Volume 01: Production and resources of the northern and western districts of New South Wales, 1854 [ca. 1850-1857] - Page 572
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SAILORS GULLY.
Excessive rain completely innundated [inundated] the
the richest claims of this gully. In some of the far [?] "Jewellers Shops" there is sixty feet of water, as if to compensate the miners for this calamity a new field or vein, has been struck at Sailors gully, within a short distance from the Canadian gully, where a very rich deposit has been found. How far this new discovery may run is mere conjecture by a deposit of gold was struck of extreme richness was found extending about ten feet and about one foot in thickness. The depth at which it was struck was one hundred & ten feet.
PRINCE REGENT GULLY.
A party at these diggings washed out between three & nine O'clock ninety pounds weight of gold, the same party deposited in the Escort Office 1961 ounces of gold washed out in three days, and dug out in the same time. From one of the claims in this gully out of a tub full of earth ninety pounds weight of gold had been washed.
LARGE NUGGETS FOUND AT BALAARAT [BALLARAT]
Large nuggets Continue to be found at this field. From the Eureka a nugget weighing 34 [?] Another from the Bald hill of 34 lb. a six pound nugget from Sulky gully. one from Kingower weighing two hundred & twenty ounces of pure gold. One nugget from this field weighed ninety eight pounds nine ounces, gross & supposed to contain more than seventy five per cent of pure gold. The same party who found this nugget has washed two hundred & twenty pounds in small nuggets from the same hole, Within forty yards of the hole in the Canadian gully at Balaarat [Ballarat] where the Monster nugget of one hundred and thirty four pounds was found a party have come upon a mine of gold of three large lumps
No 1 weighing 77. 8 ounces
No 2 .. .. .. 69.6 .. .. ..
No 3 .. .. .. 175.
233 lbs. 2 ounces
These lumps are nearly all pure and were found within fifty feet from the surface.
In the Melbourne gold Circular published on 14th May 1853 gives among the many cases of successful gold digging hitherto reported, the following extrordinary [extraordinary] one stands prominent. A party of five men commenced digging twenty months ago, & from time to time forwarded the joint produce of their labour to the Banks for safe custody, which accumulated during that period to the enormous amount of twelve thousand four hundred & thirty ounces which amount was offered at that office, but not purchased, as the price asked was far above the market rate. During August 1853 the number of men Congregated at the Victoria diggings was estimated on a rough Calculation at one hundred thousand.
One of the monster nuggets from Balaarat [Ballarat] weighed 347 ounces, its length was thirteen inches by an average Circumference of from eight and a half to nine inches about it there was a small quantity of Clay, Stone, and quartz.
COMPARISON BETWIXT THE GOLD MINES AT BENDIGO AND BALLAARAT [BALLARAT]
Bendigo when a new gold field offered facilities for the employment of any person however poor, with a tin dish
at surfacing more than a livelihood could be depended upon & ground could be depended upon & ground could
be found yielding rich deposits from one foot surfacing on the