LOGAN VERSUS ALLDREAD & PARTY.
To the Editor qf the Cromwell Argus.
Sir, —The numerous readers of your valuable paper in this neighbourhood are indebted to you for the very complete report of the above case which you gave in your last issue. It has been read with attention by many, as the case is one yvhich has been looked upon with great interest by the miners hero. 1 do not wish to offer any opinion as to the legality or otherwise of the decision given by the Warden, arid in reference to the amount of damages awarded by the assessors, I must say that they, if anything, were in the defendants’ favour ; but I think that it is a very hard case, and one for which some remedy might have been found without compelling them to discontinue their sluicing operations entirely. They arc hard-working men, and have worked at their claim for some months without as yet getting any return. They paid a high price for the ground, and rented water from the Aurora Company for the purpose of working it ; they have spent a considerable sum of money on the claim j from the published evidence they clearly offered to do all in their power to secure the complainants from damage arising from the;r
workings ; and now they arc compelled to doslat, when they were in a fair way of at length obtaining what promised to bo a reiUUUcrativil return for their labour and capital. And Ire it remembered that the surplus ground which th« defendants wish to clear away would not noW take more than sixteen days’ sluicing. They would thou be,enabled to reach tho lead, ami obtain aceess to the numerous drives at the bottom of the deep shafts which have been sunk on tho spur. They have thoroughly touted the ground by means of these drives, ami know almost ex* actly to avhat extent the ground will pay them. Trusting that some method which will enable Mr Logan and Alldread and party to work Lrt harmony will yet he arranged between them, t am, &o„ MiMku. Bendigo, April 9th, 1870.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 22, 13 April 1870, Page 5
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354LOGAN VERSUS ALLDREAD & PARTY. Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 22, 13 April 1870, Page 5
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