111 4 9 4,342 10 0 268 240 2,822 124 10 3 496 15 13 2,289 13 0 458 10 10 1,923 13 9 9,171 11 9 55,207 14,807 12,015 12,442 149 5,523 160 75 20 i 23,399 1 5 8,880 8 1 5,221 17 5 4,489 1 0 145 7 1 1,124 6 9 102 5 0 30 6 0 3 4 12 97,680 13 10 35,908 13 6 21,479 7 10 16,663 9 1 565 6 9 3,532 15 1 414 2 3 120 13 0 10 0 0 272 j 102 1 3 16 3 0 414 2 2 65 16 3 Totals 107,983 51,132 19 23 196,951 12 3
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Battery Returns from Quartz-mines in the Southern District for the Year ended the 31st December, 1901.
Statement of Value of Gold won from Quartz crushed for all Districts for Year ended the 31st December, 1901, and Nine Months ended the 31st December, 1900.
Gross Totals and Value of Gold purchased by Banks for Nine Months ended the 31st March, 1902.
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Name and Locality of Mine. Quartz crushed. Yield of Gold. Value. Achilles Gold-mines (Limited), Bullendale Glenrock Consolidated (Limited), Macetown New Star, Preservation Inlet Golden Site Extended, Preservation Inlet Alpha, Preservation Inlet Lawrence Bros., Bannockburn Shotover, Skipper's F. W. Gray, Bald Hill Flat... E. T. Symes, Bald Hill Flat. F. H. Perry, Rough Eidge ... Bonanza, Macrae's W. and'G. Donaldson, Macrae's H. N. Mills and Sons, Macrae's Ounce Eeef, Macrae's Golden Bar, Stoneburn, Dunback J. Davies, Stoneburn Mount Highlay, Hyde A. Parker, Hindon... Barewood, Nenthorn O.P.Q. (Waipori), Waipori ... Bella Reefs, Waipori Table Hill, Waitahuna Tons owt. qr. 377 0 0 2,148 0 0 15 10 0 42 10 0 770 0 0 I 86 0 0 1,241 0 0 115 0 0 I 98 0 0 4 0 0 175 10 0 800 0 0 1,824 0 0 385 0 0 i 580 0 0 75 0 0 1,324 0 0 11 0 0 I 1,271 0 0 3,196 0 0 58 8 0 160 0 0 Oz. dwfc. gr. 76 18 12 1,329 10 22 11 13 0 9 11 14 163 14 8 37 4 11 327 17 0 184 0 13 96 10 0 0 2 12 114 9 17 201 14 1 321 2 0 195 3 0 132 0 0 10 10 0 217 6 4 1 15 0 649 0 0 1,133 16 6 7 9 0 12 15 17 £ s. a. 296 3 0 5,001 1 9 44 15 6 36 11 6 579 15 8 142 18 0 1,233 18 11 708 8 0 371 10 6 0 9 8 440 16 6 775 15 6 1,236 4 0 75) 6 0 508 4 0 40 8 0 835 9 0 6 14 6 2,498 13 0 4,358 8 6 28 17 6 48 2 6 Totals ... 14,751 18 0 5,234 3 17 19,944 11 6
Mining District. line Mouths ended the 31st December, 1900. Year ended the 31st December, 1901. lauraki larlborough, Nelson, and West Coast •tago and Southland ... £ 457,037 106,807 16,947 £ 726,012 196,952 19,944 Totals ... 580,791 942,908
Bank. Gold won. Value. Hauraki Mining District. Oz. dwt. gr. Bank of New Zealand ... ... I 51,652 4 0 Bank of New South Wales ... 4,182 18 0 National Bank of New Zealand 1,198 0 0 Totals ... ... 57,033 2 0 £ 100,661 8,363 3,293 s. 0 5 0 d. 0 4 0 112,317 5 4 Marlborough, Nelson, and Westland Mining Bank of New Zealand ... .... 29,548 13 15 Bank of New South Wales ... 10,604 3 5 National Bank of New Zealand 24,145 18 0 Union Bank of Australia ... 1,455 0 0 Private buyers ... 75 14 0 Totals ... ... 65,829 8 20 istricts. 115,333 3 5 42,073 0 8 93,043 11 7 5,716 0 0 278 3 11 65,829 8 20 256,443 19
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Gross Totals and Value of Gold purchased by Banks for Twelve Months ended the 31st March, 1902 — continued.
SUMMABY OF WOEKS CONSTEDCTED. The following statement shows the whole of the different classes of works constructed by the Department, either by direct grants or by subsidies to local bodies, during the last twenty years (the votes for this purpose having been under the control of the Hon. the Minister of Mines), for the purpose of opening up the mineral belts throughout the colony, and also for the development of the mining industry : —
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Bank. pure. iasei .. lue. % Otago and Southland Districts. Oz. dwt. gr. Bank of New Zealand ... ... 85,056 3 0 Bank of New South Wales ... ... 16,088 5 1 National Bank of New Zealand ... 26,522 19 11 Bank of Australasia ... ... 5,739 5 0 £ 326,472 62,255 102,703 22,917 s. 2 0 6 0 d. 4 7 5 0 Totals 133,406 12 12 514,347 9 4 Grand totals ... ... 256,269 3 8 883,108 14 3
Nature of Works. Total Cost of Construction, or Amount authorised to be expended. Expenditure, by way of Subsidy or otherwise, by Mines Department. Amount of Liability by Mines Department on Works in Progress. Up to Yeabs 1882-83 and 1883-84. Water-races Eoads on goldfields Eoads and tracks undertaken by County Councils, subsidised by Mines Department .. ■ • Works undertaken by prospecting associations, subsidised by Mines Department Construction of drainage and sludge channels, subsidised by Mines Department .. £ s. a. 29,252 1 11 21,437 11 2 £ s. d. 14,853 9 5 13,089 16 0 £ s. d. 14,398 11 6 8,347 15 2 52,841 17 0 21,844 16 7 10,207 15 9 13,216 13 4 3,350 0 0 3,400 0 0 5,750 0 0 2,468 15 4 .781 4 8 1884-85. 122,498 3 5 55,606 17 4 37,135 7 1 Water-races Roads on goldfields Eoads and tracks undertaken by County Councils, subsidised by Mines Department Eoads to mines, other than gold, subsidised by Mines Department .. ■• •• •• •• , •• Works undertaken by prospecting associations, subsidised by Mines Department .. . • •■ •• Construction of drainage and sludge channels, subsidised by Mines Department Diamond and other drills 4,846 1 9 13,667 10 1 14,596 2 9 9,630 9 6 4,648 11 6 12,384 15 9 13,566 14 1 6,293 16 6 12,739 17 6 4,594 10 0 111 19 0 2,888 1 0 850 0 0 108 0 0 3,692 0 0 4,050 0 0 3,600 0 0 1,050 0 0 1,858 0 0 1,931 4 8 45,174 15 11 33,648 7 9 38,284 10 5 1885-80. Water-races Roads on goldfields .. •• •• •• •■ Eoads undertaken by County Councils, subsidised by Mines Department Roads to mines, other than gold, subsidised by Mines Department .. .. • • •• •• - •• Works undertaken by prospecting associations, subsidised by Mines Department Construction of drainage and sludge channels, subsidised by Mines Department Schools of Mines 3,660 4 9 27,543 18 8 6,063 2 3 12,360 14 9 6,964 4 4 27,567 19 8 14,773 2 3 13,043 15 9 12,477 9 2 1,551 19 10 4,327 0 10 490 12 8 11,860 18 0 1,999 5 7 6,389 5 9 10,051 14 9 2,160 9 7 3,994 16 6 1,260 9 7 6,995 9 9 900 0 0 71,602 7 10 43,049 5 3 61,785 1 4 1886-87. Water-races .. Eoads on goldfields .. .. •■ •■ •■ Eoads and tracks undertaken by Councy Councils, subsidised by Mines Department Eoads to mines, other than gold, subsidised by Mines Department .. .. ■ • • • . Works undertaken by prospecting associations and companies, subsidised by Mines Department .. Construction of drainage and sludge channels, subsidised by Mines Department Diamond and other drills Schools of Mines 12,453 3 5 1,928 14 4 22,229 16 1 3,466 0 8 17,791 7 0 12,613 4 8 7,415 19 6 10,455 1 5 306 1 0 110 13 1 15,671 19 6 4,521 7 3 4,618 4 7 5,549 14 6 422 15 6 3,183 7 1 6,207 18 0 422 15 6 3,383 7 1 672 6 10 700 0 0 49,894 4 8 46,415 18 9 37,813 13 7
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SUMMARY OF WORKS CONSTRUCTED— continued.
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Nature of Works. Total Cost of Construction, or Amount authorised to be expended. Expenditure, by i way of Subsidy or otherwise, by Mines Department. Amount of Liability by Mines Department on Works in Progress. 1887-88. Water-races Roads on goldfields Roads and tracks undertaken by County Councils, subsidised by Mines Department Roads to mines, other than gold, subsidised by Mines Department Works undertaken by prospecting associations and companies, subsidised by Mines Department Construction of drainage and sludge channels, subsidised by Mines Department Schools of Mines Aids to treatment of ores £ s. a. j 6 6 6 6,860 4 3 £ s. d. 6 6 6 17,281 11 3 £ s. d. 7,370 0 0 2,998 15 0 8,012 5 2 3,942 4 2 14 5 4 6,456 8 0 2,703 19 3 i 924 8 0 1,859 3 7 1,200 0 0 1,110 4 11 2,221 19 4 390 18 3 2,054 10 6 337 4 3 209 1 9 1888-89. 19,380 17 4 31,741 10 0 14,837 8 8 Roads on goldfields Roads and tracks undertaken by County Councils, subsidised by Mines Department Works undertaken by prospecting associations and companies, subsidised by Mines Department Construction of drainage and sludge channels, subsidised by Mines Department Wharves, contributions by Mines Department Aids to treatment of ores, subsidised Schools of Mines 10,253 5 3 7,318 1 0 474 0 0 4,304 3 9 2,466 16 8 236 0 0 54 10 6 96 6 0 209 1 9 1,188 6 10 13,218 11 6 5,195 6 1 687 8 0 589 19 5 343 13 5 895 16 10 44 14 3 19,531 2 6 19,489 13 3 1889-90. 8,555 5 6 Roads on goldfields Roads and tracks undertaken by County Councils, subsidised by Mines Department.. Works undertaken by prospecting associations and companies, subsidised by Mines Department Water-races Wharves Schools of Mines Aids to treatment of ores Tracks to open up mineral lands Diamond drills 3,834 9 7 8,507 15 8 2,200 0 0 9,148 5 9 3,451 17- 11 719 0 0 150 0 0 1,034 0 11 142 8 9 207 S 6 425 14 5 8,005 5 4 5,928 1 3 663 0 0 681 0 0 193 13 5 50 14 0 1,040 0 8 142 8 9 1,000 0 0 425 14 5 792 16 6 17,150 9 1 15,278 11 3 16,314 10 6 1890-91. Roads on goldfields Roads and tracks undertaken by County Councils, subsidised by Mines Department Works undertaken by prospecting associations and companies, subsidised by Mines Department Water-races Wharves Schools of Mines Tracks to open up mineral lands 8,811 14 4 2,703 5 0 5,542 19 8 10,815 14 8 2,252 5 5 6,234 4 6 39 9 9 3,898 4 0 78 4 7 5,201 5 0 5,027 8 4 663 0 0 3,847 10 0 419 19 5 1891-92. 20,905 9 0 23,318 2 11 11,311 12 9 Roads on goldfields Roads and tracks undertaken by County Councils, subsidised by Mines Department Works undertaken by prospecting associations and companies, subsidised by Mines Department Water-races Wharves Schools of Mines Tracks to open up mineral lands 14,226 5 1 8,460 0 3 11,767 9 10 3,162 0 0 1,720 18 6 4,937 10 2 1,455 5 5 2,256 13 6 336 15 9 2,256 13 6 1,663 0 0 1,370 19 9 40 0 0 1,370 19 9 41 16 0 418' 3 7 1892-93. 22,511 3 9 14,187 3 9 18,786 3 7 Roads on goldfields Roads and tracus undertaken by County Councils, subsidised by Mines Department Works undertaken by prospecting associations and companies, subsidised by Mines Department Water-races Wharves Schools of Mines Tracks to open up mineral lands Artesian-well boring, Maniototo Plains .. 15,199 2 4 550 0 0 970 4 9 3,811 1 10 17,325 10 0 1,033 0 0 865 4 3 3,811 1 10 9,628 6 10 4,831 9 10 1,768 0 6 1,232 4 4 1,232 4 4 419 19 5 268 16 6 550 0 0 281 3 6 22,312 13 3 24,548 3 11 16,916 13
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Nature of Works. Total Cost of Construction, or Amount authorised to be expended. Expenditure, by way of Subsidy or otherwise, by Mines Department. Amount ot Liability by Mines Department on Works in Progress. 1893-94. £ s. d. 18,418 19 2 £ s. d. 15,056 0 11 £ s. d. 13,013 18 5 Roads on goldfields Roads and tracks undertaken by County Councils, subsidised by Mines Department Works undertaken by prospecting associations and companies, subsidised by Mines Department Water-races Drainage-channels Wharves Schools of Mines Tracks to open up mineral lands Repairing flood damages Artesian-well boring, Maniototo Plains 5,038 11 6 2,245 19 4 5,271 17 1 2,718 17 8 1,709 18 5 5,271 17 1 5,576 10 7 1,027 7 11 900 0 0 1,000 0 0 1,55519 9 1,555 19 9 500 0 0 800 0 0 500 0 0 518 16 6 33,831 6 10 27,331 10 4 21,517 16 11 1894-95. Roads on goldfields Roads and tracks undertaken by County Councils, subsidised by Mines Department Works undertaken by prospecting associations and companies, subsidised by Mines Department Water-races Drainage-channels Wharves Schools of Mines Tracks to open up mineral lands ... Repairing flood damages Artesian-well boring, Maniototo Plains Diamond drills 20,908 13 7 685 18 4 10,805 15 4 4,801'19 7 1,521 0 0 999' 8 6 15,160 3 5 2,295 9 2 2,378 13 2 2,427 10 11 673 14 10 999 8 6 18,752 10 7 1,934 5 7 3,006 13 0 2,151 18 8 3,647 5 2 505 19 11 505 19 11 40,228 15 3 24,440 19 11 29,492 13 0 1895-96. Roads on goldfields Roads and tracks undertaken by County Councils, subsidised by Mines Department Works undertaken by prospecting associations and companies, subsidised by Mines Department Water-races Drainage-channels Wharves Schools of Mines Tracks to open up mineral lands Repairing flood damages Artesian-well boring, Maniototo Plains Diamond drills 14,554 0 7 4,614 11 1 3,477 7 0 6,820 18 3 5,100 0 0 19,970 6 6 1,607 8 6 1,726 4 8 5,162 9 2 2,240 5 1 14,086 4 8 4,290 16 11 10,093 3 0 2,515 7 9 2,657 0 1 999' 3 0 999 3 0 216 1 6 216 1 6 35,782 1 5 31,921 18 5 33,642 12 5 1896-97. Roads on goldfields Roads and tracks undertaken by County Councils, subsidised by Mines Department Works undertaken by prospecting associations and companies, subsidised by Mines Department Water races Drainage-channels Wharves Schools of Mines Tracks to open up mineral lands Repairing flood damage Artesian-well boring, Maniototo Plains Resumption of land Prospecting deep levels 57,685 9 6 11,677 0 0 1,570 7 8 3,090 11 1 1,409 0 0 1,682 19 5 30,720 12 7 1,759 6 5 1,533 6 7 3,927 18 0 2,149 3 11 1,682 19 5 35,622 15 3 4,079 18 3 2,915 14 3 1,678 0 10 2,516 16 2 300 0 0 25,500 0 0 300 0 0 2,697 14 5 22,802 5 7 1897-98. 102,915 7 3 44,771 1 4 69,615 10 4 Roads on goldfields Roads and tracks undertaken by County Councils, subsidised by Mines Department Works undertaken by prospecting associations and companies, subsidised by Mines Department Water-races Drainage-channels Schools of Mines Prospecting deep levels Water-conservation Construction of telephone-lines Compensation proclamation of rivers ... 71,318 11 7 25,151 9 8 3,939 8 1 3,275 8 9 4,481 14 0 1,780 17 3 25,500 0 0 507 3 9 60 0 0 5,196 13 10 37,410 14 3 12,158 6 7 2,357 15 1 2,272 5 0 1,212 14 9 1,780 17 3 21,520 15 0 507 3 9 50 0 0 5,196 13 10 33,907 17 4 9,677 14 0 1,581 13 0 1,003 3 9 3,268 19 3 1,281 10 7 141,211 6 11 84,467 5 6 50,720 17 11
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Nature of Works. Total Cost of Construction, or Amount authorised to be expended. Expenditure, by way of Subsidy or otherwise, by Mines Department. Amount of Liability by Mines Department on Works in Progress. 1898-99. £ s. d. 48,201 0 2 £ s. d', 42,358 8 6 Roads on goldfields Roads and tracks undertaken by County Councils, subsidised by Mines Department Works undertaken by prospecting associations and companies, subsidised by Mines Department Water-races Drainage-channels Schools of Mines Prospecting deep levels Water-conservation Construction of telephone-lines Compensation proclamation of rivers £ s. d. 39,825 9 0 21,025 12 0 4,191 7 9 5,914 7 5 2,936 11 8 3,853 16 5 3,539 7 5 1,450 15 2 25,500 0 0 12,483 13 1 2,143 14 1 2,932 12 1 2,426 13 5 1,450 15 2 1,281 10 7 7,893 19 4 1,103 13 1 1,719 6 3 3,802 16 4 676 0 8 676 0 8 1899-1900. 119,666 16 7 65,355 1 7 52,365 12 1 Roads on goldfields Roads and tracks undertaken by Countv Councils, subsidised by Mines Department Works undertaken by prospecting associations and companies, subsidised by Mines Department Water-races .. Drainage-channels Schools of Mines Prospecting deep levels Water-conservation Resumption of land Compensation proclamation of river? Aid towards the treatment of ores 46,442 15 10 4,625 0 0 2,549 7 2 7,909 5 11 1,090 0 0 1,866 13 3 44,258 2 6 2,865 7 4 1,400 9 6 8,430 14 0 1,435 7 5 1,866 13 3 42,010 2 4 5,011 0 11 1,784 3 0 963 11 10 2,627 14 7 6,925 10 9 2,812 7 0 811 0 0 915 1 4 6,925 10 9 2,812 7 0 811 0 0 915 1 4 1900-1. 75,947 1 3 71,720 13 1 52,396 12 8 Roads on goldfields Roads and tracks undertaken by County Councils, subsidised by Mines Department Works undertaken by prospecting associations and companies, subsidised by Mines Department Water-races Drainage-channels Schools of Mines Prospecting deep levels Water-conservation Resumption of land Compensation proclamation of rivers Aid towards the treatment of ores 48,835 2 1 44,757 0 1 46,088 4 4 1,495 8 2 2,882 6 2 3,133 4 10 2,353 5 10 3,954 1 6 2,058 0 0 1,598 2 1 1,266 11 7 4,251 19 8 517 0 4 1,598 2 1 1,033 7 9 50 0 0 927 7 3 2,680 19 1 3,787 17 9 6,083 18 9 778 1 0 6,083 18 9 778 1 0 1901-2. 69,836 18 6 65,922 17 5 51,232 4 2 Roads on goldfietds Roads and tracks undertaken by County Councils, subsidised by Mines Department Works undertaken by prospecting associations and companies, subsidised by Mines Department Water-races Drainage-channels Schools of Mines Prospecting deep levels Water-conservation Resumption of laud Compensation proclamation of rivers Aid towards the treatment of ores 80,602 9 4 34,216 16 8 2,578 10 8 5,860 3 5 1,005 1 8 2,087 13 8 44,697 10 0 2,847 17 8 1,509 10 9 6,665 15 1 889 4 6 2,087 13 8 35,904 19 4 1,909 0 11 1,826 6 2 1,760 16 1 1,390 3 9 3,114*12 5 942 13 10 1,171 19 7 5,818* 2 9 77 17 0 5,318 2 9 27 17 0 50 0 0 Summary. 133,801 7 7 64,986 4 10 44,013 5 10 Roads on goldfields Subsidised roads and tracks Subsidised roads and tracks other than on goldfields Prospecting Water-races Wharves Schools of Mines Drainage-channels Diamond drills Treatment of ores .. .. '.. .. .. I Tracks to open up mineral lands .. .. Artesian-well boring, Maniototo Plains Repairing flood damages Prospecting deep levels "Resumption of land Water-conservation Construction of telephone-lines Proclamation of rivers 454,507 7 6 250,284 1 5 6,146 9 10 80,486 15 10 94,391 16 9 435 15 9 29,611 3 11 39,916 16 8 5,170 11 4 3,113 8 1 325 8 1 800 0 0 500 0 0 51,000 0 0 3,112 7 0 21,229 5 0 60 0 0 18,Q85 16 0 418,602 8 2 101.294 11 5 4,759 6 2 30,147 16 7 91,811 16 1 285 15 9 29,611 3 11 26,429 9 6 3,428 11 4 2,463 8 1 325 8 1 800 0 0 500 0 0 25,500 0 0 3,112 7 0 20,057 5 5 50 0 0 18,085 16 0 35,904 19 4 1,909 0 11 1,826 6 2 1,760 16 1 l,390' 3 9 50 0 0 1,171 19 7 1,059,177 3 2 777,265 3 6 44,013 5 10
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Locality and Nature of Works. Total Cost, or Amount authorised. Amount of Amount due by Contribution paid Mines Department by Mines on Works Department. still in Progress. NORTH ISLAND. Roads (subsidised). Coromandel County. Opitonui-Meroury Bay Repairs, bridges, Kuaotunu Main Road Metalling Waitaia, Main Road Coromandel-Mercury Bay £ s. d. 200 0 0 200 0 0 80 0 0 200 0 0 £ s. d. 100 0 0 £ s. a 100 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 65 0 0 35 0 0 Thames County. 680 0 0 135 0 0 245 0 0 Foot-bridge, Pepe Creek .. Hape Creek Road 300 0 0 200 0 0 51 18 6 78 1 6 100 0 0 Thames Borough. 500 0 0 51 18 6 178 1 6 Clearing debris, Waiotahi Creek 200 0 0 100 0 0 Ohinemuri County. Low-level tunnel, Jubilee Mine (B. Kersey Cooper) 1,500 0 0 367 10 0 382 10 0 MIDDLE ISLAND. Roads (subsidised). Collingwood County. Takaka roads .. Collingwood-Kaituna 600 0 0 400 0 0 388 9 5 170 10 5 12 0 7 29 9 7 1,000 0 0 558 19 10 41 10 2 Grey County. Track, Rtes Plat io Watterson's Consols Comp ,ny Culverts, Nelson-Grey-Hokitika Road Protective works, Big Grey Bridge New River Bank Road Widening " Frollis " Track 300 0 0 300 0 0 200 0 0 300 0 0 400 0 0 125 0 0 150 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 200 0 0 Westland County. 1,500 0 0 125 0 0 625 0 0 Improving road, Seven-mile, Taipo Widening Shallow Rush Track 150 0 0 300 0 0 73 8 6 54 17 3 1 16 6 95 2 9 450 0 0 128 0 9 96 19 3 Tuapeka County. Fitzgerald's Bridge 'itz: 500 0 0 10 0 0 240 0 0
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Locality and Nature of Works. Total Cost, or Amount authorised. Amount of Contribution paid by Mines Department. Amount due by Mines Department on Works still in Progress. Works under construction wholly by Mines Department. £ s. d. 100 0 0 181 18 0 100 0 0 90 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 75 0 0 200 0 0 30 0 0 650 0 0 700 0 0 2,020 0 0 884 0 0 935 0 0 1,593 0 0 1,345 13 0 4,395 0 0 500 0 0 650 0 0 1,103 0 0 1,079 0 0 800 0 0 696 0 0 838 0 0 470 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 500 0 0 724 0 0 489 0 0 100 0 0 350 0 0 200 0 0 1,222 11 6 2,518 11 7 2,049 0 1 1,482 9 11 1,503 1 11 1,532 0 0 1,949 9 1 539 0 0 1,053 6 11 300 0 0 200 0 0 400 0 0 347 0 0 200 0 0 607 0 0 400 0 0 100 0 0 400 0 0 2,335 0 0 808 0 0 823 0 0 400 0 0 1,019 0 0 200 0 0 400 0 0 900 0 0 800 0 0 200 0 0 150 0 0 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 300 0 0 100 0 0 4,723 19 11 1,650 0 0 700 0 0 600 0 0 250 0 0 200 0 0 473 0 0 3,148 19 11 200 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 325 0 0 280 5 8 £ s. d. £ x. d. 100 0 0 52 0 0 100 0 0 90 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 75 0 0 65 0 0 18 0 0 65 0 0 150 0 0 21 6 1 84 0 0 19 19 0 171 11 6 147 3 3 151 0 0 100 0 0 250 0 0 103 0 0 400 7 6 201 18 0 242 12 0 110 15 6 470 0 0 4 16 6 100 0 0 500 0 0 300 0 0 100 0 0 53 0 0 350 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 294 16 4 187 4 8 163 10 9 147 0 0 96 15 0 293 1 7 81 12 6 145 7 6 13 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 247 0 0 6 3 7 207 0 0 400 0 0 100 0 0 400 0 0 495 4 0 49 4 0 241 3 10 200 0 0 12 0 0 27 17 6 205 6 0 34 17 5 2 9 0 150 0 0 17 12 2 455 0 0 69 5 0 80 0 0 100 0 0 44 17 6 100 0 0 142 0 0 250 0 0 88 0 0 600 0 0 134 7 0 100 0 0 16 18 8 175 8 4 200 0 0 126 2 0 200 0 0 325 0 0 280 5 8 Opitonui Township Road Four-in-Hand Road Manaia-Waikawau (repairs) Cabbage Bay Roar! (n pairs) Bridge, Cabbage Bay Township Road Mercury Bay Hospital Road and Path Footbridge, Wakamarina River Repairs, No Town Creek Bridge Paroa-Teremakau Dredging Titri Canal Whakapara-Puhipuhi Tairua-Wi.enuakite Cabbage Bay-Port Charles and Cape Colville .. Coromandel-Cabbage Bay Tokatea-Kennedy Bay Coromandel-Kuaotunu, vid Matarangi Tiki-Manaia Manaia-Waikawau Mercury Bay-When-uakite and Boat Harbour .. Whitianga-Gumtown Coromandel-Whangapoua Extending Wharf Road, Ooromandel Kikowhakarere-Cabbage Bay Whitianga-Kaimarama .. Opitonui Road Ohuka Creek Bridge Four-in-Hand Road Cabbage Bay-Matamataharakeke Waiwawa River Bridge Gumtown Road Kapowai Track Mahaki Goldfield Track Owera Bridge Waitaia Mine to Battery Kuaotunu-Mercury Bay .. Thames-Waikawau Thames-Hikutaia Upper Tararu Road Tapu Creek and extension Turua-Netherton Hikutaia-Whangamata " Wires " Track Matatoki Road Wharepoa Settlement Road Neavesville-Upper Landing Wharepoa Drain Thames to Whangamata .. WhangamaU-Wentworth Waiotahi Road Waiomo Creek Road Tapu-Gumtown Moanatairi Road Kanaer&nga Bridge Waitekauri-Golden Cross Waihi-Whangamata Paeroa-Te Aroha Kornata Reefs-Waitekauri Hikutaia-Waitekauri Hikutaia-Maratoto Tui-mine Track Waihi-County Boundary.. Karangahake-Rotokohu Komata Creek Road Karangah ake-Maungakara Paeroa-Waihi Karangahake-Mountain Track Dividing Range Track to Mangakino.. Karangahake Hill Track Waitawheta Road deviation Karangahake Traok extension Thompson's Track Waihi-Katikati .. Onamalutu-Wakamarina Rocky Ferry-Kaituna Anatoki Track Vants to Bubu Ferntown-Pakawau Takaka-Collingwood " Inland " Road Taitapu Boundary Track .. Pakawau-Tamatea Bainham Bridge Salisbury Bridge Motueka River Protective Works. 129 18 0 135 0 0 12 0 0 585 0 0 550 0 0 1,998 18 11 800 0 0 915 1 0 1,421 8 6 1,198 9 9 4,244 0 0 400 0 0 400 0 0 1,000 0 0 678 12 6 598 2 0 453 8 0 727 4 6 145 3 6 424 0 0 389 0 0 47 0 0 1,022 11 6 2,223 15 3 1,861 15 5 1,318 19 2 1,356 1 11 1,435 5 0 1,656 7 6 457 7 6 907 19 5 287 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 193 16 5 400 0 0 1,839 16 0 758 16 0 581 16 2 200 0 0 1,007 0 0 172 2 6 194 14 0 865 2 7 297 11 0 50 0 0 132 7 10 45 0 0 30 15 0 20 0 0 255 2 6 4,581 19 11 1,400 0 0 612 0 0 115 13 0 100 0 0 456 1 4 2,973 11 7 73 18 0
