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185 stories in Sydney's papers · page 8 of 10
THE Braidwood Observer reports: The news from the various diggings is highly encouraging. Fair weather having set in, the activity displayed in putting the find "through its courses" will be very brick. A correspondent, writing from the Araluen, says,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →IRONBARK.—The number of hands working on the Jingera and Golden Gully Quartz Reefs is still on the increase, and fresh claims are marked out daily, the busy workers being frequently cheered by the sight of quartz highly auriferous. As may naturally…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IN our progress down the slopes following the course of the great quartz reef of Adelong, we had, in my last, reached the claim of Iredale and Company, late Lind and Company. The next in succession is the claim of Mitchell…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →WE will now return to the crown of the great reef, and take a concise review of the operations carried on upon the northern slopes of the hill. The descents are steep, and the reef, true to its northerly course,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →IF your readers expect much digging news this week they will be disappoint[?] as I have only two small [?] profitable rushes to report—the one behind the paddock the other at San Taylor's field, near the Catholic Chapel…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ORANGE, SEPTEMBER 27.—GOLD DISCOVERY.—The Bathurst Free Press, of Wednesday, reports, through its correspondent, that, on Saturday last, rumour was busy that a splendid quartz reef had been struck upon…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →I HAVE already communicated to the columns of the Empire a few jottings in connection with the lacale of this field, and promised, that a short accounot of the operations thereon should appear at no distant peried…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →HAVING, in my last two letters, described the piocess of raising the auriferous quartz from the great reef, we will now follow it to the crushing mills; these are situated, with one exception, on the margin of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A SPECIAL General Meeting of the proprietors was held on July 21st, at the London Tavern; Mr. J. D. Powles in the chair. The Chairman said the meeting was called for the purpose of declaring a dividend for the past half-year, but previous to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →FROM the new gold-field in the Northern Districts, Tooloom, the recent accounts are slightly conflicting. By the intelligence from Queensland, we find that the latest escort had brought down to Brisbane, 427 ounces. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →HAVING endeavoured to describe the great reel of the Adelons, we will now direct our attention to the lesser reefs in its vicinity, a detailed description of which is rendered annecessary by the uniformity of the investing rooks, and the various lodes, all…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE weather during the last week has really been delightful, and the country is now beginning to wear a verdant and pleasant appearance. A rush has just commenced at the head of Mount…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →MY last was with reference to the lesser reefs of the Adelong. Since writing, I have met with a person on the hanks of the Murrumbidgee, who has been connected with the quartz reefs in that locality since…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IN a recent issue we referred to the excitement existing in the United States with reference to the gold deposits alleged to be so abundant at Pike's Peak, and mentioned the fact that Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LEAVING the din and tumult of the camp, and the ceaseless clatter of the mills, we will once again essay the wilderness, and follow, the Adelong to its birth place in those trackless mountains which, towering…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →I CLOSED my lost with an account of the hydraulic operations either carried on or in contemplation at the head of Watson's Creek, and will now proceed with a description of that locality…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In submitting the results of these experiments to public consideration, I am actuated solely by a desire to extend a knowledge of the value of the coal product of New South Wales, based upon actual experiment, made…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A VERY important matter has recently arisen to disturb the good understanding between the quarts crushers and miners. It appears that a party at the Mia Mia had a few tons of quarts crushed at the Amherst quartz mill,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE following consignments of gold were received during th[?] week at the Sydney Branch of the Royal Mint, per Western, Southern, and Northern Escorts:— WESTERN ESCORT…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →1. That all creek claims shall have thirty yards frontage, and seventy-five yards depth, to be measured from the middle of the stream. 2. That all claims in any gully shall be thirty yards…
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