ADDISONS FLAT.

Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 989, 23 July 1872, Page 2

ADDISONS FLAT.

(fbom a cobbkspoxdent.) Milling affairs at Addison's are, so far as the large claims are cotfcerned, mostly in what may be called a progressive state, the owners being mostly engaged in driving tunnel", and very tedious and expensive articles they are, yet all seem satisfied with their prospects. Moran and party are reported to be making nine pounds per week. Next to them, Cole and party are nearly up with their second tunnel. This party worked a considerable i extent of ground which paid extremely well, with their first tunnel, but which was too shallow for some of their ground. Further o» Carmody and party have been Engaged bringing up a tunnel for nearly two years ; close to the Catholic Chapel they came on very bad dirt, and have had to make an open tail-race, for about GOO feet, they are now close up to the main road, they expect to be into good ground in two or three months. The two last mentioned speculations may be reckoned as certainties. On the Shamrock, Clarke and party who paid I £2OO for drainage, have been engaged for about nine months extending a tunnel, erecting working gear, and putting prospecting drains through their gjound, in which they have crossed two payable runs. There has been a singular case of attempting to jump the line of the long tunnel, which will likely be before the court in Westport. The long tunnel party, as mentioned, are engaged driving a tunnel 4000 feet long, having completed over 3500 feet, a party from Westport has marked and applied for a lease including their line of tunnel a little ahead of where they have driven up to. Our legislator seem never to have contemplated &vj tunnel longer than 1000 feet; so that they have been unable to get any protection for a requisite amount of ground to make their tunnel secure, unless they had leased ground on the whole length of tunnel, which would be a very expensive affair. There is a considerable difference of opinion regarding leasing, but I think that all parties are agreed that whenever any party have to expend a large amount of capital and labor they are entitled to a good extent of ground, whether it be in the shape of lease or claim. On the other hand, neither that portion of the public who are most in favor of leasing, nor the Government, ever intended that leases should be granted in such cases as that mentioned above, where the intention evidently is that the party who have neither expended labor or capital shall step in and reap the benefit of the capital and labor of those who have.