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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1942

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Serial Story Laracy’s Pot of Gold (All Rights Reserved) Chapter Ix (Continued)Seven Creeks Gold Rush

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 1 May 1942 · page 4

OUT of that stream of humanity, numbering nearly a thousand, there was not one person, who seemed to be…

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The Braidwood Goldfields in the 50'S and 60'S (Continued). Great Fighting Men

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 1 May 1942 · page 2

Scott and the Tasmanian were not the only good men with their hands In the Valley In those days. There were several others, but of course not…

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South Michelago Iron Mines

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 5 May 1942 · page 3

The south mines are increasing the output considerably, it has been noticed that two train loads of ore leave Michelago daily. The Writer…

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Serial Story Laracy’s Pot of Gold (All Rights Reserved) Chapter Ix (Continued) Seven Creeks Gold Rush

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 5 May 1942 · page 3

AT midnight, when the fires were burning low in the valley and the murmur of the camp had died down to the…

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Serial Story Laracy’s Pot of Gold (All Rights Reserved) Chapter Ix (Continued)Seven Creeks Gold Rush

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 8 May 1942 · page 4

DICK was shaking hands heartily with Laracy, and there was a twinkle in his blue eyes as he looked into…

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The Braidwood Goldfields in the 5D's and 60'S (Continued). The Aboriginals

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 8 May 1942 · page 2

Now I have done with the fights. I will, as I promised in my last, give your leaders some accounts of the blacks and their habits in those…

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Serial Story Laracy’s Pot of Gold (All Rights Reserved) CHAPTER X—Continued

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 12 May 1942 · page 4

SO they sat again under the bough shed in front of the log hut that seemed so inadequate amongst the larger…

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Telegraphic News Miners Resume Work

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 15 May 1942 · page 3

NEWCASTLE—The Millfield Greta Lodge decided last night by an overwhelming majority to resume work to-day…

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Serial Story Laracy’s Pot of Gold (All Rights Reserved) Chapter Xi (Continued)Eve Tempts Adam to Stay

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 15 May 1942 · page 4

“FAITH,” he said, in cool tones that hid his hurt, I have been thinkin’ a lot lately of makkin’ a trip…

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The Braidwood Goldfields in the 50'S and 60'S (Continued)

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 15 May 1942 · page 2

In my last, Mr. Editor, you made a misprint. The name Lucy should have been Lacy. The population of the aborigines in…

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Serial Story Laracy's Pot of Gold (All Rights Reserved)CHAPTER XI (Continued)Eve Tempts Adam to Stay

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 19 May 1942 · page 4

"BUT, Martha, I killed Morgan, and Seimer, and shot . . .” “Because they were…

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Serial Story Laracy’s Pot of Gold (All Rights Reserved)CHAPTER XII (Continued)Laracy Faces the Show Down

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 22 May 1942 · page 4

HARDLY daring to believe that it was true Mr. Casey excused himself and took his departure into the…

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The Braidwood Goldfields in the 50'S and 60'S (Continued)

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 22 May 1942 · page 1

In '60 a party of explorers, viz., Burke (In command), Wills King and Grey left Melbourne to cross the continent, and they reached the Gulf of…

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Serial Story Laracy’s Pot of Gold (All Rights Reserved) Chapter Xiii (Continued)Laracy Faces The Showdown

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 26 May 1942 · page 4

THE sergeant of police stopped him in the street to congratulate him, and inform him that there was a…

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The Braidwood Goldfields in the 50'S and 60'S (Continued)

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 29 May 1942 · page 2

In 1857 there was a rush to the lower diggings, and a goodly number of the wages men in Araluen left their employment and went down to…

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Chance Gold Discoveries

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 2 June 1942 · page 2

The Eidsvold (Q.) goldfield was found through a prospector uprooting an old fence post to use as firewood. Specks of gold on the post led…

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The Braidwood Goldfields in the 50'S and 60'S (Continued)

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 5 June 1942 · page 2

Now by this time, Mr Editor, you will see that the population of the Valley was something enormous, and it required a lot of goods and…

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Gold Bullion Art Union “A Silver Shilling Can Win a Brick of Gold”

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 12 June 1942 · page 4

To continue its work of providing Comforts for Australians on service inside and outside Australia, the N.S.W. Division of the…

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The Braidwood Goldfields in the 50'S and 60'S (Continued)

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 12 June 1942 · page 3

By this time the population grew much larger every day, and the rich discoveries of Redbank, the Plains, Newtown and Burketown took place. The year 1860 will long be…

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The Braidwood Goldfields in the 50'S and 60'S (Continued)

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 19 June 1942 · page 3

After the big flood it took some considerable time before the operations on the field were in full swing again, for it was something…

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