THE CHAMPION COPPER MINE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXII, Issue 174, 2 August 1898, Page 2

THE CHAMPION COPPER MINE.

To the Editor of "the Evening Mail." wSi7r~L presnme fche telegram from your foOOO be given to anybody for re-opening the Champion mine, but I renewed* re?wfc^ Oh was made time ago that should bo placed on the Est£ SUM?** b Tf" °f on the first 1000 tone of copper exported from the colony (no copper, then no bonus), and I did so on behalf of the proprietors of the Champion mine and of other holdera of mmiag leases in Aniseed Valley, and who have lately sold to a Melbourne syndicate. The request was made with a, view to assist that Syndicate in floating a powerful company with means enough to wW^ll?? 6 deP°aite which are • known fco be in the Properties, and this was qmte openly explained in my letter, v your correspondent's information is correct, it ia nnfortunate that the Government does not see its way to encourage m this reasonable manner velopment on a large scale cf a valuable industry involving the employment of a large amount of labour, an! which must be of great benefit to everyone in this distrust. One thing: about it strikes me, and that is the exceedingly unuauai promptness with which the iatternas ' ago the letter was written. I trust the I am, &0., . JAMES SCLANDERS. Neison, Aug. 2,1898.