THE THAMES GOLD-FIELDS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume V, Issue 1314, 1 February 1868, Page 6

THE THAMES GOLD-FIELDS.

To the Kditor of the HERALD. Sib, —I quite a«jree with you in ynr opinions rO3-jv-otinji tho necessity of getting companion established fur the purpose of fully developing the wenith conceded in tho hills at tne thumoa. in i.ine c out of till I fuily believe thtt the diggers are on their last legs for lack of funds, yet I lid.vonof.iho -lighU-st hesitation in stating that the right stuiF is there in abundance. What a few moneylo h individuals may fii.il to accomplish can ho successfully curried out by companies, and with larjje profits to nil coocern«d 'It 10 very nature of quartz-reefing lands to tho formu'ion of companies. Such has been the ca-o m California, and in Au-t-tilia, and the lhame-i will infallibly follow suit, l.ubor thus he carried on much more economically and systematicady than by it few ia'd-ttod individuals, if eomiintiies be formed, " Rnmton's patent tunnelling ina-hine " might be introduced with great eif cr. The maehin •ex avaN s a level seven feet, in diameter, and in limestone :m.kc\« a inogress of about twelve inches, and in gnmir. about sir inches per hour. Shaft.-Hiking oa:» also hi? uc.-otnplished by machines made upon this principle " X rron'ri " nt-.w* Amnrican invention for boring tor a .d obtaining water at any depth. might aleo be cecwfully adopted for tho purpose ->f providing a snlli"ient HUpply of watar fjr turbine o otbo wat.T wlwrln, as well* »is -for other purpose.--. 'i ho leaders of tho expedition have taken out, one hundr-d of these machines, as by their use a well can he bored in the sp'.ce of a few hour*, and a con stunt supply of water obt lined To those who have vi.-ited ilie < humcs one thu;< ui painfully evident and that id that much gol.i ha« been anil is being lost, m consequence of s?om ; defect in applying the quiets Ivor. lie who provides »i remedy will richly ve tho -thanks oi ihe.coni munity, and the everlasting graktule p l the miners. Whether tho r uchief ia in the water, in tho quartz, in th 1 * quicksilver, or in the ibodo of application, I know nor, but the mischief is certainly somewhere It irt possible that " Ulyekoff's'* process mignt have 'tho desired result. By that process the quartz is first reduced to the urmost possible d *gree of fineness, and then heated in connection with mercury, with alt water and nt p am. In this m inner a more enmpleie union of tho goti with the meicury is obtain -d than can be done by sodium or ai;y mollis. — I am, »V.e., Quaktzi