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Locality and Nature of Works. Total Cost, or Amount authorised. Amount of Contribution paid by Mines Department. Amount due by Mines Department on Works still in Progress. Works undke construction wholly by Mines Dmpabtmf.nt — continued. Wangapeka-Baton Thorpe-Churchill Biwaka-Kaiteriteri Beach Canaan Eoad .. Thorpe-Neudorf Chandler's-Wangapeka Junction Chandler's-Rolling River .. Table Land Horse-track Millerton Road Lyell Bridge-Ryan's Granity Creek Southwaids Stoney Creek-Waimangaroa Westport-Mokihinui Land of Promise Road Mokihinui end of Westport Road Costello's Hill Road Addison's Road-Buller Road Addison's Road Millerton-Mine Creek Mokihinui-Ngakawau Waimangaroa-Birchfield .. Blackwater track Fairdown-Waimangaroa Granity Creek-Ngakawau Cascade Creek Road Fairdown Scation-Waimangaroa (widening) Reefton-Maruia Matakitaki-Glenroy-Maruia Mangles Valley Road Blackwater-Big River Boatman's Valley Road Bridge Warwick-Maruia Bridge Just in Time Track Victoria Range-Larry'a Creek Glenroy River Road Blackball-Healey's Gully.. Ten-mile-Paparoa Seven-mile Creek-Nine-mile Bluff Cape Terrace Road Hatter's Terracp-Beli Hill Nelson Creek Bridge-Hatter's Terrace Nelion Creek Bridge-Grey Marsden Road Moonlight-Blackball Maori Creek Bridge Eight-mile Creek Bridge (approaches) Nine-mile-Fourteen-mile Kotuku-Bell Hill Moonlight Road Teramakau Bridge to Payno's Brunner-Biackball Doughboy Road Milltown Tra n k deviation .. Adair's Track (widening) .. Seddon's Terrace Track Bridge on Blue Spur Road Kokatahi Road Dillman's Road to Nob. 4 and 5 Channels Tucker's Flat Road Duffer's Road (widening) .. Kanieri Lake Road Road over Three-mile Bluff, Okarito .. Waipori-Berwick Outram-Waipori Clarendon-Berwick Lawren ce-Wai pori Lawrence—Roxburgh Wai ta h una-Law ren ce Waipori Bush Road Lawrence-County boundary Waipori-Outram Waipori-Waitahuna Waitahuna-Round Hill .. Arrowtown-Macetown Garston-Nevis (Lake County) Crown Terrace-Cardrona Arthur's Point-Moke Creek Doolan's Coal-pit Road Cardrona Coal-pit Road Johnston's Creek Road (extension) Parawa Nokomai Bridge Waimumu Road £ s. d. 600 0 0 200 0 0 204 0 0 300 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 40 0 0 1,000 0 0 900 0 0 1,450 0 0 200 0 0 1,400 0 0 500 0 0 700 0 0 750 0 0 1,000 0 0 100 0 0 345 0 0 500 0 0 400 0 0 200 0 0 450'0 0 150 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 3,322 8 0 982 0 0 893 0 0 450 0 0 250 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 300 0 0 950 0 0 250 0 0 1,000 0 0 400 0 0 500 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 250 0 0 80 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 250 0 0 250 0 0 100 0 0 450 0 0 200 0 0 400 0 0 330 0 0 400 0 0 50 0 0 255 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 150 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 400 0 0 2,000 0 0 225 0 0 350 0 0 600 0 0 725 0 0 200 0 0 450 0 0 200 0 0 1,400 0 0 250 0 0 300 0 0 150 0 0 300 0 0 250 0 0 450 0 0 308 0 0 200 0 0 £ s. d. 400 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 250 18 8 151 0,0 500 0 0 800 0 0 950 0 0 1,150 0 0 400 0 0 600 0 0 650 0 0 750 0 0 145 0 0 250 0 0 200 0 0 350 0 0 2,672 0 0 707 15 6 610 0 0 300 0 0 150 0 0 700 0 0 400 0 0 200 0 0 250 0 0 £ s. d. 200 0 0 100 0 0 104 0 0 49 1 4 100 0 0 49 0 0 200 0 0 40 0 0 500 0 0 100 0 0 500 0 0 200 0 0 250 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 250 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 250 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 650 8 0 274 4 6 283 0 0 150 0 0 250 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 300 0 0 250 0 0 250 0 0 600 0 0 200 0 0 250 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 250 0 0 80 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 250 0 0 250 0 0 100 0 0 250 0 0 39 17 3 57 5 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 120 0 0 44 5 0 200 0 0 143 0 2 150 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 150 0 0 425 0 0 225 0 0 150 0 0 150 0 0 475 0 0 150 0 0 300 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 150 0 0 40 0 0 57 10 0 250 0 0 450 0 0 58 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 160 2 9 342 15 0 130 0 0 200 0 0 155 0 0 30 0 0 55 15 0 56 19 10 250 0 0 1,575 0 0 200 0 0 450 0 0 250 0 0 50 0 0 150 0 0 1,300 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 110 0 0 242 10 0 250 0 0
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Locality and Nature of Works. Total Cost, or Amount authorise! Amount of Contribution paid by Mines Department. Amount due by Mines Department on Works still in Progress. WOBKS UNDEE CONSTRUCTION WHOLLY BY MlNES DEPART ment— continued. Garvie Burn Road Stoney Ford Bridge-Nokomai Nokomai Saddle Road Waikaia Goldfield Road .. .. ., \ Waikaia-Whitecombe Waikaka Township-Little Waikaka .. Waikaka to Coal-pit Top Valley Road .. .. " [ Mokihinui-Little Wanganui Boatman's Creek Bridge .. Burke's Greek Bridge Big Ohika Creek Bridge .. Blackwator Bridge Hckitika-Jackson's Reefton-Hokitika-Ross Solberg's Hill Collingwood Bridge Westport-Waimangaroa . . .. * Karamea Bridge (rebuilding) Main Grey Bridge (repairs) Moonlight Creek Bridge .. Waipuna Bridge Sawyer's Creek Bridge Potts Creek Bridge Taylorville Bridge Okarito Forks-Waiho £ s. d. 42 0 0 300 0 0 150 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 571 5 8 4,516 14 0 150 0 0 200 0 0 500 0 0 ■ 200 0 0 2,232 16 1 12,852 12 9 50 0 0 1,000 0 0 629 14 8 3,855 9 0 1,000 0 0 300 0 0 210 -0 5 300 0 0 374 0 0 420 0 0 1,537 1 8 £ s. d. 551 5 8 3,767 6 5 3 19 0 2,032 16 1 12,524 2 11 £ s. d. 42 0 0 300 0 0 150 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 749 7 7 146 1 0 200 0 0 500 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 328 9 10 50 0 0 845 8 2 234 3 6 389 12 0 906 15 2 280 3 10 194 5 0 53 2 4 43 19 3 41 0 2 844 0 11 154 11 10 395 11 2 3,465 17 0 93 4 10 19 16 2 15 15 5 246 17 8 330 0 9 378 19 10 693 0 9 Schools of Mines. 128,159 9 9 92,254 10 5 35,904 19 4 Schools of Mines School of Mines (Otago University) .. .'. " 20,307 17 9 9,303 0 2 20,307 17 9 9,303 6 2 Prospecting Subsidies. Coromandel County Coromandel County (J. and M. Fitzgerald) Buller County (Brand and party) Golden Baiin Prospecting Association Miners' Association, Havelock (Kearns and McCusker) Miners' Association, Charleston (Nelson and party) Miners' Association, Nelson Creek (O'Brien and party) Miners' Association, Nelson Creek (Kelly and party) Westland County (Patrick and Moynihan) Westland County (Case and party) .. Westland County (Hoist and party) Westland County (Smith and party).. Westland County (Warren and party) Victoria Gold Mining Company (prospecting, Thames) Inangahua County (Victoria Range Gold-mining Company).. Johnston, Bryan, and party (prospecting Seddon's Terrace) 29,611 3 11 29,611 3 11 644 0 0 28 1 0 80 0 0 435 0 0 50 0 0 110 0 0 11 5 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 150 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 80 0 0 1,000 0 0 100 0 0 300 0 0 630 0 0 17 11 0 60 19 9 26 11 3 37 0 0 58 2 3 29 15 0 96 1 9 14 0 0 10 10 0 19 0 3 408 8 9 13 0 0 51 17 11 5 0 80 5 0 28 8 3 80 0 0 28 15 0 18 0 0 30 0 0 925 19 2 51 5 0 55 12 0 30 0 0 74 0 10 244 8 0 3,488 6 0 1,304 9 10 1,826 6 2 Watee-kaces. Waimea-Kumara Water-race Mount Ida Water-race Mountain Hut Water-race 46,786 11 3 9,051 19 9 5,184 11 9 49,327 5 5 9,051 19 9 3,449 9 3 25 13 7 1,735' 2 6 Drainage- and Tailings-channels. Waimea Main Tail-race .. St. Bathan's Channel Kelly's Terrace Tunnel No. 5 Sludge Channel (extension) 61,023 2 9 1,905 1 8 3,000 0 0 2,667 10 0 600 0 0 61,828 14 5 1,438 19 2 1,625 0 0 1,921 18 9 38 1 0 1,760 16 1 466 2 6 375 0 0 187 2 3 361 19 0 Watee conseevation on Goldpields. Engineer's salary and expenses Reports on Drainage, Ross Flat Coromandel Harbour and Kuaotunu Sludge-channels Eweburn Reservoir Mackeytown Water-supply Waitekauri Water supply.. Karangahake Water-supply Clyde Water-supply 1,998 13 10 284 10 8 80 12 6 16,361 19 2 351 0 0 445 2 5 607 6 5 1,100 0 0 8,172 11 8 1,998 13 10 284 10 8 80 12 6 16,361 19 2 279 0 5 445 2 5 607 6 5 5,023 18 11 1,390 3 9 71*19 7 1,100 0 0 21,229 5 0 20,057 5 5 1,171 19 7
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Locality and Nature of Works. Tntol f™+ Amount of Amount due by Contribution paid Mines Department Amount authorised. „&«£&. stm °^ r °* eee . £ s. d. £ s. d. £ I s. d. Aid towabds the Treatment of Okes. 'ublic Cruehing-planc (Goromandel School of Mines) 855 18 0 805 18 0 50 0 0 toads (subsidised)- Summary Oj Coromandel County Thames County Thames Borough Ohinemuri County Collingwood County Grey County Westland County Tuapeka County Works. 680 0 0 500 0 0 200 0 0 1,500 0 0 1,000 0 0 1,500 0 0 450 0 0 500 0 0 135 0 0 51 18 6 367 10 0 558 19 10 125 0 0 128 0 9 10 0 0 245 0 0 178 1 6 100 0 0 382 10 0 41 10 625 0 0 96 19 3 240 0 0 Vorks under construction wholly by Mines Department .. ichools of Mines 'respecting subsidies Vater-races )rainage- and tailings-channels Jompensation, proclamation of rivers Vater-conservation on goldfields jd towards the treatment of ures 6,330 0 0 1,376 9 1 1,909 0 11 128,159 9 9 29,611 3 11 3,468 6 0 61,023 2 9 8,172 11 8 18,085 16 0 21,229 5 0 855 18 0 92,254 10 5 29,611 3 11 1,304 9 10 61,828 14 5 5,023 18 11 18,085 16 0 20,057 5 5 805 18 0 35,904 19 4 1,826 6 2 1,760 16 1 1,390 3 9 1,171 19 7 50 0 0 Total 276,935 13 1 230,348 6 0 348 6 0 44,013 5 10
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Locality and Nature of Works. Total Cost. Amount of Contribution paid by Mines Department. NOETH ISLAND. Roads (subsidised). Bay of Islands County. Tiriwhanga Gorge to Galbraith's Road, Puhipuhi Air-line Road to battery-site, Puhipuhi Tiriwhanga Gorge to Puhipuhi New Bay of Islands Coal Company Road, Taumarere Railway-station to Puhipuhi £ s. d. 237 0 0 73 0 0 800 0 0 500 0 0 482 0 0 £ s. d. 118 10 0 36 10 0 800 0 0 250 0 0 146 0 0 2,092 0 0 1,351 0 0 Coromandel County. Improving road to Iona and Just-in-Time Companies' mines Making and improving track from Tokatea towards Kennedy Bay Golden Belt Track Tokatea Road (repairs) Making and improving track from Golden Belt to Tiki Making road from Ring's Bridge to Kapanga Mine Making road to Kapanga Mine .. .. .. .: Temporary track from Tokatea Saddle to Waikoromiko Continuation of track from Success Company's mine to top of main range Completion of road from Tokatea Saddle to Tokatea Battery Widening road from Matawai to Vaughan's claim Improving track, Mercury Bay to Waitai Continuation and improving Waikoromiko Track Emily Battery to Rocky Creek Track, Bismarck Battery to Kennedy Bay Road up Manaia Extension of Vaughan's and Vizard's Tracks Vizard's towards Marebel Extending and widening Waitaia Road Makarau to Waiau Waikawau to Tiki Paul's Creek to Cabbage Bay Waikawau Creek Track McLaughlin's Road Manaia to McGregor's new find Manaia to Tiki Old sawmill towards Matawai Extension of Paul's Creek Track Matarangi Track Thames-Coromandel Road, via, Manaia Harbour View extension Kapanga to Paul's Creek Mercury Bay to Kuaotunu Wainara to Kuaotunu Sea-beach to Kuaotunu Just-in-Time Road, extension to Coromandel Road, Waikawau Bridge to McLaughlin's Mercury Bay Road Bridge to Dugend's store, and widening and metalling road from bridge to Log Hut.. Road from junction of Red Mercury battery up Pumpkin Flat to Waitaia To connect road from Log Hut to commencement of contract of Kuaotunu-Mercury Bay Road Road, with culverts and bridge, from Kapanga Hill to Scotty's Gold-mining Company's mine Pumpkin Flat-Just-in-Time Road Lower road from Great Mercury battery to Kapai low level and batbery-site Road from main road, Kapanga to Success Mine Cemetery Road and Bridge, Kuaotunu Road from Coromandel-Kennedy Bay Main Road to Wereroa Creek Leading Wind Mine Road Fury's Bridge Carroll's Bridge Home's Bridge .. .. Road from Main Kennedy Bay Road to Monte Carlo and other claims Castle Rock Mine Road, Tiki.. Road between Bismarck Battery and Hauraki Associated Gold-reefs Bridge, Warekaho Creek Cabbage Bay to Mines Two bridges and approaches, Kuaotunu Main Road Road from Success Road to workings of Karaka Block Syndicate Widening Waitaia Battery Road Cabbage Bay-Waitete Cabbage Bay-Ward's Track 200 0 0 320 0 0 100 0 0 300 0 0 239 3 3 150 0 0 132 0 0 50 0 0 80 0 0 50 0 0 357 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 60 0 0 200 0 0 675 10 6 150 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 1,600 0 0 500 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 500 0 0 200 0 0 300 0 0 400 0 0 300 0 0 210 0 0 200 0 0. 360 0 0 450 0 0 1,650 0 0 450 0 0 67 10 0 990 0 0 450 0 0 345 0 0 150 0 0 133 6 8 213 6 8 50 0 0 150 0 0 159 8 10 100 0 0 88 0 0 33 6 8 53 6 8 33 6 8 238 0 0 66 13 4 100 0 0 40 0 0 133 6 8 450 7 0 100 0 0 133 6 8 66 13 4 1,066 13 4 333 6 8 133 6 8 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 250 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 200 0 0 150 0 0 105 0 0 100 0 0 180 0 0 225 0 0 1,450 0 0 225 0 0 45 0 0 495 0 0 300 0 0 230 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 150 0 0 310 0 0 450 0 0 600 0 0 100 0 0 300 0 0 100 0 0 450 0 0 400 0 0 200 0 0 300 0 0 200 0 0 400 0 0 300 0 0 300 0 0 300 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 240 0 0 200 0 0 170 0 0 300 0 0 300 0 0 75 0 0 150 0 0 50 0 0 225 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 150 0 0 150 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 120 0 0 100 0 0 18,886 3 9 11,320 15 10
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Locality and Nature of Works. Total Cost. Amount of Contribution paid by Mines Department. Te Aroha Town Board. Road to connect with railway-station Lipsey's Bridge Repairing flood-damages £ s. d 120 0 0 64 0 0 150 0 0 £ s. d 60 0 0 32 0 0 75 0 0 334 0 0 167 0 0 Thames County. Making new road from Ohinemuri River to Karangahake Quartz-mine Dray-road to connect Otanui Mines with crushing-battery at Mautigawherawhera Greek Improving roads from Waitekauri Road to Katikati Road Improving road up Karaka Creek to Lucky Hit Company's mine Improving road to upper mines, Waitahi Karangahake to battery Ralph's Battery, Waitekauri Otanui Road to mines Road to Wick's Battery Rocky Point Road, Tararu Thames Borough boundary to hfematifce-mine Widening road from bridge over Hape Creek to Otanui Mines Track, Karangahake Goldfield Kauaeranga Valley to Otanui Tapu Road to mines Tauranga Road to Karangahake Bridge site Karangahake Bridge Track up Maungakerikeri Creek Thames Borough boundary to Hape Creek No. 2 Upper Karaka Road Repairing flood-damages, Waiotahi, Moanataiari, Karaka, and Collarbone Roads '.'. Sea-beach to Waiomo Te Papa Gully Road New Find to Waiomo Battery Rooky Point Road Waiotahi towards Mercury Bav Te Mata Road Waiomo Creek to Tapu Alabama Creek Track Road from Prospectors' Mine, Puriri, to battery Karaka Creek to Lucky Hit Bullion Mine, Tapu, to battery Track to Hikutaia Goldfield Upper Tararu Road to Sylvia Mine Road to Puriri Battery Thames-Waikawau Road Track from Tararu Creek Road to McDermot's Claim Track to Try Fluke Claim, Tapu Waiomo to Puhoi Creek Waiokaraka Road, Bella Street, and Campbell Street to Moanataiari Creek Moanataiari Creek Road Tararu Creek Road and Tararu Road Hape Creek Road .. Omahu-Tairua Karaka Creek Road Onetai Valley Road TownsendV Road .. Gumtowti-KapO'vai 650 0 0 710 0 0 250 0 0 2G3 1 0 258 18 10 300 0 0 399 1 0 299 18 0 70 0 0 300 0 0 350 0 0 183 17 0 784 1 0 470 7 0 81 17 9 341 5 0 229 6 6 93 4 4 600 0 0 179 13 0 350 0 0 750 0 0 75 0 0 110 0 0 429 11 10 522 11 0 178 17 6 1,499 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 365 0 0 36 5 0 147 15 2 684 7 0 11 13 0 37 10 0 45 0 0 94 15 0 33 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 40 0 0 30 0 0 300 0 0 433 6 8 473 6 8 166 13 4 175 7 4 172 12 7 200 0 0 199 10 6 199 18 8 46 13 4 200 0 0 233 6 8 122 11 4 522 14 0 313 11 4 54 11 10 227 10 0 152 17 8 62 2 11 300 0 0 119 15 4 175 0 0 375 0 0 37 10 0 55 0 0 214 15 11 261 5 6 89 8 9 749 10 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 182 10 0 18 2 6 73 17 7 342 3 6 5 16 6 18 15 0 22 10 0 47 7 6 16 10 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 75 0 0 75 0 0 42 0 0 68 4 6 12 10 0 26 12 0 196 9 0 13,554 15 11 7,782 8 5 Thames Borough. Repairing roads Widening and straightening Karaka Creek Metalling goldfields roads Removing debris, Karaka Creek Half-cost damage, Hawk's stable Repairs, Moanataiari Creek Tunnel Repairs, Moanatairi and Waiotahi Aqueducts Repairs, Waiotahi Creek Bridge Removing debris, Karaka and Waiotahi Creeks 975 19 2 300 0 0 800 0 0 200 0 0 96 0 0 100 0 0 620 0 0 50 0 0 350 0 0 600 0 0 150 0 0 672 12 6 100 0 0 48 0 0 52 0 0 375 0 0 25 0 0 275 0 0 3,491 19 2 2,297 12 6 Ohinemuri County. Jubilee Mine Track Track up Tui Creek .. Prospecting-track, Whangamata and Waitekauri .. Tramway, Karangahake to Railey's reduction-works Strengthening bridges, Waihi Road Paeroa to Hikutaia Repairs, flood-damages Hikutaia River to Marototo Mine 118 0 0 306 0 0 200 0 0 400 0 0 200 0 0 400 0 0 34 13 8 180 15 0 59 0 0 153 0 0 166 13 4 200 0 0 133 6 8 200 0 0 17 6 10 90 7 6
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Locality and Nature of Works. Total Cost. Amount of Contribution paid by Mines Department. Ohinemuri County —continued. Karangahake through. Gorge (bridge and culverts) .. Waitekauri Lower Road Metalling Karangahake Gorge Road Karangahake and Waihi Roaa Karangahake Hill Track .. .. .. .. Briage over Ohinomuri River at Karangahake Hikutaia-Paeroa Road .. .. Paeroa-Te Aroha Roaa Tui Creek Track Waitekauri to Lowrie's and Birnie's Roaa, Karangahake to Waihi .. .. .. Lower Waitekauri Road Roaa, Thames Road to Netherton Punt Komata Creek Road .. .. .. Road, Paeroa Bridge to Kuaoti Creek Punt at south end Netherton-Paeroa Road Repairs, Waitekauri Township Road Bridge, Paeroa-Te Aroha Road .. .. Karangahake Bridge Drain along Mill Road, Paeroa .. ... .. .. Road, Te Iringa-o-Pirori Block Road running south on left bank Waihou River Kaimanawa Road Mangaiti and Waitoa Road and Punt Earl of Glasgow Claim Track £ s. a 200 0 0 . 360 0 0 170 0 0 237 10 0 87 4 0 12 11 0 500 0 0 200 0 0 129 18 6 200 0 0 246 12 3 347 13 4 60 0 0 600 0 0 400 0 0 275 0 0 200 0 0 60 0 0 1,032 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 400 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 400 0 0 £ s. a. 100 0 0 189 2 8 85 0 0 118 15 0 43 12 0 0 5 6 250 0 0 100 0 0 64 19 3 100 0 0 164 8 2 230 16 4 50 0 0 300 0 0 133 6 8 175 0 0 100 0 0 30 0 0 512 16 9 90 2 5 143 0 0 384 19 0 126 2 6 119 7 10 300 0 0 8,757 17 9 4,937 8 5 Waitoa Road Board. Drain, Te Aroha West 200 0 0 130 0 0 Piaho County. Extension and completion of Te Aroha Tramway Tramway to Pergusson's Battery, Waiorongomai Road, Waiorongomai Track to claims at Buck's Reef Track, Fern Spur to Butler's Spur Tracks up Stony Creek, Te Aroha Goldfield, &c. .. .. .... Repairs, Upper Premier Track and new track towards Waitawheta Repairs, Te Aroha-Lichfield Road Waiorongomai Tramway Gordon-Waharoa Te Aroha-Gordon Murphy's Bridge Repairs, Waiorongomai Tramway Waihou Bridge .. .. ... 18,000 0 0 1,500 0 0 497 17 0 55 5 6 231 17 9 54 0 0 40 0 0 302 0 0 263 2 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 24 0 0 500 0 0 580 0 0 12,000 0 0 1,000 0 0 331 18 0 36 17 0 154 11 10 36 0 0 20 0 0 125 0 0 175 0 0 CO 0 0 100 0 0 12 0 0 285 0 0 290 0 0 22,348 2 3 14,616 6 10 Katihati Road Board. Katikati-Karangahake Track Bridge on branch road to Katikati Te Aroha Track 400 0 0 68 0 0 39 19 6 200 0 0 34 0 0 19 18 9 Hutt County. Road to connect Otorongo Bay with Albion Company's battery, also to connect Terawhiti Quartz-mine with battery Road, Makara Junction to Terawhiti 507 19 6 253 18 9 509 16 6 210 17 0 450 0 0 225 0 0 959 16 6 435 17 0 SOUTH ISLAND. Roads (subsidised). Marlborough County. Track, Deep Creek to Dead Horse Creek Mouth of Gorge to Porks, Cullensville to Mahakipawa Diggings Formation of road at Cullensville, Mahakipawa Havelock-Mahakipawa Road Dead Horse Creek to Sunnyside 68 0 0 450 0 0 217 4 0 905 0 0 75 0 0 45 6 8 225 0 0 108 12 0 505 0 0 50 0 0 Waimea County. Road to open up Table Diggings Punt over Motueka River Repairing Baton to Table-land Track Dove River to Baton Saddle, and from Rolling River to Wangapeka Saddle Repairs, Motueka Bridge 1,715 4 0 933 18 8 260 0 0 100 0 0 40 0 0 120 0 0 939 8 8 130 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 60 0 0 469 14 4 1,459 8 8 729 14 4
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Locality and Nature of Works. iTotal Cost. Amount of Contribution paid by Mines Department. Cottingioood County. Road, West Wanganui Bridge over Aorere River Extending Anatoki Bridle-track .. .; [ \ Bridge over Takaka River at Pain's Ford Repairs, Silverstream Bridge, and forming and metailing Bainham Road Kaituna-Perntown £ s. d. 300 0 0 173 14 0 160 0 0 1,597 7 8 200 0 0 250 0 0 £ s. d. 200 0 0 115 16 0 80 0 0 798 13 10 100 0 0 150 0 0 Buller County. Deviation of road from Candlelight Plat to Deep Creek, Charleston Road from Orowaiti Lagoon to North Terrace Prospeoting-track from Razorback to Paparoa Range Track from Seatonville to Larrikin's Waimangaroa to Denniston Road to connect alluvial workings with Charleston Road Track, Four-mile Creek towards Grey Valley Road to connect alluvial diggings north of Deadman's Creek '.'. Ngakawau to Mokihinui, via beaches Road to connect Ngakawau Railway with Mokihinui Coal Company's workings Lyell Bluff to Victor Emmanuel Claim .. .. .. , Beach, Little Wanganui to Mokihinui Cape Foulwind Road Road up Nile Valley Denniston extension Promised Land towards Motueka Road over Gentle Annie Extension, Lyell Creek to Low-level Tunnel Extension of track 50 chains south of Brighton Continuation of road, Deadman's Creek .. Ngakawau Railway-station to Mokihinui Addison's Plat towards ranges North Terrace to Oparara Diggings Extension of Croninville Road Waimangaroa to sea-beach Extension of track, Oparara to Fenian Creek Con's Creek to Beaconsfield Addison's Plat to Caroline Terrace .. .. Waimangaroa to sea-beach extension Addison's Plat to Gallagher's Lead Road to Swanston's Gold-mining Company Repairs to roads at Lyell Track, Pairdown from North Terrace Improving road to Pour-mile Creek, Charleston '.'. •Bridge, Waimangaroa River Road to Piper's Flat, Addison's Lyell Creek to Gibstown Buller River Footbridge below Lyell Virgin Flat Road Orowaiti Bridge Long Tunnel Road, Addison's ] \ 2,681 1 8 1,444 9 10 370 0 0 256 18 6 100 0 0 438 9 6 787 0 0 400 0 0 300 0 0 278 0 0 100 0 0 193 0 0 650 0 0 300 0 0 450 0 0 56 16 4 850 0 0 380 0 0 200 0 0 60 0 0 140 0 0 437 17 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 500 0 0 100 0 0 80 0 0 100 0 0 80 0 0 200 0 0 .390 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 200 0 0 150 0 0 900 0 0 70 0 0 450 0 0 200 0 0 250 0 0 200 0 0 350 0 0 200 0 0 246 13 4 171 5 8 66 13 4 292 6 4 393 10 0 266 13 4 200 0 0 185 6 8 66 13 4 128 13 4 433 6 8 100 0 0 300 0 0 28 8 2 425 0 0 190 0 0 100 0 0 30 0 0 70 0 0 218 18 6 25 0 0 10 0 0 333 6 8 50 0 0 40 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 100 0 0 195 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 97 8 0 450 0 0 35 0 0 150 0 0 66 13 4 170 0 0 100 0 0 325 0 0 100 0 0 Inangahua County. Dray-road from Soldier's Creek to Devil's Creek Dray-road from Inangahua to Rainy Creek Battery Dray-road from Capleston up Little Boatman's Creek Dray-road from Capleston up Main Boatman's Creek Dray-road from Westport Road to Inangahua River Track from Devil's Creek to Big River Track from Waitahu River to Capleston Survey and expenses Track from Cariboo to Big River Dray-road up Murray Creek to United Inglewood Claim Road from Reefton to Big River, via Devil's Creek Road up Big River Continuation of dray-road up Little Boatman's Creek Road from Capleston to Larry's Creek .. Track to connect Capleston with Lone Star Crushington to Globe Company's workings .. Snowy Creek Track Reefton to Big River Glenroy to Horse Terrace Devil's Creek to Globe Hill Extension of dray-road to Boatman's via Painkiller Mangles Valley to McGregor's Station Globe Hill to Merrrjigs Larry's Creek to Lyell Widening Larry's Creek Road Road up Burke's Creek, Little Boatman's Widening track from Scotia Tunnel, on Big River Road, to Inkermann Mine Widening track from Fiery Cross Battery to Just-in-Time Shaft 11,338 1 4 647 0 0 900 10 0 379 0 0 697 0 0 224 5 0 134 3 6 358 0 0 250 0 0 728 0 0 3,472 0 0 614 0 0 922 19 0 169 7 6 640 0 0 75 0 0 403 0 0 85 15 0 1,792 0 0 254 0 0 917 6 2 53 17 6 60D 0 0 1,397 6 0 1,061 15 0 118 10 0 149 0 0 200 0 0 300 0 0 431 6 8 606 6 8 252 13 4 464 13 4 149 10 0 89 9 0 238 13 4 166 13 4 364 0 0 2,314 17 4 307 0 0 615 6 0 112 18 4 426 13 4 50 0 0 201 10 0 42 17 6 1,194 13 4 122 10 0 458 13 1 26 18 9 300 0 0 698 13 0 530 17 6 59 5 0 74 10 0 80 9 0 150 0 0 6,400 16 8 17,552 14 8 0,530 I 1 10
