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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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