VINCENT GOLD DREDGING COMPANY. TO THE EDITOR.

Otago Witness, Issue 2402, 15 March 1900, Page 21

VINCENT GOLD DREDGING COMPANY. TO THE EDITOR.

Sir, — Your own correspondent at Clyde, under date February 28, referring to mining, states, inter alia, anent the Vincent Gold Dredging Company, that three-parts of the ground has been worked, so that nothing veiy sensational need be expected from the claim henceforth. As your correspondent's statements are altogether contrary to fact, I pray - you will permit me to rebut what has been written. I take it, your correspondent wishes to convey to your readers that three-fourths of the claim referred to has been worked, whereas, little more than half has been touched, and,_ when we reach bottom of that portion, we aie assured of returns greater even than those already yielded. It would be rather a crushing blow to the Vincent Dredging Company if your correspondent's opinions were based on substantial grounds, but fortunately we have the opinion of experts, and our own officers, who laugh at this vain attempt to depreciate a very valuable property. J feel assured, Sir, that yoii will, with your usual courtesy, grant an opportunity of refuting what can only be termed, in the face of the facts, a wilful misrepresentation of the merits of a claim, seemingly for the purpose of depreciating the value of stock which at holds a foremost position. My name, which is attached hereto, is sufficient guarantee that I would not be a party to booming a wild cat under any circumstances, nor will it be said that I permitted a misstatement to pass unchallenged. — I am, etc., Investor.

Dunedin, March 5, 1900.

[We are satisfied that there is no justification for the imputation of unworthy motives to our correspondent. — Ed.]