Grenfell Mining Report. [From the Record.]
THE inclement state of the weather during the week has somewhat retarded work upon the leads. It is thought that the humid state of the atmosphere has had an effect…
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Mining & the mines, 1870
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Grenfell Mining Report. [From the Record.]
It was reported early in the week that gold had been struck at a depth of 140 feet in the ten-acre lease of Messrs. Harvey and party, on Milkman’s lead. This ground is…
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MARCH 27.-- We have here little to excite us; our leads are progressing in their work slowly, but remuneratively; our disputes, though accumulating, have lately been disposed of at-- for here…
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IT is scarcely possible to employ words in a report upon gold mining without deceiving some class of readers. The report may be strictly true, and yet to some it will be…
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APRIL 3.-- We had a very heavy rainfall on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday last week, filling all dams in the district, and affording the long desired opportunity of testing the…
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During the week we have had a downpour of rain sufficient to answer every practical purpose. The miners now possess every facility to thoroughly test the ground, upon…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Latest Telegrams. (From the Sydney Dailies.) Uralla. Monday. Nomination for the Northern Gold Fields
The nomination for the election of a member to serve in the Legislative Assembly for the Northern Gold-fields electorate took place to-day. Mr. J. F. Burns was proposed…
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That many persons, who have been dabbling in shares upon the Two-mile and Quondong, have been disappointed by the result of recent washings, there can be no…
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APRIL 10.-- A singular case was tried by the local bench (composed of Mr. R. M. Vaughn and Inspector Sanderson) last Tuesday. The facts are as follows:-- A "half-shareman" in Mathieson's…
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THE works at Woolgarlo are rapidly approaching completion. The second furnace is neurly ready for work, and the third is being also proceeded with. The outer retaining wall of an…
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APRIL. 17.--This district is taken wholly by surprise by Mr. Robert Brown Armstrong's appointment as coroner for Young, that person being an employ, managing (as may be imagined) not a…
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THE subjoined table of washings up of dirt from the different leads shows rather a higher standard of estimate as to the value of the alluvial ground at present opened up…
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THERE in every indicatation that the winter season has fairly commenced, for it has been ruining almost incessantly for the past two weeks. During the last few days it has been…
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AS we stated last week, the weather has very materially interferred with mining operations upon this gold field. At present at the Two-mile and the Quondong, the…
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MAY 3.--Since my last, rain has set in, but luckily for us here we are so well protected by the elevation of our position that, with the exception of boggy streets, damp feet, an…
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MAY 15.--The weather has again changed to wet; thoroughfares are nearly impassable, and, in consequence, carters and others are thrown out of work. The heavy rainfalls have done…
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THAT this gold-field is rich, in both reefs and alluvial deposits, there can be no doubt. No one questions such an assertion. At the same time it is obvious that nothing is being…
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MAY 22.-- The weather is very changeable; wind and rain still predominate. We deeply deplore the disasters caused by the recent floods throughout the colony, and venture a desire that all…
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At the head of the Quondong Gully, in the old prospecting claim of Matheson and party, which had been abandoned as unpayable, the ground has recently been again…
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MAY 29.--The week commenced with heavy rain, but changed early on the 25th to genial, clear, and bright weather, which has continued to the time of my writing Hopes are entertained here…
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