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

Mining & the mines, 1874

152 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 4 of 8

Another Fatal Accident in Byers and Holtermann’s Mine

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

At about one o’clock p.m. on Thursday the [?] intelligence was received in town than another miner had been killed in [?] and Hotelmann's mine. In this…

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Merendee Mining

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

LEANING OAK CREEK.— This place is situated About seven miles on the Mudgee side of Merendee, and seventeen miles from Mudgee. From Gulgong it is about thirty…

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Gulgong Mining Report

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

Messrs. Seratehley, M’Gillivary and party have applied to register a reservoir, 800 yards extent, at the new rush at Tallewang, as well as the right to cut a race half a mile long…

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Gulgong Mining Report

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

THE arrival of a Mining Surveyor in this district is an event that promises excellent results. Mr. MacFarlane has instructions to proceed at once with surveying the mineral…

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Report of the Alluvial Mining Regulations Committee

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

The following is the report of Alluvial Mining Regulations Committe, whose code of alluvial regulations will be discussed next week :—…

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Home Rule Mining Report. (From the Home Rule Pilot)

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

The new prospecting party on the east of the Buchanan are getting down with their shaft, but the sinking is hard in parts and progress is necessarily slow. The spot chosen is very…

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Gulgong Mining Report

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

THERE is now a [?] that [?] will be done to [?] operator the large [?] of [?] ground that has been locked up and exempted from mining [?] during…

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Mining Board. (From the S. M. Herald.)

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

Present :—Mr. Baker, Mr. Copeland, Mr. De C Browne, Mr. W. Brown, Mr. Burns, Mr. Eddy, Mr. Griffin, Mr. Mongan, Mr. Roman, Mr. Sweeney, and Mr…

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Mining Board. (From the S. M. Herald.)

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Tuesday 21 July 1874 · page 4

[?] Messrs. Baker, [?] De [?] W. Brown, Burns, Eddy, [?] Nengan, Roman, Sweeney, and [?]…

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Gulgong Mining Report

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

From Baxter’s paddock we learn that the sharaholders in No. 2 have had a washing of 497 loads with a yields of 700 ounces of gold and that the owners of No. 1 washed 430…

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Gulgong Mining Report

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Saturday 25 July 1874 · page 2

MESSRS. M’Leary, Scott, Johnson, and Lester have given notice that they intend to apply for a lease of two acres of abandoned alluvial ground on the Red Lead, lying about…

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Mining Board. Reg [?] S. M. Herald.)

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Saturday 25 July 1874 · page 4

PRESENT : Messrs, Baker, D. C. Browne, [?] Burns. Copsland, Eddy, Griffin, [?] and Thomson. Yet Ca[?] (Mr. H. A. Thomson.)…

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Mining Board. (From the Sydney Morning Herald)

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Saturday 25 July 1874 · page 2

Present : Messrs. Baker, De C. Browne, W. Brown, Burns, Copeland, Eddy, Griffin. Mongan. Roman, Sweeney, and Thomson. The Chairman, Mr. H. A. Thomson, took…

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Home Rule. (From the “Pilot.”) Mining Report

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Saturday 25 July 1874 · page 4

OUR, report to-day must necessarily be brief ; on while [?] it is an all-sufficing reason till somebody invents a machine for making mining news to order, whether it happens to…

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The Palmer River Gold - FIELDS. (From the Cooktown Herald, July 8th.)

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Saturday 25 July 1874 · page 2

OWING to the courtesy of the Hon. W. Yaldwyn, M.L.O., who arrived on Friday evening from the Palmer gold-fields, we are enabled to place before our readers the…

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Gulgong Mining Report

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Saturday 1 August 1874 · page 2

THE ground upon the Happy Valley Lead near Homer’s paddock continues to be shepherded, and several shafts an in the course of being put down. Messrs. Anderson and…

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Gulgong Mining Report

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Tuesday 4 August 1874 · page 2

WE are happy to learn that work has now been recommenced on the old Moonlight Lead with good earnest. Messrs. Morris and party have been working in No. 2 for about…

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MR. A. Fyfe on the Palmer Goldfields. (From the Cooktown Courier.)

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Tuesday 4 August 1874 · page 2

A PUBLIC meeting was held at the Cosmopolitan Hotel on Tuesday last to hear an account of the Palmer goldfields from Mr. Fyfe, and to consider the advisability of…

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Gulgong Mining Report

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Thursday 6 August 1874 · page 2

Messrs. John Ross, Robert Riddell, and John Campbell have given notice of their intention to apply for a lease of six acres of alluvial ground at the Home Rule, under…

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