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V I C T O R I A
 

S T A T I S T I C S  O F  G O L D

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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