St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-05-12
THE WILD RUSH FOR GOLD.
new MINNIE CAMP IN WEST Avs7Hl-
LA xRD SoU7H WALES.
TWENTY THOUSAND PEOPLE
Crowd Into the Newly Discovered
Districts-Many Are Destitute.
and Require Governme Aid
lH Valuable Properties Are
KNOWN a 3 the "P0tato Patch"
q and the "White Feather"

SAN FRANCISCO, May 1.-THE most
important news received from Aus
tralia by the steamer Alameda deals
with the rush to the new mining camps
0f} Cool Garda. in West Australia. and
of Wyalong, in New South Wales.
! Many districts of New South Wales
have been drained of labor by the wild
rnsh to the Wyalong gold fields. This
new district is in the northern end Of
Gipps county. The gold lies in reefs.
EARLY in March there were $3.50 on
tie ground, and the nulnbtr has since
Been swelled several hundred daily.
| On March 80 it had reached 5000. The
road from the nearest settlement. thirty
miles distant, is in fearful condition,
and the water supply is bad. Tie camp
WARNS with men who have Had no ex-
i pprience i'll mining, and who fall ready
! victims to siiarpers. Others who have
no mea.s, and who expected to get
work. lave crowded in. They are prac-
! teal. (, destitute, and the government
will have to help them cut. Ahrther
the mines will fulfill the first promise,
time alone will tell. The field will
! rrohably consist Of a main backh bone Of
volcanic formation of uncertain i5iigth,
trelidlng northwest. ami crossed by
numerous feeders, principally of quartz
lite anc freeStone. running northeast by
fiisOuthwest, but what portions OF the
main reef and OF the feeders besides
, those already found carry PAYABLE gold
is a question thai remains to be discov-
cred, and only strenuous, persistent
labor can solve.
On April 10 a new field twelve miles
away Was discovered, rich ore being
found IN porous rock. Three-quarters
of the ~prospectors at Wyalong rushed
TO the new camp in ii day. but
| most of Them socn returned. Fresh
prospecting at Wyalong developed that
gold was found from two to six feet
deep. and could be worked with placer
apparatus. This brought a fresh crowd
of miners and explorers. The Cool
Garda fields, West Australia, are
separated from settlements by over
20U miles of desert, destitute OF water.
camel trains. as horses do not stand the
journey. Two miners who left Par
rarlatt mines ONT months ago for the
new camp have just returned. They
showed twenty-fOur pounds Of solid
gold, thirteen pieces III all, the nuggets
varying from thirty-seven ounce to
eighteen ounces, which were got
Out Of the earth at kurnaipi not
more than a foot down.. All the
gold was picked upin four or five days,
and their claim became known asSthe
Potato Patch" At the White Feather
the party has some valuable property.
Both strongly advise people not to 90
there without at least ElOO in their
pockets. Fully 80 per cent ST the people
Oh: the field are not doing anything. and
Vt1lI1 nn gIGt tn pRf 9VaV Ilnv taff
x urnalpi three weeks back. and met
about LOCO people on the ruad to the
fields. The great drawback is water.
which is as salt as brine. On April 9 it
WAS estimated that from 15,O 900 10 20. 600
men were on the field, or on the road to
IL Two days later a good tow-of ar
tesiaD water was struck in the govern.
mtnt we'll, anda big nugget weighing
eigilty-two ounces was picked up.