NOBEL’S DYNAMITE.

Cromwell Argus, Volume XVII, Issue 836, 21 April 1885, Page 3

NOBEL’S DYNAMITE.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Having just returned from a visit to the Auckland Goldfields, and finding you have recently had a Mr Organ here, trying to introduce his explosives, I think it well to give the relative working of his and Nobel’s up north. Some few years ago Mr Organ’s predecessor, the late esteemed Mr Gault, when he visited Auckland, represented that despite complaints against his previously supplied articles the shipment just then landed had little smoke, without annoyance therefrom, and was generally superior to any other dynamite. This parcel was tried, and soon found by mine managers and users to have no such merits. Hence its use was discontinued. When Mr Organ next came, some sixteen months ago, he condemned this once so called superior parcel, some of which has since been sacrificed as unfit for use. The balance is now ll a separate magazine, the keeper having been

instructed by someone interested not to send it out to customers; and on Mr Organ’s visit to the mines he admitted previous shipments were defective, but that now what had just come was good, samples from which he conducted experiments, and managers and men at Thames and Te Aroha thought that this was really a better article. To whom I replied in effect, I wish you to use it, and test it properly for a little, and I am satisfied what the result will soon be, that yon will not be long before you have recourse to your old tried explosive, Nobel’s. This was done, and the result was nearly without exception what I had predicted. Only recently, mine managers at Te Aroha of the' Colonist* New Find, Diamond Gully, and other claims, informed me what I had before stated was the case : that they again soon had to use Nobel’s. Some four months ago Mr Organ again visited the Thames, and conducted further experiments at Caledonian, Deep Level, Golden Crown, and other mines, lie these experiments, managers lately told me they were satisfactory, which led them yet once again to try his dynamite. They were doubtless anxious to use it, as the agents for it are connected in various wavs with these claims ; but while an odd case proved satisfactory, with others it was quite the reverse —burning in the holes, stinking and annoying, and hindering not a little. Being unable after a patient trial to rely on getting the results which the representative got from samples, they were again compelled to use only Nobel’s—the long tried article in the use of which there are no such varied and unsatisfactory results, there being significant reasons why it is more reliable and uniform, the same in strength and purity as when first manufactured, in that all is made under the strict and direct supervision of the Imperial Government, and their rigid tests to which every ton is subjected, coupled with the superior and patented machinery employed to ma ufacture the same, guarantee that it will not fail to meet the above tests. • moal s.yv Despite Mr Organ’s untiring efforts, his Auckland agents sell large quantities of Nobel’s, whilst his own remains in great measure untouched in the magazines. The Auckland'experience has been verified all over New Zealand, including this district, where Mr Gault some time ago also tried to introduce his Company’s goods, claiming merits for them which experience soon found to be contrary to fact; and if they be again tried here, as may be the case, we feel there will soon be but the one result, and that a recourse to Nobel’s Glasgow brands which have borne the hard, varied, extensive, and long tests about fourteen years, and held the premier position so we think we have little to fear from any rival brands. Especially so as we mow haves, stock, and shall have a regular supply of our Patented Blasting Gelatine, which is taking well. Water having no effect on it, is more expansive, slower in action, and more than a third stronger than dynamite, and quite as safe ; also, less smoke from it, and it remains soft when all other nitro-glycerine compounds are frozen, it freezing only at a very low temperature, and pronounced by disinterested experts to be the industrial explosive of the future.—l am, yours, etc., Samuel Gorman. Queenstown, April 14, 1885.