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

Mining & the mines, 1898

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A Gold Digger's Life

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 4 October 1898 · page 4

Mr. Cornelius O[?] of 193 Cumberland Street, Sydney, N.S.W. is a well-preserved man of about 55 years of [?] He arrived in the colonies some 32 y[?] age, and he attribution a…

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Mining. Captain's Flat

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 5 October 1898 · page 2

NOTHING is yet known as to future operations in connection with the mines, and in the meantime a number of men are delaying their departure in the hope that something will…

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New South Wales Gold Yield

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 8 October 1898 · page 6

THE Department of Mines has compiled the usual monthly return showing the yield of gold within the colony during the month of September. The return shows that the gold produced during that…

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Mining

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 12 October 1898 · page 3

THE Queanbeyan Ages state that Mr. Creer, superintendent of the labor bureau, has been informed by the English and colonial directors of the Lake George United Mines,…

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Mining. Warden's Court

Goulburn Herald · Friday 14 October 1898 · page 2

AT the warden's court held yesterday before Mr. W. S. Caswell, Mr. W G. H. Williams of Jasper's Gully, Shoalhaven River, applied for six month's suspension of labor conditions…

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Scientific Speculations. — Coal Supplies. — Solar Heat and Oxygen. — Sir W. Crookes. — Probable Failure of Wheat and a Remedy. — Prices Below Intrinsic Value. — Increased Price an Eventual Necessity of Permanent Production. — Producing Wheat for Export Not Really a Profitable Branch of Industry

Goulburn Herald · Monday 17 October 1898 · page 2

SPECULATIONS as to the probable time when available supplies of coal will be exhausted have frequently been ventured by economists. Astronomers…

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The Lake George Mines

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 22 October 1898 · page 4

THE suspension of the labour conditions at the Lake George mines was made the subject of a question in the Legislative Assembly on Thursday by Mr. O'Sullivan. He asked the Minister for Mines…

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Mining

Goulburn Herald · Monday 24 October 1898 · page 2

THE Queanbayen Age state that nothing [?] has [?] about the [?] of [?]. The [?] plant has [?] the…

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Mining at Cooma

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 25 October 1898 · page 3

COOMA, Friday.—The pumping machinery at the Cooma Copper-mining Syndicate's lease at Middle Flat, seven miles from town, was tried this morning. The engine is 6…

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Mining

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 26 October 1898 · page 2

Mr. Joseph Cook, secretary for mines and agriculture, has decided t ot proceed with the testing of our goldfields at a depth. He proposes to assist the Bushman's Kill G.M…

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Mining

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 28 October 1898 · page 2

TUENA, Friday.-- There is a slight stir in reefing matters here. The Old Advance reef (20 acres) has been taken up by a Sydney syndicate, and three men are now at work…

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Four Barrels of Gold

The Yass Courier · Friday 28 October 1898 · page 2

Once a man of the labouring class who had often wished to lie rich was offered nil the money he wished for if he would accept, without a murmur, the troubles and anxieties that wealth usually…

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The Mining Broker's "Tip."

The Yass Courier · Friday 28 October 1898 · page 2

MARK TWAIN is credited in saying "Take all the adv ice you are offered, and then do as you please. This terse axiom generally applies, and the public have found this specially applicable…

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Mining

Goulburn Herald · Monday 31 October 1898 · page 2

It is reported from Yass that the Nanima and Goods Creek rests are still getting very rich stone…

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Two Miners Perish

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 1 November 1898 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Friday.--A sa[?] catastrophe happened at the Band and Albion mining lease, Ballarat, this morning, resulting in two miners…

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Mining

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 1 November 1898 · page 2

FORBES, Friday.--For some months past a party of miners has been prospecting for Sinclair's lode, about a mile further north of the Lachlan goldfields, which has been working…

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Lake George Mines

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 1 November 1898 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Thursday.—It was intimated this morning that it was intended to resume operations at the Lake George Mines, Limited, Captain's Flat. The last three months' smelting only gave a money…

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A Gold Digger's Job

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 1 November 1898 · page 2

Some men always expect the worst to happen. These men get more joy than others out of good luck. On the contrary, there are other men who look continually forward to the best happening,…

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Mining. Captain's Flat

Goulburn Herald · Friday 4 November 1898 · page 2

WORK was resumed at Lake George Mince, Captain's Fiat, on Monday, when some thirty or forty hands were taken on, principally surface men. It is expected that some sixty or…

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Alleged Theft of Gold

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Saturday 5 November 1898 · page 3

AT the Murrumburrah Police Court last week, John Joseph Walsh, on behalf of the other partners, sued John Costyo Lane for having stolon 2ozs. 12dwts of gold from his…

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