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Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 112, 2 January 1872, Page 4

The history of the Thames Goldfields, in the Province of Auckland, should be instructive to the miners in the Garrick District of Otago. We say to the miners, and speculators generally, take warning in time. We have much faith in the auriferous resources of the Garrick Range; but can scarcely believe in the unlimited credulity of some of the shareholders. We ask, how much to the ton will pay'? Experience alone can give us reliable data. We shall therefore make an extract from a most reliable journal—the Thames Guardian and Mining Recorder. It suggests to our minds that the proper and effective treatment of tailings,—which has been greatly neglected in this district hitherto, —should now be attended to, and would be, we think, attended with very profitable results. The Berdan is not unknown in this district: it is well known to practical miners who have seen the real work in the mines of California, Australia, and New Zealand. The experience of the Thames reefers should be sufficient for those who are doing in this district the pioneer work effected by those who opened up the Thames Goldfield. The true and complete extraction of gold from its matrix is a problem still, —and Dr Hector, and his scientific assistants, have not solved it. We think the following portion of an official report by Mr Skey, as to the treatment of “ tailings” from crushing-machines at the Thames, and the results thereof, are most applicable to the circumstances of this district:—• AS TO TREATMENT OF TAILINGS. Mr Skey narrates the precautions he used in sampling the tailings, which, with two or three exceptions, was done under his immediate personal superintendence. “Only two or three samples were taken from the settling-pits, as tailings so deposited would be more than usually concentrated, and so vitiate the results of their analysis. The rest of the tailings were collected, either from the large heaps which had accumulated in the yards round various batteries, or else directly from the shoots discharging these, while the batteries were at work. ” The heaps were each sampled from twenty or thirty different places, on all exposed sides live or six inches below the surface. “ All samples were well mixed, and dried before examination. The results given, therefore, refer to the respective samples when air-dried.” Of the two plans of sampling, Mr Skey prefers that from the shoot, allhough more tedious, as the aualyist “can albw with more certamty for the proportion of fine substances carried away by the water.” Hiving stated these preliminaries, Mr Skey proceeds to detail the mode of determining the yield of gold afforded by re-amalgamation of tailings He used a hand Berdan, similar in shape to the ordinary ones, and fixed at about the usual inclination. No chemical agent was used in amalgamation by the Berdan. The whole of the quicksilver was retorted off from the several amalgams obtained, and no leather was used, as the use of leather “ must have seriously effected the correctness of the returns.” The results of careful and honest rnani pnlation of “ tailings” will be seen from ( perusal of the following returns, which ap peir in the report above referred to : Results of the Analysis of certain of the Goh Alloys referred to in the fast, showing tin proportion of Gold to Silver and othc Metals.

Mr Skoy continues Restricted .as I necessarily was, in the on an tity of alloy for analysis. I was unable to deter mine the percentage of any other metal possihl; present along with the gold and silver, but wit! reference to the quantity of these. 1 believe it t he uniformly small. As a general rule, the em

ployment of cynanido of potassium in the amalgamation, raised the proportion of silver to that of gold in the resulting amalgam. The above are all payable results. The tailings from the batteries on the Carriok Range should yield a far higher per centage of profits, because the gold is of a much finer quality than that procured at the Thames reefs. We believe that a judicious control over the crushing machines, and due superintendence over the Berdan, (for the saving of the fine gold), —will result in much pecuniary success and remunerative compensation to all who are concerned in the present monetary exexpenditure. Let the Uarrick take example by the Thames.

