West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Thursday 26 July 1917, page 4


MINING HEWS. TUCKABIA\NA.. REQUEST FOR STATE BATTERY. A request for the erection of a State battery at Tuckabianna is being forwarded *o the Minister ,for Mines by the prospec-. tors at that centre. Cue, it,-is pointed out, has the nearest ,privately-owned battery. where parcele may be 'properly treated. but that is distant some 18 or-20 miles from the :field. .1The ne.rest State - liill is at Tuckanarra, so ,that if. a- State mill. is erected at the spot indicated it will (says the "'Murchioon Times"). serve a fine line of auriferous country from Lake. Austini and the Island on the south, to Eelya on the` north. Several parcels of ore which cannot be handled at. anything -like- a reasonable profit under present conditions, are lying on the surface, and the Government will, it is asserted, not be doing its duty to the mining industry and the aiready much-neglected Muichison if it does not act quickly before the prospectors are starved off a promising field through .being unable to get:their"stone crushed. under conditions which will give them- a. fair proportion of their hard-won gold -BROAD ARROW. • A RIGH CLAIM. Eiicksen and Godfrey, of the Tara lease.crushed last. week 66 tons oft ore for 261oz. over the plates. - The sands assay 16 dw.t. 15gr., and the slimne 5dwt.?i2r. per ton. An-additional 996oz. 8dwt. was obtained by dollying, making the total yield 1,257oz. Several other handsome returns have been obtained froni this claim: in the past. It adjoins the -almost equally rich Oversight lease.