GREAT BARRIER GOLD AND SILVER COMPANY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11198, 19 October 1899, Page 6

GREAT BARRIER GOLD AND SILVER COMPANY.

TO THE EDITOR. f| Sir,— was only this morning that my'at?- if : tention was called to "Shareholder's" letter life in your issue of Monday, or I would cer- ; If taiuly have replied to it before, for I mil if not allow anyone to make such statement! J fei as the letter contains without calling him to pi account for his wild, unfounded remark § They are the disappointed waitings of 'is a shareholder who has lost hope in the future || of his mine. Now, it happens that I have, fe as the phrenologist would say, " hope largely ; §*' developed," and it is part of my mission to ll inspire others with hope, therefore I fay [1 "Shareholder" need not bo so cast down, r • for jf there is a supply of ore in the mine, |-1 note this, then the result of my work in con- [■ > nection with the Great Barrier Company's <|| ore has beon to increase the value of {]»';, property many thousands of pounds. || As far as my work is concerned, there a j no need for me to make excuses or to dwell %{ upon theory. I go only by results. Theory' |d is indispensable in preparing for practice, and p ' when practical methods have been arrived §§ at it still stands in close relation to practice |ri for the purpose of suggesting improvement!.} §3 These aro somotimes, in the case of untrained p-v. men, the result of chance, so to speak, bill |j| generally are the conclusions of reasoning on theoretical grounds. This is exactly itj .m case. Now, my dealing with the Barrior.on feg has been of some little assistance to mo in If'l this respect, and hence is some slight com- j pensation for my trouble. As a matter s! % fact, I did not* treat it all. I divided it intpj£s parcels, one of which, 10 tons, I carefully 111 treated. The balance, for reasons that need [■[;: not hero be given, I left entirely in the hands |l§ of the company's men to concentrate tot,- j.'*' which proved unsatisfactory. Had I dealt !/ i with the whole parcel as with the 10 toss," |i the return from the 39 tons would have been m. fully 80 per cent., as the following figures show :— October 14: Raw ore, gold 17dwt §jrf lOgr, silver 12oz 7dwt 20gr; same ore treated, f| 19dwt l'tgrs gold, 19oz Idwt 2gr silver; tail- " ings from treated ore, 3dwt 6gr gold, 4oz sdwt ! : m lOgr silver. These results have been con-; Ja firmed again and again, and no man who |l understands what he is talking about can do' |1 otherwise than agree with the highest metal-': fl lurgical authorities of England that tki.'pj thermo-jiyperphoric process is very successfill. I have no inclination to continue this || correspondence further, as it will servo no! ' useful purpose.—l am, etc., |j , ~ 0 , JOSEPH CASirBEIL,# M Auckland, October 18, 1899. M i