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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1891

6 stories in Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond)'s papers

The Gold That Grew by Shasta Town

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 24 January 1891 · page 12

From town to Bolding town The ground is torn by the miners dead: The manzanita rauk and [?] Drops dustry berries up and down…

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Your Heart and Mine

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 14 March 1891 · page 12

We sometimes sigh and we can't tell why, And we sometimes laugh at our care. We are sometimes sad when the world is glad,…

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Worth its Weight in Gold

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 24 October 1891 · page 11

In China there is a root called Khe-ki-ye which often sells for from twenty to 100 times its weight in gold. In Manchuria the same root, under a different name, if…

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The Gold Fever

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 28 November 1891 · page 4

Great excitment was created at Riverstone on Monday, when a lad named Reiily brought a piece of quartz containing indications of gold to the local…

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Weedon's Folly or the Big Find of Gold at Lodore. Chapter I.

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 19 December 1891 · page 2

"RUSH oh! Rush oh!! Rouse up, Harry!!!" were the words that greeted my ear, some time in the middle of the night, or early morning of the 24th…

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Weedon's Folly or Hte Big Find of Gold at Lodore

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 26 December 1891 · page 6

Being the Remarkable Adventure of Harry Binfield, a young Englishman, and Leslie Harpur, a young Hawkesbury native; who in twelve…

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