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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
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From these diggings we continue to receive very favorable accounts, particularly from the upper part of Major's Creek, where the greater number of the diggers are now employed,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →FEBRUARY 28.âAs the diggings take precedence in this district of any thing else at present, I must inform you as to our present and future auriferous prospects in so far as I have been able…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Since my last letter resp[?]cting the diggings we have been very dull, owing as usual to the scarcity of water. There are very few here, but all seem to make a good living. A few…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR—Advocating the establishment, by the Government, of an armed escort from the Rocky River, we cannot adduce greater proof of the necessity for such a guard, than the fact of our…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In our previous reports, in speaking of the recent discovery of the auriterous [?]idge in Oakanville Greek, we committed an error in the name of the discoverer. Captain Madgwick is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AT the time the Government discontinued the Northern Escort, at the close of last year, we pointed out the inexpediency of the course taken—as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MARCH 7.—In giving an acount of the transactions of our gold mines, we have still the plea[?]ing duty to congratulate ourselves upon the increasing prosperity, and generative…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Some time has elapsed since I gave you any information respecting the progress of our diggings. We are much in want of water, in fact all the springs on the table land are running…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Uncle Tom diggings are now the point of attraction; nearly all our miners are there, while, as a necessary consequence, much ground is being turned over, and fresh auriferous spots…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The northern gold escort used to run monthly for the accommodation of the digging community and others, and a great advantage it was to them, but persons did not fully appreciate the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MARCH 16.—We have little new intelligence to give you of the gold fields in this neighbourhood. The prosperity of all our diggings is great, but the new creek is the favourite place…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →We have been favoured with the following letter from a practical digger at the Meroo. There is a large section of country in the vicinity of the Meroo untried, or rather unworked,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Friday night last we had a thunderstorm pass over the Rock, with a fall of rain. The storm was of an ordinary nature, with the exception of one vivid forked flash of lightning,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Late accounts from Tambaroora represent the diggings to be in a very flourishing condition. The numbers at work in that region are variously estimated at 1500 to 2000, and wherever thrift…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Those parts of these diggings known as the Swamp and Swamp Creek are now almost deserted; there is not one person mining on the former place, and but three parties on the latter…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MARCH 27, 1854.—Another new gold field has been opened within the last week. It lies three miles to the south of the lately discovered creek, to which in the beginning of last month there…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The weather continues remarkably fine, and most propitions for mining at the lower end of the creek. The lower diggings are extending every day further towards the commissioner's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The rains which have been so long wanted have come at last, and in such torrents as to put a stop to all mining operations while they lasted. Three days of deluge have filled all the holes,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →HANGING ROCK, APRIL 8.—At the lower end of Oakanville we observe several new parties have commenced operations, and they are sinking square holes and shafts. Boatswain's party,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →HANGING ROCK, APRIL 15.—As is usual at this time of the year, several parties are leaving these diggings, some for recreation, others for the winter season. Mining in the winter is…
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