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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1849

15 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers

New Gold Mine

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 6 January 1849 · page 4

A strange revolution is at present taking place in California. A gold region has been discovered on the American fork of the Sacramento, and all California is rushing thither to dig. Half the…

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The New Gold Country

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 27 January 1849 · page 2

MODERN discovery has presented no feature of greater attraction to the wild adventurer, as a field for enterprise, than the gold country of California…

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To the Editor of the Goulburn Herald. "Rascal thieves, here's gold."—SHAKSPEARE

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 3 February 1849 · page 2

SIR,—In the present monetary and depressed state of the times, chiefly owing to the heavy fall in the price of our staple commodity, anything in the least tending to improve our impoverished…

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Gold!—more Gold!!

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 10 February 1849 · page 2

ONE of the most important discoveries that ever took place in any settlement of tile British Crown has been made in Port Phillip within the last few weeks…

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The Gold Mine

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 17 February 1849 · page 4

ON Saturday morning, several persons left town for the scene of treasure at the Pyrenees, in chalse carts, having with them a good supply of provisions and some gallons of brandy—some…

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Port Phillip Gold Mine

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 17 February 1849 · page 2

THE discovery of gold in the neighbourhood of the Pyrenees, about eighty miles from Melbourne, still occupies the speculative faculties of our southern friends…

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Gold

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 17 February 1849 · page 4

This metal is found in a native state, mixed with a little silver or copper. Its color is various shades of yellow; its forms are massive, ramose, and chrystallized in cubes and octahedra. The…

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Gold Diggings and Washings at California

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 16 June 1849 · page 2

THE accounts by the last arrival from California are exciting, but deplorable. The dates from San Francisco are to the 25th of December. The following extracts contain…

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Gold Regions of California

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 30 June 1849 · page 1

THE emigration to California isr 'great fact, and the probable enrichment of the emigrants is a fact as great—that is to say, of those who shall reach that country in safety…

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Gold Regions of California

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 7 July 1849 · page 1

ABOUT sixteen years ago, the attention of the English, who came to California for trade, was drawn to its state, and many English seamen and America-English trappers…

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Select Poetry. the Gold Diggers

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 28 July 1849 · page 6

The chain which bowed us to the ground (The heavier that of Gold) Is daily, by your toil, unwound, And loosened of its hold:…

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California. the First Discovery of the Gold

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 4 August 1849 · page 7

"I was sitting one afternoon,' said Capt. Sutter, 'just after my siesta, engaged, by-the-by, in writing a letter to a relation of mine at Lucerne, when I was interrupted by Mr. Marshall—a…

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Railway and Mining Profits

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 18 August 1849 · page 7

The London Mining Journal of March the 7th has an article on this subject, which suggests a few thoughts in reference to our railway and mining speculations, which are deserving of some notice…

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The Expected Glut of Gold

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 15 September 1849 · page 1

A correspondent of the Plymouth Journul takes a view, which, to us, appears samewhat novel, of the probable consequences of a glut of gold. We take him to be…

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The Argyle Mine

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 10 November 1849 · page 4

IT is universally admitted that "seeing is believing," and those who don't believe because they don't see when they have an opportunity of seeing, have themselves to…

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