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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1868

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Mining Report

The Mining Record and Grenfell General Advertiser · Saturday 4 April 1868 · page 3

Water is still the great want for all alluvial work on the Geld. There is a deal of ground that would pay good wages, both in the neighbourhood of Grenfell and the Seven-mile,…

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CORRESPONDENCE. [We do not necessarily endorse the opinions expressed by our correspondents.] (To the Editor of the Mining Record.)

The Mining Record and Grenfell General Advertiser · Saturday 4 April 1868 · page 2

SIR—My attention has been called to a letter in your issue of the 23th, signed P.P. Agnew, which purports to be a reply to a letter of mine in the "Burrangong Argus"…

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Mining Report

The Mining Record and Grenfell General Advertiser · Saturday 11 April 1868 · page 3

The principal feature in mining that we have to record is the improvement taking place gradually, both in the workings at the reefs and upon the alluvial leads. At the…

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Gold and Silver in Victoria and Califonia

The Mining Record and Grenfell General Advertiser · Saturday 11 April 1868 · page 4

Subjoined is a statement of the amount of gold and silver produced in Victoria and California since the discovery of these metals in these countries. In the past seventeen…

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Mr. Farrand and the [?] (To the Editor of the Mining Record.)

The Mining Record and Grenfell General Advertiser · Saturday 11 April 1868 · page 2

SIR,—Your Forbes correspondent has sent you one or two communications, in which he lands Mr. Farrand to the skirs, and runs down his accusses as far as his pen, or your…

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Grenfell Mining Report

The Mining Record and Grenfell General Advertiser · Saturday 18 April 1868 · page 3

The want of water countinues in certain quarter to be very much folt. For instance, at the 7-Mile there are estimated to be more than three thousand loads of wash-dirt upon…

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(To the Editor of the Mining Record.)

The Mining Record and Grenfell General Advertiser · Saturday 18 April 1868 · page 2

SIR,—On Sunday the 29th of last month the 7-Mile Rush was excitement in consequence of three mounted polices visiting us, having warrants to apprehend two of our…

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(To the Editor of the Mining Record)

The Mining Record and Grenfell General Advertiser · Saturday 18 April 1868 · page 2

SIR,—A writer, who signs himself "One of the Accusers of Mr. Farrand," in your columns of the 11th instant, publishes a letter in which he charge me with "untruthfulness."…

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Mr. Farrand and His Accusers. (To the Editor of the Mining Record.)

The Mining Record and Grenfell General Advertiser · Saturday 18 April 1868 · page 2

SIR,—The accusations brought against Mr. Farrand at the meeting lately held in Forbes, have created no small amount of interest among a large portion of this community,…

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CORRESPONDENCE. [We do not necessarily endorse the opinions expressed by our correspondents.] (To the Editor of the Mining Record.)

The Mining Record and Grenfell General Advertiser · Saturday 18 April 1868 · page 2

SIR,—In a recent number of the "Mining Record" I observe a letter from the Rev. P. P. Agnew, wherein he quotes a passage from a lecture of mine delivered many years ago,…

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Grenfell Mining Report

The Mining Record and Grenfell General Advertiser · Saturday 25 April 1868 · page 3

It is desirable to direct the attention of the public to the present condition of reefing upon this gold-field. In order to do this in an intelligible manner, we have taken some pains to…

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CORRESPONDENCE. [We do not necessarily endorse the opinions expressed by our correspondents.] Our Police Court. (To the Editor of the Mining Record.)

The Mining Record and Grenfell General Advertiser · Saturday 25 April 1868 · page 2

SIR,—You will be doing some service to the public if you will bring under our Police Magistrate's notice the great inconvenience which is sustained by the Publics Court not…

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Gold Miners' Association

The Mining Record and Grenfell General Advertiser · Saturday 2 May 1868 · page 2

IT has been observable for some years, in fact it may be said almost since gold mining has become the occupation of a large section of the people, that the gold miners are, above all…

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Grenfell Mining Report

The Mining Record and Grenfell General Advertiser · Saturday 2 May 1868 · page 3

It will no doubt be interesting to many of our readers to have the particulars respecting some of our principal reefs laid before them, so that a tolerably correct notion may be…

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(To the Editor of the Mining Record)

The Mining Record and Grenfell General Advertiser · Saturday 2 May 1868 · page 2

SIR,—It is becoming a matter of great surprise to the inhabitants of the Seven-Mile that as yet there is no police office stationed here…

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Gold Commissioners

The Mining Record and Grenfell General Advertiser · Saturday 9 May 1868 · page 2

DURING the post Session, now happily for hon. gentlemen as well as for the public some to a close, there has been considerable talk about, and some attempt made at,…

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Grenfell Mining Report

The Mining Record and Grenfell General Advertiser · Saturday 9 May 1868 · page 3

The continued dry weather is now having a prejudicial on the district. Almost all washing in alluvial is suspended, both at Emu Creek and the 7-Mile. We hear that…

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CORRESPONDENCE. [We do not necessarily endorse the opinions expressed by our correspondents.] the Public V. W. Farrand, Esq., P.M. (To the Editor of the Mining Record)

The Mining Record and Grenfell General Advertiser · Saturday 9 May 1868 · page 2

SIR,—I esteem te hearty of the Press the freedom of speech, and a good [?] government as three of the greatest blessings we can enjoy, and wholly…

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Grenfell Mining Report

The Mining Record and Grenfell General Advertiser · Saturday 16 May 1868 · page 3

The chief item of mining news this week is the result of the crushing of stone from the Surprise Reef, near Brundah, distant some six miles from Grenfell. This reef was taken…

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CORRESPONDENCE. [We do not necessarily endorse the opinion expressed by our correspondents.] (To the Editor of the Mining Record.) New Complications

The Mining Record and Grenfell General Advertiser · Saturday 16 May 1868 · page 2

SIR,—I am aware that you have already given considerable intimate to the discussion of the disputes between the friends of the various officials in Forbes, and will ask you…

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