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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 6 of 8

Gulgong Mining Report

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Saturday 5 September 1874 · page 2

Messrs. Court, Phillips, Weight, and party have applied for a lease of three acres of alluvial ground situated at the Nil Desperandum Lead. The ground in this region is…

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Gulgong Mining Report

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Tuesday 8 September 1874 · page 2

In the Great Extended lease, matters having been arranged, the original company are now about to resume work. During the interim since the suspension of work the…

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Hill End Mining News. (From the Times)

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Tuesday 8 September 1874 · page 4

THE letter from the inhabitants of Hill End to the Minsiter for Mines, seeking an alteration in the present leasing system, is reclining numerous signatures and, if not…

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Gulgong Mining Report

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Thursday 10 September 1874 · page 2

THREE are nine claims in Mr. Rouse’s private ground on good gold. The shareholders in No. 9 obtained a prospect of fourteen penny weights to a tin dish on Monday. Some…

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Gulgong Mining Report

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Saturday 12 September 1874 · page 2

MESSRS. Cottle and Sons at the Union Battery, Reedy Creek, have been engaged during nearly the whole week in crusing a large lot of cemented wash dirt from the claim of…

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Gulgong Mining Report

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Tuesday 15 September 1874 · page 2

On the Happy Valley, the party inside Mr. Homer’s fence, adjoining the cavern claim, have been engaged since Saturday last in washing a lot of about 140 loads at the…

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Gulgong Mining Report

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Thursday 17 September 1874 · page 2

DURING the week but very little has been done on the various leads on account of the continuous rain. The ground is very soft, and carting washdirt is exceedingly difficult…

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Gulgong Mining Report

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Saturday 19 September 1874 · page 2

MESSRS. HUGHES and party, whose claim is situated between the Cavern shaft and Mr. Homer’s paddock fence, bottomed early in the week at a depth of 151 feet. They have…

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Gulgong Mining Report

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Tuesday 22 September 1874 · page 2

THE escort left this morning conveying 3178 on,19 dwts, and 13 grs.gold. This is the product of this goldfield for two weeks. The escort that left a fortnight ago took away…

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Gulgong Mining Report

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Thursday 24 September 1874 · page 2

THIRE apperars to be something like a manis for leasing large blocks of auriferous alluvial ground upon this gold-field. Scarcely a day pases but fresh application are made for…

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Gulgong Mining Report

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Saturday 26 September 1874 · page 2

SOMETHING is now being done by the Leased Claims Company on the celebrated Red -Hill. The main shaft in the company’s ground, notwithstanding it has been sunk to a great…

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Gulgong Mining Report

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Tuesday 29 September 1874 · page 2

On Saturday last there was quite a rush to ground not far distant from Mr. Robert McKay’s hotel on the Tallewang road. For several months past Demetrius, a Greek…

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Gulgong Mining Report

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Thursday 1 October 1874 · page 2

FOR more than a month considerable attention has been attracted to ground in Mr. Lowe’s paddock, adjoining that of Mr. Newton. This is not the Lowe’s paddock…

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Gulgong Mining Report

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Tuesday 6 October 1874 · page 2

IN our last report we mentioned that Messrs. Cawley and Ryan had given notice of an application to leave one acre of alluvial ground on the Black Lead. We omitted to state,…

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Gulgong Mining Report

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Thursday 8 October 1874 · page 2

Every preparation it being made for the storage of water at the different outside rushes far me daring the usual drought in summer. The continuance of the prosperity…

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Mining Board. (From the Evening Post.) Monday, Rewards for Heavy Work

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Thursday 8 October 1874 · page 2

MR. COPELAND moved,—“That the following resolution be signed by the chairman, and forwarded to the Honourable the Secretary for Mines :— ‘That this board would…

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Ashantee Goldfields

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Thursday 8 October 1874 · page 3

A CORRESPONDENT sends to the Ballarat Star the following :— “A gentleman wee-known on Ballarat wrote to the Imperial Government as soon as the wonderful richess of…

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Gulgong Mining Report

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Saturday 10 October 1874 · page 2

There are said to be two or three claims now on payable gold at the old Three-Mile. This rush was pretty good at the beginning, and quite a large township was built on the…

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The Palmer. (From the Correspondent of the Courier.) Oakey Creek, September 13. MINING

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Saturday 10 October 1874 · page 2

THE experience of every day affords additional evidence of the vast extent and great productiveness of this goldfield; but men can’t work month after month without the…

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Gulgong Mining Report

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Tuesday 13 October 1874 · page 2

Now that the warm weather has fairly set in we may expect some improvement in the general state of mining affairs. Ground that has during the last three months been…

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