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Locality and Nature of Works, Total Cost, Amount of Contribution paid by Mines Department. Grey County. £ s. d. 1,100 0 0 1,600 0 0 2,296 6 6 1,200 0 0 700 0 0 800 0 0 601 17 6 2,240 0 0 120 0 0 400 0 0 1,000 0 0 2,400 0 0 600 0 0 250 0 0 1,331 0 0 790 0 0 20 0 0 38 0 0 36 0 0 30 0 0 50 0 0 688 0 0 100 0 0 348 0 0 80 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 500 0 0 50 0 0 150 0 0 £ s. d. 550 0 0 800 0 0 2,296 6 6 800 0 0 466 13 4 533 6 8 401 5 0 1,493 6 8 60 0 0 200 0 0 500 0 0 1,200 0 0 400 0 0 125 0 0 665 10 0 395 0 0 10 0 0 19 0 0 18 0 0 15 0 0 25 0 0 344 0 0 50 0 0 219 0 0 40 0 0 50 0 0 79 5 0 86 0 0 140 0 0 252 10 0 25 0 0 75 0 0 Road from No Town to Deep Creek Road from Langdon's to Moonlight Contribution from goldfields vote towards main road Track, Waipuna to Clarke's River Track, Cameron's to Cape Terrace Road, Limestone to Maori Creek Red Jack's to Nelson Creek Barrytown to Deadman's German Gully to Arnold's Flat Baird's Terrace to Lake Brunner Hatter's Terrace Road Irishman's to Lake Brunner Hatter's Terrace Track, Baird's Terrace to Irishman's Deep Creek to Bell Hill Track to Blackball Diggings Track from Ahaura, Kopara, Reese's Flat, to new rush on banks o£ Ahaura Biver Renewal, bridge over Nelson Creek, Marsden-Dunganville Road Repairs (corduroying), Cobden-Seven-mile Road Repairs, Cobden-Point-Blizabeth Road Extension Ngahere-Blackball Road to Blackball Ferry Dray-bridge, Ten-mile Creek Deviation, Moonlight Track Repairs, bridges, Marsden-Dunganville Road Seventeen-mile Bluff to Barrytown Removing rocks, Nine- and Ten-mile Bluffs Crcesus Battery-site, Paparoa New River Bridge wing River View Road Mosquito Road Road to Totara Flab Dredge Maori Gully Bridge 20,119 4 0 12,334 3 Westland County. Improving track, Butcher's Creek to Gentle Annie Terrace Bridle-track to Kanieri Lake Bridle-track to Eel Creek Tunnel-track, Galway Beach to Gillespie's Beach Road from Duffer's Creek, Greenstone Road, to fifteen-mile peg, Christchurch Road Continuation of track, Back Creek to Eel Creek Bridle-track, Duffer's Creek, Bowen and Okarito Road, to sea-beach Ross Borough boundary to Mount Greenland Track, Kanieri Lake to Humphrey's Gully Track, Larrikin's to Loop-line Dam Rough Wainihinihi to Upper Dam Browning's Pass to Reefs Okarito Forks to Teal Creek .. .. .. ... Road, Christchurch to Baldhill Range reefs Extension of Tucker's Flat Road to New Rush Hokitika Borough boundary (Reefton) to Shotover Rush Track to New Rush, Back Creek Repairing old track round Wataroa Bluff New Rush, south side of Hokitika River Cedar Creek Road to Farmer's Creek Road to gold discovery near Blue Spur Widening Seddon's Terrace Track Branch Road at Seddon's Terrace Track up Middle Branch, Styx River 225 10 0 719 11 0 168 9 0 437 5 0 Y26 9 0 249 4 0 333 18 0 1,280 15 0 279 2 0 449 11 0 450 0 0 3,311 6 0 600 0 0 500 0 0 170 19 6 120 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 37 18 6 55 7 0 75 0 0 150 0 0 38 10 6 30 0 0 163 13 4 350 5 6 84 4 6 218 12 6 480 4 6 166 3 4 222 12 0 853 16 8 186 1 4 299 14 0 300 0 0 2,207 10 8 400 0 0 250 0 0 85 9 9 60 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 18 19 3 27 13 6 37 10 0 65 10 0 19 5 3 15 0 0 10,558 15 6 6,596 6 1 Taieri County. Mullocky Gully to Silver Peak 499 15 0 333 3 Lake County. Track, Skipper's to Phoenix and Scandinavian Reefs Track to connect scheelite-mine with Lake Wakatipu Arrowtown to Macetown, construction Arrowtown to Macetown, maintenance Invincible Quartz-reef Track, Rees River .. Rees Valley to company's workings Pack-track, Criffel Diggings Left-hand Branch Road, Skipper's Old Morven Ferry Road Road to workings above Cardrona Piers, Victoria Bridge Skipper's Road Saddle to Deep Creek Road up Dart River Cutting on Homeward-bound Hill Skippers Bridge 292 2 3 225 0 0 225 0 0 150 0 0 300 0 0 61 7 6 50 6 6 63 9 10 289 0 0 70 0 0 725 0 0 200 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 4,244 0 0 194 14 10 150 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 30 13 9 33 11 0 31 14 11 144 10 0 35 0 0 362 10 0 100 0 0 75 0 0 75 0 0 3,244 0 0 7,145 6 1 4,926 14 6
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Locality and Nature of Works. Total Cost. Amount of Contribution paid by Mines Department. Tuapeka County. Making road from top of Terrace to Waipori Bush .. .. .. Eoad, Beaumont to Remarkable Bush .. .. .. ' Improving road from Waipori Township to antimony-mines, Lammerlaw Ranges Waipori Township to Waipori Bush Clutha River to Campbell's Waitahuna to copper-mine .. .. Road to open up quarry for Waitahuna Bridge .. Waipori Road, viti Bungtown .. .. .. Miller's Plat Bridge .. ' .. .. .. .. • Shelter-sheds and snow poles .. .. .. Waipori Bridge .. .. .. .. .. .. ' Metalling, Lawrence-Waipori .. .. .. £ s. a. 300 0 0 300 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 76 9 0 200 0 0 160 9 10 566 8 10 11,242 0 0 100 0 0 800 0 0 ■•550 0 0 £ s. d 200 0 0 200 0 0 133 6 8 133 6 8 50 19 4 133 6 8 106 19 11 283 4 5 6,621 0 0 50 0 0 400 0 0 341 3 6 14,695 7 8 8,653 7 2 Cromwell Borough. Removal of eand .. .. .. .. . ■ .. 500 0 0 250 0 Wallace County. Track, Colac Bay to Round Hill .. .. .. ■ Pack-track to Round Hill, Golac, and Orepuki .. .. Cutting tracks, Longwood 200 0 0 1,050 0 0 59 6 0 133 6 500 0 29 13 1,309 6 0 662 19 Vincent County. Renewal bridge to Bannockburn .. .. .. 1,532 0 0 850 0 Maniototo County. Road to Serpentine Diggings .. .. Pig and Whistle to Clarke's Diggings .. Shepherd's Hut Flat to Vinegar Hill Kyeburn Peninsula to main road 136 10 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 82 0 0 91 0 133 6 66 13 41 0 Fiord County. 518 10 0 332 0 Dusky Sound, tracks 300 0 0 200 0 Waitaki County. Road, Naseby to Livingstone 41 12 0 20 16 Southland County. Improving tracks from Mataura to Nokomai Improving road, Waikaka to Loatham .. .. .. ■ Improving road from Waikaka Township to Leatham Creek Improving road from Waikaka to Waikaka railway-siding Widening and improving bush-track to Waikawa Waikaka to Switzer's Road near Waikaka Township Waipapa to Six-mile Beach Repairing bridges, Waikaia Bush Dray-road to Perry Terrace, Nokomai Waikaia to Whiteoomb Parawa to Switzer's, via Nokomai Track to Switzer's Freehold Gold-mining Company Nevis Road Parawa to Nokomai Waikaia to Break-'em-All Claim 75 0 0 150 0 0 30 0 0 150 0 0 150 0 0 150 0 0 150 0 0 175 0 0 38 13 4 100 0 0 511 6 8 150 0 0 175 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 100 0 20 0 100 0 100 0 100 0 100 0 87 10 13 4 50 0 280 13 75 0 175 0 50 0 75 0 50 0 Diamond and other Drills. Inangahua County Council (diamond) Springfield Colliery Company (diamond) Westland County Council (tiffin) .. .. .. ■ • Diamond-drills for prospecting purposes.. 2,355 0 0 1,426 7 2,000 0 0 1,250 0 0 350 0 0 1,570 11 4 1,000 0 625 0 233 0 1,570 11 5,170 11 4 3,428 11 Wharves. Repairs to wharf, Coromandel .. Anikiwi Jetty, Marlborough 300 0 0 135 15 9 150 0 135 15 435 15 9 285 15 Aids to Prospecting. Construction of low-level tunnel, Terawhiti .. .. Queen of Beauty Company, prospecting deep levels Caledonian Low-level Company, prospecting deep levels .. Red Hill Gold-mining Company, prospecting deep levels Caledonian Low-level Company, low-level tunnel Lyell Creek Extended Company, low-level tunnel New Cromwell Gold-mining Company .. .. Deep-level Association, Waipori 750 0 0 300 0 0 300 0 0 COO 0 0 2,700 0 0 300 0 0 250 0 0 450 0 0 150 0 150 0 150 0 300 0 300 0 150 0 100 0 300 0
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Locality and Nature of Works. Total Cost. Amount of Contribution paid by Mines Department. Aids to Prospecting— continued. Little Boatman's deep-level tunnel .. .. .. • • Oterongia Prospecting Association .. .. .. Vincent County Tapanui Prospecting Association Tuapeka County Maniototo County Pullar, Shelmerdine, and Basan Royal Oak Association Star of the East Quartz-mining Company West Coast Prospecting Association McBride and party McLean and party Deep-level tunnel, Tokatea Deep-level tunnel, Owharoa Deep-level tunnel, Tapu Deep-level tunnel, Cedar Creek Manuka Flat Prospecting Association Red Hill Minerals Company Tuapeka Prospecting Association Cardrona Prospecting Association Cromwell Prospecting Association Coromandel County Thames County Thames Borough Buller County Inangahua County Westland County Grey County Deep-level Prospecting Association, Waipori Waipu Prospecting Association Hokianga County Vulcan Smelting-works, Onehunga Ohinemuri County Waitaki County Waihemo County William Fox and party Kirk and party Hodge and party .. ,. Carey and Hyndman Don, Boyce, and party Quentin McKinnon Bullion Mine deep-level tunnel Sutherland and party Inangahua low-level tunnel Deep-level tunnel, Manaia Waimea Miners' Association, prospecting at Callaghan's Totara Miners'Association, Ross Ross, Cunningham, and another Wm. Thompson, stores from Benmore Station Totara Miners' Association, Ross Harris, Davidson, and party Boatman's Tailings Company Boys's tunnel, Bluespur Totara Miners' Association (Ross, Montina, and party) Gillam's Gully Prospecting Association Deep-level Prospecting Committee, Dillmanstown .. .. Westport Prospecting Association Te Aroha Prospecting Association Robert Richie, Kuaotunu Owharoa Tunnel (Lindsay Jackson) Coromandel County (£1 for £1) Mr. G. Rehay, Arahura Hyndman and party, Callaghan's Flat .. Lakes Mapourika, Waiho, and Wataroa Miners' Association .. Kumara Miners' Association Thames Miners' Union Star of Canterbury Miners' Association Miners' Association, Rimu Buller County (Messrs. Negri and others) Johnson and party, tunnel at Callaghan's Flat W. L. Webb, Nelson Kumara Miners' Association (Solberg, Stewart, and party) Buller County, between head of Fox's River, Brighton, and Deadman's Creek Welcome United Gold-mining Company, Greymouth Orepuki Miners' Association Totara Miners' Association (Gagliardi and party) .. Contingencies .. .. .. ,, Halligan and party, tunnel at Cedar Creek Totara Miners' Association (Chamberlain and party) Miners' Association, Greenstone Westland County (T. Radonicki and party) Waimea Miners' Association (Lot, Keir, and party) Cardrona Prospecting Association Waimea Miners' Association, Stafford •■ J M s. d. 600 0 0 198 17 2 137 9 0 25 0 0 12 0 0 500 0 0 400 0 0 300 0 0 150 0 0 300 0 0 169 2 2 66 0 0 700 0 0 300 8 0 1,200 0 0 1,207 10 0 200 0 0 437 19 10 277 0 0 800 0 0 500 0 0 550 0 0 309 18 0 200 0 0 146 12 6 488 7 0 1,236 19 4 871 15 2 432 9 8 180 0 0 100 0 0 30 0 0 100 0 0 29 5 0 85 9 0 711 1 8 176 0 10 98 13 8 441 9 4 107 16 0 58 10 0 300 0 0 30 0 0 0,960 0 0 451 4 0 50 0 0 51 3 6 9 0 0 2 1 10 8 6 6 27 7 6 150 0 0 94 12 3 246 10 0 94 15 0 407 0 3 25 0 0 20 12 6 72 3 0 325 0 0 200 0 0 98 15 0 552 14 6 53 12 0 22 10 0 I 75 15 0 38 5 0 16 0 0 27 0 0 90 0 0 24 0 0 64 15 0 29 5 0 245 12 6 90 0 0 12 10 0 484 15 10 198 1 10 208 10 0 59 0 0 40 0 0 90 0 0 140 5 4 118 1 0 £ s. d. 300 0 0 99 8 7 68 14 6 12 10 0 6 0 0 250 0 0 200 0 0 150 0 0 75 0 0 150 0 0 84 11 1 33 0 0 350 0 0 200 5 4 600 0 0 603 15 0 100 0 0 218 19 11 138 10 0 400 0 0 250 0 0 275 0 0 154 19 0 100 0 0 73 6 3 244 3 6 618 9 8 435 17 7 216 4 10 90 0 0 50 0 0 15 0 0 50 0 6 14 12 6 42 14 0 355 10 11 88 4 10 49 6 10 220 14 0 53 18 0 29 5 0 150 0 0 15 0 0 3,000 0 0 225 12 0 50 0 0 51 3 6 9 0 0 2 1 10 8 6 6 27 7 0 150 0 0 94 12 0 246 10 0 94 15 0 407 0 3 25 0 0 20 12 6 36 1 0 162 10 0 100 0 0 49 7 6 276 7 3 26 16 0 11 5 0 37 17 6 19 2 6 8 0 0 13 10 0 45 0 0 12 0 0 32 7 6 14 12 6 122 16 3 45 0 0 6 5 0 242 7 11 99 OH 104 5 0 29 10 0 20 0 0 45 0 0 70 2 8 56 10 6
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Locality and Nature of Works. Total Cost Amount of Contribution paid by Mines Department. Aids to Pbospboting— continued. £ s. d. 28 0 0 39 0 0 32 0 0 28 0 0 24 0 0 12 0 0 13 0 0 187 10 0 600 0 0 215 19 9 26 0 0 50 0 0 78 0 0 200 0 0 54 18 0 135 0 0 300 0 0 60 0 0 40 0 0 9 0 0 150 0 0 40 0 0 50 0 0 200 0 0 120 0 0 112 13 0 100 0 0 19 10 0 22 15 0 19 10 0 50 0 0 45 0 0 7 10 0 64 18 0 40 0 0 27 0 0 40 0 0 20 0 0 200 0 0 97 10 0 180 10 0 162 16 9 250 0 0 15 10 0 96 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 220 0 0 56 0 0 43 0 0 39 0 0 124 0 0 58 14 0 57 10 0 75 0 0 600 0 0 58 10 0 432 6 0 120 0 0 60 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 300 0 0 75 0 0 6 0 0 6 0 0 20 0 0 17 4 0 100 0 0 23 5 0 135 0 0 69 0 0 39 0 0 13 0 0 26 0 0 226 0 0 18 0 0 52 0 0 302 10 0 109 7 6 18 0 0 30 15 0 £ s. d, 14 0 0 19 10 0 16 0 0 14 0 0 12 0 0 6 0 0 13 0 0 93 15 0 291 8 2 107 19 6 13 0 0 25 0 0 39 0 0 6 0 0 16 4 0 61 7 6 137 7 11 25 0 0 15 0 0 12 6 68 13 6 13 2 6 16 13 0 100 0 0 68 17 0 112 13 0 100 0 0 19 10 0 22 15 0 19 10 0 48 4 0 45 0 0 7 10 0 64 18 0 20 0 0 27 0 0 40 0 0 13 5 0 13 15 0 35 19 2 30 5 0 108 11 2 48 3 9 6 10 6 4 10 0 36 10 6 1 16 0 71 8 6 24 0 0 29 1 3 18 0 0 6 13 6 2 8 0 3 18 9 35 6 6 161 11 3 11 5 0 197 9 8 37 16 0 12 3 0 32 0 0 9 0 0 25 17 6 94 4 9 30 4 3 3 0 0 2 17 9 11 8 0 7 13 3 20 5 11 9 18 0 6 15 0 69 0 0 39 0 0 13 0 0 26 0 0 128 0 0 18 0 0 26 0 0 154 14 0 109 7 6 18 0 0 30 15 0 H. Orossan, Beaumont Prospecting Association, Westport Cape Colville Prospecting Syndicate Port Charles Prospecting Association Totara Miners' Association, Boss Lake Mapourika Miners' Association Lister and Robertson, Karamea Canada Reefs Tunnel Otago Miners' Association Westland County (Goudie and party) Paparata Road Board Tauranga County (Te Puke Prospecting Association) Havelock Miners' Association Ohinemuri County Mr. Olderog, Arahura Miners' Association, Ross (J. Smith and party) Extension of low-level tunnel, Boatman's Prospecting-tunnel, south side Inangahua River Prospecting Association, Mokihinui Miners' Association, Kumara (John Kane) Prospecting Association, Invercargill Miners' Association, Kuaotunu Miners' Association, Ross (Waylen and party) Prospecting Association, Coromandel (Leahy and others) Adit-level, Maungatawhiri Creek (G. B. Osmond) Bay of Islands County Prospecting, Pokaka Prospecting Russell's Outcrop Pox's River Prospecting Association (A. T. Bate, secretary) Buller County (Newton and party, shaft, Ballarat Terrace) .. Buller County (Spence and party) Wairau Miners' Association Miners' Association, Nelson Creek (Thrower and Potts) Miners' Association, Dillmanstown (Turnbull and others) Miners' Association, Ross (Gagliardi and party) Miners' Association, Ross (Allen and Son) Miners' Association, Greenstone (Black and party) Miners' Association, Cardrona Miners'Association, Lowburn (E. Murrell) Puhipuhi Prospecting Association Thames County (P. and J. Wallis) Thames County (Sheridan Company's tunnel, Tapu) Cinnabar Mining Company, Auckland (£1 to £1 10s.) H. H. Adam's, Waiorongomai Miners' Association, Ross (Moye and Son) Westland County (J. Staines) Westland County (O'Brien and Glynn) Upper Moutere Road Board Buller County (Mohan and party) Buller County (Gardiner and McKay) Buller County (Negri and others) Buller County (Scarlett and McHarrie) Kumara Miners' Association (Scatterini and Anderson) Kumara Miners' Association (Henley and party) Kumara Miners' Association (M. Manton) Kumara Miners' Association (Rogers and Block) .. Frying-pan Tail-race Prospecting Association, Mokihinui (French and others) Prospecting Association, Westport Dver and party, Kuaotunu Gillam's Gully Prospecting Association (Bramhall and party) .. Miners' Association, Riverton Kennedy-Waikaia Miners' Association, Invercargill Inangahua District Miners'Association New El Dorado Sluicing Company, Pat Boys, Criffel Miners' Association, Greenstone (O'Donnell and party, and J. Pope) Miners' Association, Tinkers, prospecting Matakanui Chatterbox Tunnel (G. Clapton) Port Charles Prospecting Association Miners' Association, Lake Mapourika Pitchers and Kitto, Anderson's Flat Miners' Association, Nelson Creek (Kelly and party) South British Prospecting Association, Lyell Miners' Association, Ross (A. Zala) Miners' Association, Ross (McKay and Muir) Miners' Association, Ross (McKay and Brown) Miners' Association, Ross (McEwen and McEchnie) Miners' Association, Ross (0. Porter) Miners' Association, Riverton Katikati Prospecting Association .. Cornwall, Walker, and party's tunnel, Boatman's Miners' Association, Greenstone (Crawford and party) Mararoa Mining Association Hororata Prospecting Association
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Locality and Nature of Works. Total Cost. Amount of Contribution paid by Mines Department. Aids to Prospecting— continued. Paparata Road Board (Parker and Piggott) New Bay of Islands Coal Company, prospecting Moody's outcrop Longwood Sluicing Company Red Jack's Miners' Association (Drummond and McDonough) Kapanga Gold-mining Company (Limited) Kuaotunu Prospecting Association Te Aroha Town Board Bombay Prospecting Association Charleston Miners' Association Buller County (Reaney and Rasmussen) Buller County (Samuel and party) Gold-mining League, Westport (McFarlane Inangahua County (Gabriel and party) Miners' Association, Dillmanstown (Black and party) Tapanui Prospecting Association Miners' Association, Lowburn (Tilliman and party) Miners' Association, Upper Waikaia Main and party's tunnel, Kanieri Ryan and Son's tunnel, Dillmanstown .. R. A. Harcourt's tunnel, Blue Spur Miners' Association, Ross (Archer and Horseby) Inangahua County (R. Lees) West I and County (Kebay and party) Red Jack's Miners' Association (Drummond and Raynor) Weatland County (McGoveran and party) Westland Comity (N. Johnson's tunnel, Fox's Plat) Miners' Association, Ross (Gagliardi and Son) Miners' Association, Ross (Marchesi and Scott) Miners' Association, Greenstone (Diokson and party) Westland County (Beroz and Mills) Westland County (Patrick and Moynihan) Westland County (Ryan and Son) Westland County, prospecting, Kanieri (£1 for £1) Westland County, prospecting, Rimu (£1 for £1) Westland County (Dwyer and party, Blue Spur) Miners' Association, Waiho (Batson and Snow) Miners' Association, Nelson Creek (Coll and Moran) Miners' Association, Nelson Creek (Hurley and party) Miners' Association, Blaokball (Keenan and Falconer) Miners' Association, Blackball (McKenzie and O'Brien) Miners' Association, Ross (McLeod and Dunlop) Miners' Association, Ross (Smith and Regan) Miners' Association, Greenstone (Candy, Roberts, and Evans) .. Buller County (Jeffreys and Walker) Buller County (Christmas and party) ... Buller County (Burkitt and party) Buller County (Stewart and party) Buller County (Robertson and Sangwell) Buller County (Ramsey and O'Connor) Buller County (Clough and McGonagle) Buller County (Negri and others) Buller County (Quinn and party) Buller County (Murray and Forsyth) Buller County (Salter and party) Inangahua County (Z. B. Curnow) Culley and Hislop, prospecting, Kawakawa Prospecting Association (Riverton) Tuapeka County (Gabriel's Gully) Nobel, Stenhouse, and Crawford's tunnel, New Cbum Creek .. Holmes and party's tunnel, Tuoker's Flat Deep Levels, Kumara Miners' Association, Ross (Moye and Son) Miners' Association, Ross (Paterson and McGowan) Miners' Association, Wailio (Nelly and Murray) Miners' Association, Red Jacks (Drummond arc! party) Westland County (Roseveri and party) Prospecting Mokihinui Mine (Lomas and party) Towai-Hukerenui Coal Syndicate Ohinemuri County (P. Prudence) Westland County (Irwin and party) Contingencies £ s. d. 32 10 0 200 0 0 300 0 0 28 0 0 20,600 0 0 48 10 0 100 0 0 40 0 0 110 0 0 120 0 0 100 0 0 39 0 0 100 0 0 31 10 0 40 0 0 57 10 0 19 10 0 200 0 0 42 0 0 180 0 0 13 0 0 2 10 0 112 0 0 24 0 0 50 0 0 140 0 0 70 0 0 200 0 0 72 0 0 115 0 0 86 0 0 120 0 0 1,228 15 0 3,972 17 0 800 0 0 9 0 0 160 0 0 164 0 0 5 17 0 43 10 0 63 14 6 164 2 0 100 0 0 8 0 0 4 15 0 13 0 0 12 0 0 26 0 0 4 15 0 8 0 0 12 0 0 34 0 0 9 0 0 6 10 0 6 10 0 125 0 0 25 0 0 . 400 0 0 240 0 0 400 0 0 3,269 0 0 60 0 0 20 0 0 26 0 0 50 0 0 160 0 0 500 0 0 200 0 0 6 0 0 100 0 0 217 5 8 £ s. A. 32 10 0 173 4 3 150 0 0 28 0 0 1,735 3 11 26 0 0 37 17 6 16 7 9 33 8 6 30 0 0 5 11 0 13 10 0 11 11 0 12 0 0 18 10 0 42 9 9 13 0 0 188 7 0 21 12 0 90 0 0 13 0 0 2 10 0 56 0 0 12 0 0 37 10 0 59 0 5 17 10 0 153 15 0 15 18 0 91 9 0 45 0 0 60 0 0 614 7 0 1,986 8 6 758 6 0 9 0 0 160 0 0 82 0 0 5 17 0 43 10 0 40 8 6 164 2 0 60 8 6 8 0 0 4 15 0 13 0 0 12 0 0 26 0 0 4 15 0 8 0 0 12 0 0 18 0 0 9 0 0 6 10 0 4 15 0 125 0 0 25 0 0 223 10 10 240 0 0 208 8 0 1,197 10 4 14 19 6 13 0 0 12 0 0 24 0 0 80 0 0 250 0 0 35 2 0 14 0 35 0 0 217 5 8 Water-races. 77,018 9 10 28,843 6 9 Water-main, Bull's Battery Round Hill Water-race Tomkiss's Water-race Cardrona Sludge-channel New water-mains, Thames Water-race Nelson Creek Mikonui Water-race Brown and party, Kumara Randall Creek Water-race Thames Water-race Contingencies Randall Creek Water-race Quinn's Creek Water-race Survey, water-race, Ninety-mile Beach Improving water-supply, Oamaru Roaring Meg Water-race (Jonea, Baxter, and party) Sulky Gully Water-race Gentle Annie Creek, Mata (R. Kelly) Purohase Byrne, O'Hallahan, and Murdoch's water rights Argyle Water-race Bell Hill Sluicing Company Finlay and McLiver's Water-race, at Measletown 350 0 0 200 19 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 1,479 10 4 957 16 9 14,279 16 4 90 0 0 222 2 3 1,250 0 0 659 12 8 100 15 0 70 0 0 65 6 7 1,250 0 0 1,600 0 0 504 0 0 200 0 0 35 0 0 8,453 15 1 1,000 0 0 400 0 0 100 0 0 133 19 4 100 0 0 50 0 0 739 15 2 957 16 9 14,279 16 4 22 10 0 222 2 3 1,250 0 0 659 12 8 100 15 0 70 0 0 65 6 7 1,150 7 2 800 0 0 218 0 0 40 0 0 35 0 0 8,453 15 1 500 0 0 34 5 4 33,368 14 0 29,983 1 8
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Locality and Nature of Works. Total Cost. Amount of Contribution paid by Mines Department. . Drainage- and Tailings-channels. Drainage-channel, Lawrence (total cost, approximate) Subsidy towards purchase of Messrs. Laidlaw and Crawford's freehold" in Spotti's Creek, to allow tailings to be deposited (Tinker's Diggings) Damage by floods, Thames ,. .. ' Sludge-channel, Smith's Gully, Bannookburn Round Hill Sludge-channel survey Compensation to J. Costello, damage done by tailings Long Gully Sludge-channel New Pipeclay Gully Sludge-channel Kumara Sludge-channel No. 2 Ophir Tail-race .. Lawrence Drainage-channel Tailings-outlet, Maerewhenua .. ., Ross Sludge and Storm-water Channel Kuaotunu Sludge-channel (£1 for £1) Branch tail-race to No. 4 Channel Rimu Drainage-channel Kumara Sludge-channel No. 5 Kumara Sludge-channel No. 4 Kumara Sludge-chanel No. 3 Donnelly's Creek Tail-race Muddy Creek Channel Drain, Te Aroha West ..'.'. Jones Creek Storm-channel .. £ s. d. 3,000 0 0 500 0 0 1,000 0 0 1,000 0 0 52 19 7 788 0 0 150 0 0 4,547 18 0 2,762 17 2 2,300 0 0 1,150 0 0 1,595 4 0 1,675 10 6 400 0 0 100 0 0 500 0 0 5,006 15 9 1,200 0 0 58 0 0 1,657 0 0 2,000 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 £ s. d. 2,000 0 0 400 0 0 500 0 0 251 1 0 52 19 7 788 0 0 100 0 0 773 19 0 2,762 17 2 1.150 0 0 1,092 9 0 1,595 4 0 1,675 10 6 200 0 0 100 0 0 191 19 6 ■5,006 15 9 1.151 10 8 58 0 0 444 4 5 1,000 0 0 61 0 0 50 0 0 31,744 5 0 21,405 10 7 Aid towabds the Treatment of Ores Testmg-plant, School of Mines, Thames Testing minerals, Dunedin Exhibition Testing-battery, Mercury Bay 1,200 0 0 142 8 9 915 1 4 C00 0 0 142 8 9 915 1 4 Aid towards Construction of Telephone-lines. Bannockburn to Nevis 2,257 10 1 1,657 10 1 60 0 0 50 0 0 Works wholly constructed by Mines Department Construction of road, Arrowtown to Macetown Road to open up Woodstock Goldfield .. " Ahaura to Amuri .... Waikaia Bush Road Waitahuna Bridge Merrivale tracks Mokihinui to Specimen Creek Wilberforce Quartz-reef Road Opening Mokau River .... Lyell to Mokihinui .. Brighton to Seventeen-mile Beach Wangapeka to Karamea Hatter's Terrace to Bell Hill Cedar Creek Road Owen Valley Road .. Oobden to Seventeen-mile Beach .. Cedar Creek Road Bridle-track to Upper Anatoki Whangamata Road Karangahake through Gorge .. Arthur's Point to Skipper's .. ... " ., Tracks to Coal Island .... '' J Grey Valley to Teremakau Rimu to New Rush Tapu to Waikawau Puhipuhi Road Jackson's Bay to Cascade and Gorge River district '.'. Improving roads and tracks, Collingwood to Takaka and Motu'eka '' i Tramway from New Find to Waitekauri Havelock-Mahakipawa Dray-road Mokihinui to Wanganui Burnett's Face to Coalbrookdale Deadman's to Christmas Terrace Low-level Alpine Claim, Lyell Bowen Road to Salt-water Beach ., Repairing damage done by floods, Westland County ' Deviation of road at Kanieri Forks Road up Dart River Kuaotunu to Mercury Bay Thames to Manaia Cobden to Seventeen-mile Beach Bridge over Mahinapua Creek Track up Waiho River Haast Ferry to Glue-pot .... Paeroa-Waihi Road Waitekauri to New Find 9,270 6 8 1,000 0 0 2,504 19 7 1,000 0 0 750 0 0 500 0 0 1,238 7 5 1,830 17 7 552 8 0 5,098 8 6 1,789 7 2 2,000 0 0 500 0 0 3,000 0 0 2,208 9 2 3,036 1 4 1,500 0 0 722 8 0 141 10 6 1,000 0 0 12,167 4 1 54 6 3 900 0 0 829 17 9 750 10 0 1,396 17 9 5,310 10 11 10,905 8 11 100 0 0 1,811 9 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 20 0 0 80 0 0 60 0 0 100 0 0 140 0 0 200 0 0 350 0 0 500 0 0 400 0 0 503 16 10 105 0 0 126 0 0 114 0 0 250 0 0 9,270 6 8 1,000 0 0 2,504 19 7 1,000 0 0 750 0 0 500 0 0 1,238 7 5 1,830 17 7 552 8 0 5,098 8 6 1,789 7 2 2,000 0 0 500 0 0 3,000 0 0 2,208 9 2 3,036 1 4 1,500 0 0 722 8 0 141 10 6 1,000 0 0 12,167 4 1 54 6 3 900 0 0 829 17 9 750 10 0 1,396 17 9 5.310 10 11 10,905 8 11 100 0 0 1.311 9 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 20 0 0 80 0 0 60 0 0 100 0 0 140 0 0 200 0 0 350 0 0 500 0 0 400 0 0 503 16 10 105 0 0 126 0 0 114 0 0 250 0 0
