✨ Water-races, Tuapeka Gold Fields
TABULATED STATEMENT OF RACES, &c., ON TUAPEKA GOLD FIELDS.
| NAME OF RACE. | SUB-DIVISIONS, AND WHERE SITUATE. | LENGTH. | WIDTH. | DEPTH. | FALL PER MILE. | CARRYING CAPACITY. | TOTAL COST. | FLUMES, OR AQUEDUCTS. | TUNNELS. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miles. | Feet. Inches. | Feet. Inches. | Feet. | Inches. Heads. | £ | Length. Height above Valley. How Constructed. | Length. Depth below Ridge. | ||
| Feet. Feet. | Feet. Feet. | ||||||||
| (A) Tuapeka Water Race { | From Waipori River to Tuapeka River. | 18 | 2 0 | 1 4 | 25 | 200 5 | } 4000 | (yards) 1000 3 to 100 Props and Girders | ... ... |
| Tuapeka River to Dam. | 10½ | 2 6 | 1 6 | 20 to 30 | 320 8 | ||||
| Dam to Blue Spur. | 3½ | 3 6 | 2 0 | 50 feet with drops. | 800 20 | ||||
| Branch of above | 32 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ||||
| (B) Hibernian Water Race { | Reedy Creek to Dam. | 19½ | 2 0 | 1 2 | 16 | ... 4 "avg. heads." | } 2000 | 854 10 to 24 Props and Girders | ... ... |
| Dam to Blue Spur. | 4 | 2 6 | 1 4 | 23 | ... 11 | 453 6 to 10 | ... ... | ||
| (C) Waipori and Blue Spur Water Race | Waipori to Blue Spur. | 40 | 2 6 | 1 2 | 16 | 350 ... | 4000 | ... ... ... | 300 20 |
| 100 20 | |||||||||
| (D) Perseverance | 20 | 1 6 | 1 3 | ... | 80 2 | 1800 | ... ... ... | ... ... | |
| (E) Blue Spur | 7 | 1 3 | 1 0 | ... | 50 ... | 500 | ... ... ... | ... ... | |
| (F) Nelson Company | Gabriel’s Creek to Blue Spur. | 3 | 1 3 | 1 2 | ... | 60 ... | 600 | ... ... ... | ... ... |
| (G) Heales & Hindie | From Gabriel’s and Tuapeka to Blue Spur | 7 | 1 6 | 1 2 | ... | 80 ... | 600 | ... ... ... | ... ... |
| (H) Strong & Co. | Gabriel’s to Blue Spur. | 3 | 2 0 | 1 6 | ... | 160 ... | 600 | ... ... ... | ... ... |
| (I) Livingston’s | From Munro’s Creek. | 3 | ... | ... | ... | ... | 600 | ... ... ... | ... ... |
| Note—All the above discharge their water at the Blue Spur. | |||||||||
| (J) Wetherstone Water Race Company { | From a tributary of the Waitahuna to the Wetherstone Dam. | 6 | 1 3 | 1 3 | 10 | 80 ... | 240 | } 684 Average, 30 Props and Girders cost £80 | ... ... |
| From Dam to Wetherstone. | 5 | 2 9 | 2 6 | 28 | 2000 ... | 500 | |||
| From Main Race to various Claims. | 15. | ... | ... | ... | 2000 ... | 150 | |||
| (K) Wetherstone Lower Water Race { | 8 | 2 0 | 1 6 | 5 | ... 2 | } 1000 | 250 33 ... | 200 20 | |
| ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 100 20 | 100 feet of cutting, 6 feet deep. | |||
| ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 100 6 | 1 mile solid rock cutting. | |||
| ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 80 10 | ... ... | |||
| (L) | From Waitahuna District. | 9 | 3 0 | 1 6 | Average, 20 | 300 ... | 1200 | 64 6 ... | 300 35 |
| ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 80 20 | 200 24 | |||
| ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 120 40 | ... ... | |||
| (M) No. 3 { | From Blackman’s Gully, N.E. of Wetherstone Gully, to Tuapeka Flat. | 0½ | 2 0 | 1 3 | ... | 150 ... | 50 | 40 20 ... | ... ... |
| (N) Blundell & Co. | 16 | 2 6 | 1 3 | 10 | 320 8 | 640 | ... ... ... | ... ... | |
| (O) Boland’s Race | Clark’s Flat to Hospital Flat. | 4 | 1 6 | 1 0 | ... | ... | ... | ... ... ... | ... ... |
C. W. ADAMS, Assistant Surveyor.
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Otago Provincial Gazette 1867, No 497
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- C. W. Adams, Assistant Surveyor