A Country That Pours Out Gold
NEW SOUTH WALES, the premier, productive and trading State of Australia, is fast earning a reputation for itself as the country that pours out gold…
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Mining & the mines, 1907
161 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 6 of 9
The Braidwood Gold Fields in the 50's AND 60's. [By Ax Old Hand.]
In January, 1853, I went to Araluen. There was no road to the valley in those days, only a bush track. The track went past where Stalkers now live, on the old Commissioners' Hill, then down the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Threatened Coal Miners' Strike
A notice of motion has gone the rounds of the various miners lodges that the Western Miners Association Should ask the mineowners to restore the rate ruling when the Arbitration award was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mountains of Gold
According to the old legends, exist in the fabled [?] the gold in this marvellous [?] would not compensate you for the [?] likely [?] happen as the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →How to Curb a Gold
On going to bed put your feet into hot mustard and water, and take a large glass of LEMON WHISKY, and hot water sugar to taste may be added…
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According to the old legends, exist in the fabled land of El Dorado; but all the gold in this marvellous land would not compensate you for the loss of health and like, so likely to happen as the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Braidwood Gold Fields in the 5O's AND 60's
I find I have made an error in naming the parties who made up the shareholders in Burns' claim. I should have mentioned the name of Michael Gallagher, who was also one…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gold Stealing and Buying
A deputation yesterday waited on the Minister requesting that the law should be amended so that hanks only; be allowed to purchase gold. This request…
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The Araluen Steam Shovel Company having got through the stripping of the ground lying between where they net in and what was Duggans' claim, which the Company purchased, have now reached…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Lumpers' Trouble Revived
FRESH trouble has arisin with the coal lumpers. At eight o'clock on Monday morning unionist coal lumpers engaged on the Orient liner…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gold Stealing at Benfligo
Melbourne, Wednesday.—The Miuister for Mines (Mr. McLeod) to-day received, a representative deputation regarding the question of gold : stealing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Awful Mining Accident
A cage containing seventeen miners fell a distance of 700 feet in a mine attached to Jones and McLaugblan's steel works, Negaume, Michigan…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Braidwood Gold Fields in the 50's AND 60's
Now about the beginning of '55 two of the Cailifornians whom I mentioned previously, viz., Jim Cloves and Larry Goodman, found gold on the surface just behind where…
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By this time nearly all the diggers, young and old, became possessed of a good hack, amongst which there were a few that you do not see the likes of nowadays. Jim Si[?]ett…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Australian Gold. What Has Been Done with the Sovereigns?
From the Parliamentary papers sent to the members of the British House of Commons, it appears that from the beginning of our Australian gold fields, in 1851, the…
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I think it was about the beginning of '55 the first bank was opened in Braidwood. A branch of the Australian Joint Stock Bank was opened about this time in a building in…
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I promised in my last chapter that I would give you an account of some good pugilists in my next chapter. Well, to begin, as I said before Tom Taylor was the first to open…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Threatened Miners Strike
THE colliery proprietors of the northern district at Newcastle have decided to grant the request of the committee of management of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining Administration
IT is a surprising feature of Australian legislation that almost every act passed becomes in a short period so overgrown…
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The consulting engineer of the Araluen Central Gold-dredging Company reports that good progress is being made with the repairs to No. 2 Central, and the boilermakers expect to have their work…
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