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Locality and Nature of Works. Total Cost. Amount of Contribution paid by Mine! Department. Wobks wholly OONSTBUCTED BY Mikes Depabtment— continued. Mahakipawa to Waikakaho .. Oparara through gorge to gold-workings.. Okira Bridge, at Dirty Mary's Creek Lagoon Bridge Widening Cape Terrace Road Deviation, Granville Road Tucker's Plat Road .. .. .. .. .. \\ Dillman's-Larrikin's Road Track at Kanieri Lake and Mclntosh Palls, Lake Mahinapna.. Extension of road, Rimu to Shallow Rush Gillam's Gully Track .. .. .. \\ \\ McKay's Creek, Kokatahi Track Aorere Valley to Karamea and Mokihinui Arrowtown to Macetown Nelson Creek Bridge Cascade to Barn Bay Road Repairs to decking, Tapu Wharf Waitekauri Battery from Junction-Waihi Road Deep Creek, Wakamarina, to Empire City Company's claim .. Track to diggings at Cape Poulwind Bridge over Pox's River at Brighton Totara Bridge Road from Mokihinui Bridge to gold-workings Clearing two miles of old track from right-hand branch of Kanieri River to Gentle Annie Terrace Extending horse-track to Blackball Creek Matawai to Kaimarama Tiki to Mahakirau Karangahake Gorge to Waihi Upper Tararu Road Red Hill Road Repairs, Nile Bridge Miller's Plat to Skipper's Cobden to Coal Creek Track to New Find, Tairua Cedar Creek Dray-road Road to Matarangi Goldfleld Repairs, Manaia Track Upper Township School Bridge Tiki Bridge across Waiau .. .. .. .. .. Scott's Bridge Oteau Bridge Mercury Bay-Kaimarama Road Stoney Creek Track Road to mines, Waiomo Upper Hill Track to branch track, Waiorongomai Canadian Gully Bridge, and repairs to tunnel on horse-grade, Waiorongomai Waiorongomai Road Track from Slate River to Rocky Pack-track to Killdevil Repairs, Wangapeka Road towards Crow Diggings Repairing flood-damages, Grey County .. Taipo Track to Seven-mile Repairs, Totara Bridge Repairs, Kanieri Lake Road Mercury Bay to Whenuakite and Boat Harbour Tiki to Gumtown, via Kaimarama Driving Creek to Cabbage Bay, and Driving Creek to Cape Colville Tiki to Waikawau.. Paeroa to Te Aroha Puriri to east side of range Onamalutu to Wakamarina Porks Waimangaroa to Denniston Road to Lyell's Creek Extended Company's tunnel Jackson's Bay to Cascade Bridge over Ogilvie's Greek Gillam's Gully Track Bridge over Kanieri River at Kokatahi Road to Oparara Diggings Millerton Road .. .. .. Waiau to Preservation Inlet Hatter's Terrace to Haupiri .. .. .. .. .... Grey River to Moonlight Blackball Track .. Ahaura-Kopara Road Mackley's to Waipuna Terrace .. .. Footbridge over Blackball Creek .. .. .. .. ' Waipapa to Waikawa Waipapa to Six-mile Drain at Adamson's Maruia Track, between Reefton and Maruia Sledge-track to Langdon Reefs .. .. .. Track to Blackball Township, repairs Track, Old Man Range Road to gold discovery near Blue Spur .. 21—C. 3, £ s. d. 183 12 1 150 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 70 0 0 247 18 7 125 15 0 195 4 6 150 0 0 149 16 0 100 0 0 29,938 1 2 450 0 0 100 0 0 411 7 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 50 0 0 497 11 0 100 0 0 255 0 0 75 0 0 13 0 0 500 0 0 150 0 0 250 0 0 850 0 0 471 10 3 249 8 1 1,131 2 6 580 0 0 375 0 0 47 11 6 466 11 2 75 0 0 90 0 0 50 0 0 256 0 0 175 0 0 150 0 0 50 0 0 15 0 0 50 0 0 30 0 0 70 0 0 100 0 0 225 0 0 100 0 0 153 0 7 370 0 0 194 5 8 336 0 0 80 0 0 150 0 0 160 0 0 660 0 0 600 0 0 365 0 0 596 19 6 400 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 1,110 8 1 150 0 0 220 0 0 467 10 10 100 0 0 249 0 3 7,961 19 6 1,650 0 0 530 0 0 1,185 12 5 400 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 30 0 0 40 0 0 50 0 0 45 0 0 £ s. d. 183 12 1 150 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 70 0 0 247 18 7 125 15 0 195 4 6 150 0 0 149 16 0 100 0 0 29,938 1 2 450 0 0 100 0 0 411 7 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 50 0 0 497 11 0 100 0 0 255 0 0 75 0 0 13 0 0 500 0 0 150 0 0 250 0 0 350 0 0 471 10 3 249 8 1 1,131 2 6 580 0 0 375 0 0 47 11 6 466 11 2 75 0 0 90 0 0 50 0 0 256 0 0 175 0 0 150 0 0 50 0 0 15 0 0 50 0 0 30 0 0 70 0 0 100 0 0 225 0 0 100 0 0 153 0 7 370 0 0 194 5 8 336 0 0 80 0 0 150 0 0 160 0 0 660 0 0 600 0 0 365 0 0 596 19 6 400 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 1,110 8 1 150 0 0 220 0 0 467 10 10 100 0 0 249 0 3 7,961 19 6 1,650 0 0 530 0 0 1,185 12 5 400 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 30 0 0 40 0 0 50 0 0 45 0 0
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Locality and Nature ol Works. Total Cost. Amount of Contribution paid by Mines Department. Works wholly constbucted by Mines Dbpabtment— continued. Bartlett's Creek Track Prospeeting-track, Brunnerton to Paparoa Extension Seddon's Terrace Track to new claim West Tokatea Road Waitaia Battery Road Preece's Point Road Tokatea-Kennedy Bay Road.. Main Cabbage Bay Road Hooker's to Mercury Bay Opeto Road Blagrove's Road Cemetery-Cabbage Bay Road Rails for Coromandel Wharf Culverts, Tiki Road Soldier's Creek Road Road to Barrytown Tracks to western sounds Road to R. Kelly's claim, Gentle Annie Creek Waitekauri to New Find Paeroa Mill Road Owharoa to Waitawheta Deviation Road, Earl's Hill Waihi to Katikati Bridge over Slate River Pack-track to Glover's Flat, Lower Anatoki Clearing Karaka Creek of flood-damage Track up rigbt-hand branch of Cnllen's Creek Footbridge, Waimangaroa River Track up Callary Branch, Waiho River Converting Wilson's Lead Track, Addison's, into a dray-road Cabbage Bay to mines Coromandel to Kuaotunu Manaia to mines Whitianga to Mahakirau Whangapoua Mill Road Kuaotunu Bridge Granity Creek to Ngakawau Crow Diggings Track Road to diggings, Cape Foulwind Ngahere to Blackball .. .. Fencing land, Blackball Road Prospecting-track, Greek's Gully to Kanieri Forks Repairing Jones's Creek and Donohue's Storm-channels Deviation, Pleasant Creek Track Road-works at Ohaeawai Mahakirau Creek Road Puriri to mines Katikati-Waihi Road Pack-track from Kerikeri Track to Waitakohe Goldfield Repairing bridges to mines, Te Puke Helena Bay to Whakapara Railway-station Gordon Settlement to Waharoa Waiorongomai Road Approach to railway-bridge, Te Aroha Upper Waitekauri Bridge Junction Waihi Road to New Find, Waitekauri Repairing bridges, Doctor's and Staunton's Creeka Four-mile Bridge Fox's Bridge Charleston-Nine-mile Beach.. Road, Promised Land-Karamea Karamea Bridge and approaches Approaches, Matakitaki Bridge Snowy Creek Bridge Big River Road Footbridge across by-wash, Ngahere-Blackball Ferry Track to Healey's Gaily Track, Lancashire Flat to head of Clearwater Creek Granville Road Footbridges, Blackwater and Greenstone Brown's Terrace to Arnold Protective works, main Grey Bridge Extension, Tucker's Flat Road Butcher's Greek Bridge, Kanieri Lake Road Kapitea Creek Bridge, Lamplough Track Widening Milltown Track to Humphiey's Gully Pack-track, Seddon's Terrace to Eel Creek New bridge, Kapitea Creek, Loop-line Road Stribbing's Creek Bridge Widening Seddon's Terrace Road extension Compensation, Larrikin's Road Garston to Nevis.. Nevis Valley Road ., ., ., ., ., £ s. a. 200 0 0 125 0 0 208 10 6 50 0 0 150 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0j 100 0 O^ 400 0 0 100 0 0 31 5 0 100 0 0 198 5 0 300 0 0 7,307 17 11 100 0 0 250 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 200 0 0 75 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 70 0 0 400 0 0 400 0 0 2,070 0 0 100 0 0 300 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 527 8 2 100 0 0 600 0 0 110 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 130 0 0 500 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 250 0 0 100 0 0 600 0 0 300 0 0 150 0 0 250 0 0 328 8 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 550 0 0 3,565 19 8 279 15 0 300 0 0 4,571 0 0 210 0 0 90 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 300 0 0 200 0 0 191 0 0 103 2 6 129 17 6 118 0 0 600 0 0 246 17 6 30 8 7 70 8 11 199 0 0 56 0 0 1,965 17 2 400 0 0 £ s. d. 200 0 0 125 0 0 208 10 6 50 0 0 150 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 400 0 0 100 0 0 31 5 0 100 0 0 198 5 0 300 0 0 7,307 17 11 100 0 0 250 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 200 0 0 75 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 70 0 0 400 0 0 400 0 0 2,070 0 0 100 0 0 300 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 527 8 2 100 0 0 600 0 0 110 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 130 0 0 500 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 250 0 0 100 0 0 600 0 0 300 0 0 150 0 0 250 0 0 328 8 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 550 0 0 3,565 19 8 279 15 0 300 0 0 4,571 0 0 210 0 0 90 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 300 0 0 200 0 0 191 0 0 103 2 6 129 17 6 318 0 0 600 0 0 246 17 6 30 8 7 70 8 11 199 0 0 56 0 0 1,965 17 2 400 0 0
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Locality and Nature of Works. Total Cost. Amount of Contribution paid by Mines Department. WOBKS WHOLLY CONSTEUCTED BY MlNBS DEPARTMENT —continued. Okarito Biver Bridge Drainage, Stafford Township Wangapeka Track, Rolling Biver-Kiwi Creek Tracks, Stewart Island Widening Lake Mapourika-Waiho Boad Boads, Great Barrier Riversdale-Waikaia Prospecting-track, Lyell-Larry's Track to New Find, Victoria Range Extending road into bush, Addison's .. •. Clearing rocks and easing curves, Nine- and Ten-mile Bluffs Bepairs flood-damages, South Westland Hungerford'a Bridge Waitangi Bluff Track Track from Cedar Creek Boad to Ford and Thompson's claim Repairs Mount Greenland Track Ross Road, towards Ranges Bepairs pack-track, Cedar Creek Kinsella's land, taken for Blackball Road Maratoto to mines Hatter's Terrace-Haupiri Upper Waiotahi Boad Inland from Omahu Gannon's to Painkiller .. .. • • ■ • Netherton Road Repairs, Tapu Creek Boad Bepairs, Karaka Creek Road.. Gravelling road through Mr. Adams's property Gravelling Onamalutu Track Boad to Fenian Creek, Karamea Westport and Mokihinui Railway-line to Jones's Creek Footbridge, Notovvn Creek Wood's Creek Bridge Maori Creek Bridge Main South Road to Mikonui Beaoh River-protection works, Te Aroha Drains, Maratoto Repair3, Mata Bridge .. .. • ■ ' • Boads, Tauranga County Re-metalling Wakamarina Road Pakawau Bush Road Scott's Creek Bridge Richmond-Collingwood Deadman's Creek-Christmas Terrace .. Denniston-Cascade Creek Big Totara River Bridge Little Totara River Bridge Twins Road Track up Four-mile and Nile Rivers Culverts, Devil's Creek Moonlight-Paparoa Footbridges, Cobden-Seven-mile Road Grey River-Moonlight Bridge, Brandy Jack's Creek Track up Ten-mile Creek Road, Cobden to Warren's and Ten-mile Bluff to Barry town Cape Terrace Road continuation Lake Brunner Boad to Maori Creek Hampden to Horse Terrace Track to Adamstown Brunnerton-Paparoa Waikupakupa Ocean Beach to Main Boad Totara Biver to Farmer's Creek Doughboy Road Widening and repairing Lamplough Track Extension, Gillam's Gully Track .. • • • • Adair's Track, Mahinapua Road Mahinapua and South Terrace Track Veronica Creek Track Waipori-Berwick Road Roxburgh-Clyde .. .. •■ Orepuki-Block I., Longwood.. Tableland horse-track Landing Creek Bridge Walker's Creek Bridge Greenstone-Teremakau Bell Hill Boad Bridge over Kanieri Biver Main South Road to Mikonui Beach Deviation, Larrikins Road Pine-tree Boad Wire Bridge, German Gully Track Road-formation, Waitekauri to Cross Road Bridge, Mariposa Battery Road £ s. d. 300 0 0 399 17 5 149 19 10 718 7 8 782 6 8 604 4 2 200 0 0 100 0 0 500 0 0 100 0 0 129 6 11 100 0 0 444 11 5 99 18 9 20 0 0 50 0 0 199 12 6 100 0 0 5 H 0 149 5 6 200 0 0 492 10 0 400 0 0 196 10 6 28 14 6 66 0 0 40 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 250 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 80 0 0 50 0 0 15 15 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 300 0 0 1,226 17 5 500 0 0 425 0 0 170 0 0 250 0 0 250 0 0 100 0 0 450 0 0 350 0 0 100 0 0 250 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 342 10 0 500 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 500 0 0 150 0 0 150 0 0 3,450 18 6 375 4 0 50 0 0 100 8 0 194 13 0 300 0 0 145 15 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 250 0 0 200 0 0 1,976 18 9 500 0 0 500 0 0 199 9 3 289 16 6 214 12 2 240 0 3 199 9 4 94 5 0 84 15 0 1,375 4 2 45 10 7 89 19 6 271 11 11 24 0 0 £ s. d. 300 0 0 399 17 5 149 19 10 718 7 8 782 6 8 604 4 2 200 0 0 100 0 0 500 0 0 100 0 0 129 6 11 100 0 0 444 11 5 99 18 9 20 0 0 50 0 0 199 12 6 100 0 0 5 11 0 149 5 6 200 0 0 492 10 0 400 0 0 196 10 6 28 14 6 66 0 0 40 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 250 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 80 0 0 50 0 0 15 15 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 300 0 0 1,226 17 5 500 0 0 425 0 0 170 0 0 250 0 0 250 0 0 100 0 0 450 0 0 350 0 0 100 0 0 250 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 342 10 0 500 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 500 0 0 150 0 0 150 0 0 3,450 18 6 375 4 0 50 0 0 100 8 0 194 13 0 300 0 0 145 15 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 250 0 0 200 0 0 1,976 18 9 500 0 0 500 0 0 199 9 3 289 16 6 214 12 2 240 0 3 199 9 4 94 5 0 84 15 0 1,375 4 2 45 10 7 89 19 6 271 11 11 24 0 0
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Locality and Nature of Works. Total Cost. Amount of Contribution paid by Minet Department. i VVoBKs wholly constructed BY Mines Depabtmbnt— continued. Crosbie Settlement Eoad Waitaia Battery-site to Low Level Repairs, Tauranga-Te Puke .. Rockville-Slate River Aorere Main Road, gravelling Ferntown footbridges and gravelling Swamp Road, Ferntown Clearing slips, Seventeen-mile Bluff Clearing slips, Nelson-Grey-Ross Road Bridges over Raleigh Creek (3) Hampden Cemetery to School-house, Murchison .. Squaretown Bridge over Little Grey River Berwick-Waipori, repairs Beaumont-Miller's Mat Track to Police Station, Seddonville Improving track, Sealer's Creek Kiripaka to Coal-mines Waiorongomai Road Tiki-Opitonui Taumatawahine Bridge Cemetery Road, Kuaotunu Tiki-Matawai Puriri-Tairua Beach Road, Thames .. .. .. .. ... Puru Creek Road Tararu Creek Bridge Turua-Netherton.. ... Te Aroha Bridge .. .. .. .. .. • Bartlett's Creek Road Mount Patriarch Road Takaka River Footbridge Karamea Track .. .. Bainham-Upper Aorere Shaggery Road Seddonville-Mokihinui Mine.. Seddonville-Mokihinui Mokihinui to Reefs, widening Mokihinui to Wanganui, improving Lyell-Victoria Range Nile Saddle-Maori Creek Seddonville-Cardiff Painkiller-Murray Creek Maruia Road and Track via Caslani's Little Grey River Bridge Improving crossings, Waitahu River and Road, up Kirwan's Creek Fagan's Creek, Barrytown, to Paparoa Nelson Creek Bridge Callaghan's Creek Bridge Mosquito-Maori Creek Deviation, Westbrook-Teremakau .. .. .. v . Bridge, Cobden-Brunner Road Moonlight Track, deviation Totara River to Constitution Hill Teremakau-Paroa Back Creek Road, deviation Blue Spur Creek Bridge Young Hill Greek Road Repairs to road between Sections 17 and 45, Waikaka Skippers-Bullendale Wangapeka-Wanganui Okuru River Ford Track Gillespie's Bluff Track Maori River Road Clifden Bridge, Waiau Whangamata Harbour to Wentworth Waiorongomai-Gordon Easing grade Kahika Hill Bartlett's Creek-Cat Point Bridges, Dead Horse and Walker's Creeks Black Creek Bridge Wharton's Dam to Deep Creek Piano Flat Company's Track Waikaia-Whitecomb (repairs) .. ... Mangles Bridge Karangarua Bridge Repairs Donnelly's Creek Bridge Waiau Bridge to Old Mill-site Donnelly's Bridge Sullivan's Creek Bridge Rings Road Bridge Railway-stations Roads Matatoke Outfall-drain Komata Reefs-Paeroa Grace Darling Road £ s. d. 50 0 0 50 0 0 25 2 6 51 0 0 60 0 0 48 0 0 30 0 0 150 0 0 115 0 0 324 10 0 345 1 6 75 0 0 75 0 0 250 0 0 37 19 2 49 12 8 80 0 0 150 0 0 250 0 0 300 0 0 100 0 0 45 0 0 1,135 14 6 100 0 0 400 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 250 0 0 449 4 7 200 0 0 250 0 0 250 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 920 0 0 500 0 0 600 0 0 450 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 844 7 6 188 0 0 400 0 0 450 0 0 425 0 0 950 0 0 250 0 0 100 0 0 450 0 0 125 10 0 140 0 0 123 1 0 250 0 0 200 0 0 29 8 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 2,324 17 2 342 18 8 151 14 1 149 19 6 1,115 3 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 75 0 0 200 0 0 25 0 0 75 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 4,323 4 8 J 448 13 6 440 1 3 150 0 0 136 10 0 164 0 0 325 0 0 500 0 0 100 0 0 500 0 0 392 0 0 £ s. d 50 0 0 50 0 0 25 2 6 51 0 0 GO 0 0 48 0 0 30 0 0 150 0 0 115 0 0 324 10 0 345 1 6 75 0 0 75 0 0 250 0 0 37 19 2 49 12 8 80 0 0 150 0 0 250 0 0 300 0 0 100 0 0 45 0 0 1,135 14 6 100 0 0 400 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 250 0 0 449 4 7 200 0 0 250 0 0 250 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 920 0 0 500 0 0 600 0 0 450 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 844 7 6 1H8 0 0 400 0 0 450 0 0 425 0 0 950 0 0 250 0 0 100 0 0 450 0 0 125 10 0 140 0 0 123 1 0 250 0 0 200 0 0 29 8 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 2,324 17 2 342 18 8 151 14 1 149 19 6 1,115 3 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 75 0 0 200 0 0 25 0 0 75 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 4,323 4 8 448 13 6 440 1 3 150 0 0 136 10 0 164 0 0 325 0 0 500 0 0 100 0 0 500 0 0
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Locality and Nature of Works. Total Cost. Amount of Contribution paid by Mines Department. Wobks wholly constkouted by Mines Depabtment — continued. Komata Greek Road Waifcekauri Creek Bridge Papamoa-Te Puke Tauranga-Te Pake Slate Rivet Road Motupipi Bridge Tracks, Wakamarina and Mahakipawa Aorere Bridge Promised Land-Ohinemuri Creek Fairdown to Beaoh Paparoa River Track Capleston-Larry's Blaokball-Paparoa .. .. .. .. Paroa-Teremakau Coal Creek Bridge Totara Flat Road Dowling Creek Bridge Granite Creek Bridge Blackball Road (improvements) Sunny Bight Track (widening) Callery Track and Wire Bridge Mikonui River approaches McKay's Creek Bridge Haast-Blue River Road Arawata Track Turnbull and Okuru Rivers Track Waitahuna-Bruce County boundary .. .. - Clyde-Ophir Nokomai Road Skipper's-Gallant Tip Beale's Hill Road deviation .. Gore-Waikaka Riversdale-Waikaia Charlton Road Orepuki-Shale-works Havelook-Mahakipawa Dee Creek Bridge Cook's River Flat (widening).. Galway-Blufi Track Kokotahi Road Donoghue's deviation Orepuki-Preservation Inlet Mason's Bay Track Granity Creek Bridge Mount Hercules deviation (Great South Road) Bridles Point-Deedwater Waitaia Mine to battery Gumtown Landing to post-office Repairs, track, Thames Road to McLaughlin's Maratoto Road Puriri-Neavesville Thames River-Whangamata Cullensville- Waikakaho Road to Golden Bar Mine Tuamarina-Kaituna Neudorf-Ngatimoti Graham River Bridge Takaka Bridge protective works Takaka Hill Road Cobden-Barrytown (repairs) Brown's Terrace-Kotuku Blackball footbridge approaches Twelve-mile Bluff-Fourteen-mile Bluff Cobden-Point Elizabeth Nelson Creek-Bell Hill Big River-Slatey Creek Big River-St. George Kanieri River Bridge Arrow-Matatapu Tiki-Kaimarama Mahakirau Goldfleld Road Tiki-Te Komumu Bridles Point-Deepwater Opitonui Bridge Blind Bay-Whangaparapara Omahu-Whangamata Upper Landing-Tairua Karaka Creek Road Hape Creek Road Lower Tairua-Broken Hill Hikutaia-Waihi Paeroa-Waitoa Waitekauri-Wharekiraupunga £ s. d. 150 0 0 160 0 0 275 0 0 400 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 46 16 6 87 8 6 400 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 415 0 0 1,686 10 0 825 0 0 538 0 0 100 0 0 175 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 400 0 0 100 0 0 270 12 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 300 0 0 200 0 0 250 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 400 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 191 5 1 538 3 10 396 13 6 147 15 10 451 2 5 229 18 6 3,388 9 4 150 9 6 431 12 0 1,119 4 6 250 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 199 13 10 349 10 0 200 0 0 55 0 0 83 3 6 184 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 150 0 0 150 0 0 1,572 0 0 100 0 0 250 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 250 0 0 100 0 0 249 14 0 30 15 0 100 0 0 785 10 0 198 19 3 250 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 844 1 5 1,539 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 3,125 0 0 1,835 13 4 98 8 6 £ s. d. 150 0 0 160 0 0 275 0 0 400 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 46 16 6 87 8 6 400 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 415 0 0 1,686 10 0 825 0 0 538 0 0 100 0 0 175 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 400 0 0 100 0 0 270 12 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 300 0 0 200 0 0 250 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 400 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 191 5 1 538 3 10 396 13 6 147 15 10 451 2 5 229 18 6 3,388 9 4 150 9 6 431 12 0 1,119 4 6 250 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 199 13 10 349 10 0 200 0 0 55 0 0 83 3 6 184 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 150 0 0 150 0 0 1,572 0 0 100 0 0 250 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 250 0 0 100 0 0 249 14 0 30 15 0 100 0 0 785 10 0 198 19 3 250 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 844 1 5 1,539 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 3,125 0 0 1,835 13 4 98 8 6
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Locality and Nature of Works. Total Cost. Amount of Contribution paid by Mines Department. Works wholly constbuoted by Mines Depabtment— continued. Roads, Netherton Mill Road Waitekauri-Hill Track Havelook-Tuamarina Bonny Doon Road Repairs, Kaituna Bridge Lloyd's Valley Road bridges .. Bainham-Uppar Aorere Valley Glenrae-Tadmor Brooklyn Valley Road Shaggery Koad Wilson's Lead Road Oparara River Road, Karamea Bradshaw'e Lead Road Karamea Mud Flat Road Lyell-Bight-mile (widening) Fenian Creek Track Karamea River Protective Works Coalbrookdale-Cedar Creek Charleston-Brighton Nile River Bridge, Charleston Brighton-Grey County boundary Deaciman's Creek, Brighton Caroline Terraoe Road .. .. .. .. ... Mulliky Creek-Karamea Lyell-Cedar Creek Murray Creek-Waitahu Snowy Creek-Reefs Black's Point Road (widening) Waipuna Road Blaokball Footbridge (Brunner-Moonlight Road) Barry town-Paparoa Eight-mile Creek Bridge Granville-Grey River Wataroa Bluff Traok Gillam's Gully Track Seven-mile Creek-Taipo Browning's Pass Track Middle Branch-Styx River Kumara Beach Road-Teremakau Lamplough Track Kanieri Forks Road Ogilvie's Beach Road Ross Cemetery Road Table Hill-Canada Reefs Lawrence-Clyde .. Beaumont-Rankleburn Clyde-Queenstown Gentle Annie-Clyde White's Reef-Fraser Basin Nevis Valley Road Hawea-Lindis Pass Cromwell Borough-Lowburn Alexandra Bridge Shotover River Track Dairy Creek-Coal-pits Queenstown-Gentle Annie Waimumu Claims Road .. Croydon dredging claims Glenary Bridge Garston-Nevis (Southland County) Colac-Round Hill.. ..." .. .. .. ... Picton-Grove Ross Creek Bridge.. Wangapeka-Kiwi Larry's Croek Bridge (extension) Belgrove-Westport-Reefton Glenroy Bridge Warwick-Maruia Bridge Inangahua Bridge.. Stafiord-Awatuna Stewart Island Road to Mines Roads, Preservation Inlet Tracks, Cromarty Roads, Stewart Island Lake Hochstetter Track Denniston Hill Road Ahaura Bridge Ahaura-Haupiri Ahaura-Orwell Creek Orwell Creek Bridge Deadman's Creek Bridge Saltwater Creek Bridge Great South Road.. Contingencies .. H s. d. 645 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 529 0 0 1,385 17 7 81 3 6 150 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 750 0 0 550 0 0 200 0 0 600 0 0 550 0 0 250 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 360 0 0 500 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 568 16 6 550 0 0 1,051 3 8 775 0 0 520 0 0 200 0 0 442 16 10 150 0 0 394 4 8 400 0 0 750 0 0 300 0 0 400 0 0 976 0 0 100 0 0 250 0 o 490 1 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 3,900 0 0 250 0 0 1,100 0 0 225 0 0 100 0 0 400 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 750 0 0 300 0 0 88 0 0 125 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 400 0 0 150 0 0 400 0 0 2,251 13 10 84 18 11 381 0 0 627 11 1 9,393 6 11 916 19 8 7 15 6 1,012 9 9 2,329 3 11 219 8 2 442 16 8 216 6 3 113 15 1 178 19 7 4,671 0 3 3,291 10 11 1,247 18 4 668 9 3 180 9 7 147 7 4 105 14 4 18,376 8 3 996 1 1 £ s. d. 645 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 529 0 0 1,385 17 7 81 3 6 150 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 750 0 0 550 0 0 200 0 0 600 0 0 550 0 0 250 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 360 0 0 500 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 568 16 6 550 0 0 1,051 3 3 775 0 0 520 0 0 200 0 0 442 16 10 150 0 0 394 4 8 400 0 0 750 0 0 300 0 0 400 0 0 976 0 0 100 0 0 250 0 0 490 1 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 3,900 0 0 250 0 0 1,100 0 0 225 0 0 100 0 0 400 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 750 0 0 300 0 0 88 0 0 125 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 400 0 0 150 0 0 400 0 0 2,251 13 10 84 18 11 381 0 0 627 11 1 9,393 6 11 916 19 8 7 15 6 1,012 9 9 2,329 3 11 219 8 2 442 16 8 216 6 3 113 15 1 178 19 7 4,671 0 3 3,291 10 11 1,247 18 4 668 9 3 180 9 7 147 7 4 105 14 4 18,376 8 3 996 1 1 326,347 17 9 ;326,347 17 9
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List of Works on Goldfields, &c.— continued.
