GOLD SAVING APPARATUS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 317, 26 March 1875, Page 3

GOLD SAVING APPARATUS.

" A' bo?;tjs of £250 was voted"- Inst session of- the Provincial? Council for the'best gold-saving apparatus in connection with." hydraulic mining. The ;conditions, advertised in the.' G;izette 'apppar to have been framed with great a caution that is able if it does not prove an entirfeclefeasal cfJ.he-object the Counei. had in view. The following points are to be kept ill: view : -f. -J.** L- ; . : ,1. jThe cost of the 'apparatus as it appears on the plan, and its portable cost and tear and wear.

2 The readiness with which it en.n be set cured in any part of ataril.race,, and bp moved from one point to another : .T.nd asjaiu securad.' 3. Its adaptaoil ty to the ciffireiit widths and fa'ls of tail .races' usell in'diffcranfc districts, to the" varying quantities of .water used either by; choice/or iriecas^ifcy. fpr-vflnshirig: the' isanie, and to the different kinds:of washdirt from which gold is obtained in ; the Pfojince.j o -i

•So far so good. and pro'p'o--8al s; a're to'be Vtiiuiiif i'ed""t'o a body of judges,, comprtsed of.x'xperjjenced miners, "alid RUch other persons as his Hono:* the Superintendent may api point up, .to.the first day- bf August next:—. ' • -- • -

.-.lff/in. ,tli3 judges appointed, a'riy'plan shall appear to be worthy of adoption by the'miners in this Province, the Goyeniment.unJcrfcakes to fnrnish copies of the same to eacli of the Mining Associations in the PiMviuea with; full instructions as tq.jintenty}ri;=i „of/the. inyeutor3,: and. the pavmaiit of T.he bonud will tlicn be determined in the following maririer, :J payment being due within eight•months'ffofn'tii'e date at which" the-'co-p e9 of. the plans and instructions have bsen issued to ther various-Mining Associations':— "By fact of the'apparatus being used by at least twenty-live sluicing companies in t!ie .•.emp!o.ying / aii average of at ieast five men each, .far the period of six: month*',.an l ; tji3 i'ltentioii of thaiaathj .companies t;> continue the use thereof; such fact an<l such intention bjiug ; verified' by theaffiVraatioir ) l)ef ; :/re a Warden; of ; or representatives such. Companies. In Ihe event jof, two or more pi an 3 being .considered yorthy-of atrial, theftovernment will cl«t ermine in what manner the competition shall be carried on, and the best plan discovered. '' ' '

. As the bonus is only intended t o,stimulate inventive genius; every inventor may reap a further benefit fromhis'invention if lie tliink tit, by taking-out a patent.

Payment is due within, cjigbt -months from the. date, &o. 'I bis:, must be a blunder. 'J he intent ion-vis -evidentlv ,'J.ight,months aflrr, &.c,, v!!: By the advex-tis-ement. the bonus '.could be-quite posai before .the■■ Associations were communicated with at ail. Tiifs A'ory stringent' pracliral,coiidition""real!y means that no bonus shall be pay-? ablg the 'shortest .date—--'J-.M'j* 1876, culation an inventor wou'd have to construct twciuf or more tciil' boxes—each, if .likely to be of effect: at a .cosk of; at, leak'fc £2o andlhunt" about for companies who would* throw o,verbpard tjitej/, avMffiCinanAgerM'- :faVorile plans, and- swear to tie'them's^lves; to:a/Tie^"mfth'od.; ; ; ! "Thisi would require a I<irge : &»tlay'-''bfHirae' -aud money. Slill, i? it. eoii 1 .dojie,. it ; waiild- be a ; ' mt r iriu : ilip'liantLjiroof of the viri ue of the ?.ew bps.j ... N,<> ,c)oubt a difficulty was experienced.in framing these con" djtimis are not_ solelj> responsible for,- aft 'they a vailed Jl?i' rns iil V(! ?.-0f every (>pport unity to:obtain practical. Suggestions as to the ~sha[»e-the take. Pos-. 1 sibly'the'GoveiMnneht ifiight be induced fo give u[ii yvhat'ive jearjg Jlie "white-elephant-'of the 'scheme—the acceptance for six months, and-a. promise for }jv e '.^l..';)V®My>?v,e 1 ,-KOb)panles ;v cmploying five men each.- , ;'l his.is, especially bard, as ,; ery few of the largest and most productive- hydraulic claims—wherefrom £IOOO to £SOOO has been sunk in plant^pmpipy five men on an .^y^T l once a .year at wash. ' fttjMip. r The hydraulic should .have-suggested that it is the/ivaicr, not•.ikftunen-;- that works the- (•ki ! in; > - : The Goverrtmenf^"'frial'Atonl'luc'tVrt by th ir-. own ( fficers, .selected.-from tho.-e who. : are ; r. cq a? .0 olrl fieltt s would be au--}WBj)ie .test., and justify t*'o vote of\,l3r^ f .C%riV'i!,' -'which w-?s •tn ore-fo■ si im frlal6' ; "i'n fpji t ioti gei 1 era 11 v fcbati td; devdlb]) ,! \