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

Mining & the mines, 1871

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Emu Creek Gold-field. [From Our Correspondence.]

The Yass Courier · Friday 6 January 1871 · page 2

JANUARY 2.--The weather keeps changeable, and heat, rain, and cold follow one another in quick succession. The cold of last Saturday was certainly quite unbearable. Yesterday and…

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The Gold-digger's Reverie

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 11 January 1871 · page 4

(Composed by one of the Sons of Temperance of the Emblem of Peace Division,. Tuena.) All alone in my hut sad and silent I sit, And am watching the flickering play…

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Emu Creek Gold-field

The Yass Courier · Friday 13 January 1871 · page 3

JANUARY 9.--The weather for a few days has boon oppressively hot, but yesterday rain fell and it has not yet cleared. Grass is plentiful, and feed for sheep, cattle, and horses abundant…

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Emu Creek Gold-field

The Yass Courier · Friday 20 January 1871 · page 3

JANUARY 16.--The weather keeps changeable, and I have to repeat again my statement of successive weeks, namely, oppressive heat and heavy showers of rain accompanied by lightning…

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Tuena. Mining

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 21 January 1871 · page 3

MINING.—Theo new year has opened up with a marked improvement in our mining aspect; to wit, at Junction Point the Washington Reef is vastly improving the deeper it is sunk upon. I was shown a…

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Emu Creek Gold-field

The Yass Courier · Friday 27 January 1871 · page 2

JANUARY 23.--The weather is now pleasant, and no great heat prevails, but very fine days and deliciously cool nights. There has been no new rush opened this week…

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Mulloon Copper-mine, Long Swamp

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 1 February 1871 · page 2

ON Saturday last two teams with five tons of ore were despatched from this mine for the Goulburn railway-station en route to the smelting-works at Newcastle. A specimen of the ore will shortly be…

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Emu Creek Gold-field

The Yass Courier · Friday 3 February 1871 · page 3

JANUARY 30.--We had lost week oppressve hot days, with very warm nights, but yesterday several slight showers fell, and cooled the air a little…

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Local and General. Emu Creek Gold-field

The Yass Courier · Friday 10 February 1871 · page 2

FEBRUARY 6.--Rain has been the predominant characteristic of the weather during the past week, with occasional change to sultriness. Yesterday, however, the rain cleared off, and there…

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A Miner Buried Alive at Gold Hill. How He Was Buried—how He Was Dug Out—no Harm Done—he Feels Hungry—his Remarks

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 11 February 1871 · page 4

THE Gold Hill News gives the following account of the rescue of John Oest[?]r, a German, who was buried or imprisoned by a cave in the Motz Mine, at 9 a.m., on the 28th…

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Local and General. Emu Creek Gold-field

The Yass Courier · Friday 17 February 1871 · page 2

FEBRUARY 12.--It rains now, but the weather is so changeable that it may clear up by to-morrow. The roads are in a very muddy condition again. Our population is still very unsettled through…

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Discovery of a New Gold-field

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 18 February 1871 · page 2

We (Wednesday’s Empire) are favoured with the following telegram, received yesterday morning, from F. Dalton, Esq., P.M., Forbes; by the Hon. the Secretary for Lands, Sydney:—…

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MUDGEE. Tuesday. 11.30 a.m. the Gulgong Gold-fields

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 18 February 1871 · page 2

Numbers 6 and 10 have struck rich gold. No. 8 washed thirty-four loads and got sixty-seven ounces. The existing disputes cannot be settled…

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Currawang Copper-mines

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 25 February 1871 · page 4

THE remark is often made that in order to make Goulburn prosperous it is necessary that manufactures should be established in its midst; and with the railway at our doors and fine sites both on the…

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Emu Creek Gold-field

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 28 February 1871 · page 2

FEBRUARY 20.--The weather has been clear and bright for a week past, and the days warm and sometimes sultry. There is some revival of activity in mining…

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Emu Creek Gold-field

The Yass Courier · Friday 3 March 1871 · page 3

FEBRUARY 27.-- Last Monday commenced a series of heavy rainfalls, not abating till Thursday morning. The enormous quantities of water thus collected seriously impeded all traffic either…

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Emu Creek Gold-field

The Yass Courier · Friday 10 March 1871 · page 2

MARCH 6.--After some weeks of heavy rain and, storms, the last gave us clear and bright days, but exceedingly cold nights, which, after the heat of the sunny hours, fool very disagreeable…

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Local and General. Emu Creek Gold-field

The Yass Courier · Friday 17 March 1871 · page 2

MARCH 12.-- The past week has been dry and pleasant, and the nights frosty and somewhat cold. Many are still leaving for Gulgong, and…

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Emu Creek Gold-field

The Yass Courier · Friday 24 March 1871 · page 2

MARCH 20.-- The weather this week has proved one continued fall of heavy rain. The crocks were flooded mid tho streets scarcely passable. Yesterday a break occurred, and there is now a…

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Emu Creek Gold-field

The Yass Courier · Friday 31 March 1871 · page 2

MARCH 26.—The weather up to Wednesday last was cold and variable, necessitating great coats, fires, and the other comforts required during the winter months. Since that day, however, an…

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