4 THE CROMWELL ARGUS. SALE BY PUBLIC AUCTION. take place in the evening round the blaz- — ing and crackling logs that fill the huge jl TR BARRY will sell by public auction 1VL at Mr MARSH’S Bridge Hotel, on fire-places, when the song, the dance, and HROMWELL KILWINNING \J LODGE (S.C.) the merry parlour-games are all joined in THURSDAY, the 4th January, at two o’clock. with such zest. These are associations * ..— One Spring Cart and Harness, Two Horses, and which are never to be forgotten, and all An Emergency Meeting ef the above Lodge an assortment of Men’s and Boys’ Clothing. conspire to make us look back with loving will be held on THURSDAY Evening, tbe 4tb ■January, at 7.39 sharp. tenderness on the Christmas Davs we have PUBLIC NOTICE. spent in the land from which we are now Business : Installation of Officers. — so far distant, and to regret the severance BANQUET after tbe Installation. rriHE NEVIS FERRY PUNT will X be TAKEN OUT for REPAIRS, on the 27 th January instant, for one week only. A small BOAT will ply during the time the of our connection with it and the many By order of tbe R W.M. friends we left behind. We trust that the year which is now 1JNITED BANNOCKBURN CO. A meeting of tbe Shareholders in tbe above numbered with its eighteen hundred and Pant is undergoing the necessary repairs. W. EDWARDS, Proprietor. seventy predecessors has been one of prosperity with most of our readers ; with all Company w>ll take place at Richards’s Bannockwe cannot reasonably suppose it to have been so. Some will have to look back on the burn Hotel on SATURDAY, the 6th. January 1872, at 8 p.m. All Shareholders are requested T7I0R SALE, OR TO LET, with immeJ- diate possession, a ONE-FIFTH SHARE year 1870 with sorrow as a period in which they have lost relations, friends, position, to attend. this world’s possessions ; while others have F. SHAMBROOK. in a WATER RACE) CLAIM, &c., situated at perhaps advanced in prosperity and been ITT ANTED— ' TEAMS to convey Wool Kawarau Gorge. successful in all their undertakings. But this is a time when all sorrowful feelings For terms or particulars, apply to ' ? 1 from Pembroke to Dunedin. Apply to JOHN TO WAN, should be thrown aside, —when those who THEODORE RUSSELL, Grove Farm, Cromwell, have been unsuccessful in the past should 13 Lake Wanaka. hopefully look forward in anticipation of brighter days. We hope we shall many times have occasion to greet those who ANTED TO LET OR SELL, with 1 OST, in Cromwell, a Deposit Receipt IJ (Bank of New South Wales) for £30, V immediate possession, the PROVINCIAL have read obr few remarks to : day ; and to HOTEL, Logantown. Apply to marked FDR 11/1025, and dated 9th January, wish them “ A Merry Christmas and a BRIAN HEBDEN, 1870. The finder will be rewarded on leaving Happy New Year,” Bendigo. the document at the Bank of New South Wales, The history of the Thames Goldfields, in T ETT’S DIARIES FOR 1872, FULL SUPPLY. Cromwell. the Province of Auckland, should be instructive to the miners in the Garrick Dis■JVTOTTCE is Hereby Given that the i-vl PARTNERSHIP heretofore subsisting heI. HALLENSTEIN AND CO. trict of Otago. We say to the miners, and tween the undersigned WM. GEORGE SMITH speculators generally, take warning in time. TRY and CHARLES O’DONNELL, both of Bendigo We have much faith in the auriferous reIfARSH’S ADELAIDE WINE J31 IF YOU WANT A TREAT. 89 Gully, in the Province of Otago, carrying on business there in co-partnership, as Hotelkeepers sources of the Garrick Range; but can scarcely believe in the unlimited credulity of some of the shareholders. A. W. ALLANBY, and Storekeepers, under the style or firm of We ask, how much to the ton will pay'? “Smith and O’Donnell,” has been this day Experience alone can give us reliable data. T> ARRISTER AND SOLICITOR, DISSOLVED by mutual consent. We shall therefore make an extract from a Jb All claims against the late firm will be dis. most reliable journal—the Thames GuarCROMWELL. charged by either of the late partners, and dian and Mining Recorder. It suggests to our minds that the proper and effective treatment of tailings,—which has been JUST ARRIVED, — FIRST-CLASS all debts due to the said late firm may bo paid a d CANVAS, to either of the said late partners. greatly neglected in this district hitherto, Dated this thirtieth day of December, 1871. —should now be attended to, and would be, Manufactured expressly for Slwcing. WM. G. SMITH. we think, attended with very profitable reJAMES TAYLOR, CHARLES O’DONNELL. suits. The Berdan is not unknown in this Cromwell Timber Yard. Witness to both signatures : district: it is well known to practical miners who have seen the real work in the A. W. Allanby, T710R SALE—Mr GEO. MANSON’S -1- STORE in Potter’s Gully, together with Solicitor, Cromwell, mines of California, Australia, and New Zealand. The experience of the Thames Stable, .Sheep-pen, Piggeries, &c. reefers should be sufficient for those who Foi a pushing business man an opening like the above seldom occurs. 12 JOHN RICHARDS, are doing in this district the pioneer work §#sanwll effected by those who opened up the Thames Goldfield. The true and complete extraction of gold from its matrix is a problem Proprietor of the ipANNOCKBURN HOTEL & STORE, J3 ■ AND OF AND NORTHERN GOLD-FIELDS GAZETTE. still, —and Dr Hector, and his scientific assistants, have not solved it. We think the following portion of an official report by Mr Skey, as to the treatment of “ tailings” from crushing-machines at the Thames, and the results thereof, are most applicable to the circumstances of this district:—• ■ — CROMWELL: TUESDAY, JAN. 2, 1872. RICHARDS’S FERRY, BANNOCKBURN, Being anxious to retire from business, offers FOR SALE the whole of his PROPERTY, which will be disposed of either in one lot, or Christmas Day, 1871, has come round and passed into the long calendar of days which are never to return ; —quietly, perhaps, yet not without its share of. the separately, to suit purchasers. The Property Comprises ; . 