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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1905

132 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 3 of 7

Twixt Love and Gold. (All Rights Reserved.) PART 14. a Highly Sensational[?] of Love and Adventure. Chapter Xix. Continued

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 3 March 1905 · page 1

[?] walked on briskly talking [?] tomes of the success of their [?] till they reached the [?] There was no train for more…

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Mining

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 7 March 1905 · page 2

The Mining Warden has granted a suspension of labour conditions for six months on J. A. Crokers alluvial claims at Oallen…

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Twixt Love and Gold. (All Rights Reserved)

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 10 March 1905 · page 1

The “Hurlech Castle ” was forging gaily through the water of the South Atlantic Ocean on her way to Southampton. The weather had…

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Removing Mines at Port Arthur

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 17 March 1905 · page 2

Three hundred and ninety-five Russian mines have been removed from the waters of Port Arthur and the neighborhood…

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Lost the Coal-posts

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 18 March 1905 · page 1

In those football grounds which lie in the shadow of the great metropolis, it is not an uncommon thing for the referee to be compelled to sound a premature "no-side"…

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The Romance of "Old Men" in Mining

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 18 March 1905 · page 2

The records of engineering hold few more metro romantic and interesting episodes than the discoveries made in the modern mines of ancient and…

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The Gold That Is in the Report

The Queanbeyan Leader · Friday 24 March 1905 · page 1

THERE are fairy tales borrowed from mammon, That tell us of magical gold. Uncarthed by the witchcraft and gammon…

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Gold Dredging in America

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 29 March 1905 · page 4

Dredge mining has attained a development in California and some of the other western States reached nowhere else (writes a San Francisco correspondent)…

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Mining Items

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 31 March 1905 · page 2

We are Indebted to. Mr. S. Holmes, Major’s Creek, for the information that within the last week or two a reef has been discovered, which if it should come…

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Daring Mine Bobbery

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 5 April 1905 · page 2

A most daring mine robbery has been committed at Kalgoorlie. Shortly before 2 o'clock on Friday morning two masked men suddenly surprised the enginedriver, John Berkeley, and another…

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Major's Creek Mining

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 11 April 1905 · page 2

Referring to a paragraph in a late issue about the discovery of a [?] reef recently a short distance from Major’s Creek. We have learned that…

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Local News. Rich Gold Find

The Queanbeyan Leader · Tuesday 11 April 1905 · page 2

AT McMillan Bros.' Gold Reef, Kiandra, [?]ently a stone weighing upwards of [?] was brought to the surface showing splendid free gold. The reef at the bottom…

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A New Goldfield

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 11 April 1905 · page 2

Mr. Henry Green, Mongarlowe, has reported to the Mining Registrar the discovery of a payable goldfield, adjoining the Mongarlowe-Olyde Road. The…

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Mining

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 14 April 1905 · page 2

We are indebted to Mr. James McDonald who visited the Day Dawn Mine on Wednesday for a. report as to the progress made by the tributers,…

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Housekeeper. Economising Coal

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 14 April 1905 · page 2

HINTS on how to economise coal are generally more or less acceptable in the middle-class home, and I gladly pass on a hint given to me a few days ago by one…

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What Getting Gold Costs

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 14 April 1905 · page 4

The latest estimate of the gold [?] of the Witwatersrandt is [?] a writer in Chamber’s [?] that if Chamber’s…

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Mining News

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 15 April 1905 · page 2

The party of miners who have taken the Day Dawn mine on tribute have now got things shipahape, as the saying is, and commenced unwatering the mine last week. The water is being brought…

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Mining

The Queanbeyan Leader · Tuesday 18 April 1905 · page 2

Mr. J. Shepherd, of Bywong Reefs, is still raising rich stone. I hear he is crushing about 50z a week in his small…

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Araluen Redbank Gold-dredging Co

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 25 April 1905 · page 2

The above company consists of 32,000 shares of 10s each, fully paid up Messrs. Austin Chapman, W. B. Bruce, and James Lawson are directors and the…

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Local & General. Gold Escort

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 2 May 1905 · page 2

The monthly escort on Friday last took away 928oz l7dwts 19grs gold, out of which the City Bank contributed 756oz., not the Commercial Bank as…

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