THE WORKINGS IN PIPECLAY GULLY.

Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 174, 11 March 1873, Page 5

THE WORKINGS IN PIPECLAY GULLY.

To the Editor of the Cromwell Aimes. ! Sin,—Observing in your issue of the 4th iust. t, paragraph having reference to the late decisions given in the War,ion's Court, ami calculated, in i my opinion, to reflect discredit on a party of | slnicers in Pipeclay Gully, I, ns ore of the party ! alluded to, (there being no other party of slnicers n this portion of the gully), feel some surprise that a statement so utterly at variance with truth should have found a place iu your columns. It is stated that a party of slnicers latchj took up a claim there with the ostensible object of sluicing the drift in the bottom of the gul y, but | :n nullify to operate on the tailings from the ' tunnel-claims, &c. Now, Sir, ihc claim in question has been held 1 and worked by ns for six months past, and is indeed but a continuation of the work iu which we have been constantly engaged for the last six years : a sufficient proof of itself, I should fancy, of the payable nature of the ground. With respect to the tailings from the tunnelclaims, I can only characterise the idea as simply ■ ridiculous ; any disinterested person knowing : anything of the matter cannot but laugh at Ps absurdity : for 1 venture to assert (and my words , can be verified by anyone who will take the trouble of giving it a trial) that said tailings will : not yield two grains of gold to the ton. "With l truth might it he said that we could not make tucker at the job if we had to depend on that source for our supply ; but fortunately for ns. : such is not the case. The main bottom or pri- ; mitive formation of the gully has never been properly cleaned up ; old tail-races exist which I have never been cleaned out; and iu various places 1 ducks of solid ground occur ; —so that ; from these several sources the aggregate amount j of gohl obtained is sufficient to remunerate us I for our labour, and would do so for years to I come, if we were enabled to continue working it. ; Put as the gully will probably in a short time be : declared a public sludge channel, many hnn- ! deeds of pounds’ wo-'h of gold will in that event be hnred up and lost to the Colony. In conclusion, Mr Hduor, I will only add that you would have shown hotter judgment and j more courtesy if you had taken the trouble to : malic yourself acquainted with the plain and i -ample truths of the matter before giving publicity to a tissue of falsehoods. - ! am kc , Mown, PaunAim. Pipeclay Gully, March 6, 1373.