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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 7 of 8

Mining Board (From the S. M. Herald)

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Thursday 15 October 1874 · page 2

MEMBERS PRESENT : Messrs. Baker, W. Brown, Copeland, Griffin, Mongan, Sweeney, and Thomson. The Chairman, Mr. H. A. Thomson, took…

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Gulgong Mining Report

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Tuesday 20 October 1874 · page 2

Messrs. Edwin Kile and mate have discovered payable gold beyond Kennedy’s Creek, distant from Tallewang about six miles. We were shown a nugget weighing…

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Hill End Mining News. (From the Times)

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Tuesday 20 October 1874 · page 2

THE aspect of affairs in the mines remains unchanged since last report, but there is no further retrogressions, although, on passing from Hill End to the Turon, one is still…

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Mining Board

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Thursday 22 October 1874 · page 2

YESTERDAY (says the Herald) the Board met at their room, Colonial Secretary’s Offices. Present—Mr. Thompson (in the chair), Messrs. Baker (secretary), Sweeney, Mongan,…

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Gulgong Mining Report

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Thursday 22 October 1874 · page 2

Messrs. Joseph Manlinson and party have applied for a lease of twelve acres of auriferous ground at the Three-Mile. Soon after this goldfield was opened, many of the miners…

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The Palmer River Goldfields. (From the Cooktown Herald)

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Thursday 22 October 1874 · page 2

A CORRESPONDENT writing from Palmersville under date September 21st, says:— “ I have been here but a few weeks, and during that period have spoken to many of…

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Gulgong Mining Report

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Tuesday 27 October 1874 · page 2

In the Great Extended Company’s [?] of the Black Lend they continue to make good progress with their work. We learn that they are now putting in a tunnel to the…

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Gulgong Mining Report

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Thursday 29 October 1874 · page 2

[?] and party, have applied to learn three [?] of ground a short distance westerly from [?]- Manlinson and Company’s reef, at the old Three…

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Gulgong Mining Report

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Saturday 31 October 1874 · page 2

Messes. Gaffney and party, Tallewaug, finished crushing about eighty loads of cement at Messrs. Cottle and Son’s Union Battery on Thursday. We understand they…

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Gulgong Mining Report

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Tuesday 3 November 1874 · page 2

Messrs. T. Miller, T. Daw, B. Spearman, and J. Lynch have given notice of their intention to apply for a lease of six acres of auriferous ground at the Three-Mile…

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Mining Board. —Thursday

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Tuesday 3 November 1874 · page 3

THE board met yesterday morning, in response to a special call, at their rooms, Colonial Secretary’s office. Present—Mr. Thomason (in the chair), Messrs. Baker…

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Gulgong Mining Report

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Thursday 5 November 1874 · page 2

Messrs. Cottle and Sons at the Union Battery, Reedy Creek, are still engaged upon the dirt from block off No. 22, Blade Lead. When this lot is finished we learn that they…

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Mining Board

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Saturday 7 November 1874 · page 2

MEMBERS present : Messrs. Baker, Copeland, Griffin, Mongan, Roman, Sweeny, and Thompson (chairman). A letter was read from the Under-Secretary…

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Gulgong Mining Report

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Saturday 7 November 1874 · page 2

The prospectors near the lagoon, on the Perseverance line of gold, are now down 120 feet, and they expect to have to sink 25 feet further before they get on to the bottom…

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The Mining Act—a Puzzle. (To the Editor of the Gulgong Argus)

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Saturday 7 November 1874 · page 2

SIR,—A few weeks ago my attention was attracted to an advertisement in the Sydney Morning Herald which read as follows :— “The Donkey Puzzle, instructive ingenious…

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Victorian Mining News

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Thursday 12 November 1874 · page 2

THERE are rumors (says the[?] Advertiser) of another large nugget having been gold at Ballarat within the last fortnight by a miner resident in Creswick, and lately…

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Gulgong Mining Report

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Tuesday 17 November 1874 · page 2

The shareholders in No. 2 Black Lead now have to grass 150 loads of washdirty, which they think will yield about eight pennyweights weights to the load. This claim has now…

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Gulgong Mining Report

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Thursday 19 November 1874 · page 2

The, Escort left on Tuesday, Taking some thing more than two thousand [?] for the fortnight, and between eye and six thousand for the month. These facts go to prove the…

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Gulgong Mining Report

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Saturday 21 November 1874 · page 2

The recent rush to ground east of the old Star Lead is. not likely to prove so good as it was first supposed to be. The prospectors, is compantivaly shallow ground, found a…

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Gulgong Mining Report

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

ON Tuesday Messrs. Court and. party reported payable gold, at the rate of seven pennyweights to the load, in their prospecting area, between the Star and Helvetia…

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