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Locality and Nature of Works. Total Cost. Amount of Contribution paid by Mines Department. Roads to open up Mines other than Gold. Aniseed Valley to Champion Copper-mine Richmond Hill to copper-mine Track, Ohinemuri Coal-seam Road, Kanieri Coalfield £ s. d. 4,963 10 6 315 16 0 267 3 4 600 0 0 £ s. d. 4,116 10 e 209 4 0 133 11 8 300 0 0 6,146 9 10 4,759 6 2 Tracks to open up Mineral Lands. Glory Harbour to Kopack Port Pegasus Track Removing snags and felling timber, Mokau River Ngakawau Footbridge 50 0 0 155 7 6 40 0 0 80 0 7 50 0 0 155 7 6 40 0 0 80 0 7 325 8 1 325 8 1 Repairing Flood-damages. Thames Borough 500 0 0 500 0 0 Artesian-well Boring. Maniototo Plains 800 0 0 800 0 0 Prospecting Deep Levels. Thames-Hauraki Goldfields (Limited), Queen of Beauty shaft Thames-Hauraki Goldfields (Limited), Queen of Beauty shaft, Inspector's fee. 50,500 0 0 500 0 0 25,000 0 0 500 0 0 51,000 0 0 25,500 0 0 Resumption op Land for Mining. Resumption of J. Holmes's land at Kumara for a tailings-site Resumption of O'Neil and McCormack's land at Back Creek.. Purchase Cassrell and Bennett's leaseholds, Paeroa Township 300 0 0 562 7 0 2,250 0 0 300 0 C 562 7 0 2,250 0 0 3,112 7 0 3,112 7 0 Summary of Works. Roads (subsidised) — Bay of Islands County Coromandel County Te Aroha Town Board Thames County Thames Borough Ohinemuri County Waitoa Road Board Piako County Katikati Road Board Hutt County Marlborough County Waimea County Collingwood County Buller County Inangahua County Grey County Westland County Taieri County Lake County Tuapeka County Cromwell Borough Wallace County Vincent County Maniototo County Fiord County Waitaki County Southland County £ s. d. 2,092 0 0 18,886 3 9 334 0 0 13,554 15 11 3,491 19 2 87,257 17 9 200 0 0 22,348 2 3 507 19 6 959 16 6 1,715 4 0 1,459 8 8 2,681 1 8 11,338 1 4 17,552 14 8 20,119 4 0 10,558 15 6 499 15 0 7,145 6 1 14,695 7 8 500 0 0 1,309 6 0 1,532 0 0 518 10 0 300 0 0 41 12 0 2,355 0 0 £ s. d. 1,351 0 0 11,320 15 10 167 0 0 7,782 8 5 2,297 12 6 4,937 8 5 130 0 0 14,616 6 10 253 18 9 435 17 0 933 18 8 729 14 4 1,444 9 10 6,400 16 8 10,530 17 10 12,334 3 2 6,596 6 1 333 3 4 4,926 14 6 8,653 7 2 250 0 0 662 19 8 850 0 0 332 0 0 200 0 0 20 16 0 1,426 7 4 Diamond and other drills Wharves Aids to prospecting Water-races Drainage- and tailings-channels Aid towards treatment of ores Roads wholly constructed by Mines Department Roads to open up mines other than gold Tracks to open up mineral lands Repairing flood-damages Artesian-well boring, Maniototo Plains .. Resumption of land for mining Aid towards construction of telephone-lines Prospecting deep levels 243,954 1 5 5,170 11 4 435 15 9 77,018 9 10 33,368 14 0 31,744 5 0 2,257 10 1 326,347 17 9 6,146 9 10 325 8 1 500 0 0 800 0 0 3,112 7 0 60 0 0 51,000 0 0 99,918 2 4 3,428 11 4 285 15 9 28,843 6 9 29,983 1 8 21,405 10 7 1,657 10 1 326,347 17 9 4,759 6 2 325 8 1 500 0 0 800 0 0 3,112 7 0 50 0 0 25,500 0 0 782,241 10 1 546,916 17 6
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Return showing the Value of the Sales of Water, and Expenditure on, and Collateral Advantages derived from, the Working of the Water-races constructed and maintained by Government during the Year ending 31st March, 1902.
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Name of Water-race. Value of Sales of Water and Channel-fees. Expenditure on Maintenance. Profit or Loss. Cost of Construction. Total Cost of Construction Average Number of Men employed. Approximate Amount of Gold obtained. Value of Gold obtained. Average Weekly Earnings of Men after deducting Value of Sales of Water and Channel-fees. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. Oz. £ s. d. £ s. d. Waimea 729 6 3 838 18 7 109 12 4* 145,734 9 8 217,441 0 3 • 28-75 2,150 8,385 0 0 5 2 1 Kumara 2,250 12 2 1,706 10 0 544 2 2 49,741 12 5 46-08 4,504 17,565 12 0 6 8 2 Kumara Sludge-channel 21,964 18 2 Nelson Creek 90,722 10 8 Argyle 15,151 15 3 Mikonui 25,927 4 6 Mount Ida 1,210 15 0 1,396 15 9 186 0 9* i 70,418 9 10 " 58-4 1,889 7,272 13 0 70,918 4 10 ■ 2 0 0 Blackstone Hill 74 9 6 13 5 0 61 4 6 4-27 120 462 0 0 1 12 9 Callaghan's 203 12 6 145 13 2 57 19 4 6,027 15 6 6,027 15 6 8 510 1,989 0 0 4 6 9 Totals .. 4,468 15 5 4,101 2 6 367 12 11 293,887 5 7 426,188 11 0 9,173 35,674 5 0 Loss on -working.
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WARDEN'S COUET TABLES.
No. 1. Statement showing the Revenue of the Goldfields collected in the several Districts of the Colony of New Zealand, for the Period from the 1st January to the 31st December, 1901.
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District. Miners' Rights. Business Licenses, Machine and Residence Sites. Waterraces, Hluices, &c. Gold-mining Leases, Rents, Registraand tion. Royalties. Fees and Fines, Wardens' Courts. Miscellaneous. Totals. Auckland. Thames Te Aroha Coromandel Ohinemuri Puhipuhi Tauranga £ s. d. 326 15 0 46 5 0 85 10 0 289 10 0 £ s. d. 9 15 0 741 10 0 167 10 0 £ s. d. 2 0 0 21 10 0 £ s. d. 1,375 3 8 152 10 8 357 13 4 3,004 14 2 £ s. d. 30 9 0 8 14 0 12 11 0 74 11 0 £ s. d. 44 5 0 17 11 0 31 13 0 141 17 0 £ s. d. 53 9 0 15 7 6 177 5 11 819 6 6 £ s. d. 1,841 16 8 1,003 8 2 832 3 3 4,329 18 8 7 0 0 0 7 0 28' 4 0 0 9 0 0 15 0 2 3 0 38 18 C Totals .. 755 0 0 918 15 0 23 17 0 4,918 5 10 126 14 0 236 1 0 1,067 11 11 8,046 4 Nelson. Collingwood Westport Charleston Ahaura Wangapeka Eeefton Lyell and Murehison Motueka 33 15 0 110 5 0 56 10 0 160 0 0 12 0 0 119 0 0 32 5 0 2 j.5 0 2 5 0 282 19 8 1,184 5 2 133 19 11 1,220 11 1 58 1 6 1,210 9 2 548 6 6 3 10 0 0 17 0 2 3 0 30 10 0 13 8 0 51 7 0 4 17 0 164 2 3 63 9 6 265 2 5 21 4 6 543 13 2 2 16 473 1 8 94 1 6 397 2 2 1,614 11 7 218 14 5 2,121 1 6 72 3 0 1,834 6 10 682 13 6 0 8 6 0 14 0 0 3 0 30 13 6 7 15 6 0 2 0 5 15 0 3 10 8, 0 16 0 0 18 0 75 16 6 86 16 2 Totals 529 10 0 0 2 0 5 8 6 4,642 3 8 38 13 0 273 1 3 1,538 10 9 7,027 9 2 Mabdbobough. Havelock Blenheim 31 15 0 5 10 0 0 3 0! 0 15 0' 2 0 0 2 10 0 291 7 1 140 5 9 3 3 0 3 12 0 49 3 0 11 12 6 10 3 0 389 3 7 162 15 9 Totals 37 5 0 o is o: 4 10 0 431 12 10 6 15 0 49 3 0 21 15 6 - 551 19 4 Westland. Hokitika and Kanieri Greymouth Ross Stafford Kumara Okarito 89 10 0 1 231 15 0 ' 41 10 0 79 15 0 128 5 0 25 0 0 9 15 0 o"r> o i 7 15 0 17 6 0 15 0 ! 37 5 0 768 11 8 1,804 15 11 438 19 11 302 14 1 434 3 7 137 8 6 19 1 0 15 0 7 19 0 9 8 0 17 4 0 3 10 62 11 0 59 5 0 0 18 0 24 3 0 31 12 0 9 16 0 13 2 3 13,130 6 11 4 5 0 0 6 0 424 16 7 3 10 970 5 11 5,228 15 4 494 11 11 453 11 1 1,036 1 2 178 11 6 •■ I 0 5 0 Totals 595 15 0 10 0 0 i 47 7 6 3,886 13 8 57 18 0 188 5 0 3,575 17 9 8,361 16 11 Canterbury. Ashburton 2 10 0 0 5 0 50 0 0' 52 15 0 Otago. Tapanui Hindon Naseby Roxburgh \ Alexandra Clyde .. Black's j Pembroke Cromwell Queenstown Arrowtown Lawrence Waikaia Orepuki Riverton and Longwoocl Maerewhenua .. Wyndham Nenthorn Middlemarch Gore I 2 0 0 79 0 0 113 5 0 06 0 7 16 0 1 IS 0 22 12 6 26 16 0 75 4 8 617 5 9 0 10 0 18 0 13 18 0 0 14 0 3 2 0 37 9 0 2 0 0 40 3 9 29 11 0 162 5 3 852 10 0 149 0 0 10 5 0 13 0 0 2,304 14 3 30 4 0 60 13 6 25 7 3 2,593 4 0 6 0 0 126 15 0 82 15 0 56 0 0 150 5 0 6 10 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 10 0 10 0 2 12 6 3 7 6 2 0 0 1,225 2 1 1,061 9 1 742 1 8 1,103 14 10! 286 15 6 6 11 2 761 12 1 0 10 31 1 0 17 8 0 11 4 0 0 10 47 15 0 33 8 0 17 4 0 24 1 0 26 19 0 20 14 0 12 9 0 99 5 9 99 4 6 27 9 0 62 13 9 31 9 9 12 15 0 50 6 10 8 11 0 1,536 19 10 1,298 17 1 859 6 2 1,340 15 7 345 4 3 40 0 2 865 12 11 4l"5 0 5 0 0 152 4 6 0 6 0 1 12 0 4 12 0 163 14 6 2 - 0 0 2 5 0 22'l5 7 270 0 2 0 4 0 1 19 0 14 0 5 17 0 6"6 9 26 3 7 286 7 11 Totals 815 10 0 28 8 0 44 17 6 8,658 6 11 107 5 0 293 1 6 461 14 4 10,409 3 3 Grand totals .. 2,735 10 0 958 3 0 1126 0 6 22,587 2 11 337 5 0 1,039 11 9 6,665 15 3 :34,449 8 5
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No. 2. Statement showing the Revenue of the Goldfields collected in the several Districts of the Colony of New Zealand, for the Period from 1st January to 31st March, 1902.
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District. Miners' Eights. Business Licenses, Machine and Residence Sites. Waterraces, Sluices, &o. Gold-mining Leases, Rents, and Realties. Registration. Fees and Pines, Wardens' Courts. Miscellaneous Totals. Auckland. Coromandel Te Aroha Ohinemuri Thames Puhipuhi Tauranga £ S. d. 18 15 0 6 0 0 38 0 0 83 0 0 £ s. d. 35 10 6 114 0 0 £ s. d. 6 10 0 £ a. a. 141 1 0 33 13 10 1,261 11 2 344 10 1 £ s. d. 2 5 0 I 0 17 0 £ s. a. 8 J6 0 2 8 0 30 7 0 10 3 0 I £ s. d. ! 54 2 1 0 4 6 128 4 0 67 11 1 £ s. d. 260 9 7 163 13 4 1,458 2 2 517 12 2 0 10 0 0 5 0 11 13 0 3 15 0 0 7 0 4 16 3 0 3 0 0 16 0 1 12 0 11 9 3 Totals 149 10 0 150 0 6 7 2 0 1,785 12 4 14 18 0 52 10 0 251 13 8 2,411 6 6 Nelson. Motueka Collingwood Westport Charleston Ahaura Reef ton Wangapeka Lyell and Murchison Totals 0 10 0 5 10 0 24 15 0 11 15 0 24 0 0 58 0 0 1 10 0 14 15 0 0 2 6 0 17 6 0 4 0 3 15 0 153 1 10 222 9 5 26 17 9 441 3 9 692 0 8 0 12 0 •060 0 18 0 5 13 0 3 0 0 14 2 0 1 14 0 22 7 8 8 17 6 11 6 6 15 10 0 2 10 23 6 7 88 19 8 4 17 0 172 18 4 277 4 11 43 5 9 517 8 6 848 1 10 1 10 0 241 7 6 0 2 0 197 7 6 2 9 0 26 14 0 52 10 2 167 17 9 2,106 13 10 140 15 0 0 2 0 14 0 1,736 15 11 7 9 0 Marlbobough. Havelook Blenheim 3 0 0 10 0 0 5 0 51 8 10 74 5 10 0 2 0 0 17 0 10 0 0 10 0 2 5 0 56 5 10 78 7 10 Totals 4 0 0' ! 0 5 0 125 14 8 0 19 0 10 0 2 15 0 134 13 8 Westland. Hokitika and Ka- , nieri I 25 0 0 0 5 0 243 5 5 4 16 0 14 1 0 115 288 8 10 Greymouth Boss Stafford.. Okarito .. Kumara 63 0 0 10 15 0 22 10 0 5 15 0 50 0 0 0 10 0 3 15 0 823 10 1 I 138 15 1 78 7 5 17 3 4 135 19 10 3 11 6 0 10 0 0 8 0 10 8 0 15 1 0 0 6 0 3 14 0 3 8 0 5 14 0 1,353 5 11 0 5 0 2,254 17 0 154 2 7 108 16 5 26 14 4 259 9 6 57 7 8 Totals .. 177 0 0 ; 4 io o 1,437 1 2 19 13 6 42 4 0 1,412 0 0 3,092 8 8 Canterbury. Ashburton 0 10 0 0 10 0 Otago. Middlemarch Tapanui Hindon Naseby Black's .. J Alexandra Clyde .. Roxburgh j Cromwell Queenstown Arrowtown Lawrence Orepuki Riverton and Longwood Pembroke Maerewhenua Waikaia Nenthorn Wyndham Gore 0 5 0 6 10 0 17 5 0 41 0 0 12 15 0 13 15 0 55 0 0 18 15 0 2 12 0 0 5 0 0 10 3 10 0 5 10 0 0 15 0 2 5 0 0 10 0 17 9 6 29 17 6 146 11 0 1,000 14 9 371 7 1 166 10 4 188 9 5 476 12 0 2 4 1 104 0 9 0 10 0 2 0 8 14 0 12 3 0 2 4 0 5 5 0 0 10 0 2 0 2 2 0 13 2 0 16 16 0 8 17 0 8 10 0 2 3 0 7 4 0 16 0 2 6 0 0 10 0 23 9 3 5 0 0 14 4 0 1 18 0 9 15 6 4 9 6 2 3 0 7 10 0 13 0 17 14 6 39 1 6 206 9 3 1,077 19 9 419 7 1 192 17 4 261 7 11 509 7 6 5 13 1 118 17 9 0 10 5 10 0 0 15 0 0 10 0 0 2 0 17 0 79 '3 9 3 ~8 0 512 0 88"'3 9 0 10 0 0 5 0 o io o 13'0 5 126 17 6 0 3 0 0 5 0 0 18 0 1 18 0 15**1 5 129 5 6 Totals 172 5 0 2 19 0 13 0 0 2,723 8 1 29 0 0 68 12 0 74 2 3 3,083 6 4 Grand totals .. 644 0 0 153 1 6 26 1 0 7,808 12 2 71 19 6 216 16 2 1,908 8 8 10,828 19 0
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No. 3. Comparative Return of Revenue derived from the Goldfields in the several Districts of New Zealand during the Years 1900 and 1901, showing Increase or Decrease under each Head of Revenue.
District. , r . , Business BUSS! Li Te SeS ' Waterraces, Sluices, &o. Gold-mining Leases, Rents, and Royalties. Feesand Regis- Fines, Miscel- Gold tration. Wardens' laneous. Duty. Courts. Totals. Auckland— £ £ & £ £ £ £ £ £ Year 1901 755 919 24 4,950 127 236 1,068 18,567 26,646 Year 1900 958 1,436 14 3,772 101 74 1,340 16,905 24,600 Increase 10 1,178 26 162 11,662 2,040 Decrease 203 517 272 Nelson— 530 4,642 39 273 1,589 7,028 Year 1901 5 Year 1900 765 14 28 3,844' 65 260 2,404 7,380 Increase 798 13 Decrease .. 235 14 23 26 865 352 Marleoeough— 37 432 49 22 553 Year 1901 1 5 7 Year 1900 47 1 4 320 6 6 10 394 Increase .. 1 112 1 43 12 159 Decrease 10 Canterbury— 50 53 Year 1901 8 ' Year 1900 13 110 1 124 Increase Decrease 10 60 1 71 Wbstland — 596 10 47 3,887 58 188 3,575 8,361 Year 1901 Year 1900 856 1 19 5,543 63 166 2,728 9,376 Increase 9 28 22 847 Decrease 260 1,656 5 1,015 Otago— 815 28 45 107 293 462 Year 1901 8,658 10,408 Year 1900 1,143 88 49 7,109 143 380 1,508 10,420 Increase 1,549 Decrease 328 60 4 36 87 1,046 12 Total increase . . 12 1,921 152 i,e62 755 Total decrease . . 1,046 582 40 1,324
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No. 4. Comparative Return of the Total Amounts of Goldfields Revenue (exclusive of Gold Duty) collected in the several Districts during the Years 1900 and 1901 and the Quarters ending 31st March, 1901 and 1902 respectively, showing the Increase or Decrease in respect of each District.
No. 5. Return of Gold Duty credited to Local Bodies for the Year ended 31st December, 1901, and Quarter ended 31st March, 1902.
The Treasury, Wellington, 11th June, 1902,
Bobeet J. Collins, Accountant to the Treasury.
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Years 1900 and 1901. |uan iers em ling March, 1902. ., am [arc] 1900. 1901. Increase. Decrease. 1901. 1902. Increase. Decrease. Auckland. Coromandel Te Aroha Thames Puhipuhi Ohinemuri Tauranga £ 848 967 2,006 134 3,736 4 £ 832 1,003 1,842 £ "36 £ 16 164 134 £ 226 176 549 46 1,293 27 £ 260 164 518 £ 34 £ 12 31 46 4J330 39 594 35 1,458 11 165 "l6 Nelson. 59 442 1,855 217 2,696 1,490 28 593 87 393 1,615 219 2,121 1,834 72 683 28 4 116 613 61 739 680 2 234 5 173 277 43 517 848 2 241 1 57 Motueka Collingwood Westport Charleston Ahaura Reefton Wangapeka Lyell and Murchison 2 344 44 90 49 240 575 336 18 222 168 7 Mablbobough. Havelook Blenheim 394 389 163 ' 163 5 158 56 78 "78 102 Westland. Hokitika .. 1 Kanieri .. j Greymouth Ross Stafford and Goldsborough Okarito Kumara 1,215 5,011 804 726 569 1,051 970 5,229 495 454 179 1,036 218 245 309 272 390 15 364 1,041 135 154 34 400 288 2,255 154 109 27 259 1,214 19 76 45 7 141 Canteebuby. Ashburton 124 53 71 1 1 Otago. 224 1,029 162 853 62 176 53 194 39 206 14 Hindon Naseby Alexandra .. 1 Black's Clyde Roxburgh .. J Cromwell Arrowtown Queenstown Pembroke Lawrence Waikaia Tapanui Orepuki, Preservation, ] Longwood, and River- L ton J Wyndham Middlemarch "l2 2,922 2,593 329 963 1,078 115 1,725 387 1,071 15 1,173 451 35 1,537 859 1,299 9 1,341 345 30 472 228 188 506 72 383 2 510 93 11 419 212 193 1 509 88 18 140 87 168 6 190 1 1 5 i.06 5 7 908 906 2 255 225 30 132 50 298 164 26 286 32 "24 12 48 1 148 15 1 129 33 Gore "l9 Totals 35,389 34,448 2,454 3,395 10,292 10,877 2,017 1,432 Net decrease .. 941 Net increase 585 * Fees for miners' ri; fhts •educed from 10s. to 5s.
Local Body. For the Year ended 31st December, 1901. For the Quarter ended 31st March, 1902. 'OUNTIES — Coromandel Ohinemuri Piako .. Tauranga Thames Whangarei Sokoughs— Thames Waihi .. £ s. d. 1,054 4 10 15,849 0 8 66 3 7 2 4 5 926 15 6 0 0 3 £ s. d. 249 16 5 2,832 18 10 17 6 2 3 5 230 18 9 668 19 5 140 1 0 1,313 4 0 Totals .. 18,567 8 8 4,770 9 11
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No. 6. Return of the Quantity and Value of Gold entered for Duty* for Exportation from New Zealand from 1st April, 1857, to 31st December, 1901.
No. 7. Comparative Return of the Quantity and Value of Gold entered for Duty for Exportation from New Zealand for the Years ended 31st December, 1901 and 1900.
Department of Trade and Customs, W. T. GLASGOW, Wellington, 4th February, 1902. Secretary and Inspector.
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Produce of the Goldfields in d using the Quarter ended 31st December, 1901. Entered foe Exportation to the 30th September, 1901. Total enti Exportation Zealand 31st Decem: :red foe from New TO THE 3ER, 1901. County or Borough. District. Quantity. Value. Quantity. Value. Quantity. Value. County of Tauranga .. „ Thames „ Ohinemuri.. „ Coromandel Piako Borough of Thames .. Great Barrier Island .. -Auckland Oz. 22 2,363 48,041 4,472 205 1,347 1,020 £ 94 9,866 168,772 18,898 863 5,687 3,616 Oz. Oz. £ 10,512,866 57,470 207,796 2,749,962 10,305,070 2,807,432 County of Marlborough Wellington 188 706 188 706 Marlborough 87,053 339,075 87,053 339,075 County of Collingwood » Waimea I Nelson J 1,868 73 7,742 310 1,684,267 6,676,307 1,686,208 6,684,359 County of Buller Inangahua.. Grey „ Westland .. Borough of Kumara .. „ Hokitika .. Ross 1,941 8,052 ) [-West Coast ( ■I 2,905 15,238 8,190 5,440 11,630 60,915 32,727 21,760 18,528,282 "l26 518 504 2,072 County of Ashburton .. Canterbury 32,417 129,608 4,624,461 18,398,674 4,656,878 6 22 91 358 97 380 County of Taieri Tuapeka „ Vincent „ Maniototo .. „ Waiherao .. Waitaki , Lake Wallace , Waikouaiti .. „ Bruce Clutha Fiord Southland .. , Stewart Island 386 8,975 10,963 1,795 961 374 1,407 2,887 1,563 36,222 43,925 7,197 3,879 1,516 5,707 11,616 .Otago 23,093,391 511 2,052 26 4,778 104 19,351 33,063 133,132 5,793,336 22,960,259 5,826,399 I Totals . Unknown 207 824 207 824 124,897 478,610 14,939,565 58,681,273 15,064,462 59,159,883 • Gold duty abolished iu the South Islaud on the 31st March, 1891, by " Tni Gold Duty Abolition Act, 1890."
Peoduce OF THE Goldfields DUEING THE Q fAETEE ENDED — Totals fob Year 1901. Totals fo: YEAB 1900. in THE DlSTEICT OF 31st March, 30th June, 1901. 1901. 30th Septem- 31st December, 1901. ber, 1901. Quantity. Value. Quantity. Value. Luckland larlborough.. kelson Vest Coast .. Janterbury .. Hago Oz. 34,979 56 3,578 35,865 5 40,800 Oz. 47,555 556 21,742 7 32,335 Oz. 51,964 77 1,137 23,262 4 36,742 Oz. 57,470 1J941 32,417 6 33,063 I Oz. 191,968 133 7,212 113,286 22 142,940 £ 695,551 513 28,138 454,006 83 575,492 Oz. 166,342 535 3,718 73,923 23 129,075 £ 605,398 2,147 14,605 295,733 90 521,629 totals for 1901 115,283 102,195 113,186 124,897 455,561 1,753,783 'otals for 1900 95,923 83,380 105,326 88,987 f 373,616 1,439,602
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No. 8. Return of the Quantity and Value of Gold entered for Duty* for Exportation from New Zealand from 1st April, 1857, to 31st March, 1902.
No. 9. Comparative Return for the Quarters ended 31st March, 1902, and 31st March, 1901.
Department of Trade and Customs, W. T. GLASGOW, Wellington, 28th April, 1902. Secretary and Inspector.
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Produce of the Goldfields in During the Quaetee ended 31st Mae., 1902. Entered for Exportation to the 31st December, 1901. Total entered foe Expobtation fbom New Zealand to the 31st Mar., 1902. County or Borough. District. Qu'ntity Value. Quantity. Value. Quantity. Value. County of Tauranga „ Thames Ohinemuri .. „ Coromandel.. Piako Borough of Thames Waihi -Auckland I Oz. 22 2,319 25,869 2,498 14 1,018 13,132 £ 90 9,494 91,036 10,528 57 4,226 45,155 Oz. Oz. £ 10,673,452 Wellington 44,872 160,586 2,807,432 10,512,866 2,852,304 County of Marlborough 188 706 188 706 Marlborough 200 800 87,053 339,075 87,253 339,875 County of Collingwood .. Waimea [ Nelson 1 573 i " 2,293 l 1,686,208 6,684,359 1,686,781 6,686,652 County of Buller Inangahua .. Grey Westland Borough of Kumara Hokitika „ Ross -West Coast 3,073 10,405 7,584 4,946 12,313 41,621 30,338 19,783 18,636,384 49 963 194 3,853 J . County of Ashburton .. Canterbury 27,020 108,102 4,656,878 18,528,282 4,683,898 97 380 99 387 County of Taieri Tuapeka Vincent Maniototo .. Waihemo Waitaki Lake Wallace Waikouaiti .. Bruce Clutha Fiord Southland .. Stewart Island Borough of Mataura Otago 215 6,147 7,513 2,607 889 416 1,294 1,607 377 4 875 24,877 30,017 10,486 3,598 1,662 5,267 6,440 16 23,198,302 31954 16!005 l|037 4,148 26,060 104,911 5,826,399 23,093,391 5,852,459 Totals Unknown 207 824 207 824 98,727 [376,699 15,064,462 59,159,883 15,163,189 59,536,582 * Gold duty abolished in the South Island on 31st March, 1891, by " The Gold Duty Abol: ition Act, 1890."
Quarter ended list March, 1902. Quarter ended list March, 1901. District of Quantity. Value. Quantity. Value. Luckland larlborough .. Telson Vest Coast Janterbury )tago Tnknown Oz. 44,872 200 573 27,020 2 26,060 £ 160,586 800 2,293 108,102 7 104,911 Oz. 34,979 56 3,578 35,865 5 40,800 £ 127,639 205 13,313 143,786 19 165,138 Totals 98,727 376,699 115,283 450,100
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No. 10. Statement showing the Price of Gold per Ounce, Price charged per Ton for crushing Quartz or Cement, and Prices charged for Water per Sluice-head per Week, during the Year ending 31st December, 1901.
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Mining District. Price of Gold per Ounce. Price charged per Ton for crushing Quartz or Cement. Price charged for Water per Sluicehead per Week. Remarks. .ucKLAND —Thames .. South Hauraki Ohinemuri £ s. d. 2 16 0 2 13 0 4 4 0 £ s. d. 0 5 6 0 6 0 £ s. d. £3 to £4 No public batteries; no water sold. Te Aroha Puhipuhi Tauranga £2 10s. to £3. 7s. to 8a. None sold on field. No mines crushing. Iablbobough—Havelock Blenheim 3 17 0 3 15 0 1 0 0 Ielson — Wangapeka Motueka Charleston Inangahua Collingwood Takaka Westport Murchison Lyell .. .. I £3 10s. to £3 16s. 3 13 0 3 19 0 £3 18s. to £4 4s. 3 16 0 3 14 6 3 19 0 0 16 2 5 0 3 18 0 0 10 0 Vestland —Hokitika, Kanieri, and) Waimea .. J Totara and Ross Stafford Greymouth Kumara 8 18 0 2 10 0 40 in. 3 18 0 3 18 0 3 18 0 3 18 0 0 12 0 1 10 0 0 10 0 1 10 0 20 in. by 2 in. opening. Sluice, 20in. by 2ia. Ahaura Okarito .. £3 18s. to £3 19s. 3 18 0 0 12 6 0 10 0 Itaoo — Hindon Tuapeka.. Longwood Preservation and Waiau .. 3 16 6 3 17 6 3 10 6 £3 16s. 6d. to £3 18s. 6a. 3 18 6 3 17 6 3 0 0 Orepuki and Round Hill .. Arrow (Wakatipu Goldfield) and Queenstown Mount Ida .. j Macrae's, Hyde .. Hamilton, Serpentine ) Maerewhenua 8s. to 10s. 5s. to 7s. £3 17s. to £3 17s. 6d. 10 0 40 in. by 1 in. 3 17 0 10 0 20 in. by 2 in., 4 in. pressure. Cromwell Waikaia Tapanui Wyndham Roxburgh .. ) Clyde and Alexandra Black's .. .. J Gore 3 17 0 3 17 6 3 15 0 £3 16s. to £3 18s. 0 8 0 0 4 0 1 15 0 3 17 6 J Water used by owners. 4 0 0
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No. 11. Return showing the Average Prices of Provisions and Live-stock for the Year ending 31st December, 1901.
