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Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 70, 23 March 1907, Page 4

TO CORRESPONDENTS,

Tiirn:2,\ — The "gieatest goM.muio in, the world" 13 eaid to ho tho Mount Sloi-gan, at RicMumptuii, Queensland. Nest, the Asi'i-c-nted GuKl Mines, at'Kalgoorlie, Western Austrjiia; mid thud, »ur ovm Waihi. Th;s i« tlic clawlh-aticin made by Mr. J. H. Curio in lin able- work', "The Gold Mine* of tl>r> World," puWiolied in tho year 1893. Sir. Cuilc. visited South Africa, India, British CMumbln, Austj cilia, nnd New Zeulind, for inatcrial-j for his book. He slates that in the year 1883 tho Jfount Morgan mine- p'lid £1,100,000 in dividends, nnd that it lias tho rao»t perfect gold-extracting equipment ever erected. The Alaata-Treudv/cll, at Alaska, has, perhaps, tho largest etamp-miHing equipmint (6C~t> stamps, ns ngainst our Wa-lii'3 330). but it worlca very low-jrradc ore— woitli about 3 dollars per ton, one-h.ilf nf which sulllcn to cover all tho expenses of mining, etamflmilling, etc., leaving lull as profit to tho shareholders. "EHice-strpet."— No occasion, for publication. Tho public havo full confidence in, the Engineer. "A Resident on. the WaHacc street Section." — Will muke enquiry. ~"