1 The BANNOCKBURN HOTEL, situate at charms and fond recollections it possesses for all Enalish men and women. Though AS TO TREATMENT OF TAILINGS. Mr Skey narrates the precautions he used in sampling the tailings, which, with two or three the junction of the Ferry Roads, and fronting the road to Garrick Range and Nevis. The house contains a spacious Hall for public separated by a vast expanse of the great exceptions, was done under his immediate perwatery waste from the land which they call Home, they do not forget the happy days of their childhood, and, above all sonal superintendence. “Only two or three samples were taken from the settling-pits, as tailings so deposited would be more than usually concentrated, and so vitiate the results of their rooms, five Bed-rooms, Bar-room, and every accommodation for carrying on a large business. Attached to the Hotel is a substan-tially-built Stable ; also, Stockyard, Shedsothers, the Christmas Days spent in the analysis. The rest of the tailings were collected, land their memory holds dear. Many are the thoughts which crowd upon the minds of numbers of our colonists at this hal either from the large heaps which had accumulated in the yards round various batteries, or else directly from the shoots discharging these, while the batteries were at work. ” The heaps were and other out-buildings. lowed season; thoughts that carry them each sampled from twenty or thirty different 2 The GENERAL STORE, now doing a large, away (in imagination) to where kind and places, on all exposed sides live or six inches lucrative, and steady trade, established upwards of four years ; together with the loving relatives are assembled together by the blazing yule-fire, affectionately speakhdow the surface. “ All samples were well mixed, and dried before examination. The results given, therefore, refer to the respective .Stock-In-Trade, including Soft; Goods, ing of the absent ones in far-distant lands, samples when air-dried.” Of the two plans of Provisions, Hardware, and every variety of and longing for their return, if only for sampling, Mr Skey prefers that from the shoot, goods required in a mining district 3. The BAKERY k BUTCHERY BUSINESS, the briefest possible period, to the family alihough more tedious, as the aualyist “can circle which regrets their absence. At allow with more certamty for the proportion of fine substances carried away by the water.” with Baker’s Oven, Butcher’s Shop, and all this season, more than at any other, the Hiving stated these preliminaries, Mr Skey pronecessary appliances. spirit of affection for absent kindred seems cesds to detail the mode of determining the yield The SELF-ACTING PUNT, BOAT, and to rise strong in men’s breasts, and the of gold afforded by re-amalgamation of tailings GEAR belonging to the Upper Ferry. 5. An Eighth Share in the ELIZABETH longing to see the loved faces of those who in early life were companions and assoH« used a hand Berdan, similar in shape to the ordinary ones, and fixed at about the usual inclination. No chemical agent was used in amah Quartz-Mining Company, Garrick Range,— ciates is almost irrepressible. Christmas ganation by the Berdan. The whole of the acknowledged to he one of the best mining Day is especially attractive to English quicksilver was retorted off from the several properties in the Province. 0. FRUIT GARDEN, comprising an acre of ground, substantially fenced, and plauted with Fruit Trees of all descriptions. people ; our Scotch friends do not experience the same pleasurable feelings and tender recollections which begin to well up at its approach in the breasts of Engamalgams obtained, and no leather was used, as the use of leather “ must have seriously effected the correctness of the returns.” The results of careful and honest manipulation of “ tailings” will be seen from a The only reason for wishing to dispose of the lishrnen, —wherever they may be. And pe-usal of the following returns, which apabove Properties, is that Mr Richards, having the absence of these sentiments does not peir in the report above referred to :— been in the district since the outbreak of the arise from any lack of feeling in the nature kesults of the Analysis of certain of the Cold Dunstan Rush, is now desirous of retiring altoof Scotchmen ; but simply from the fact Alloys referred to in the fast, showing the gether from active business. that they can look back upon none of the proportion of Gold to Silver and othci happy associations of Christmas time so common in England :—the happy re-union Metals. New Advertisements, Pet-centage of Gold. Per-centage of Silver, &c of families perhaps long separated ; the anxiously looked-for return of joyous schoolboys, home for the vacation, will 43 2 53 4 o(r8 46 6 45-4 537 54-6 46 3 VI DUCAT I ON \L MEETINGS. —The J[_J Statutory AN NUAL M EETINGS for the 48 1 56-4 51 0 43-6 40 6 57-1 50-4 42 0 their merry faces and pleasant chatter ; 497 57 3 50 -3 427 ELECTION of SCHOOL COM MITT EES wil 1 the hearty welcoming of numerous prett\ 50-2 60 6 49'8 39 4