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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
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Kennedy's and Walker's party have been doing a good stroke on a point of the Swamp freek. They have obtained upon an average two pounds weight of gold per week. They…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Since I last wrote you several parties up the river have been doing remarkably well, and many in consequence have shifted their tents and moved up…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The rain which fell last week, although it was not a heavy fall, and did not continu[?] more than two days, yet it had the eff[?]ct of driving a great many of [?]hose persons [?]ing at the lower…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SOFALA, APRIL 27, 1854.—The accounts from the new diggings are of a very indefinite character, so far as they relate to the success of the diggers. The population is daily increasing,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In the Mercury, of the 11th March last, we published an estimate of the quantity of gold sent down from the various northern gold fields, from the date of the escort's ceasing, 26th…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MAY 2, 1854.—The last ten days of fine weather have been very beneficial to our diggers, and I have now the pleasure to record most favourably for all who are e[?]gaged in searching…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →These diggings are pretty much the same as when I last wrote you. Mr. Buchanan's waterhole is emptied, and from the quality of the stuff obtained, will to a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →From what I can gather from private, but reliable, sources respecting the diggings, I learn that many of the diggers have obtained, and are still obtaining, prospects of a very…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →From inform[?]tion we have obtained by letter, from mercantile hou[?]es at Tamworth and Armidale, we are enab[?]ed to add to the information already published, as to the gold forwarded to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The dry and seasonable weather with which we have been favored for the last three we[?]ks has greatly facilitated the diggers in their mi[?]ing operations. Where operations are being…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Parties mining on the ridges are still doing remarkably well. Two boys got six ounces and seven pennyweights of gold during the week on Madgwick's ridge, and every party at work there…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In coming from Tamworth to the Bingera diggings, one has to pass up the valley of the Manila. This is but a small stream; but there are springs here and there, which impart a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MAY 23.—From Major's Creek, more particularly the new diggings, I have to give the most encouraging intelligence. All doing well, and many making their —2 a day. The rain…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Sunday and Monday last we had a heavy fall of rain, the consequence of which was that men were unable to work, and many of them were "on the spree;" the nights were dark and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The success of these diggings continues unabated. The Messrs. Buchanan's party are still very successful, generally obtaining from twenty to thirty ounces a day. They have run a dam…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We have as yet only received the Armidale return of gold sent down during the month of May, but hope shortly to obtain the Tamworth return also. The Armidale return is as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In my last I mentioned a rush having been made to a point above Mr. Lundie's public house —it has not turned out so well as was expected, and very few are persevering enough to continue…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The population of the diggings has rather increased since I wrote last, and the successes have been various. Dow[?] the creek, where a great many are at work with their pumps, tim[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →JUNE 7.—I took a ride over to the Mongarlowe river, where a very fine specimen of a nugget has been found, weighing 13oz. 3dwt.; I weighed it myself; there is a good deal of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Loeven, who some time since speculated largely on these diggings in sluicing, has, after visiting other gold fields, returned to the Rock. This speculative gentleman his hired men with…
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