BENDIGO.

Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 266, 15 December 1874, Page 6

BENDIGO.

(imOM OUR OWN COBRESPONDENT.) December 8, 1814.' " Some are bom great, some achieve greatness, others have greatness thrustupon them." The latter has been the case with Bendigo. The notoriety the place has acquired through the newspaper irneute on the subject of the Deep Level Company, will go far to draw public attention to it and its resources, and furnish the unusual spectacle of a bad intention tending to a good end. I consider the better a goldfield' is known, the greater its chances of success, and if the ravings of disappointed speculative editors will bring about the desired consummation in one case, why let them rave, say'L The Deep Level Company are proceeding vigorously with their work, A track has been made to the site of the tunnel, and the approach to the level is in a distance of 16 feet. It is being cut through a' sort of moraine. ! The face is now 17 feet, but ihis cutting, although heavy, will bring them sooner into solid country than if 'they had started hi the adjacent face of broken rock. There is a leader with fair prospects cropping at a distance of about 60 feet from the so that the company may be on gold sootier than was anticipated. ■ The Lucknow Company are still driving along the reef (?), but have not as yet, I ; am sorry to state, met with any quartz: the walls have a tremendous underlie, and from their appearance, I imagine no stone will be found until the fissure joins the Aurora,ieef, from which it evidently springs at a gteat depth. el I believe it is intended to float the fiew Aurora, and test it by a deep shaft. If (this is done, I have little doubt of success attending the spec. They have a reef six feei in width to on, which has ntver yielded less than 8 dwts. per ton, and wiich in any other place than Bendigo would njver have been abandoned. Wrightson, Logan, and Co. are pufcing down a new shaft on the Golden Crown,;the old one proving too wet for prospecting mrposes. They are down over 20 feet, but lave not yet met with anything startling, the adjacent claim, No. 10, will be commerced again in a few days. Mr Logan is interested in this one also. n A lease has been applied for on the lise and Shine reef, under the euphonious tit'| of tho "Eureka." It is oroposed to turner * <1 ■ .

prospect thereof by a tunnel into the.hUl above water level. I believe all #ie shares at present intended to be issued are taken up by local and Cromwell people.' The Reliance Company have not yet struck the reef, but according to a survey lately made, they cannot be far off. Shares in this compariyj owing to its contiguity to the Cromwell Company's ground, are up very bonsiderably in the marked The Energetic, adjoining the Reliance to the westward, will be shortly proceeded with. I believe it' is the intention,of the proprietors to test it by a tunnel at a very low level. ' The Cromwell Company continue taking out very rich stone. The last cake was 1400 ounces retorted gold.: The new stamper-box has replaced, the old one. There is plenty of stone for the two, and an abundant water supply, so that a yery rich {{ Christmas cake" indeed may'be expected, this year. ; It will be seen from the above that matters generally are looking up here, and I fancy, 'despite the melancholy prediction of the Guardian, that the Bendigo ranges are likely to be fully prospected after all, and it affords me much 1 pleasure to record this conviction, as I have ever been a staunch believer in the resources of : the place, i A few, wqrcls, ; oh tlie all-absorbing and ft dirty" topiprof the" day. There are Guardians and guardians. I have heard of guardians of the peace, who, in a certain colonial town, many years ago, used to stop inoffensive persons in the street after dark, and insult them. On the slightest retaliation they' knocked them down, arrested them, locked them up, and next day had them fined for disturbing the peace. As Sam ,Slick remarked, it was only "human natur" after all. The guardians received half the fines, and hence, according to Slick's philosophy, some slight excuse might be found for their little game. But what excuse can be framed for the Guardians of to-day, who, without the slightest provocation, insult and revile a whole community of inoffensive and respectable persons—aye, and would lock them up too if possible. Sam's idea will not hold good here. For human read Satanic, and a just estimate can be formed of the feelings which prompted the writers of two articles which were published lately in the Guardian and Daily Times of the 27th and 28th November respectively. The subject chosen was the conduct of Cromwell capitalists re the Bendigo Deep Level Company. The sometime rival editors were for once agreed, and decided to pitoh into poor Cromwell in a style which is, I am happy to say, unequalled for insolent blackguardism in the annals of colonial journalism. The rival editors may have been, nay, it is almost certain were, applicants for shares in the Deep Level, and being unable to dip their hands into this good thing, from the fact of all the shares having been allotted, decided to throw a wet blanket ,on the scheme. Hence the venomous articles which will for ever stand as monuments of what Otagon editors can do in the way of Billingsgate, and of the prostitution of a noble institution to serve mean, personal ends. It is all very well to talk of Dunedin capitalists being wroth as non-participators in the spec. I question if one of them felt very deeply when refused. The maxim of "- first come first served" was strictly adhered to in the allotment of shares, and as they, the capitalists, are mostly commercial men, they will understand that business done on this principle can be no other than honest. The fact is, the two writers discovered a perfect " mare's nest," and doubtless by this time feel that it would have been better to have made a little further enquiry into the subject ere they made asses of themselves, and laid themselves open to an action for slander. Poor Guardian ! poor Daily Times I you have made a terrible blunder, and done good unwittingly.