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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1874

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Gulgong Mining Report

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Tuesday 24 March 1874 · page 2

There are now between thirty and forty claims being worked on the Black Load and Happy Valley. Parties are working went of Herbor[?] and the ground is [?]…

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Gulgong Mining Report

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Thursday 26 March 1874 · page 2

THERE are three claims being worked in Homer’s paddock, and we regret to say that the indications are not so favourable as they were fortnight ago. The shareholders in…

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Alluvial Mining at Parkes

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Saturday 28 March 1874 · page 2

IN consequence of St. Patrick’s day being generally kept as a holiday, there has not been so much done during this week as is usual. As the most interesting to our…

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Gulgong Mining Report

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Tuesday 31 March 1874 · page 2

MESSRS, WILLIAM GAMAI and party have applied for a lease of four acres of alluvial ground on the Black Lead. This includes the frontage and wings of. No. 32, so that, all…

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Gulgong Mining Report

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Thursday 2 April 1874 · page 2

WE regret to learn that mining affairs in Mr. Homer’s paddock do not look so promising as every one had reason to expect from the result of washing a few weeks ago. At that time it…

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Gulgong Mining Report

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Saturday 4 April 1874 · page 2

Messrs [?] BENNETT and party finished washing a lot of 80 loads at the pudding machine of Mr. Richard, below the Star of the West, on Thursday morning, and [?]…

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The New Mining Bill. (To the Editor of the Evening Argus.)

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Tuesday 7 April 1874 · page 2

SIR,—I see by a paragraph in your paper it is announced as likely that, at the meeting about to be held by Mr. Buchanan in your town to, as I understand, denounce the…

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Gulgong Mining Report

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Thursday 9 April 1874 · page 2

THE escort from this gold-field gives a very good indication of the vast resources of the place. It should be home in mind that the escort leaves Gulgong twice a month, and…

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Hill End Mining News. (From the Times.)

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Thursday 9 April 1874 · page 2

AN important mining case comes on for hearing again next Tuesday, and a great deal of interest is manifested in the result. We refer to the Lady Belmore, a claim which, through…

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Gulgong Mining Report

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Saturday 11 April 1874 · page 2

DURING the week a twenty-five-acre lease has been applied for of ground situated between the Star Lead and the Black Lead. At one time, two and a half years ago, when…

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Gulgong Mining Report

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Tuesday 14 April 1874 · page 2

IT is gratifying to know that the cement crushed at Mr. Sully’s machine last week, from the Great Extended Company’s Lease, yielded seven pennyweights to the ton. It…

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Gulgong Mining Report

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Thursday 16 April 1874 · page 2

THE mining at Cloudy Buy and in fact all the way through Rouses’s paddock up Ford’s Creek, and around to Glarier’s and Hutchinson’s paddock, still continue to…

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Gulgong Mining Report

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Saturday 18 April 1874 · page 2

THE METHOD of leasing auriferous ground, principally alluvial, still continues, and we hope that it may ultimately prove a successful one, for if capital is introduced to a…

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To the Miners of Gulgong

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Tuesday 21 April 1874 · page 2

GENTLEMEN,— I received the following letter from Grenfell. It will be for you to consider whether you think it advisable to form a branch of the Order here or not. Any…

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Gulgong Mining Report

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Tuesday 21 April 1874 · page 2

ON the Perseverance Lead mining is in a more prosperous state than at any time heretofore. There are already eleven claims on payable gold in the private ground, and it…

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A Mining Disturbance

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Thursday 23 April 1874 · page 2

FOR some, time past (says the Ballarat Courier) the North West-Company have been suspected by the Clarke’s Freehold Company of encroaching on their ground. Legal…

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Gulgong Mining Report

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Thursday 23 April 1874 · page 2

The ground on the Moonlight and vicinity is attracting much more attention than formerly. The fact that Messrs. Barnett, Morris, and party have been getting good payable gold…

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Gulgong Mining Report

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Tuesday 28 April 1874 · page 2

THE alluvial these recently app[?]ed for NO. 2, Star of the West, is north of the [?]octors . The prospectors on this lead in putting in their westerly drive about 100 feet, crossed a…

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Mining Entelligence. Gulgong Mining Report

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Thursday 30 April 1874 · page 2

THE only reefing claim now being worked upon the famous Red Hill is that of Messrs. Syme and Company on the first easterly slope of the hill. In their first shaft they had a…

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Gulgong Mining Report

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Tuesday 5 May 1874 · page 2

The shareholders in No. 3 Caledonian Lead finished a lot of 100 loads at Mr. Porter’s machine last week, and the result was satisfactory to the proprietors…

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