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

Mining & the mines, 1903

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South Australian Gold Field. As Seen in London

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 9 March 1903 · page 2

The English newspapers are publishing stories of “ hills of gold” discovered at Arltunga, South Australia. The South Australian Agent-General…

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The Coal Strike

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 10 March 1903 · page 4

According to the New York Herald the commission appointed by President Roosevelt to arbitrate between the mine-owners and the miners of anthracite coal in. Pennsylvania, in…

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Alluvial Gold at Ilford

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 10 March 1903 · page 4

Lithgow, Saturday.—Reports from the recent rush at Ilford state that prospectors are still on gold, and are making from 50s to 70s per week each. Some are getting as much as a ¼dwt. and…

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Transvaal's Hidden Gold. London, March 9

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 10 March 1903 · page 2

The "Daily Mail" states that the British Government has sent detectives to Delagoa Bay to search for £4,000,000 of Boor gold supposed to be hidden…

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Cable News. the Arltunga Goldfield. London, March 7

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 10 March 1903 · page 4

Mr. H. A. Grainger, the Agent-General for South Australia; has cabled to his Government asking for reliable information of the Arltunga goldfield…

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The Arltunga Goldfield

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 11 March 1903 · page 2

CAPTAIN PLEITNER, a well-known mining man, reporting to the association which sent him out to Winnecke's Depot, says:—"I have been over a good deal of the country…

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Hills of Gold. London, March, 8

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 13 March 1903 · page 4

THE South Australian Agent. General has cabled to his Government for reliable information regarding the Arltunga…

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The Arltunga Goldfield. London, March 12

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 14 March 1903 · page 4

Messrs. Doolette and Moreing (Bewick, Moreing, and Co.) have formed a powerful syndicate to prospect the Arltunga goldfields, South Australia. The capital, which is £5000, has been all subscribed…

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The Arltunga Goldfield

Goulburn Herald · Monday 16 March 1903 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Friday.—Prospecting work on the Coronation Reef at the south end has exposed very large and rich reefs, running into the main reef, which largely increases the…

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The Arltunga Goldfield Adelaide

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 17 March 1903 · page 4

CAPTAIN PLE[?]TNER, a well-known [?]ing man reporting to the association which sent him out to Will[?] Depot, days: "I have been over a…

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Arltunga Goldfields

Goulburn Herald · Friday 20 March 1903 · page 5

IT has rained steadily and incessantly on the Arltunga field since Sunday morning, for three days, ant the rate of about 1½ inch daily. All work has been stopped. The ground is…

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Coal Mining Case. Railway Commissioners Sued for £60,000

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 21 March 1903 · page 2

A CASE, in which £60,000 is claimed as compensation, for the deprivation of the right to mine for coal under certain land at Teralba, on the Great Northern Railway line, was commenced in…

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Gold Feet

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 21 March 1903 · page 5

To prevent cold feet at bedtime, draw off your stockings just before undressing, and rub you ankles and feet well with you hand as hard as you can bear for five or ten…

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Gold Payment of Chinese Customs. London, March 18

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 21 March 1903 · page 4

The "Times" says that all the commercial nations, and certainly Great Britain, must refuse to lighten China's indemnity burden by increasing the new Customs tariff by one-third, which would be…

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Australia's Coal. Some Comparative Figures

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 24 March 1903 · page 4

MR. J. L. C. RAE, the new president of the Engineering Association, in his address at the association's 33rd session, made some interesting…

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Finance and Mining the Bulls and Bears

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 24 March 1903 · page 2

LATE news from Arltunga caused considerable excitement on the Adelaide Stock Exchange on Friday Centralisn shares monopolised the whole of the…

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Arltunga Goldfield

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 25 March 1903 · page 3

THE mail which reached Adelaide on Saturday night brought a number of letters from Winnecke's depot goldfields. Experts, in writing, confirmed the favourable news which…

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Mining at Tuena

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 26 March 1903 · page 4

Tuena, Tuesday.—Good stone, showing gold freely, has been struck by Clements and party in the vicinity of the old Red Jacket mine at Junction Point, 10 miles from here. Maguire and party,…

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The Anthracite Coal Strike. London, March 24

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 26 March 1903 · page 4

The version of the verdict of the commission appointed by President Roosevelt to settle the anthracite coal strike given by the Now York He raid has been confirmed…

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Arltunga Goldfield. Conflicting Reports

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 26 March 1903 · page 2

Adelaide, Wednesday.—Until recently reports concerning the Arltunga field, and more particularly Winnecke's Depot, have been remarkable for their consistency, but on Tuesday evening there was a…

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