Date: 1859
The machinery on the claims of the Olive Branch and Great Republic Companies nearly approaches completion, and the engines will be at work very shortly.  To the westward of this claim, known as Farley's, there is a very considerable number of Chinese, several parties of whom are busily tracing a spur of the Old or Main Lead, and a very small proportion of Europeans employed ; the latter consisting chiefly of the owners of puddling machines, and the men employed by the Red Hill, Raglan, and Wimmera Sluicing Companies, whose operations are carried on with great vigor.  On the Ding-dong, or Cornish Lead, the only claims at work are the Prospect, or Union Jack, and No.