CORRESPONDENCE.
[We invite correspondence imoii useful subject*, nuc', within reasonable limits ani under recog nised rules our columns are open to everybody. We, however, desire it t.i be understood that wo i" no way idei.tify ourselves with {.tie ouin ions of correspondents.—Brevity wili be accoun ted a virtue. | Tie Last CliansD Gsiapany. TOTIIIt EDrTOR. Sra,—To a stranger—and not a mining 'xp"H —it seems almost a pity to see the L 31. Chance Company remove tlieir plant, etc., to the proposed new site witho.it testing from the present shafts the tround between said shafts and the teef on the Bi'sh Creek rule of the el aim. as, ia Victoria, where T have seen mVcx ot underground drives and workings, the comparatively few chains to he driven seem to me ;i mere bagatelle. If the present Company would only test this portion of their ground, where they have lone "good work so far," tht-ra is no donht capital and hacking would soon (lock to their support. The present site of the shaft and machinery is safe from floods, and to sink the shaft to proper depth, tap the lead, "and prove its anriferousaess," cannot cost many hun dred pounds. At 1.1)2 proposed new site of Operations a h'ttvy body of water i'; sure to be met with. I ask, sir, Would it not be best t > find the had fi-r*t where the water enn be grappled with? when, it justify, men and money will be forthcoming.—l am, etc., A Well-wisher. A Corcastion.
