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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
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Below will be found a lengthy extract from the last annual report of the treasury department of the United States, being the entire division of this official document on the present…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Since the last floods things are proceeding very flatly at the Turon. Great numbers have left for the Dirt Hole and Tambaroura Creeks, at which places the great body of the Turon…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint Edward James Campbell North, Esq., to be Collector of Royalty at Louisa Creek, in the county of Wellington, in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →From private letters we learn that matters continue rather dull at the Turon, as the river is not falling so rapidly as was hoped, after the late flood. Many persons are still at work on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →There is very little to report from the diggings; everything is going on regular and quiet. There are not many at the Little River, but those that are there are doing well, and are…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The gold brought in during the past week amounts to 6,704 ozs. 1[?] dwts. 21 grs. Of this 5,552 ozs. 6 dwts. 21 grs. came down by escort, and 1152 ozs. 5 dwts. by mail. It is evident…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →QUARTZ CRUSHING.—A gentleman, late from the Dirt Hole diggings, informs us that a rich vein of auriferous quartz has been discovered on the Lower Turon, and that the discoverers have…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Little River is bringing a more steady profit than was at first realized there. It is said that each man is averaging an ounce a day. A rich spot is spoken of by some as likely soon…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MR. G. A. LLOYD, of Sydney, has published in the S. M. Herald a kind of annual gold circular, which will be found copied into our first page. In…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Twelve months have rolled by since the startling announcement was made that the soil of Australia was as rich, or even richer than that of California, and in those twelve months how…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The diggings about here are still turning out very well. Up at the Devil's Hole the people are doing a tidy stroke in making a fortune. On the banks of the creek, opposite where Dr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The weather is beautiful; the mornings and evenings cold, but the other portions of the day bearing all the appearance of summer. The water upon Thompson's Point is very much lower…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MAY 5.—The flat in the neighbourhood of Bell's Creck has been again deserted from the quantity of water, and in other places there is incessant work in pumping and draining before…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The weather for the last few days has been very threatening, but nevertheless the bed claims are being worked steadily and turning out well, as you will see by the receipt of gold…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MAY 10.—Sheep Station Po[?]t is beginning to be again profitably wrought. The Californian pumps or water wheels are gradually coming into general use on this point, and are…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →HUNTER'S POINT.—The diggings about this point are very nearly come to a close, there not being above six claims now at work, but they a [?]e doing very well. Messrs. Rush aud Webber are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DEAR SIRâHaving at length fallen into a good claim, I have some little leisure and patience to scribble a few lines about the gold fields. If I recollect right my last…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →From the latest accounts, we learn that matters are proceeding steadily at the Dirt Hole and Tambaroora Creek diggings. The population remains as nearly as possible stationary, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →RATION HILL, TURON RIVER, MAY 23, 1852. —For the third time, a great sacrifice has been made to endeavour to bring to light the hidden treasure generally supposed to be buried beneath…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →P[?]L AND HANGING ROCK DIGGINGS.—We have seen a letter received in Maitland from a storekeeper in Tamworth, notifying that he has 500 (five hundred) ounces of gold purchased…
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