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were present. The single claim system was  established at Bendigo for this reason, that this gold field was considered the richest and most easily wrought ground in Victoria.
At the wet diggings on Yackandanda Creek in the colony of Victoria a different method of apportioning claims as resorted to, on that creek large block of ground was [indecipherable] to the mode of washing employed in order that a remuneration return as well as to secure efficient drainage; and in understanding to that effort always appeared to exist among the diggers, and was sanctioned by [Commisioners] if not by the Gold Act
The diggings at Yackandanda are liable to frequent inundations large claims are therefore allowed in peculiar cases.
The experience of opinions of diggers is found to be valuable in devising an equitable system. In November the underground springs begin to dry up, and the most profitable workings in wet diggings are from January to July.

PLAINS OF THE MURRUMBIDGEE, LACHLAN, BILLEBONG AND EDWARD RIVERS

The substrata of the whole of the vast plains extending over the Murrumbidgee, Lachlan, Billebong and Edward district is clay and sand.  Shafts have been sunk some sixty feet, and at that depth no rock has been discovered.  It is considered that the whole of this district at one period formed the bed of an Inland Sea from this circumstance as also that much of the herbage is strongly impregnated with salt.
 
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE GOLD FIELD AT OBAN IN THE COUNTY OF SANDON NEW ENGLAND
The Oban

 

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