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GWYDER DISTRICT

GOLD FIELD DISCOVERED IN THIS DISTRICT

IN AUGUST 1851

A valuable gold field was discovered on the Bingera Cattle run which is at present worked with success the most valuable deposits are from Courongouve Creek  rising in the Gwyder ranges. The characteristics of the dividing range on the road to Piedmont from the Gwyder side in this gold field are rock in the mountain apparently slare in the valley, the slate is perpendicular to the surface. Blocks of quartz here and there, the soil is white.
Bingera gold is got in nuggets. Several parties have been fortunate at these diggings

This gold field is resorted to as winter quarters for the diggers who make the Rocky river in New England their Summer & those from the Hanging rock in Liverpool plains district. The Climate in winter at Bingera being as warm as at the Rocky in New England or at the Hanging Rock in Liverpool Plains district during the summer months 
 

INCREASE OF FLOCKS IN THE NORTHERN INTERIOR LARGE RUNS FOR SHEEP

The lower part of New England say between Walcha & Armadale began to be occupied between the years 1832 & 1835. From Armadale to Tenterfield including the Bundara Country & Byron plains between 1835 & 1840

Darling Downs began to be occupied in June 1840.

These two districts with the Newly acquired Districts of Burnett Leichardt Fitzroy & Port Curtis Country may be said to be the only in these northern districts where flocks of sheep are increasing. In many of the other districts the increase of Sheep may be said to be at a Stand Still or what increase there may be is merely nominal. Thus we find the district of New England partially occupied since 1832 a period of twenty two years or Say the pastoral Character of the district has been tested for Seventeen years & that of Darling downs fifteen years partially occupied & the pastoral character of Darling Downs for twelve years

The whole of the Sheep runs in the Northern Districts are large affording every facility for the sheep farmers to graze with freedom, or from mixing with diseased flocks and for the increase of their own.

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