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Mining & the mines, 1895

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Grains of Gold

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 15 May 1895 · page 2

No man knows just what he can do till he tries. Who steals goods is called a thief; who steals dominions is a ruler…

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Grains of Gold

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 15 May 1895 · page 1

Gratitude, says some one, is the memory of the heart. A reflective, thinking, inquiring life is really the most exalted existence…

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Twenty-five Miles of Gold

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 15 May 1895 · page 2

The Duchess of St. Albans, who, originally an actress married, first, Mr Thos Coutts, who died in 1837, left her immense fortune amounting, it is said, to…

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Why Dentists Use Gold for Stopping

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 15 May 1895 · page 2

People scorn (said a practical dentist recently) why it is that dentists use gold for stopping teeth, and are inclined to believe that it is because they wish to…

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The Bulgandra Mines

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 May 1895 · page 24

I left Albury on Friday afternoon for the Bulgandra reefs, arriving there in six hours and a half, having tea at Mr. Fitzgerald’s at Piney on the way out. Cu Saturday morning I visited…

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Rutherglen Mining News

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 17 May 1895 · page 3

MR. J. Stewart, of Eldorado, has been appointed manager of the Great Northern Extended Consols. The contract for sinking has been let to…

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The Gilgunnia Goldfield. HILLSTON

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 17 May 1895 · page 2

Messrs. Fullarton and Terry have just returned from Gilgunnia. Both gentlemen are highly impressed with the prospects of the field, and consider it will prove very…

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Euston. May 19. Ruston Gold Mining Company

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 22 May 1895 · page 5

The adjourned meeting of Directors of the Euston Coolgardie Symli[?] re Armour, was concluded on Monday last, and acting upon advice from a…

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Grains of Gold

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 22 May 1895 · page 4

Proof is better than theory. Doubting minds will over bring a swarm of demons. Even the devil is interesting at…

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A City Whose Streets Are Paved with Gold

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 22 May 1895 · page 4

Carious persona have, by assay, at one time and another obtained evidence in support of the assertion that the streets of Nevada, U.S.A., are paved with silver…

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Mining Mems

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 May 1895 · page 27

A crushing was put through from Simpson son and Meurant’s Just in Time claim. Mount Elliiott; 16 tons yielding 8oz. 6dwt. per ton. Five tons from the Corryong View…

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CUDGEWA v. Mount Elliott Miners

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 May 1895 · page 24

The second match of the season in the Corrying district was played between Cudgewa and Mount Eillot Miners on Saturday. The clubs were represented by their best men. The game…

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Rutherglen Mining News

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 24 May 1895 · page 4

Prentice Freehold.--No. 3 south--One party only blocking in outside ground. The greater portions of the men are blocking and crosscutting at…

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Romance of Mining. a Genial Millionaire

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 24 May 1895 · page 4

Fair and Mackay (the genial millionaires whom to know is to admire and respect) started their mining lives together, the one as a foreman, the…

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The Bulgandra (N.s.w.) Goldfield. a Good Yield

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 24 May 1895 · page 3

A CAKE of gold weighing 50 oz. has been won from the howday claim, owned by Messrs Hewitt and party, on the new Bulgandra goldfield…

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The West Australian Gold-fields

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 31 May 1895 · page 26

The big reef discovered at the 86ft. level in Hannah’s Reward claim three weeks ago is opening up magnificently. At present it looks as if it were all rich. The small…

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Gold Discovery at Montalbion

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 31 May 1895 · page 29

At Luxton’s find, Montalbion, (Q ) stone has been broken out in the Reward claim which averages 300oz to the ton. The width of the reef is about 7in,, and the prospectors have…

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Rutherglen Mining News

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 31 May 1895 · page 3

Great Northern Extended.--No 16 cross drive, carrying a fair stope of wash, with good prospects, and bottom keeping level. No 3 leading…

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Bulgandra Goldfield

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 31 May 1895 · page 2

Since my last nothing of a startling nature has happened on the field. There has been one new find but I don’t think it is of much importance…

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The West Australian Gold-fields

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 June 1895 · page 15

An alluvial rush has set in close to the Government tank at 45-Mile, north of Coolgardie. An old digger named Toffer Browne struck a patch in a gully below…

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