CARRICTON.
—o—(FROM OUR CORRF.SrOKDKN-T.) Now, of the Elizabeth it may be asserted again what I have so often maintained that it is, without doubt, the best claim yet discovered on the Garrick Range. From the quantity of stone that can hr easily raised, and its paying quality, effective machinery only is requisite to place its scrip high in the market. But the battery at present in connection with the claim is like a jibbing horse, it won’t and can’t be made to go. The boiler refuses to generate steam, the stampers are ton light to crush the quartz, the vibration may be compared to that of a kettle-drum, and by some mysterious car.se or other, 4S hours consecutive work is -what may be wished for but not obtained. Dissatisfaction in such a case may be considered rife, and what between alteration of the management and stoppages, the claim and its battery has become a byword on the hill. A new programme is now being carried out. A re-trial of the stone is being made—fifty tons being carted to the Royal Standard battery, to see if the tables of the present battery are losing gold but this trial will he as unsatisfactory, and leave the shareholders as much in ignorance—lf to test, be the object, the quality of the stone—as heretofore, for the two following reasons. First, the trial crushing is not fairly taken the stone being picked. Second, the gratings on the Company’s machine are one hundred, those on the Standard one hundred ‘and twenty one.
So I must let the Bnyal claim remain, and wait with patience for better days and returns to chronicle. [ can commend the Company for one thing. They have obtained the services of a gentleman, Mr - P. H, M,Ardell to superintend their claim and plant, who is perhaps, inferior to few, far the position he occupies in this or the adjoining colonics Their last crushing of 77 tons, yielded 55oss. lodwts.
[The remainder of this letter, we are compelled to hold over till next issne, on account of the lateness of thehonr it came to hand,—Ed. D.T.]
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Dunstan Times, Issue 517, 15 March 1872, Page 3
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