THE HEART OF OAK Q.M. CO.

Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 117, 6 February 1872, Page 5

THE HEART OF OAK Q.M. CO.

To the E lit or nj the (Jruiwsli, Audi's, j Sir, —In your rep n-t last, week of the result i of the crusliiugs of die Btar of the East ami | Heart of Oak Companies, after stating the yield of gold from the Heart of Oak, you seem to : have gratuitously gone out of your way to acj count for the larger average by saying, —“ The I larger yield of gold is accounted for by the fact that a considerable portion of the stone was ; picked, whilst that of the Star was shot into the ipa block just as it came from the reef.” Now, i Sir, to this assertion, 1, as working manager of the claim, give a m ist emphatic denial. About I seventy tons of the stone was taken from a heap | of between two and three hundred tons ; the rei mainder was taken from where the men wore | then working, and, as you say, shot into the ; paddock ; but the stone was crushed precisely I as it came from the face, and not a pound of I stone was laid aside. Do you call this picking? 1 believe results to be the best criterion to judge ! from :( T p to this time the Heart of Oak lias : crushed ‘2901 tons of stone, with a yield .of 905 ; o/.s. of gold, or an average of 5 ozs. 4 dwts. 8 j grs. per ton ; the last crushing was not up to > die average, whilst the Star of the East had a ! much larger yield per ton than it ever had bej fore. If stone was picked, Ido not think it was | by the Heart of Oak. I I mitst say, Sir, from whatever source you do [ rive your information, it certainly is not reliable: jto wit, —a pump costing ,11250, the battery of I ten heads being able to crush 190 tons per week, jand other absurdities. 1 think it would not be | too much to ask that in a report of this kind, ; your c whoever he may be, should 1 understand something of what he was writing i about, and give a fairly reliable report. Ido i not think it will at all matter in this neighbourI hood, as the returns of the claim will always ; prove its value ; but as this is now a registered I company, and probably shares in the market, I j believe that those distorted reports will have a 1 tendency to injure the company, and depreciate 1 the value of its scrip ; and I must protest against I the tone of your article all through, as trying to j exalt one company at the expense of another. | Trusting you will insert this i a your next, I lam, .to., Joski'h Siinn.n, l Working Manager, Heart of Oak. | Cnrrick Range, Ecb. a. [Our statement that the larger yield from the Heart of Oak claim was accounts I fur by the fact that a portion of the stun s was picked, may have been incorrect, but it was not published with any intention of uepieei.uing me claim i i public estimation nor do wo think it can have ; any such effect: the prestige of the claim is too | firmly established to be so easily damaged. Mr 1 Shield, in the seemi 1 paragraph of his letter, siufply contradicts the statements as to the cost of pH.iipln 0 -siiaebinery and the (juauaty lof stone the double battery was estimated *<» i crush -per week, were taken down by ns from ! his owu tips, —and if. ao be now assets, those j statonn.ids were “ absurdities," Mr Shield can ;sc i reel vhe regarded .as a reliable - authority on such matters.—Ei>.]

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