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LlVH-STOCK. Meat. Mining District. •a I 14 i 1 I o li a x! o o o J GO i ° O ex 02 d i o 4)' a i 4> I (3 I 'cfi Sβ : 1 I l : I Per 1001b. Per Im. ' bushel. Per head. I Per head. Per head. Per head. i I Per head. i Per lb. Per lb. 1 I Per qt. Per lb. Per lb. Per. hhd. i Per gall.j ! Per lb. Per lb.! ! Per lb. Per lb. Perlb. Per! lb. Per lb. Per gallon. Per lb. Per lb. Auckland — South Hauraki Ohinemuri North Hauraki .. Tauranga Te Aroha Puhipuhi Mablboeodgh — Blenheim Havelock Nelson — Wangapeka Collingwood Takaka Inangahua Lyell .. 1 Murchison .. } Westport Charleston Ahaura Westland — Stafford .. 1 Waimea .. f Hokitika and Kanieri Boss Okarito Kumara Greymouth Otago — Hindon Tuapeka Tapanui Cromwell Clyde .. ] Alexandra Eoxburgh Black's .. J Queenstown Wyndham Arrow (Wakatipu Goldfield) Mount Ida Nenthom Waikaia Orepuki and Longwood .. Maerewhenua Gore .. 90/ 96/ 90/ 84/ 90/ 150/ 27/ 23/ 25/ 32/ 40/ 40/ d. 14 14 14 14 14 3 /9 1/ 1/ /8-1/ 1/ 1/ /10 /6 /7 /S-/8 /6 /6. 1/10 1/10 2/ 1/8 2/ 2/ 10/6 10/6 11/ 9/ 10/ 13/ 4/ 4/6 3/6 3/ 3/ 4/ £ 6 7-10 6 7 12/ 10/6 9 10 9 3-30 20 7 ,15/ 10/ 12/6 8/-12/ 10/ 10/ 40/ 20/ 20/ 8/-30/ 15/ 30/ . d. 5 5 4 4-7 4 5 d. 4 4 4 4 4 3 d. 6 6 6 4-6 4 6 a. 3 3 4 3 3 4 d. 34 3 3 3 2 4 d. 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 3 3 3 d. 3 3 3 I 24 3 2/6 1/10 2/ 1/-2/6 1/6 2/ 6/ 8/ 6/ 5/6 5/ 6/ 15/-20/ 16/6 17/6 25/ 30/ 10/ '/8 /10 10/ 10/ 90/ 90/ 27/6 28/ 1 2 1/ 1/ /10 /10 /6 /8 1/9 J 2/ 8/3 11/3 8/ 4/6 7 2-6 10-25 5-40 14/ 6/-12/ 30/-40/ 4 * 6 ! 34 6 5 5 4 4 3 3 1 1 3 i 24| 3 2 4 ! 2/ 2/ 5/3 6/ 16/6 20/ 105/ 90/ 90/ 50/ 26/ 25/ 2 2 2 If /8 /10 v /6 /6 /10| /8 /8 /8 1/8 1/10 1/9 2/ 11/ 8/ 8/ 9/ 2/8 3/6 3/3 6/6 4-5 4 3-6 7/10/0 15-30 10-25 10-50 7-70 12/6 12/-15/ 18/ 15/-40/ 15/ |35/ cwt. 50/ 4 4 4 3 24 6 5 5 4 5 4 4 3 5 4 3 3 1 1 1 1 3 3 3 I 3.' 2/6-3/ 2/4 1/-1/9 2/ 7/-8/ 6/ 6/ 5/6 16/ 7/ 15/-20 10/ 110/ 85/ 81/ 96/ 26/ 30/ 26/ 25/ 2i If 14 14 1/2 1/1 1/ 1/8 /nj /9 1/ 1/ /8 /6 /"? /9 2/ 2/ ! 2/ : 1/6 12/6 9/6 10/6 15/ 5/' 5/ 5/10/0 7 5 6-9 7/6 15/ 5/ 20/-30/ 2 30 15/ 10-60 16/6 20/ 12/ 10/-22/6; 40/ 40/ 40/ ;30/-120/ 5 64 5 6 4 5 6 6 6 6 6 4 6 6 4 3 4 4 2 1 1 2 3 3 3 i 2/ 1/9 1/10 2/ 6/ 6/ 6/ 6/6 20/ 25/ 16/ 18/ 50/ 80/ 110/ 30/ 25/ 24/6 89/ 23/6 25/ 14 if 14 3 2 14 1/ 1/ 1/3 1/3 1/3 1/ v i /to i/ 1/3 1/ /8 /8 /8 /9 1/9 1/3 1/6-2/ 1/9 1/6 1/9 ; 12/ 15/ 19/6 15/ 15/ 9/6 5/ 6/ 7/ 5/ 3/3 8 4-7 7-10 6 5-10 4-8 5/ 5/' 17 6-20 10-60 15 8-30 9-45 20/ 12/-16/I 17/6 12/6 i 18/ 13/ 40/ !6'0/-100/ 50/ 6 6 5-8 5 6 4-7 5 6 5-7 I 5 6 3-5 6 7 8 4 4 5 6 6 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 I 2 3 14 li ■ 2 i 3 ! 2/ 2/ 2/-2/6 2/6 2/-3/ 2/ 6/ 5/6 6/ 6/6 5/ 24/ 16/ 15/ 30/ 22/ 16/6 85/ 90/ 10/ 40/-100/ 21/-67/ 7 6 90/ 26/ 14 li 24 1/2 1/2 /9 1/3 /6-/8 /10 /6 1 is /6 /6 /8 2/3 1/10 10/ S/ 9/ 8/6 1/11-2/6 2/6 2/ 2/6 5-8 5 1-10 9 12-40 10-30 5-40 10-60 12/-16/ 10/ 5/-22/6 20/ 17/-30/ 20/-40/ 10/-40/ 40/ 6 5 6 7 44 3 S 6 ! 5-6 6 6 ! 4 4 3 3 4 24 3 4 3 i 14 3J 34| 2/3 2/ 1/10-3/ 2/ 5/6 5/6 6/ 5/6 18/ 18/ 18/ 100/ 27/ .. 120/ 28/ li 1/ /9 1/9 12/ 5/ 50/-120/ 7-40 5/-20/ ! 40/ 7 5 2 14 3 2/ 51-71 22/ 90/ 100/ 90/ 30/ 28/ 30/ i| 14 if 1/ 1/ /10 /10 /8 /8 1/9 ! 1/9 I 1/9 10/ 8/6 10/ 2/6 2/6 2/6 50/-60/ ! 5 io7 25 10-45 25 10/ 12/ 10/ 30/ 50/ 30/ 6 4-6 6 1 4 ;24-3 4 6 5 6 4 4 4 3 3 3 l l i 3 ! 3 3 2/ 1/8-2/6 2/ 6/6 5/ 6/6 20/ 22/6 20/ 100/-180/ 30/-40/ 4-11 1/-1/3 1/ /10 /9 /8 /10-1/3 /6-/8 1/6-2/6 8/-10/ S/-3/6 6-6/10/0 10/ 10-40 10/-14/ 59/-60/ 5-6 4-6 6 4 3 14 2J-4J 1/3-2/ 51-6/ 21/-24/ 20/ 27/-60/ 90/ 90/ 30/ 33/ if 2 If If /10 /lO /6 /9 /6 /6 2/ 2/ 2/ 13/ 9/ 14/ 8/ 3/4 3/ 3/9 2/ 4-7 10 0 5-12 3/10/0 6 25'/ 10-27 8-20 15 25 10/-13/ 8/-20/; 6/-8/ 12/ 20/-48/ 20/-40/ 30/ 40/ 4-7 6 4 3 4-7 5 i 3 3 6 7 34 3| 4 3 3 34 4 3 2 2 1 14 1 4 ! 3 ! I 3; 3j: 2/-3/6 1/-2/6 2/ 2/4 6/ 5/6 6/ 5/6 100/ 28/ 18/
No. 12. Table showing the Average Rate of Wages per Week for the Year ending 31st March, 1902.
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Mining District. General Managers. Legal Managers. [ Mining Managers. \ Engineers. Enginedrivers. Stokers. Blacksmiths. Carpenters. .Miners. Labourers. Boys. Chinese. Agricultural Labourers. Domestic Servants. ' Auckland — North Hauraki South Hauraki .. . Tβ Aroha Ohinemuri .. ,. , Tauranga .. .. j £ s. d. 6 0 0 £500 to £1000 10 0 0 :£150to£1200| £ s. d. 2 5 0! £1 to £2 £1 to £2 £ s. a. 4 0 0 £3 to £5 5 0 0 £4 to £8 3 0 0 £ s. d. 3 0 0 £3 to £3 10 £ s. d. 2 15 0 2 14 0 £ 8. a. 2 8 0 2 8 0 £ S. d. 2 14 0 2 8 0 3 0 0 3 0 0 £2 8 to £2 14 £ s. d. 2 14 0 3 0 0 2 18 6 3 0 0 J 3 0 0 1 £ s. d. 2 8 0 2 5 0 2 8 0 £2 7 to £3 2 8 0 £ s. d. 2 5 0 2 2 0 2 8 0 2 2 0 1 16 0 £ s. d. 1 10 0 5/ to 30/ £ s. d. £ s. d. 1 16 0 1 16 0 10/ 5/ to 10/ £4 to £6 £2/8 to £3 2 *8 0 1 10 0 10/ to 15/ ■ • i"o o 10 0 5/ to 12/6 7/6 to 10/ .. Maklbobough — Havelcck Blenheim 2 0 0 3 10 0 £3 to £4/10 2 14 0 2 8 0 2 14 0 2 14 0 2 14 0 2 14 0 £2 14 to £3 2 8 0 2 8 0 ! 2 2 0 2 8 0 0 10 6 1 16 0 ; £1 to £1 5 12/ 10/ to 12/6 Nelson — Collingwood Takaka Inangahua Charleston Westport Lyell .. Ahaura .. .. Murchison I ■" 1 10 0 £1 to £2 o io o 5 0 0 4 10 0 £4 to £10 5 0 0 4 0 0 4 10 0 £3/10 to £4 " 4 0 0 I 5 0 0 3 0 0 2 10 0 4 0 0 3 12 0 3 0 0 3 10 0 3 0 0 3 10 0 2 8 0 3 0 0 3 0 0 2 8 0 2 15 0 2 10 0 2 15 0 3 0 0 2 10 0 £3 10 to £4 3 10 0 3 0 0 3 10 0 3 10 0 3 5 0 3 0 0 2 14 0 £3 10 to £4 3 10 0 3 12 0 3 5 0 3 12 0 3 0 0 £2 14 to £3 2 8 0 £2 17 to £3 3 0 0 2 14 0 2 15 0 2 10 0 2 15 0 £2 8 to £3 I 2 2 0 2 11 0 2 14 0 2 8 0 2 0 0 1 10 0 2 0 0 £1 16 to £2 2 15/ana found 1 10 0 15/and found 10 0 10 0 0 15 0 10 0 2 2 0 £1 to £1 5 £1 5 & found 8/ to 12/ 8/ 5/ to 15/ 10/andfoum 10/-15/ fount 10/ 7/ to 15/ 10/ £6 to £8 2 0 0 4 "6 0 £3 10 to £4 3 15 0 0 15 0 0 15 0 1 10 0 Westland — Wairnea and Stafford .. ] Hokitika and Kanieri .. I Boss .. .. I Kumara .. .. j Greymouth .. Okarito .. 6 0 0 4 10 0 ! 6 0 0 1 15 0 15 0 2 0 0 £1 to £2 5 0 0 £4 to £5 5 0 0 j 4 0 0 £4 to £6 4 0 0 3 10 0 : 4 o o 4 0 0 3 10 0 £3 to £5 4 0 0 2 10 0 3 10 0 3 0 0 3 0 0 3 0 0 2 0 0 2 10 0 2 10 0 3 0 0 3 0 0 4 0 0 £3 to £3 10 I £3 to £3 15 3 0 0 3 0 0 3 12 0 I 3 12 0 £3 to £4 10/ to 14/ a day 3 0 0 2 10 0 3 0 0 3 0 0 3 0 0 £2 10 to £3 2 14 0 2 10 0 2 10 0 2 10 0 2 8 0 7/ to 10/ a day 2 10 0 0 10 0 10 0 1 10 0 10 0 8/ to 20/ 2 0 0 £1 10 to £2 10 0 12/ 8/ to 15/ 8/ 7/ to 15/ 5/ to 15/ 12/ 2 10 0 20/-30/ found ; £lto£2 found 2 0 0 I " Otago — Hindon Tuapeka Tapanui Cromwell Clyde .. J Alexandra Black's lloxburgh Waikaia Orepuki and Longwood Arrow Queenstown Mount Ida Gore.. Wyndham 5 0 0 5 0 0 6 0 0 . 4 10 0 1 10 9 2 0 0 1 10 0 6 0 0 3 10 0 4 0 0 4 10 0 4 10 0 6 0 0 £4 to £5 5 0 0 4 0 0 4 0 0 2 14 0 2 10 0 2 8 0 3 0 0 3 0 0 2 2 0 2 10 0 2 14 0 2 8 0 3 10 0 4 0 0 30 0 2 8 0 3 10 0 4 0 0 £2 8 to £2 14 2 2 0 2 8 0 3 0 0 £2 8 to £3 £1 16 to £2 S 2 0 0 2 8 0 2 8 0 2 8 0 0 10 0 10 0 15 0 10 0 10 0 10 0 10 0: 15 0 10 0 12 6 25/ and found £60 & found 10/ to 12/ 10/ to 20/ 8/ to 15/ 7/6 to 15/ • 5 0 0 6 0 0 6 0 0 2 0 0 £40 per ann. i 4 0 0 ; 3 o o : 4 10 0 : 4 10 0 4 0 0 4 0 0 3 0 0 3 0 0 4 0 0 4 0 0 4 0 0 2 8 0 2 10 0 1 10 0 3 0 0 3 12 0 3 12 0 2 8 0 2 10 0 2 10 0 2 5 0 2 10 0 2 10 0 2 14 0 2 8 0. 2 10 0 3 0 0 2 10 0 3 10 0 3 10 0 2 14 0 2 8 0 2 0 0 3 0 0 3 0 0 3 10 0 3 10 0 3 0 0 2 8 0 3 0 0 2 8 0 2 2 0 3 0 0 3 0 0 2 8 0 2 8 0 8/ a day 2 2 0 1 16 0 2 8 0 2 8 0 2 2 0 2 8 0 7/ a day 10 0 0 15 0 £1 to £1 5 £1 to £1 5 10/ to 15/ 10 0 1 10 0 10 0 10 0 £1 to £1 5 : 10 0 2 5 0 £1 5 to £1 10 £1 5 to £1 10 £1 and found 20/ to 30/ 1 15 0 12/6 12/6 8/ to 15/ 10/ to 15/ 7/ to 12/ 22/ 8/ to 20/ 4 0 0 0 15 0
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No. 13. Number of Machines employed in Alluvial and Quartz-mining, and the Value thereof, for the Year ending 31st December, 1901.
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uchi iner emplo; r ed in Alluvial [mi] ig. Ma tchi] tery em] >loyi idi] Qui irtz-i nin ing. Mining District. Steamengines employed winding, crushing, &c. to a a 3 u 03 a 00 a ■a ■o a ft to s» _cj 3 ft fH o to S 1 3 -a a ca »S 3g Oil S3 .a a a 53 co 'v CDA if to CO -f= c6 \* CD co O 3 >> W CO aia So >^ ■cog •!* c&l D A GO 3 . co <d 1 eS 0 © © ao c3 -p 02 CO CD fl A o 0 'to O 'A Steamengines empl03'ed winding, crushing, &c. m CD H 2 o ? CO 0 to O CO CD ,C| Ph 5 ■& 02 7- © CD to >, Ph o to Approximate Value of all Mining Plant included in this Return. " I Aggre;No. gate 1 h.p. CO a 3 CO ft a Ph co © CD CO o *H JH © n AggreNo. gate h.p. CO a 3 to P Auckland— Ohinemuri North Hauraki South Hauraki Te Aroha " •■! ■• 60 17 37 4,396 1,200 1,172 65 17 6 36 1 639 350 463 10 18 12 1 i 29 192 £ 374,470 38,000 181,735 5,000 3 Totals 114 6,833 59 1,462 33 1 1 1 221 599,205 Mablborough— Wakamarina Cullen's Creek Waikakaho Blenheim }' 16 26 3,000 60 2 2 l! I 1 3 2 20 2 10 1 12,000 i Totals 2 16 86 3 4! I I 2I 1 3 2 20 2 10 1 15,000 Nelson— Wangapeka Collingwood Takaka Inangahua Charleston Lyell Murchison Westport Ahaura 2 24 1 95 85 508 47 100 6 4 3 71 5 7 26 100 2 2 24 2 27 50 758 2 22 "28 440 1 22 2 3 65 52^000 216,362 800 28,500 18,000 11,000 22,000 i 4 1 '5 2 1 2 "30 1 12 2 'i 22 4 8 i "l8 6 4 . 42 22 6 1 Totals 2 24 1 835 11 216 2 21 2 3 50 9 30 826 36 562 29 2 4 65 348,062 Westland — Stafford Ross Hokitika and Kanieri Greymouth Kumara 2 5 24 3 3 6 2 8,000 60 6 1 11 100 20 4 1 2 3 7 3 6 i 6 3 1 1 48,000 26,000 12,560 62,240 20,000 3 "45 150 '2 560 90 28 84 Totals 10 69 3 3 8 9,780 20 770 32 16 90 i 6 4 1 168,800 Otago— Tapanui Hindon Tuapeka Cromwell Clyde and Alexandra Roxburgh Black's Orepuki, Waiau, and Preservation Waikaia (Switzers) Arrow Queenstown Naseby Kyeburn and Clarke's Hamilton's and Sowburn Hyde and Pullerton's Macrae's, Strath Taieri, and Shag Valley Serpentine St. Bathan's, Ida Valley, &c. Gore Wyndham "i V 8 i 49 12 110 6 25 '560 1,200 275 280 250 400 2 25 5 17 8 50 50 50 2 3 2 23 24 56 1 3 9 2 1 1 2 2 2 2 1 1 16 10 23 32 4 8 6 3 7 "i 5 31 15 34 15 20 40 75 2 1 3 1 1 2,000 710 100,000 141,500 500,000 12,300 26,000 25,000 45,000 8 32 24 189 68 2 38 54 13 83 10 44,000 30 1 120,000 1,500 Totals 18 209 24 i 2 1 j 3,179 9 273 is! |l51 1 38 2 13 153 43 313 19 1,018,010 1 1 2 summa: v. uckland larlborough Felson Westland Itago Totals J .. ..2 16 21 24 .. 10; 69 .. 18 209 .. 32 318 1 3 24 '3 a .. 2 I 3 10 86 835 9,780 3,179 3 11 20 9 4 216 2 770 32 273 15 2 21 16 151 114 6,833 3 2 20 2 3 50 9 30 826 90 II 1 38 2 13 153 93i 4 88 14159 7,832 I I 59 1,462 33 1 2 10 .. .. 36 562 29 2 1 6 4 1 43 313 19 1 141 2,353 85 5 i ! 1 4 ■1 1 221 1 65 599,205 15,000 348,662 168,800 1,018,010 28 13,880 43 1,259 i 53 190 287 2,149,677 7 1
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No. 14. Table showing approximately the Number, Description, and Value of the Water-races, Tail-races, Dams, Reservoirs, and Ground-sluices in Operation during the Year ending 31st December, 1901.
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Wal ;er-races. Tail-races. Rest srvoirs. Q-roui lams. id-sluices. iroxiMining District. Length in Miles. No. of Sluiceheads. Approximate Cost. Approximate Cost. Approximate Cost. Approximate Cost. Approximate Cost. mate Total Cos!.. No. No. No. No. No. Auckland— Hauraki North .. Hauraki South .. Te Aroha Ohinemuri 7 19 2 14 7 25 2 8 18 160 20 99 £ 5,400 58,000 3,000 14,550 1 7 £ 25 360 2 70 £ 400 770 £ 5,000 £ £ 5,825 64,130 3,000 18,550 2 "l 1,000 'l\ 3,000 Totals 42 42 297 80,950 1,385 79 4,170; 5,000 91,505 Marlborough— Blenheim Havelock 20 19 14 26 93 47 8 8 0 8 2,300 150 80 i 25 2,555 Totals 39 40 140 2,300 1G 150 HO 25 2,555 Nelson— Wangapeka, Baton, and Sherry Collingwood Inangahua Charleston Westport Lyell Murchison Ahaura Motueka Takaka 1 98 491 109 235 88 197 792 7 7 2 120 392 131 147 91 153 100 11 5 1 948 3,581 484 1,162 198 768 3,278 31 45 150 127,056 161,386 32,094 17,348 8,900 4,235 198,766 1,220 2,250 1 66 542 121 190 18 67 826 5 6 80 i 8,000 ! 52,395 10,487 i 24,747 710 2,130 90,360 275 100 j ) 73 i 613 ' 299 ' 399 ) 22 ) 52 I 730 i 3 I 8 ! 15,000 1 23,178 > 8,947 ) 16,150 ! 2,300 I 3,325 I 20,731 I 80 I 160 1 86 50 380 280 150,056 236,959 51,908 58,245 11,910 9,690 309,857 1,575 2,510 6 Totals 2,025 1,152 10,496 553,405 1,842 189,284 :2,199 1 89,871 98 430 832,990 Westland— Hokitika & Kanieri Ross Kumara Greymouth Okarito Stafford I 306 143 188 464 20 200 202 115 107 408 15 300 643 550 441 1,834 150 400 150,600 59,905 30,050 12,920 13,350 30,000 125 160 189 804 19 200 3,100 1,500 3,700 18,943 900 9,000 i 310 76 - 67 1,014 15 300 3,100 2,050 4,650 13,588 570 5,000 ii 7,000 *6 30 700 600 150,800 64,155 46,000 45,451 14,820 50,100 io 2,000 2 4,100 Totals 1,321 1,147 4,018 1,497 37,143 1,782 28,958 296,825 21 9,000 38 5,400 377,326 Otago— Hindon Tuapeka Tapanui Clyde, Alexandra, Black's, and Roxburgh Arrow Cromwell Waikaia Orepuki, Longwood, and Preservation Queenstown Naseby .. Kyeburn& Clarke's Hamilton's and Sowburn Hyde & Pullerton's Macrae's, Strath Taiori, and Shag Valley Serpentine St. Bathan's and Ida Valley Wyndham Gore 73 325 4 625 97 545 230 115 136 115 910 6 1,585 176 1,431 440 180 215 710 1,835 8 2,675 196 2,173 900 580 766 35,420 17,700 110 95,000 13,971 101,368 40,000 20,999 54,730 21 435 3 387 132 298 200 46 160 380 9,500 30 19,000 4,773 14,640 2,000 3,575 9,950 12 313 2 160 25 233 120 40 44 1,400 11,990 2,000 985 1,895 1,505 7,200 30 17,000 1 2 6,000 20 20 125 800 37,430 34,400 170 137,000 20,144 127,998 44,800 25,559 66,575 541 '1,157 2,343 36,741 638 16,458 293 13,622 66,821 4,830 15 17 92 4,830 Totals 2,706 6,232 12,278 420,869 12,320 80,306 1,242 57,627 6,000 40 925 565,727 SUMMARY. Auckland .. Marlborough Nelson Westland .. Otago 42; 42 ! 297 39; 40 : 140 2,02511,152 ;i0,496 1,321:1,147 ! 4,018 2,706,6,232 12,278 80,950 9 2,300 16 553,4051,842 296,82511,497 420,869 2,320 1,385! 79 150' 9 189,284 2,199 " 37,1431,7821 80,306 1.242 1 4,170 80 89,871 28,958 57,627 2 1 5,000 25 93 38 40 91,505 2,555 430 832,990 5,400 377,326 925 565,727 21 3 9,000 6,000 Totals .. 6,133 8,613 27,229 11,354,349 J5,684 308,268 5,311 180,706 27 20,025 171 6,755 1,870,103
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No. 15. Return of Cases in the Wardens' Courts, and Costs awarded, for the Year ending 31st December, 1901.
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Mining District. Number of Mining Disputes adjudicated on. Aggregate Amount of Value. Claimed. Recovered. Amount of Costs awarded. Iff sis-g Auckland— North Hauraki South Hauraki .. Te Aroha Ohincmuri 47 19 52 £ s. a. 3,905 13 10 115 17 0 1,017 17 6 £ s. d. 3,420 16 4 86 7 0 328 4 8 £ s. d. 44 9 6 46 6 6 11 11 0 76 3 6 1 Maulbobouqk 10 78 10 0 38 10 0 6 11 0 Nelson — Collingwood Inangabua Tjycll and Murchison Westport Charleston Motueka Takaka .. 3 31 11 11 70 5 0 2,510 7 3 61 17 10 20 5 0 524 13 3 61 17 10 2 3 0 73 6 3 10 0 0 24 2 4 3 15 Westlahd — Kumara Greymouth Hokifcika and Kanieri Stafford Ross A}'aura .. 12 22 6 4 278 3 9 445 0 0 s"o 0 237 15 0 445 0 6 12 0 6 15 0 5 8 0 19 0 15 18 278 4 2 171 11 0 29 9 6 Gantkkbuey— Ashburton 1 50 0 0 50 0 0 0 9 0 1 Otago— Tapanui Hindon Tuapeka Cromwell Roxburgh .. .. ] Black's .. .. .. I Clyde and Alexandra .. J Waikaia Orepuki, Longwood, and Riverfon .. Arrow (Wakatipu Goldfield) Queenstown Mount Ida Gore '3 43 30 340 16 6 1,327 12 5 687 8 3 133' 4 0 805 0 7 140 14 0 41 16 6 73 2 6 57 10 0 23 8 30 30 19 10 321 0 0 288 2 11 1,654 16 7 271 0 8 25 0 0 114 3 0 150 0 0 151 17 8 543 2 10 173 10 8 10 5 0 22 1 6 108 6 8 31 14 0 2 0 0 10 2 0 G 49 3 0 Totals 425 13,S46 17 2 7,531 13 4 696 3 9 64
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No. 16. Return of the Number of Mining Leases or Licenses in Force on the 31st March, 1902, the Extent of Ground leased or held under License, and Rental per Annum.
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Mining Leases. Mining District. No. Gross Acreage. p^rfurr, .DCKLAND — Hauraki Nortli Hauraki South Te Aroha Ohinemuri Tauranga 115 135 10 A. R. P. 1,610 0 0 5,799 0 18 393 3 38 £ s. d. 210 0 0 1,363 14 0 40 8 G 20 1,706' 1 11 121 7 6 Iaelboeough— Havelook Blenheim 3 31 812 2 32 1,688 1 39 42 12 9 293 . 5 0 Ielson— Wangapeka Inangahua Charleston Ahaura Lyeli . Murchison Westport 6 80 33 226 47 51 72 303 4 0 4,465 3 34 878 2 12 11,581 3 29 1,814 0 0 2,032 0 0 3,557 0 11 45 1 6 114 4 6 1,942 13 6 288 10 0 343 0 0 655 8 0 Vestland — Hokitika and Kanieri Komara .. Greymouth Boss Okarito .. 118 66 119 91 20 4,913 0 0 1,041 3 31 5,596 0 0 6,467 0 0 870 0 0 620 0 0 426 7 6 1,232 10 0 913 3 6 110 17 0 •tago— Cromwell Hindon Black's Clyde and Alexandra Eoxburgh Naseby Arrow (Wakatipu Goldfield) Queenstown Orepuki and Longwood 14 8 j- 144 757 0 0 178 0 0 8,004 0 0 334 0 0 44 10 0 1,820 15 6 133 602 i 567 39 2,516 3 7 4,490 1 16 4,730 1 37 2,248 0 0 691 12 6 777 7 6 663 0 0 112 14 0 Totals 2,750 79,056 2 35 13,206 17 9
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Statement of Affairs of Mining Companies, as published in accordance with the Mining Companies Acts, 1891, 1894, and 1900
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Name of Company. Date of Begistration. Subscribed Capital. Amount y alue of Sorip c« Tii tn 1 given to Shareactuallv holders on which paMup y no Cash paid. Number Amount .Sewe Number of Shares paid up Arrears of Calls. 1, ,5 ,. of Men allotted, per Share. present em P lo y ed - Quantity and Value of Gold or Silver produced since Registration. Tntnl Kxnevifli Total Amount of ture since Amount of Debts owing Quantity. Value. Value. AUCKL .AND DIS £ s. d. 0 0 8j 6d. on 20,000 0 0 6 -TRICT. £ s. d. 84 15 0 27 16 3 Broken Hill Gold-mining Co. (Ltd,) Waihi Beach United Gold - mining Co. (No Liability) Maratbto Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) Thames Talisman Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) Pride of Waihi Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) Kuranui Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) Progress-Castle Rock Gold-mining Co. (No Liability) Waihi Consols Gold-mining Co. (No Liability) .. Hauraki No. 2 Gold-mining Co. (No Liability) .. Coromandel Freehold Proprietary Gold-mining Co. (No Liability) Imperial Gold-mining Co. (No Liability) Kapowai Gold-mining Co. (No Liability) Neville and Perkins Hydraulic Sluicing Co. (Ltd.) Barrier Reefs Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) Eclipse (Ltd.) Rising Sun Gold-mining Co. (No Liability) Waihi Consolidated (Ltd.) Puru Consolidated Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) Welcome Jack Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) New Alpha Gold-mining Co. (No Liability) New Whau Gold-mining Co. (No Liability) Bunker's Hill Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) .. Waiotahi Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) Tairua Broken Hills.. New Four-in-hand Big Beetle Gold-mining Co. (No Liability) May Queen Extended Gold-mining Co. (No Liability) Victoria Gold-mining Co. (No Liability) Chelmsford Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) Young New Zealand Gold-mining Co. (No Liability) New Alburnia Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) Waihi Extended Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) Taniwha Creek Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) Hauraki Freeholds (Ltd.) New Gloucester Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) Queen of the North Gold - mining Co. (No Liability) 8/1/95 12/10/98 13,500 6,375 £ 2,760 1,063 £ 3,198 90,000 127,500 143 134 2 Oz. £ £ 3,503 2,713 £ I £ 17/11/00 28/6/00 18/1/01 12/9/95 19/9/95 5,000 2,900 50,000 15,000 11,179 2,500 1,299 1,250 4,096 4,547 l^250 100,000 58,000 100,000 56,950 28,614 ! 0 06 186 8 5 71 "5 0 40 18 4 104 18 152 55 53 7 6 7 4 594 1,282 2,344 1,305 816 4,833 6,475 235 101 '480 18/10/95 10/7/95 11/11/95 16,200 12,000 18,750 9,792 6,887 10,313 50 162,000 80,000 150,000 0 0 11J 0 2 3 0 0 OJ 5318 3 117 23 172 3 2 281 9,751 6,987 11,306 58 17 16 22/2/95 19/6/00 6/2/01 11/12/99 19/11/98 16/10/95 23/3/00 17/7/97 9/3/00 4/4/01 30/3/95 21/6/95 1/8/71 12/7/99 30/6/98 31/7/01 12/11/95 10,000 5,000 I 10,000 I 111,000 7,500 18,000 25,000 24,563 5,000 4,745 18,750 17,572 18,000 12,403 22,500 5,000 15,000 7,184 2,720 6,250 6,750 3,348 1,042 8,904 1 j<596 6,438 10,286 15,000 11,929 22,500 277 5,294 528 250 3,750 111,000 750 1,900 1,500 7,915 500 591 1,464 6,000 250 100,000 100,000 10,000 111,000 150,000 89,484 100,000 65,500 100,000 94,905 125,000 77,145 6,000 124,032 : 90,000 100,000 100,000 0 16 0 0 7 10 0 10 0 0 10 0 1 Of 0 3 2J 0 5 5 0 0 5 0 0 6 0 1 4| 5/ & 2/6 2 10 0 0 1 11 0 5 0 0 0 1 J 0 1 3f 920 18 3 276 "8 7 127 70 17 195 7 60 113 134 7G 89 74 346 46 88 150 50 62 2 20 5 33 4 1 4 11 4 . 180 114 421 30 31,961 10,825 760 1,037 8,106 3,402 8,507 48,943 17,942 3,560 1,152 9,890 3,656 1,119 7,354 16,327 147,443 13,472 13,106 377 5,704 20 329 2,063 18,704 95 23 17 472 Nil. 1,644 59 372 42 2,833 90 Nil. 525 412 10 1 474 12 2 1 17 40 18 4 6 167 1,152 65,137 2,383 4,844 46 440 3,447 181,514 3,250 14,115 135 406 38^400 4,500 1 1 2/9/90 28/9/99 31/10/95 25,600 8,000 9,750 15,027 4,265 2,529 1,600 1,000 128,000 80,000 65,000 0 3 14 0 14 0 1 8| 402 1 8 43 5 0 182 102 18 4 28 4 '810 12,159 1,444 106 25,763 6,623 4,902 48 1,130 107 16/4/96 12/8/95 12/9/01 25/1/99 29/3/01 2/12/97 51,531 149,967 8,000 18,300 2,000 2,000 50,888 9,609 219 118,469 5,498 170,000 149,967 41,000 366,000 80,000 60,000 10 0 0 2 lj 0 0 2 643 5 0 826 10 5 122 6 0 244 440 38 213 40 11 7 16 6 2,632 "34 6,979 83 42 306 389 26,671 9,712 281 Nil. 369 304 Nil. Nil. Nil. "498 812 1,250 0 0 4 0 0 3£ 2"l 8 4 2 102 137 614 1,230 Totals 756,085 237,972 268,703 3,636,097 4,589 0 1 3,963 ! 272 I 272,120 435,889 42,900 29,673 .. 78,104
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Statement of Affairs of Mining Companies, as published in accordance with the Mining Companies Acts, 1891, 1894, and 1900— continued.
