Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-05-11
7ELEGRAPHlC.
TIE RUSH FOR GOLD.
ys,raris Flock 10 ths New Mining
Camps 10 australia.
.our DIG NUGGETS PICKED UP
u,ry districts In New South wales
ur.lusd Of Laborers Who Have
Zone to the Fields.

s.,FRAScisoo, Cal, May 1.-THE
-, impor.aut news received from
.,,,,aia by tho steamer Alameda
...i,vith the rush 10 the new mining
s,mp,of Cool Gardle, In West Austria
n, and Of wyAlong, In New South
Wales.
Many districts OF New South Wales
h.vs been drained OF labor by the wild
,u,b TO the wyalong gold fields. The
~ dlstflot IL In the north end VI
glpp county. The gold lies In reels
v,rly In March there were 5000 men
I'M tbs ground aud tho number has
.pes been swelled several hundred
ssily. OnMafoh 80 II had reached 5000.
INK road from the nearest settlement,
minis miles away, IL In fearful condi.
Han and the water supply is bad. The
eamp swarms with men who have had
no experience In mining anu who fall
,,sdy victims 10 shArpsra. Others who
nave no means anu who expected to
~ work have crowded In. They arc
sfaetlcally destitute, aud the govern
ment will have to help them out.
Whether tbs mines will fulfil the
dut promise, time alone can tell. The
Geld will probably consist OF n main
backbone OF volcanic formation Uf un.
certain length, tfonding northwest by
north and crossed by numerous feeders,
principally VI quartz aud irOnstone,
running northeast by southwest, but
what Portions Of the main reef ana Of
tho feeders besides those already found
carry payable gold, Ia n question that
rmains 90 be discovered, anu only
tiftnuOus, persistent labor can solve 10.
On Aprl 10 the new held twelve
miles away was discovered, rich ore
Utlng found In porous rock. Three.
quarters VI tho prOspeotors nj Wyhlong
rushed TO the new camp Ia Jay, bus
moot VI them soon returned. Fresh
pf.specting at WyAlong developed
that gold wAs found from two 10 ak
Ret deep ana could bs worked with
placer apparatus. This brought a
lfrth crowd Of miners and unemployed.
Tue Cool Gardio gold fields In west
Australia are separated from settle.
menls by over 200 miles OF desert,
destitute Of water. Much freight anu
wafer IL carried Ia on camel trains, as
h0uss DO not stand the journey well.
Two miners who loft Parramalta nine
months ago TOR the new camp have
lli, returned. They showed twenty.
Jour pounds Of solid gold, thirteen
pieces In all, the nuggets varying from
lhifty'aeven ounces TO eighteen ounces,
shea were got out Of the earth at
kurualpi not more than foot down.
All the gold was picked up IN
four or i've days, and their
claim became known ~ tue Potato
Patch. At the White Feather the
party have eome valuable reehng
property. Both strongly advise people
not 10 90 TO Cool GaTdle without nj
least el00 Ia their pockets. Fully
w pef cent Of the people on the fiel 4
are not doing anything and would be-
glad 10 get away. they lett Kurnalpi
three weeks bA,k And met about 1000
people ON the road TO the fields. The
great drawback IL water, which at the
migea IL NJ salt AZ biine.
On April 0th II was estimated that
from 10, 900 TO 10000 men are on the
htli or on the road TO II. Two days
later good dow Of arlesian wafer was
sITu,k In government we'll and the
came day big nugget weighingeighiy.
two ounces was picked up.