The Huntington Roller Mill.

Otago Witness, Issue 1970, 22 August 1889, Page 11

The Huntington Roller Mill.

and abortive inventions" meant to take- the place of tho stamp mill, does not this appeal to any average intelligence that he means to say his own invention is the only one which has not become a monument to the memory of abortive inventions ? At any rate I will undertake to Bay that there is no tombstone existing in the shape of a " Huntington mill," bnt I wM admit that there are many of these mjlls forming monuments of success. —l am, &c, Habry Wilson (of Parke and Lacey), Augußt 13, Mining Engineer. The Nenthorn Reefs. Editor Witness,—Sir: Of all the reports, truthful and otherwise, which have yet appeared" In the press regarding the above goldfield, commend me to that of your special reporter which appeared in your issue of the 15th inst. The report is a plain, straightforward, and unbiased statement of faots which all, but ospecially those smitten with the gambling mania, or whose hard-earned cash appears to be I " burning a hole in their pockets," siould do well to | consider. Ido not by any means wiah to run down | a promising goldfield which, as your reporter admits, has some redeeming points, jet beyond a doubt the vicious practices obtaining there at preient are juat as reported, and the sooner the public become 'alive to the fact, the better for the future welfare of too place. That there are some good and permanent raefs, and that others and possibly better may be discovered, there is every reason for believing; but meantime jet anyone who has not been on the field to see and judge for himself sit down and make a cool and calm calculation of all the circumstances, making a just and due allowance for an unlimited amount of '• blow "and "gas," and I feel convinced that; the only «ana conclusion he can come to is that "all that glitters is not gold," Jn Nenthorn any more than anywhere ele«.—Youro, &0., Naseby, August 19. J. S. Wakatipn Mining Notes. August 19.—There is very little to record since my lait, except that dredging olaims are being taken up on nearly every river and stream in the district, Aa predicted last week, there is a great deal of dissatisfaction, about the delay in laying off the holdings, owing to the fewness of surveyors. There is every promise that dredges will soon be put on the claims held by Jenkins and Chapman, on the Kawarau.andalsoontheHorseßhoeßendhoMing. Mr Blair has spent a considerable sum in prospecting his claim at Arthur's Point, nnd is so satisfied with the result that he has decided to put on a dredge aa [ soon ao possible. This is beginning to look like business, wo want to see '• more work, and less talk." Mr Warden Wood said in Quecnstown the other day, in reference to protection to claims, that he was determined not to grant protection for " speculative purposes," as there could be no reasonable delay in working the claims, seeing that the Big Beach claim had proved such a success. It is admitted that rea- | son&ble time Bhould be allowed to holders of this sort I of claim to enable them to get the necessary machinery, but it is sheer nonsense to give them 12 | months, as many of them have the assurance to ask for. It is (satisfactory to see that the Warden views the matter in this light. He told another applicant for protection that in the event of his not starting work on the expiry of the date mentioned in the protection, his claim would be cancelled. This applies, of course to holdings that are surveyed and granted. i !

Editor Witness,—Sir; Your correspondent "Quartz" in your issue of last week gives an extract which —on the lines that "a certain person " can quote even Scripture to suit himself—must be taken cum grano salis. In the first place he attempts to disparage the judgment of the gentleman who hag purchased the plant after personal and careful inspection, and has now taken delivery after an exhaustive test and trial. If "Quartz" and the public generally will only be patient and defer their judgment until they have eeen the Huntington mill at practical work on the claim it was purchased for, I have no doubt that the resnlts attained will lead them to the conclusion that the Huntington mill is as far in advance of the stamper battery, as ia the railway train in advance of the bullock dray; both the stamper and the bullock dray were (and in some remote instances, are) very useful, although very clow and ponderous; but in the struggle for the "survival of the fittest," both have gone and are going. The pi-oof that the stamper is going ia shown in the fact that up to the present there are 128 Huntington mills in practical work in the United States, 83 in the Australian colonies, and a considerable number (of which no particulars are to hand) in Sooth Africa and South America. As regards the quotation which "Quartz" makes from page 7 of one of the Huntington mill catalogues, will " Quartz " kindly say what catalogue it was, and by whom published, for I have carefully searched all the catalogues available, and fail to find any such passage. However, I will grant that your correspondent rezlly did find such a paragraph, but I must ask him, and any other intelligent reader, if there is not a context which totally alters the character of the paragraph. When Mr Huntington (the inventor) is made to say that " the debris of machinery, which extends from Maino to Mexico, furnishes monuments to the memory of defunct ]