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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
189 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 4 of 10
Mining operations have still an improving tendency. The whole of the miners on Mundy Bar are doing remarkably well. The following may be relied on. The centre claim of (Spong's)…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MARCH 22.—The diggers are doing pretty well, and hope soon to do better. The late rain has induced many to take to the ranges and Tambarour[?]; and the want of population…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sofala is very dull; every one is complaining —many of the storekeepers are leaving, and in a short time my humble self will be numbered amongst the departures. But notwithstanding…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →I have just returned from a visit to the Hanging Rock. The Peel, and the Swamp Creek on the Rock, are nearly deserted; but there are about six…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MARCH 22.—It is satsfactory to know that no complaints are being made in this district. We are too busy to grumble about imaginary grievances, and so far from any dissatisfaction…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →These localities are daily improving with regard to population. Many miners have arrived from the Ovens with lamentable accounts of the misery and privations experienced there, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →My communication this week is very meagre, there being nothing interesting to communicate. Sofala still continues dull, and many of the storekeepers are clearing out…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Although from my long silence you may think I have forgotten the Mercury, I beg to assure you such is not the case. I will briefly inform you that the Rocky diggings still…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →APRIL 5.—Since my last, of the 28th ultimo, the prophecy therein contained of the expected further success of the company working the waterhole claims of Messrs. Samuels and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The late heavy fall of rain, which has left us plenty of water, has been the means of inducing several parties to join us from the Rocky River; and from the satisfactory results of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →APRIL 8.—Since I wrote you last, everything has been very dull on the Turon; there aro few claims up and down the river that are doing well, but the majority of the people are very…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Sunday evening the northern gold escort reached Maitland, from Tamworth, on its way to Sydney. It should have reached here on Thursday evening, and we were informed, as we…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MR. R. B. DAWSON, formerly of Belford, who was for some time in California, and who, since his return to the colony, appears to have been engaged…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The new claims opened up at Major's Creek seem to turn out very favourably. In one claim the gold was to be plainly seen in the washing stuff; in another the deposit was not so rich, but…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Yesterday the Northern Escort deposited at the Colonial Treasury the following consignments of gold, transmitted by the Assistant Gold Commissioner at Tamworth:…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In my last communication I recorded the number of tents, houses, &c., on the Upper Turon. Now for the Lower—or rather, part of it, from Church Hill to Paterson's Point. On…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In your late issnes, I have not seen any mention made ot a large nugget ot gold weighing thirty ounces, found a short distance below Warland's stores; it was found by Isidore Hai[?]es,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →APRIL 21.—Mining operations are progressing favourably. Some new diggings have been discovered behind Martin's public house. A party brought to Sofala 9 ozs, the proceeds of three…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →APRIL 26.—The news from our gold fields is still encouraging; except in one instance no great returns are realised, but all are doing very fairly. At Bell's Creek indeed, upwards of ten pounds…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →I left Bingera in t[?]e middle of last December, and returned yesterday. On the road from Tamworth I met about thirty people returning from here, but that did not discourage me, for last…
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