GIVE IT A FAIR TRIAL.

Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 682, 2 June 1870, Page 4

GIVE IT A FAIR TRIAL.

[TO, THE EDITOR.] Sir. — Will you? kindly iperinit, me to have a few words to say respecting the Moonlight Quartz : Mining . iCompany, Moonlight Creek/ Has it "had a fair trial ? Will it pay? To the? former of these questions I most' emphatically say "No." To the latter, if I were asked my opinion on the subject, ; to, use a vulgar phrase, . 1 would say j" it were more than a horse could tell.';' Now, to get a claim in working order, either quartz or alluvial, it is; absolutely necessary for; those in'- whoso hands the management of such claims rests, to set to work in lind workmanlike manner; to avail themselves — on behalf of the shareholders'iof that claim — of every facility which the situation of the mine affords. ~ Hay^e theyj as a company, adhered to system, a rule so ' essential in reefing ? certainly : not. Suppose you were to meet ;a party of . alluvial miners going up the "Grey River with sluice-boxes , on tfteirlshoiilders, and upon, inquiry they told you they were, going to woifc some auriferous country over the Saddle, and if they! were sue- 1 ,«essf ul in,get^g..payAble^oldi Jhe,boxe§ v "would .cpme. in. handy, would you not be rtifi&r Jb^iMhiied' to think- it Hv'a¥ 'dm .UDs^te'maticv'cdurae fto addpt iland per-. Baps you might venture to suggest. .the : pr&3prtgty pi deftyiag their, sluicing .gear at the Coal Pita until they got gold to pay them, and not until then, wojrld jtheir/ boxes come in handy. " as regard the' alluvial miner and his wooden-boxes, it is •''onlyisuposition ; but it is an un■ffi^^dlS|fcte%e|ting tha Moonlight; before they knew whether they were going to have a quartz or a sandstone

ree£ and it is to be regretted they were Uss forturiate than their brother fossiokers in "not nteeting some one to suggest to them also tq drop the,ir weighty ! burden ; at l the Coal ' Creekj'and' thereby' save a large amount of capital, which would be better applied in prospecting their claim. If we have a payable reef it would be madness to think of getting § fetui^cfr^.'it without the use of "proper ni^chinery.v But Ii askj- in the name of common sense, wliat is the use -of spending money on machinery until ,\ve have something, for the machine to do ? . ;Ifi ,th 6, ■ atfiourit j' expended: to , get"; the Moorilight Cbiripariy's plant standing as it is (idle), waiting for stone to crush, were.i expended, as it ought to have been, jS&y, in following 'the main^qdy of quartz by either shaft or tunnel, the mine would be in a healthier condition to day. ;;iThat there is a payable ojiartzjreef in] the company's ; claim there cannot be the slightest, doubt. But as long as they keep fossicking after surface leaders, the longer mil they have to wait for a handsome dividend. I am, <fee, i: ■■"■•■. --^ QUARTZ, The Govge,. Moonlight' Creek, ; May 25, 1870.