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Name of Company. Date of Registration. Subscribed Capital. Amount of Capital actually paid up. Value of Scrip given to Shareholders on which no Cash paid. Number of Shares allotted. Amount paid up Arrears of Calls, per Share. Number of Shareholders at present. Number of Men luantity and Value of Gold or Silver produced since Total ExpendiRegistration. I ture since — 1 Registration. Quantity. Value. Total Amount of Dividends paid. Amount of Debts owing by Company. employed Quantity. £ 1,955 £ 1,371 NELSON £ 2,500 DISTRICT (INCLU: \£ s. d. 1,955 Various )ING WEST COAST). £ s. d. 400 7 6 317 Oz. £ £ 427 £ £ Buller United Gold-miniug and Dredging Co., No. 1, Ohika-iti Claim (Ltd.) Stony Creek Dredging Co. (Ltd.) Keep-it-Dark Quartz-mining Co. (Ltd.) Grey River No. 2 Gold dredging Co. (Ltd.) Maori Gully Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Grey River Dredging Co. (Ltd.) Croesus (Paparoa) Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) Taffy Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) Wareatea Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Trafalgar Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Victory Gold-dredging Co, (Ltd.) Watterson's Consols Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. Maori King Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Marsden No. 3 Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Ford's Creek Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Grey River Extended Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. Montgomery's Terrace Hydraulic Sluicing Co. (Ltd.) Hokitika Junction Dredging Co. (Ltd.) Caledonia Gold-dredging Co. (Lt-i.) .. .. Fairdown Gold dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. .. Orwell Creek Gold-dredging Company (Ltd.) Aldinga Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Shetland Terrace Sluicing Company (Ltd.) Ross Day Dawn Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Aylmer Lead Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) No Town No. 2 Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) No Town Creek Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Golden Banner Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Three-mile (Greenstone Creek) Dredging Co. (Ltd.) Craig's Freehold Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Garibaldi Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. Duke of Wellington Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. Major Robin Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Lord Nelson Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Moonlight Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Grey River Consols Gold dredging Company (Ltd.) Reeves' Proprietary Gold dredging Co. (Ltd.) Commissioners' Flat Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. Waiwhero Sluicing and Dredging Co. (Ltd.) Aorere River Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Totara Flat Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Parapara Flat Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Kaituna River Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) 1/5/00 31/8/00 2/3/74 9/5/00 12/4/00 10/3/99 18/5/97 27/1/99 1/10/00 16/2/00 14/5/00 22/2/00 30/3/00 28/3/00 15/9/99 17/5/00 28/9/00 23/5/00 ! 30/3/01 19/11/00 29/9/99 23/5/00 18/6/01 27/3/00 16/12/99 8/5/00 9/3/00 9/10/99 15/9/99 20/8/00 15/1/00 27/3/00 25/4/00 15/6/00 7/5/00 18/1/01 19/10/99 3/4/00 9/2/00 8/3/01 26/4/00 26/7/01 10/4/01 5,605 20,000 10,000 9,000 8,500 35,938 7,000 6,000 6,750 7,050 6,650 5,500 8,000 6,202 7,510 11,500 9,000 8,200 6,100 8,500 6,750 5,875 7,000 6,000 7,400 8,500 5,500 6,500 13,000 6,000 6,500 6,750 6,750 7,750 10,000 12,200 13,500 31,000 8,428 8,940 6,280 6,990 1,447 6,208 602 4,837 6,500 12,188 1,466 5,409 6,627 6,820 6,366 3,496 5,484 5,862 1,938 4,525 3,236 7,986 3,935 8,496 6,492 2,044 5,878 3,676 3.803 8,043 4,962 6,480 1,079 5,703 5,025 1,513 898 6,052 421 12,200 6,191 1,334 2,377 7,030 1,882 3,387 2,500 10,000 2,500 2,200 2,000 23,750 2,250 2,250 1,950 2,000 1,500 2.000 1,500 2,500 5,500 3,000 1,800 2,150 3,500 2,250 1,750 2,000 1,500 2,600 3,500 1,600 1,500 8,000 2,000 2,000 5,605 Various 20,000 0 16 2J 10,000 0 2 0" 9,000 0 17 0 8,500 10 0 57,500 12/6&2/6J 28,000 0 1 1 I 6,000 10 0 9,000 10 0 9,000 10 0 8,650 10 0 5,500 ; 0 18 6 8,000 10 0 7,702 ; 1 0 0 10,000 I 0 7 0 ; 16,900 i 0 11 0 : 12,000 0 10 0 8,200 10 0 6,100 10 0 12,000 10 0 9,000 ! 1 0 0 5,875 I 0 12 0 9,000 1 0 0 7,500 0 17 0 10,000 10 0 11,950 10 0 7,100 10 0 8,000 10 0 21,000 0 4 0 7,850 10 0 8,475 : 1 0 0 6,750 0 8 0 5,780 0 4 0 7,700 10 0 10,000 0 2 0 12,200 1 0 0 13,500 0 15 0 31,000 0 11 0 8,428 0 10 0 8,940 10 0 6,280 0 8 0 6,990 0 18 0 634 4 6 304 50 148 7 0 120 788 10 0 112 198 178 23 6 8 37 591 10 0 137 122 15 0 174 230 2 6 219 292 10 0 178 1,591 5 0 105 516 9 8 120 340 7 6 131 867 10 0 86 1,745 5 0 140 1,264 10 0 128 214 7 6 151 2,165 0 0 112 4 0 0 253 258 7 6 196 1,481 5 0 63 1,122 5 0 82 1,424 10 90 3,597 0 0 72 407 0 0 134 538 10 0 154 20 0 0 101 1,520 14 0 98 297 0 0 116 1,451 5 0 146 1,187 0 0 137 257 15 0 92 1,650 16 9 122 329 5 0 60 240 2,271 5 0 86 79 858 10 0 167 110 10 0 67 216 3 0 104 709 15 0 99 54 8 9 6 1 "6 1 7 8 1 6 '8 79,200 1,275 2,466 395 3 - 223 31 6 306,119 4,848 10,035 1,593 12 '869 118 "23 784 333,832 474 4,557 10,486 23,063 3,423 5,456 6,822 6,332 5,756 3,172 5,467 8,548 1,847 3,218 2,463 7,868 3,845 9,476 6,711 1,686 5,635 2,701 3,647 7,179 5,951 7,916 1,442 5,965 6,551 654 500 5,968 409 14,941 5,481 17,526 547 8,092 1,799 4,016 122,417 719 / 278 875 407 22 1,012 1,913 131 93 390 199 1,365 1,223 203 Nil. 1,328 1,231 4,119 1,589 191 313 4,814 276 1,522 5 4 8 58 43 2,559 11,727 100 2,100 50 830 1 9 409 394 2,500 2,500 3,000 17,660 2,000 1,800 2,000 2,000 30 829 1,327 3,307 5,306 7 6 24
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Amount of Capital actually paid up. luantity and Value of GoL Silver produced siuc& Registration. or Name of Company. Date of Registration. Subscribed Capital. Value of Scrip given to Shareholders on which no Cash paid. Number of Shares allotted. Amount paid up Arrears of Calls, per Share. Number of Shareholders at present. Number of Men employed. Total Expenditure f-mce Total Amount of Dividends paid. Amount of Debts owing by Company. Quantity. Value. NELSON DISTRICT (INC: 1 ?EST COAST) — continued. Ruby Creek Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. Kohinoor Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Hau Hau Creek Dredging Co. (Ltd) .. Rocklands Beach Gold dredging Co. (Ltd.) Omdurman Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Premier (Buller) Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Kangaroo Creek Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Takaka Sluicing Co. (Ltd.) Greenstone Creek Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd) Maori Queen Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.).. Greenstone Junction Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. Addison's Long Tunnel Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.).. Britannia Gold -mining Co. (Ltd.) West Coast Mining Syndicate (Ltd.) Great Woodstock Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Woodstock Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Virgin Plat Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) Bignell's No Town Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Leviathan Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Parapara Hydraulic Sluicing and Mining Co. (Ltd.) Slate River Sluicing Co. (Ltd.) Stafford-Waimea Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Blackwater River Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Cornwall Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Feddersen Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Great Lead Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Nelson Creek Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Minerva Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) Prince of Wales Dredging Co. (Ltd.) Pride of Marlborough Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd ).. Grey River Consolidated Dredging Co. (Ltd.) Hokitika Extended Dredging Co. (Ltd.) Mont d'Or Gold-mining and Water-race Co. (Ltd.) Jubilee Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) Mosquito Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Ahaura River Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.).. Red Jack's Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Wanganui-Wataroa Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. Welcome Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Stillwater Creek Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Claughesy's Freehold Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. Mosquito No. 2 Gold dredging Co. (Ltd.) Westland Water supply, Electric Power, and Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) 19/12/99 15/2/00 19/2/00 1/9/99 8/1/00 9/3/00 14/5/00 28/1/01 10/10/99 10/7/00 22/9/99 24/9/98 3/3/99 1/10/00 16/3/00 22/2/00 19/12/98 10/4/00 3/10/99 18/6/92 £ 10,000 12,500 8,360 11,531 7,500 10,585 9,500 5,395 9,000 9,750 7,500 841 10,000 1,650 8,300 12,000 15,000 8,000 12,000 50,600 £ 7,226 9,750 3,880 9,054 5,847 6,416 6,551 4,835 8,537 7,135 7,500 546 1,434 250 7,088 8,783 14,276 2,944 10,478 26,360 2,500 10,000 2,500 12,500 3,500 8,360 1,800 11,531 1,500 7,500 1,500 10,585 1,500 9,500 3,725 9,120 2,000 10,976 2,600 9,750 1,500 12,000 £ s. a. I 10 0 10 0 20/ & 10/ 20/ & 12/6 10 0 Various Various Various 10 0 10 0 0 15 0 Various 0 6 7| 0 5 0 10 0 10 0 Various 0 18 0 20/ and 5/j Various £ s. d. P 134 10 0 250 10 0 300 1 3 88 5 0 153 10 0 783 19 6 1,449 8 9 155 15 0 439 2 6 15 10 0 98 154 46 126 101 154 128 43 j 58 104 142 24 16 24 112 94 61 140 354 58 7 8 S 3 8 17 7 9 8 io 20 Oz. 3 230 179 7 5 10 248 293 747 934 1,192 & 14 916 703 25 20 36 970 1,149 2,912 3,689 4,662 £ 7,426 9,656 4,959 10,712 5,788 6,331 5,743 4,897 9,429 9,631 11,116 4,160 3,753 102 8,388 6,713 14,328 2,722 14,494 47,421 £ 'l77 2,258 £ 1,200 300 582 974 1,258 230 169 257 356 1,468 1,964 238 Nil. Nil. 1,305 452 600 364 1,946 1,305 43 0 0 .. 1,650 2,200 10,500 3,000 12,000 10,000 15,150 3,000 8,000 3,000 24,000 20,000 40,600 162 10 0 1,212 5 0 217 10 0 349 7 6 4,255 16 0 1,522 10 0 150 0 0 149 588 866 4,963 3,324 18,961 26/7/00 14/5/0 L 27/4/00 18/6/00 5/3/01 11/9/99 1/7/99 24/2/90 17/10/99 25/3/01 22/9/99 7/4/00 25/7/82 16/11/99 24/4/00 9/9/99 26/4/00 22/6/01 3/5/00 2/4/00 26/4/01 24/4/01 8/10/00 11,700 7,000 7,000 9,800 11,000 5,500 6,000 12.000 10,000 8,000 7,500 9,000 12,000 8,600 10,000 6,939 9,000 7,000 9,900 4,661 8,700 8,000 3,838 10,091 4,977 3,806 9,322 3,147 5,373 6,000 6,670 9,374 1,829 7,493 3,494 10,800 5,357 7,544 6,813 7,282 1,200 13,480 2,000 9,000 3,000 10,000 9,800 200 11,000 5,500 2,500 R, 500 400 17,285 4,000 14,000 8,000 2,500 15,000 2,500 9,000 12,000 1,200 8,600 10,000 1,600 27,755 1,700 9,000 6.925 2,750 9,900 4,661 1,600 8,700 3,000 11,000 12,000 15,571 Various 0 15 0 Various Various Various Various 10 0 0 6 3 10 0 j Various S 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 18 0 Various 10 0 0 5 0 10 0 0 6 0 10 0 0 6 0 0 12 0 0 2 0 0 18 0 211 4 0 272 15 7 1,444 5 3 478 10 0 461 6 0 32 0 0 18 3 4 625 15 0 1,429 4 10 7 0 0 1,005 11 0 85 74 120 109 83 100 99 18 90 130 253 135 28 143 108 281 150 131 128 93 122 10 32 46 7 6 7 2 8 1 21 18 10 8 9 1 11 64 1,956 821 256 252 7,647 2,947 "987 7,770 5,144 1,064 9,314 1,222 6,022 13,376 11,001 9,210 1,765 9,217 1,985 75,670 5,096 8,083 8,635 9,587 615 9,126 670 1,749 493 2,990 2,550 36,600 2,500 263 Nil. 282 346 2,615 341 31 Nil. 1,343 1,391 134 Nil. 1,128 656 1,234 1,322 Nil. Nil. 3 82 Nil. 40 289 0 0 256 0 0 125 10 0 18 0 0 485 15 0 357 0 0 670 17 0 2,179 16 0 300 0 0 979 0 0 25,918 249 99,370 903 305 155 1,161 595 9,543 730 2,080 500 2,475
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Name of Company. tion. Capital. Amount of Capital actually paid up. Value of Scrip given to Shareholders on which no Cash paid. Number of Shares allotted. Amount paid up Arrears of Calls. per Share. Number of Shareholders at present. Number of Men Quantity and Value of Gold or Silver produced since Registration. T °tuL E s1nce di " Amount of Reg'straton. Dividends paid. Amount of Debts owinj. by Company. employed Quantity. Value. NELSON DISTRICT (ING LUDING west coast; )— continuei * I I £ a. a. 0 0 5 0 1 lj! 0 6 0 0 7 3 0 11 6 0 14 3 0 2 2 0 13 0 10 0 10 0 10 0 20/ & 17/6 0 4 0 0 2 0 0 2 6 0 14 0 0 4 0 0 7 0 0 18 6 0 18 6 0 0 4 0 4 0 £ s. a. I Victoria Range Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) Kirwan's Reward Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) Reefton United Gold dredging (Co. Ltd.) Buller Dredges (Ltd.) Callaghan's Creek Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Buller Junction Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Alpine Extended Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) Pactolus Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Al Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Hokitika River Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Daylight Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Erickson's Reward Gold dredging Co. (Ltd.) Pactolus No. 2 Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Jamieson's Reward Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. Cameron's New River Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.).. Leviathan Freeholds Gold dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. Pactolus No. 3 Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd) Wangapeka, Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. Golden United Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Sullivan's Lead Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Rocklands King Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Saltwater Creek Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Waipuna Creek Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Golden Lead Mining Company (Ltd.) .. Big River Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) Old Diggings Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.).. New Scotia Gold-mining Company (Ltd.) Snowy Creek United Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) Consolidated Dredging Company (Ltd.) Westland Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Wakamarina Golden Point Dredging Co. (Ltd.).. Grey Arnold No. 1 Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Perrett's Junction Lead Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Mokoia Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) North Beach Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd) .. El Dorado Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Amikitea Gold-dredging Company (Ltd) Kohikohi Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Kapai Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Shellback Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Greenstone Sluicing Co. (Ltd.) Piccanini Gold-dredging Company (Ltd.) Shrives Treasure Gold-dredging Company (Ltd.) Murchison Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Waiho Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) 4/2/01 8/3/98 19/5/00 2/10/97 25/5/00 8/6/99 25/8/97 16/8/99 13/11/99 31/8/99 15/5/00 24/10/99 —/3/00 -/7/01 —/6/00 —/10/00 —/3/00 19/9/00 7/4/00 8/5/00 27/8/00 23/2/00 23/5/00 30/10/90 11/4/91 19/10/99 22/5/00 17/12/98 18/1/99 24/10/99 10/10/99 12/7/00 9/5/00 21/4/99 27/2/00 10/4/00 20/3/01 27/5/00 22/9/00 18/5/00 12/7/89 18/1/01 18/1/01 29/7/00 £ 20,000 56,000 9,750 6,000 7,500 8,125 25,000 8,125 8,500 13,000 6,000 7,255 6,400 7,500 6,000 10,000 7,500 15,000 6,500 10,000 11,000 9,000 6,000 12,000 12,000 9,000 12,000 12,000 6,000 8,000 5,250 7,000 17,600 9,000 6,225 7,125 10,000 12,000 5,808 7,500 4,700 7,100 4,785 6,900 2,550 1,259,511 [ £ 833 3,092 3,587 4,348 5,566 7,656 5,358 6,875 6,668 9,915 3,950 6,806 886 716 494 4,943 775 4.727 4,477 5,816 133 963 569 10,303 4,363 3,578 3,110 2,309 5,400 5,548 4,045 436 3,069 7,750 6,213 4,173 2,533 9,480 1,962 I 3,907 2,703 286 417 684 323 40,000 56,000 1,500 15,000 12,000 1,875 12,500 1,250 12,500 50,000 1,250 12,500 8,500 3,000 13,000 2,000 8,000 2,000 9,255 1,600 6,400 2,500 7,500 6,000 4,000 10,000 2,500 7,500 6,000 21,000 6,500 400 10,400 3,000 11,000 2,000 9,000 2,COO 24,000 24,000 1,125 12,000 3,000 24,000 3,600 48,000 600 12,000 8,000 1,200 5,250 2,000 9,000 17,600 1,250 9,000 1,800 8,025 1,800 7,125 2,500 12,500 2,500 12,000 1,900 5,808 2,500 10,000 2,300 4,700 1,900 7,100 2,500 7,285 2,500 6,900 2,000 2,550 0 9 11 0 3 9 0 8 0 0 3 6 0 3 8 0 10 0 0 18 0 10 0 0 13 0 6 0 10 0 10 0 10 0 Various 100 Various 0 16 6 0 11 6 0 16 0 2 0 0 2 6 0 3 0 183' 15 0 58 "8 8 31 17 0 34 11 0 2,050 8 3 198 4 6 394 0 0 28 15 0 251 0 0 1,742 0 0 725 0 0 523 5 0 1,535 0 5 3,434 8 0 6 13 3 436 15 0 631 4 4 166 14 0 300 0 0 321 13 6 189 17 6 13 14 4 24 67 133 34 75 130 172 129 141 245 88 195 105 72 43 112 127 228 113 169 18 154 60 28 73 80 75 27 42 128 58 79 203 223 93 151 103 120 166 87 30 21 56 43 67 25 1 8 17 8 7 7 9 1 1 1 1 1 6 1 2 6 • 7 5 2 Oz. 4,163 2,630 1,169 8,039 1,300 908 252 340 "46 2,171 23,620 79 1,124 50 533 £ 16 \ 637 10,201 4,525 31,083 5,105 3,576 983 1*314 180 8,729 94,936 300 3,533 184 2,084 £ 11,933 763 15,804 4,894 11,815 37,989 10,307 10,244 12,449 4,139 8,502 860 704 641 5,323 706 5,738 934 5,013 122 814 568 18,866 56,607 4,392 6,676 2,357 7,898 5,555 5,204 340 2,517 12,229 8,114 4,173 3,442 11,546 1,898 3,584 19,011 351 416 676 248 I £ I 6*300 300 938 425 £ Nil 158 29 20 839 220 332 Nil. 1,710 197 1,645 120 15 147 380 120 463 181 Nil. Nil. 45 166 253 780 283 50 40 86 611 11 93 798 1,584 251 926 1,204 2,300 Nil. 46*200 1,652 10 0 5 0 0 15 0 2,211 15 0 8 146 548 - 12 10 0 2,952 5 0 968 0 0 20 0 0 1,532 16 0 2,197 10 3 8 8 1 1 9 1*047 284 3,'799 1,065 214 833 236 5 0 62 0 0 172 5 0 119 0 0 4,036 15*868 1,925 85 61 123 158 .. Totals .. 1646,604 321,335 1,582,727 80,199 4 7 15,001 578 177,882 221,872 86,290 691,565 1,276,568
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Name of Company. Date of Begistration. Subscribed Capital. Amountj value of Scrip „ . . , ! Number paid up no Cash paid - allotted - P er bnaie. present. Number of Men Quantity and Value of Gold or Total Amount of BegiStrati °°- Paid. CompW Quantity. Value. Winding Creek Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) Sailor's Gully (Waitahuna) Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) Ourawera Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) Golden Crescent Sluicing Co. (Ltd.) Blue Spur and Gabriel's Gully Consolidated Gold Co. (Ltd.) Harris Beach Gold-dredging Go. (Ltd.) Eclipse Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Scottish Chief Dredging Co. (Ltd.) Evans Plat Dredging Co. (Ltd.) Tuapeka Dredging Co. (Ltd.) Zealandia Syndicate (Ltd.) .. Diggers' Pride Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Smith Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) Eeliance Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Main Lead Hercules Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. Long Valley Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. Moonlight No. 2 Sluicing Co. (Ltd.) .. Old Dunstan Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.).. Junction Electric Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Electrio Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Magnetic Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Naseby Dredging and Hydraulic Sluicing Co. (Limited) Golden Chain Dredging Co. (Ltd.) Naumai Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Otago Gold-dredgmg Co. (Ltd.) Golden Treasure Dredging Go. (Ltd.) .. Golden Gate Dredging Co. (Ltd.) Ladysmith Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Endeavour Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Olrig Dredging Co. (Ltd.) Hartley and Riley Beach Dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. Upper Waipori Alluvial Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd ) Unity Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Royal Sovereign Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Big Plat Dredging Co. (Ltd.) Gabriel Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Empire Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Meg and Annie Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Golden Gravel Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd-) Golden Reward Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Leaning Rook Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. Kia Ora Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Happy Valley Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) 5/2/98 3/6/96 23/5/95 26/11/98 1/2/88 £ 14,167 2,000 3,000 3,500 91,266 £ 8,000 100 2,800 3,500 37,622 £ 6,167 1,800 200 OTAGO DIS1 £ s. d. 14,167 10 0 2,000 0 10 0 3,000 10 0 3,500 10 0 91,266 1 0 0 'RICT. £ s. d. 20 10 19 26 10 5 Oz. 1,409 1,345 4,154 1,169 37,547 5,452 4,902 16,417 4,498 147,417 £ 11,693 4,388 15,082 7,037 17,874 & 750 4,765 778 28,003 £ 125 77 Nil 60^000 *9 35 19/9/99 4/8/99 16/2/00 14/8/97 31/7/97 21/10/99 13/2/00 19/10/98 3/10/99 3/1/00 31/8/99 1/6/98 17/10/99 2/9/99 2/9/99 12/7/97 16/10/97 5,500 7,201 8,000 3,200 2,800 4,000 7,320 1,700 3,600 7,700 7,000 9,500 8,500 26,000 26,000 7,000 5,000 1,560 6,392 4,961 2,400 2,500 4,000 1,753 1,525 3,000 6,883 7,000 8,944 6,500 10 10 5,000 2,288 1,500 1,500 1,200 800 300 3,000 300 600 1,800 2,000 2,500 2,000 25,990 25,990 2,000 2,000 7,000 0 8 0 8,701 20/ & 7/6 8,000 10 0 3,200 10 0 2,800 10 0 7,000 10 0 7,320 0 6 6 2,000 20/&13/ 3,600 1 0 0 9,500 10 0 9,000 10 0 12,000 Various 8,500 10 0 26,000 10 0 26,000 10 0 7,000 10 0 5,000 0 15 3 640 0 0 102 7 6 1,839 8 0 626 15 0 131 137 146 61 44 59 172 18 54 157 123 98 139 283 274 156 23 1 'h 7 4 7 14 2,299 2,259 2 458 658 53 8,696 8 1,810 2,534 585 8,492 5,804 9,590 9,335 3,685 888 3,688 5,834 6,811 9,120 10,518 6,174 19,384 9,146 24,174 11,451 2,310 2,310 268 180 Nil 1,543 669 118 126 167 18 220 138 2,438 1,462 1,572 969 349 1,000 433 817 0 0 1 10 553 0 0 312 10 0 170 154 '656 593 11 10 8 6 7,163 11,811 4,975 2,235 27,643 46,279 19,065 8,648 13,650 35,100 7,350 1,250 .. 26/9/99 8/4/99 20/5/95 11/7/93 13/3/95 19/4/00 24/8/99 13/3/99 14/7/97 3/9/89 8/8/00 23/1/01 21/12/99 12/6/00 13/7/97 9/5/99 29/8/99 20/9/99 7/10/99 21/9/99 24/2/00 8,000 8,000 4,000 1,500 2,500 12,000 10,000 7,000 6,500 4,000 4,200 5,750 7,050 3,350 5,000 7,500 6,000 6,000 7,000 7.900 5,050 5,700 7,993 2,000 1,384 2,500 3,201 7,981 6,000 6,300 5,950 4,200 2,020 6,309 2,199 5,000 6,000 5,929 5,338 6,948 7,433 4,558 2,000 2,000 1,500 3,000 2,000 1,000 200 5,000 10,000 0 18 0 10,000 10 0 4,000 10 0 3,000 10 0 2,500 10 0 14,500 0 8 0 10,000 10 0 7,000 10 0 6,500 10 0 4,800 0 8 6 10,500 10 0 8,250 0 7 6 8,725 10 0 4,440 10 0 5,000 10 0 7,500 100 7,500 Various 7,500 10 0 10,738 10 0 9,500 10 0 5,050 10 0 1,500 0 0 7 10 0 678 14 6 19 8 0 144 103 52 46 50 134 205 83 355 77 35 127 110 55 40 159 161 135 263 145 99 "i 8 6 4 8 7 9 9 8 1 7 7 15 8 7 7 9 8 7 255 5,354 8,395 8,126 245 240 1,035 18,591 11,814 1,078 950 20,464 32,318 31,287 943 925 3,978 71,943 45,460 4,134 5,491 10,205 13,991 19,893 18,676 4,165 9,245 9,212 18,491 39,648 4,079 2,042 7,138 6,872 19,138 11,583 7,115 5,531 9,548 7,070 5,561 6,000 14,596 14,375 57,688 7,080 Nil 829 50 172 183 263 1,025 300 325 254 65 101 853 2,311 404 178 1,322 2,202 651 430 1,985 1,700 2,150 455 0 0 716 15 1 91 0 0 1,500 1,500 1,500 1,500 1,600 2,450 71 10 0 662 8 10 52 10 0 466 10 3 492 5 0 614 6,192 326 50 164 2,362 24,142 8,060 1,253 191 633 8,135 2,625 280 l^070
