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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 Excerpt: ...on the Saturday following the report of the discovery. The duties of a Goldfields Commissioner on a new rush are always more or less difficult and arduous; but this officer's task was unusually perplexing, on account of the false position of authority under the circumstances. Mr. Hartley accompanied the Commissioner and the party of mounted police up to Dunstan, reaching Shennan's on the following Tuesday, and the next day accompanied the Commissioner to the Molyneux, and proceeded up the gorge to the prospector's workings, known then and after as ' Hartley's Beach.' A number of miners were then occupying the eastern bank of the river, and some had commenced operations on the spot where the prospectors got their gold. On the whole the miners were dissatisfied, and openly expressed themselves so in upmistakeable terms. This class of working was unknown to the majority. Alluvial workings on the shallows or bars of rivers were understood by the old Californian diggers, but nothing of this kind had been found in Australia, where for the most part the Otago miners had served their apprenticeship. They crowded round the prospector and Commissioner, and expressed very plainly their disbelief in the former's statement. Hartley was a fine type of the American gold-seeker, and the excitement of the crowd had no effect on his nerves--a timid man in his place might have provoked unpleasant consequences. The men were disgusted, fatigued with the toilsome journey, and disappointed at finding the country so different to former experience of a 'rush.' Here were no prospectors' shaft or paddocks--nothing to indicate a claim from which such a large quantity of gold had been extracted, but Hartley in a few words explained the mode of working, and his self-possession and evide...
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- PublisherRarebooksclub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1231127821
- ISBN 13 9781231127827
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages58
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