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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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