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Name of Company. Date of Registration. I Amount Value Qf gorip Subscribed* r , o "f +ol given to ShareCapital. „„ P",,„ holders on which paS a up y | no Cash paid. Number Amount of Shares paid up Arrears of Calls, allotted, j per Share. Number of Shareholders at present. Number of Men Quantity and Value of Gold or Silver produced since Total Expendiliegistration. ture since j Registration. Quantity. Value. Total j Amount of Amount of j Debts owing Dividends I by paid. Company. employed Quantity. OTAGO D: STRICT— continued. Lower Enfield Gold-dredging Go. (Ltd.) .. j 15/3/00 Ettrick Gold Steam-dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. ] 29/8/90 Golden Run Dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. .. 29/6/91 Roxburgh Amalgamated Mming and Sluicing Co. 2/3/89 (Ltd.) Glen-iti Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. .. 28/10/99 Oceanic Steam Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. 5/3/00 Vulcan Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. .. 19/2/00 Lioness Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. .. 22/1/00 Prince Imperial Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. 17/1/00 Union Jack Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. .. 8/2/00 Britannia Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. .'. 16/3/00 Island Block Gold-dredging and Sluicing Co. 26/2/00 (Ltd.) Point d'Or Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. .. 26/3/00 Teviot Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. .. 4/1/00 Molyneux Kohinoor Dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. | 27/1/00 Phcenix Water-race Co. (Registered) .. .. 12/10/67 Galvanic Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. .. ! 22/6/99 Alexandra Eureka Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. ! 14/11/99 Manuherikia Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.).. .. [ 1/8/99 Waimumu Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. .. i 20/11/97 Boundary Creek Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd:) .. 7/9/99 Excelsior Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. .. 23/9/99 Champion Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) .. .. 30/12/98 Gow's Creek Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) .. .. 7/12/00 Majestic Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. .. 31/7/99 Arrow Palls Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) .. .. 4/4/98 Two Greeks Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. .. [ 16/6/00 McLean's Waimumu Freehold Gold-dredging Co. 25/9/01 (Ltd.) Rising Sun Gold-dredging Go. (Ltd.) .. .. 22/2/01 Waimumu Central Dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. 16/5/99 Waitahuna Cinnabar Co. (Ltd.) .. .. 3/8/00 United Morven Gold dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. I 18/1/00 Nokomai Hydraulic Sluicing Go. (Ltd.) .. ; 26/3/98 Canadian Mat Hydraulic Sluicing and Electrical- 10/7/00 power Transmission Co. (Ltd.) Earnscleugh Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. .. 15/7/01 Ngapara No. 3 Gold-dredging Go. (Ltd.) .. 13/9/99 Monte Ghristo Dredging Company (Ltd.) .. 7/6/99 Chicago Gold-dredgmg Co. (Ltd.) .. .. 1/11/99 Mystery Plat Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. 16/7/00 Deep Stream Amalgamated Hydraulic Sluicing 4/2/97 Co. (Ltd.) £ 6,000 9,000 9,000 29,153 £ 4,807 7,842 9,414 12,737 £ 1,500 2,000 1,600 15,000 7,500 10,500 11,000 29,152 £ s. d. 10 0 10 0 10 0 18/and20/ £ s. d. 1,193 4 0 657 11 3 106 125 146 158 7 22 22 Oz. 4,776 8,240 17,468 £ 18,380 31,722 67,815 £ 4,933 25,090 39,108 61,926 £ 3,150 5,194 18,585 £ 337 2,126 3,447 Nil. 2,300 5,000 6,800 6,600 6,700 6,700 8,000 25,000 2,178 2,206 3,427 1,864 2,013 1,801 5,157 10,529 2,200 2,000 4,500 7,000 8,500 6,600 6,700 8,600 10,500 25,000 j 1 0 0 Various 0 16 0 0 7 6 0 7 6 0 8 0 10 0 i 0 18 0 122 0 0 918 16 10 2,013 2 6 254 3 6 172 16 0 409 0 6 2,843 1 0 1,171 0 0 36 86 130 99 91 81 213 79 2 1 1 1 347 1,335 3,987 2,217 5,979 2,204 2,068 2,037 6,288 11,030 459' 134 2,570 205 64 240 Nil. 2,108 2 - 500 12,000 15 613 2,364 11,700 8,000 8,250 1,500 6,000 12,000 6,000 6,000 8,000 10,745 10,000 3,000 6,500 30,000 4,800 7,342 2,174 7,708 2,919 1,500 6,000 2,700 2,000 2,250 11,700 10,000 10,005 1,000 7,500 12,000 12,000 7,000 10,000 10,745 10,000 3,000 6,500 30,000 4,800 7,342 0 8 0 10 0 0 11 0 1 10 0 10 0 10 0 10 0 10 0 10 0 10 0 10/ & 8/ 10 0 10 0 20/ & 19/ 10 0 0 5 0 1,426 10 0 292 10 0 1,243 7 6 167 173 160 17 177 11 176 85 197 127 67 12 106 33 45 90 8 7 7 *240 922 2,103 9,168 3,901 81 1,557 898 Nil. 2,243 101 144 354 986 1,215 Nil. 171 324 77 39 53 1,500 12,000 6,000 1,000 2,000 2,000 1 7 9 9 1 2 8 33 7 18 10,335 11,494 9,976 49 62 4,087 6,850 6,000 6,000 7,925 8,411 4,235 2,800 5,700 1,875 2,109 911 ;. 75 0 0 334 0 0 125 0 0 5 2,679 3,032 2,548 13 16 1,064 7,713 6,119 14,241 14,173 7,940 9,335 6,788 3,166 8,881 3,943 2,025 469 4,200 2,400 1,925 200 800 27,750 2,400 3,500 291 0 0 89 0 0 736 629 2,826 2,427 11,100 4,500 1,500 6,145 22,850 4,375 128 4,500 793 2,120 5,850 2,536 11,100 7,000 1,500 6,145 2,285 6,375 0 0 6 10 0 0 14 0 0 12 0 10 0 0 10 0 87 10 0 257 8 6 l",567 3 6 15 0 1,839 10 0 11 97 53 113 26 70 9 1 38 8 l^658 6,606 137 8,556 695 1,561 17,279 2,740 2*447 72 316 13 1,000 643 371 2,000 5^895 22 ,'596 9^095 11,000 7,000 8,500 6,750 4,900 8,500 8 5,000 8,425 6,750 3,363 8,500 2,000 1,100 2,500 1,000 3,500 11,000 7,000 9,600 5,000 4,900 12,000 10 0 I 1 0 0 10 0 2 10 0 0 15 0 10 0 10 0 12 10 0 74 15 0 27 10 0 155 1 0 9 77 171 60 118 60 23 7 8 7 7 16 1,219 672 722 1,702 4,695 2,588 2,773 6,674 2,467 2,746 9,370 5,598 2,832 24,163 1,375 1,424 500 620 178 28 165 2,250 204 3'"729 14,364 5J050
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Nanie of Company. Dateof Subscribed ol %?™& SW Number Amount Share Number Begistra- S «™ ™} ed Capital °u wMch of Shares P aid U P Arrears of Calls. of Men tion. Caintal. hoW«e ich pel . Share . employed Quantity and Value of Gold oy Tntal Amnnnt- nf SilV |SaSo d n SinCe ai - *™grf «"£ " °°~ Quantity. Value. OTAGO DISTRICTcontinued. Royal Charlton Gold-dredging Go. (Ltd.) Lady Roxburgh Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Central Charlton Dredging Co. (Ltd.) Celtic Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Alexandra Lead Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Central Mataura Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Cairntrodlie Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Enterprise Hydraulic Sluicing Co. (Ltd.) Dunstan Lead Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Davis Bend Dredging Co. (Ltd.) Golden River Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Golden Vein Gold dredging Co. (Ltd). Vincent Extended Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Bendigo Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Royal Maori Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) ailor's Bend Dredging Co. (Ltd.) Spec Gully Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Voltaic Prospecting and Dredging Co. (Ltd.) Waimumu Extended Dredging Co. (Ltd.) Upper Clutha Gold-drfdging Co. (Ltd.) Golden Beach Hydraulic Elevating and Dredging Co. (Ltd.) Golden Bed Dredging Co. (Lta.) Gunion's Beach Amalgamated Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) British Lion Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Gold Chair Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. Enterprise Water-race Company (Registered) .. Golden Elbow Dredging Co. (Ltd.) Enfield Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Golden Link Dredging Co. (Ltd.) Piano Plat Hydraulic Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) .. Waipori Consolidated Gold Dredges (No Liability) Round Hill Mining Co. (Ltd.) Perseverance Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Nokomai Victory Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) Golden Lion Mining Co. (Ltd.) Elfctric Extended Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Jutland Hydraulic Dredging Co. (No Liability).. Pleasant Valley Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) Bonanza Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Cromwell Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Molyneux Hydraulic Dredging Co. (Ltd.) Rise and Shine Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) First Chance Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) 31/10/00 5,400 3/3/00 9,000 8/12/99 ; 5,300 21/11/99 3,000 26/7/99 17,521 30/6/00 27,000 27/3/00 4,000 7/2/98 2,000 31/5/99 17,500 1/5/00 11,000 7/8/99 10,000 13/10/99! 7,500 30/6/99 8,000 9/10/99 11,000 20/10/99 6,000 1/9/99 8,000 28/6/99 8,000 26/10/99 5,000 25/4/99 6,500 6/10/99 4,725 20/8/97 6,000 £ 451 2,516 5,300 3,(00 13,739 7,574 683 100 14,480 1,369 8,400 5,759 8,000 8,498 6,000 6,500 5,400 1,188 2,000 3,908 6,000 £ 2,000 1,700 1,000 3,000 7,000 2,000 1,700 3,000 2,500 1,600 1,600 1,500 '2,500 2,000 1,500 1,600 2,500 4,500 1,600 7,000 £ s. d5,400 Various 11,000 Various 5,300 10 0 4,000 10 0 17,521 Various 27,000 Various 4,000 0 4 0 2,000 0 18 0 17,500 10 0 11,000 Various 40,000 0 50 7,500 Various 9,500 10 0 11,000 10 0 8,00) 10 0 8,000 10 0 6,000 100 5,000 Various 6,500 10 0 4,725 10 0 12,996 10 0 £ s. d. 88 15 0 3,334 3 0 781 15 0 235 8 0 117 1 0 20 2 6 331 5 0 62 195 126 29 190 225 65 12 199 125 333 129 200 240 141 209 90 54 52 79 138 S 8 9 1 2 9 7 Oz. ■727 136 628 353 191 345 198 59 562 717 565 1,481 5,955 £ 2,729 543 2,422 1,349 737 1,329 742 228 2,145 2,783 2,220 5,786 22,807 £ 173 837 8,838 5,021 13,558 12,951 468 1,320 16,561 592 9,004 6,929 9,902 8,796 7,843 8,774 8,133 1,786 6,970 3,762 12,631 £ 200 £ 31 112 1,236 1,510 757 4,110 75 50 2,406 59 66 22 1,575 282 1,186 78 548 149 207 1,772 373 133 10 0 8 1 8 9 9 2*0 0 62 10 0 *485 5810 0 8 8 11 8*125 5/5/99 11,000 1/3/00 8,880 9,669 6,698 2,000 2,500 12,794 20/& 12/6 17,800 0 12 0 76 17 6 2,181 17 11 221 305 7 1 884 3,430 " 5,195 6,375 607 2,99a 25/1/00 j 6,000 20/3/00 6,800 7/2/67 4,800 8/11/99 6,500 31/10/99 I 5,000 10/7/99 ; 5,800 10/10/98 ■ 3,725 22/3/99 : 2,275 30/7/92 ' 28,225 19/4/99 : 14,000 2/11/99 2,000 28/10/01 3,000 25/5/99 8,800 28/6/01 4,100 4/3/95 700 20/2/00 6,350 10/10/98 , 5,300 25/5/00 : 5,896 24/2/00 i 10,000 20/7/99 ! 7,800 1,956 1,015 4,800 4,906 5,000 5,800 2,356 2,275 6,753 13,886 1,500 886 8,800 2,788 630 786 5,300 5,896 9,494 7,800 1,500 2,200 2,000 2,000 1,200 1,000 225 21,472 6,000 500 2,200 900 300 1*700 2,000 3,000 I 7,500 0 12 6 9,000 0 8 0 16 300 0 0 8,500 10 0 7,000 10 0 7,000 10 0 3,725 10 0 2,500 10 0 5,649 5 0 0 14,000 50/and20/ 2,000 10/and20/ 3,000 0 6 0 10,000 10 0 5,000 Various 1,000 0 18 0 6,350 0 3 6 7,000 1 0 0 5,896 10 0 12,000 10 0 10,800 110 0 1,793 13 9 1,705 0 0 1,594 10 0 50 0 0 114 10 0 125 144 7 144 62 126 23 7 180 108 7 43 254 7 30 127 160 95 202 220 3 6 7 9 7 25 16 7 16 8 7,010 509 598 1,470 14,894 4,566 808 1,947 3*657 1,652 189 1,948 2,301 21 5,576 58,847 17,620 17 3,129 7,497 14,147 6,410 687 1,922 693 27,151 3,756 7,902 8,851 4,155 8,432 73,691 25,148 1,163 845 12,341 2,112 5,799 554 13,882 6,798 8,139 10,261 13,581 375 5*600 36. Nil. 229 75. 1,195 915 1,778 700 Nil. 398 143 700 630 499 Nil. Nil. 71 494 2,900 2,033 14 0 0 1,000 288 0 0 325 1 6 6 1*750 505 15 9 8 7 8 8 4*375 295
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Name of Company. Amount valiip nf Sprin Number Quantity and Value of Gold or Date of a lihapr , hpfl of pivm, to SW? Number Amount ".S" Number Silver produced since "a*r °" ssx SS* ■slssa? psSL Arrears of Calls - «£* em °&. ssjs-r paid up. nocasftpa,d. piesent. - Quantity. Value. Total Expenditure since Total Amount of Dividends paid. Amount of Debts owing by Company. Quantity. Value. OTAGO DISTRICT— continued. Alpine Consols Dredging Co. (Ltd.) Bendigo Tailings Syndicate (No Liability) Gold Deposit Dredging Co. (Ltd.) Lawrence Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Success Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Alpine No. 2 Gold-dredging Co. "(Ltd.) .. Golden Glen Dredging Co. (Ltd.) Clyde Dredging Co. (Ltd.) Globe Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Cbarlton Valley Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Great Beach Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.).. Waiora Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Big Beach Hydraulic Sluicing Co. (Ltd.) Eoxburgh Jubilee Dredging Co. (Ltd.).. Lafrancbi's Freehold Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Kawarau Consolidated Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Upper Magnetic Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Waipori King Gold dredging Co. (Ltd.) Golden Horseshoe Dredging Co. (Ltd.) Morven Ferry Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Vinegar Hill Hydraulic Sluicing Co. (Ltd.) Mount Buster Mining Co. (Ltd.) New Half-way House Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. Great Central Dredging Co. (Ltd.) Manorburn Gold dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. Charlton Creek Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Enterprise Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Golden Ripple Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Earnscleugh No. 3 Dredging and Electric Power Co. (Ltd.) Inch Valley Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. Matau Dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. Paul's Beach Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.).. Inchdale Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Coal Creek Flat Dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. Last Chance Hydraulic Sluicing, Elevating, and Dredging Co. (Ltd.) Fourteen-mile Beach Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.).. Waikaka United Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Gentle Annie Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Sandy Point Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Tirnaburn Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Sneddon's Waikaka Freehold Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Gibbston Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) 19/5/99 5/12/01 14/12/99 ] 1/10/99 16/7/97 1/5/99 23/2/00 17/5/95 31/1/00 7/4/00 17/1/01 7/2/00 3/10/99 22/11/99 15/3/00 20/9/99 31/7/99 10/7/00 16/1/00 11/1/00 23/9/00 20/4/96 25/11/01 24/8/99 28/1/96 5/5/99 24/8/91 28/2/00 10/3/99 £ 5,500 12,000 6.800 450 2,400 5,300 10,000 6,000 3,450 6,000 6,500 6,350 750 8,500 8,000 5,600 8,000 5,000 8,000 7,000 6,000 6,480 4,000 8,000 3,000 4,000 7,000 8,200 19,585 5,500 140 6,055 450 2,400 5,300 7,319 4,848 3,282 3,817 1,817 4,388 550 8,293 4,858 5,281 8,000 1,922 6,497 6,031 6,000 £ 2,000 7,033 1,800 1,050 825 2,000 150 700 1,000 2,000 1,650 600 3,500 4,000 1,900 1,600 7,500 12,000 6,800 1,500 2,400 6,125 12,000 6,000 3,450 6,000 6,500 8,000 1,350 12,000 8,000 7,500 . 9,600 5,000 10,000 9,000 6,000 216 4,000 10,000 3,000 5,000 7,000 10,000 23,085 £ s. a.| £ s. d. 10 0 0 19 0 Various 744 15 0 10 0 10 0 10 0 10 0 2,680 14 0 Various 554 10 0 10 0 168 0 0 10 0 1,138 9 8 0 7 0 458 6 0 10 0 1,922 5 0 0 10 0 125 5 0 10 0 206 16 1 10 0 3,141 15 11 10 0 62 0 0 10 0 Various 578 5 0 10 0 1,503 10 0 10 0 136 5 9 10 0! '20 0 O 1 0 0 I 406 0 0 1 0 0 j 285 15 0 10 0 10 0 10 0 0 5 0 507 12 6 10 0 465 9 0 169 6 137 21 23 121 160 81 43 130 125 152 26 212 163 131 180 100 142 118 10 13 136 153 7 83 142 173 139 8 3 1 7 7 8 7 6 Oz. 500 1,234 4,755 681 8,894 '273 £ 1,930 4,758 18,327 2,634 34,342 1,675 l^053 £ 9,555 130 8,396 4,641 13,282 7,753 7,287 16,708 5,512 3,598 1,943 4,991 1,755 6,680 4,027 5,332 9,033 2,120 5,785 5,703 145 2,314 3,251 8,852 16,286 12,375 26,733 1,355 23,056 £ 825 6,720 306 16,100 £ 2,125 100 3,131 106 179 200 11 208 1,000 950 202 606 312 95 1,000 900 1,500 380 7 165 541 508 20 1,138 1,342 458 267 7 1,025 1 8 2 1 6 18 21 73 2,000 2,000 3,594 8,661 3,000 4,000 3,500 1,542 19,120 4,320 2,000 9 5 1 8 1 7 14 1,436 50 3,634 2,240 8,580 5,529 191 14,497 8,743 33,091 3^456 2,250 2,875 8,213 i|6oo 3,500 3,500 15 15/9/98 16/10/97 29/11/99 8/2/00 18/9/99 27/7/99 2,600 6,200 7,500 5,500 7,000 7,833 2,600 6,200 5,492 4,842 6,896 4,427 2,400 5,000 7,000 7,500 7,000 9,000 9,775 10 0 10 0 10 0 347 10 0 10 0 180 0 0 10 0 104 0 0 0 14 0 46 123 126 104 180 103 7 8 8 7 1 14 1,854 5,643 393 272 7,140 21,768 1,481 1,045 7,854 14,437 6,897 6,338 11,889 3,779 1,500 11,725 194 256 220 1,252 228 53 1,500 1,500 2,000 3,300 "808 3,141 25/10/98 11/2/99 4/10/99 31/10/99 9/9/01 26/4/00 16.000 4,200 6,900 7,000 1,500 4,318 13,400 3,275 6,893 7,000 861 3,801 2,600 6,500 1,600 700 2,500 2,182 16,000 11,200 8,500 7,700 4,000 6,500 10 0 10 0 425 0 0 10 0 7 10 0 10 0 0 15 0 401 2 6 10 0 517 7 0 243 26 182 14 21 25 12 18 io i 492 1,026 1,89.3 3,951 5,996 18 1,524 16,301 6,947 6,519 6,623 861 5,139 919 309 44 7,096 1,065 1,863 5 417 19/9/99 8,000 5,853 1,600 8,000 I 1 0 0 I 546 14 0 190 5,790 1,098
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Name of Company. Date of Amount Value of Scrip t °. Subscribed r °L., given to ShareS~- capita!. gg, NiiTnh Quantity and Value of Gold or Number Amount of Sharp Number Silver produced since of Shares paid up Arrears of Calls, i,.,?™", of Men Kegistration. allotted, per Share. noldeis at employed. j present. Quantity. Value. Tntai T?vr»Ar.ai Total Amount of TO t\ne^rce di - Amount erf DebtSowing Kegistration. D1 ™ s j Col^ nvy . j egisi Value. otago d: STRICTcontinued. Alexandra Bonanza Gold-dredging and Sluicing Co. (Ltd.) Horseshoe Bend Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Skipper's S'uicing Company (Ltd.) Gold King Dredging Co. (Ltd.) Kelly and Casey Beach Dredging Co. (Ltd.) Lady Charlton Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) New Star Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) Sealer's Creek Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Glenrock Consolidated (Ltd.) Bakery Flat Sluicing Co. (Ltd.) South Island Prospecting Company (Ltd.) Paterson's Freehold Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. Broad Creek Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Pile-up Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) River Molyneux Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Golden Mile Dredging Co. (Ltd.) Shotover Quartz-mining Co. (No Liability) Prince Artbur Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Riley's Beach Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Gold Queen Dredging Co. (Ltd.) Prince Albert Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Golden Molyneux Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Malone's Beach Dredging Co. (Ltd.) Junction Waikaka Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Moonlight Sluicing Co. (Ltd.) Eraser River Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Ruby Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Local Industry Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) Extended Fourteen-mile Beach Gold-dredging Co. (Lid.) Maori Gold-dredging Company (Ltd.) Cromwell Proprietary Gold-mining Company (Ltd.) Central Electric Gold-dredging Company (Ltd.) Waimumu Queen Dredging Company (Ltd) Waikaka Queen Gold-dredging Company (Ltd.).. MacCharlton Gold-dredging Company (Ltd) Royal Waimumu Gold-dredging Company (Ltd.) Waikaka Gold-dredging Company (Ltd.) Victoria Waimumu Gold-dredging Company (Ltd.) Undaunted Gold-mining Company (Ltd.) Mataura Consolidated Gold-dredging Company (Ltd.) Maori Point Gold-dredging Company (Ltd.) King Edward Gold-mining Company (Ltd.) Midas Gold-mining Company (Ltd.) 5/9/99 £ 27,000 £ 9,987 £ 3,000 21,393 ! £ p. d. 12/ & 11/ £ s. d. 1,131 10 0 Oz. £ £ 11,587 £ £ 916 148 60 24/1/00 30/7/97 22/1/00 15/9/99 12/2/00 16/5/01 20/12/98 1/7/95 10/9/96 16/6/00 15/7/99 6/4/00 13/9/00 14/10/99 13/11/99 9/3/98 13/2/00 22/2/01 3/2/99 22/1/00 19/1/00 3/4/00 10/10/00 14/5/94 6/9/01 20/2/00 21/10/91 16/5/00 6,000 4,742 8,000 8,295 11,000 14,727 3,222 45,000 2,500 2,500 8,000 5,400 5,200 11,000 5,800 6,000 12,000 7,875 7,000 6,000 6,500 8,500 5,100 2,000 150 6,500 1,500 8,500 3,824 4,725 7,276 8,263 8,483 648 802 45,000 1,888 1,634 4,997 4,241 2,961 8,953 5,252 4,500 551 4,075 6,975 5,538 2,090 1,639 1,653 1,451 8 4,146 1,184 924 2,000 2,500 2,200 2,000 13,254 1,165 300 2,500 4,000 1,600 1,800 2,000 1,500 1,500 1,500 4,500 2,000 2,000 2,000 2,000 8,000 3,952 10,500 10,495 13,000 14,727 3,222 450,007 2,500 5,000 12,000 7,000 7,000 11,000 7,300 24,000 7,500 9,000 9,000 8,000 8,500 10,500 5,100 2,000 150 8,500 1,500 11,000 10 0 10 0 10 0 10 0 0 16 6 0 0 8 10 0 0 10 0 0 17 6 0 15 0 0 14 6 10 0 0 17 0 10 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 6 0 17 0 10 0 10 0 Various 0 12 0 0 12 0 Various 0 10 10 0 0 17 4 Various 2,175 18 0 724 5 0 32 10 0 43 17 6 74 12 4 173 13 3 4,687 3 6 240 12 6 802 19 0 1,158 17 0 1,459 1 6 47 10 0 548 10 0 128 23 230 215 295 54 60 1,400 29 41 40 109 105 203 131 38 116 72 223 147 126 11m 42 26 126 12 105 8 8 8 8 6 25 16 9 1 1 11 416 66 41 239 10,859 1,929 1,178 9 1,576 255 164 939 42,973 7,319 4,954 34 6,991 6,219 7,473 9.292 9; 361 904 1,845 ■ 39,997 8,108 1,911 12,069 4,047 2,573 8,981 5,747 5,669 642 4,919 12,078 6,942 2,676 649 751 4,104 442 4,176 12,247 611 1,063 600 3,202 346 409 655 452 78 1,106 289 413 132 10,086 1,218 1,040 269 866 202 95 915 2,382 382 1,300 26 529 474 500 1,774 31 Nil. 1,249 0 0 2,092 15 0 361 1,375 88 0 0 1.485 10 0 .,486 5 0 1,407 10 0 98 15 0 8 7 3 1 767 17 64 450 4 1 1,055 4,067 1,100 2^000 2,354 5 0 116 10 0 776 0 0 2,500 5 2 3,083 11,867 1,350 26/9/99 22/12/97 5,000 100,000 5,000 2,537 300 5,300 100,000 10 0 10 0 13 15 0 11 24 1 1 711 4,815 2,737 18,408 5,175 5,652 1,063 160 8/5/99 21/6/99 6/7/99 3/12/00 6/10/00 9/5/00 7/9/00 28/4/99 15/1/01 6,000 5,200 5,510 6,000 5,500 4,900 4,065 2,795 1,345 6,000 4,517 5,439 988j 3,516 4,476! 2,78l| 1,259 566 1,000 1,800 1,050 1,000 1,600 2,000 1,750 4,650 7,000 5,200 5,510 6,000 5,500 4,900 4,065 2,795 5,995 100 Various Various Various Various Various Various Various Various 163 5 0 70 12 6 1,112 10 0 608 15 0 423 15 0 673 18 0 730 15 0 170 19 6 250 55 132 51 62 59 52 75 57 8 8 8 8 1 562 1,175 269 148 2,146 4,623 1,035 570 9,956 9,044 7,862 994 3,701 4,973 2,693 7,700 1,359 2,167 1,629 1,461 2,511 1,669 2,063. 4,264 851 443 23 l^737 89 2/9/01 22/6/01 9/10/99 3,025 910 2,383 1,896 706 1,502 1,300 3,000 1,500 3,025 3,910 3,883 0 12 0 Various Various 181 5 0 43 15 0 220 16 8 40 31 89 9 11 44 1,360 1,122 1,489 I .. 50 283 153 •• i Totals 1,735,500 J 1,749,921 1,022,319 570,473 3,350,208 90,098 8 10 23,912 1,271 320,073 1,229,860 363,277 165,611 Grand totals 2,193,545 13,765,517 1,906.895! 1,160,511 7,569,032 174,886 13 6 42,876 2,121 576,059 3,447,957 628,049 281,574
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Name of Company. „ t f Amount Amount uate or of Value of Scrip Number paid up timi of" Subscribed Capita given to Share- of Shares per nffi Capital, actually holders on which ou Colonial share: YvTww P aid U P no Casu P aid - Kegister. Colonial *-' olony, in Colony. Eegister. Arrears of Calls: Col onial Eegister. Number of Shareholders on Colonial Kegister. Quantity and Value of Gold or Number of Silver produced since Men Keoistration. T ° tal Expendiernployed ture since in Registration. Colony. Quantity. Value. Total Amount of Dividends paid in Colony. Amount of Debts owing by Company. AUCKL AND DIS iTRICT. Mahara Royal (Ltd.) Karaka (Ltd.) Thames-Hauraki Goldfields (Ltd.) Union-Waihi Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) .. Ohinemuri Syndicate (Ltd.) New' Zealand Crown Mines Co. (Ltd.) .. Waihi Grand Junction Gold Co. (Ltd.) Golden Pah (Hauraki) (Ltd.) Waitaia Gold-mines (Ltd.) Hauraki Gold-mining Co. -/3/97 -/5/97 6/6/96 20/11/95 4/3/96 27/6/96 22/12/97 7/8/96 16/7/96 2/4/95 £ 275,000 149,081 51,918 200,000 155,000 59,727 £ 2,253 £ 100,000 20,000 100,000 112,500 22,500 20,000 8,750 £ 26,624 1,382 20,201 35,379 6,529 £ s. d. 10 0 10 0 10 0 10 0 10 0 10 0 10 0 £ s. d. •• 155 39 282 118 34 2 Oz. 22 ,'685 11,877 81 28,375 26,579 7,215 133,214 121,302 28,580 315,159 61,228 24,164 12,029 114,685 £ £ 42 Nil 3,282 2,631 66 856 •• 2,260 6 235 55 14 23 50 129,488 490 1,374 91,399 245,436 308,093 1,513 4,028 279,225 633,192 3,499 40,000 20,250 700 0 26 •• 'so 2 •■ ! 4 Nil •■ Totals 930,726 I 111,065 710 385 844,155 3,499 6,881 6,559 383,750 .. Greymouth Lagoons Gold-dredging Co. (No. Lia- -/7/01 ! 17,325 bilitj) Totals .. .. .. .. .. 17,325 NELSON DISTRICT (INCLUDING WEST COAST). 22 ; 8,000 2,630 4/and 1/ ! .. 5 ' l : i 22 8,000 2,630 .. .. 5 t 7,362 307 17,325 ! I 5 9.. 7,362 .. 307 I OTAGO DISTRICT. iO DISTRl ICT. 44,356 .. 835 44,356 .. 835 895,873 3,499 8,023 O.P.Q. (Waipori) Gold-mines (Ltd ) .. ... 1/4/97 Totals Grand Totals .. .. .. .. 948,051 6,581 391,750 113,695 .. .. 715 I ■■ I 2 3,920 14,754 2 3,920 14,754 715 396 249,356 647,946 ..
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THE GOLDFIELDS OF NEW ZEALAND: REPORT ON ROADS, WATER-RACES, MINING MACHINERY, AND OTHER WORKS IN CONNECTION WITH MINING., Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1902 Session I, C-03
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