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The following statement of quantities of gold dust is from the last summary and brought by the Government escorts from the various gold fields.
1855
1855. January 27th 28-532 ounces Feby. 3rd 31-825 ............ .. 10th 27-565 ............ .. 17th 32-335 ............ .. 24th 25-042 ............ March 3rd 31-282 ............
Quantity received & Shipped during the first two months of
1854 -
1854 By Escort 260-549 - ounces 1855 .. .. .. .. 247-396 - .. .. ..
OUNCES 1854 Amounts shipped 384.535 1855 327.162
The machinery on the old diggings is more extensively used on the auriferous quartz lodes, the use of powerful crushers of Berdans & other patents, some of which have been taken out by inventors in the Colony. In the neighbourhood of Castlemaine alone, it was lately ascertained there more no less than two hundred puzzling [?] machines -- Quartz crushing is beginning to be carried on with great activity at Bendigo & Ballarat. At Ballarat also, machinery is extensively used for pumping water from the deep levels, which, in some cases,are upwards of two hundred feet from the surface.
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