Mohave County miner., 1894-12-01
Tho cooiso,o,s coI5 Fisid.

These fields are reached best by way
OF Nothsm and thence 10 the Southern
Cross Tie cost Of living at Coolgardie
under canvass may he estimated at from
R2 TO c2 los per week. The climate In
very fine the days are often hot, bot
there Ia generally cool breeze at night.
Considering that there is no attempt Al,
sanitation the place Is remarkably
healthy. Typhoid 10 the chief disease
that Coolgardie has to fear.
Men have crowded INTO Coolgardie In
desperate haste, often unpreparpd for
harlships. As u sample of what exciies
their ardor is cited the Londonderry
mine II 10 only on May ll,h OF thu
year that the lucky p'ospeciors found It.
In six weeks, working In secret, they got
Ell .OoO wor'h Of gold mt Of hole three
feet deep They used the most primitive
appliances. and they had on the surface
ready for dollyiog ma much more gold
in The quartz. They have sunk shaft
at the side and struck the reef at the
fifty foot level as rich ~ it was on top-s
perfect hIazs Of gold. They have E200,.
0O0 worth Of ro'd in sight.
The mine Was discovered by accident.
three weary prospectors. nearly iamirh.
ing for water, being the lucky ones O1e
OF them sa, upon ledge and noticed
tn II bristled with gold. Their fortune
was made They worked in secret and
had extracted thousands Of p,nnds he
fore prospec,ors generally realized what
had happened.
Generally the gold prospects IN
Western Australia are excellent. Bay.
ley's Reward, the Londonderry and the
Murchison diygiDas further north, do not
exhaust the catalogue. There are about
800 mining leases taken on' In the Cool.
gardie district, and many Of them rep.
resent very good things. There are jnsi
a. rich things We, tn bs fon "a ~ the nest
this year and half his discovered.
"The whole strip OF conntry running par.
allel with The coast Tor 1000 miles ia
/ rich in gold, and il takes more than q
year and hall to find all the good things
| in great area like that. The Western
Australia gold fields are only just begin.
ninp." said an Enpli.hm lately re
turned from the district
Mr.. B.yley, one OF the discoserers ol
the Londonderry. told his experience
recently. "In about month by speck.
ing and little dry blowing our gold
consisted Of about 200 ounces" he said.
"After month our rations ran ont and
We made tracks for Southe u Cross to re.
plenisli. We did not report the find.
but went back 70 the old workings, end
on Sunday afternoon struck the reef
That evening we placed up about ifiy
ounces Of gold, and Oh Monday pepged
out prospecting area on ihs reef. Next
morning pTiy OF three men came on
the scene. They had followed us from
Southern Cross That day We obtained
300 ounces odd from the cap OF the reef
The party who had followed us stole
about 200 ounces from our claim, 80 We
had to report it icr that purpose. went
into Southern Cross carrying 554 ounces
which showed to the Warden on Sep
tember 17,h The field WAS then de,
clared open."
"Afier another two dsvs we had col
lected another lot Of gold amounting tc
52S ounces. conveyed that to Southern
Cross, and fortnight after returning to
the field had to make another trip there
escorting 842 ounces. All We found was
right on the surface, and all we did was
to knock the stuff ont and dolly it with
pestle and mortar. There were six
hundred weights Of tailling left. After
the gold referred to had been extracted
from the quantity OF stuff, we obtained
further amount Of 278 ounces. Price:
ranged FROM E3 los Cd to E3 los 81 per
ounce. We 90 little over 1000 ounces
OF gold altogether out Of the claim. ."-Ex.
aminer.