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Doc. 151.] 417
REPLY FROM FAHL UN .
for after the trial has been made any part of the Assessor’s
process which has proved useful, may be adopted.
5. The Assessor may rest assured that in the trial to be
made by the mining district, the usual process shall be followed
without change, as it is supposed to be the best, until an
other process be proved to be better.
6. As soon as convenient, and as soon as the Board of
Mines can agree with the Assessor upon a surer basis by
which to compute the compensation, than what has been
proposed, they are willing that the trial on both sides should
begin.
7. How far two trials can be supposed to give certainty
as to the difference and the increased yield in copper, the
Board of Mines give their; opinion in their consideration of
paragraph 13.
8. The eighth point of the memorial treats of the same
subject, wherefore it also is considered in the same place.
9. It is a little doubtful, why the Assessor insists that
the trial should consist of about 10 skeppund or more, lest
an objection might be made in the computation of the in
crease, should it be based on a trial made on a small scale :
for, as is well known, the mining district consists for the most
part of such miners as are unable to smelt more at a time
than from four to five skeppund, and many even less. If
then the increase be correct, it must be the same whether
made on a large or small scale ; and if it be not so, the
basis of its computation is false, and can only be approxi
mated with the greatest inconvenience and trouble.
10. The ideas of the Board of Mines are, that when the
trial is made, the Assessor himself must be present, and
take the same ore as the persons of the mining district,
and indeed from the same lot, heap upon heap, both from
the better and the inferior sort. The Assessor also must
make arrangements so as to receive coal by one of his
own men, this matter being so important, that by all means
possible every suspicion of unfairness should be avoided, and all
dispositions be made, so that the security which both parties
seek may not be lost in sundry objections and difficulties.
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