The Northern Gold Fields. the Rocky River
OCCASIONAL showers of slight rain, a humid atmosphere, chilly mornings, and casual sunshine make up the calendar of last week s weather. The consequences are a…
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Mining & the mines, 1860
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A Visit to the Northern Gold Fields
THE Southern mail-road from Armidale at once plunges into the open forest upon leaving the township. To the south-west there has been no agricultural improvement…
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SINCE my last report a new rush has commenced at that already celebrated ground yelept "Dodgers' Rush," where of course we shall have a repetition of the old crafty…
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THE weather continues most delightful by day and cold by night; and those amongst us who pretend to be weather-wise foretell that the present hoar frosts will bring on…
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FROM Dundee, following the banks of the rocky little stream of the Severn, in its progress to the westward, through an undulating country, monotonous in its beauty,…
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DODGERS' Rush continues still to prosper. Since my last communication, several additional shafts have been bottomed, and have almost all proved payable. When…
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DIRECTING our course to the north-east, at tire base of Mount Mutton ridge we reach the dry channel of a creek. This stream, rising in a Harrow but shallow valley of…
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The weather during the early part of last week was dull, hazy, and rain-threatening, the sun being obscured by day and the moon by night—in fact, one half of her…
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ABOUT three years ago a rush took place to Mount Mutton. A number of shafts were sunk, and in many instances long tunnels driven from them, and I believe…
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The more a practical observer examines the country surrounding the scene of mining operations at the head of the Uralla, the stronger will be his conviction that, instead…
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FANCY a man in a comfortable room, sitting before the fire with a tumbler of hot brandy at his elbow, and being quite unconscious of the cold without, seeing the unfortunate…
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CONCLUDING our hasty survey of the formation of the country drained by the Uralla, we find ourselves again in the roadside village to which it has given a name;…
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I HAVE scarcely anything in the shape of mining news connected with the Rocky to relate this week, the more fortunate miners only earning from £2 to £3 a week…
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ON the long slope at the south-western termination of Mount Jones is a rude slab edifice, under a calico roof, sometimes used as a Roman Catholic chapel. In the vicinity of…
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THE weather continues most seasonable, being cold and bracing. In my last 1 promised to give you the result of [?]he visit of some of our miners to…
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THE weather since my last has been of a very mixed nature—at times making us almost believe that summer was at hand, while the very next day we were reminded…
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Sitting and writing this letter, I have the pleasure of seeing a large rush in full operation in front of my own door. Several attempts have been made to find payable…
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I FEAR that the rush to Mount Jones Gully which I reported in my last is not to add much to the wealth of the Rocky. About twenty shafts have been bottomed, and the…
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Last Thursday evening several peals of distant thunder were heard on the Rocky, and for several hours the flashes of lightning were very vivid. During the night…
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DURING last week we were favoured with several showers of rain, which, though not sufficient for sluicing, yet filled the small waterholes for prospecting purposes,…
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