The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-15

His commenced on the reefs, and Their
the real fortunes and the genuine pros
perlty from the mining Industry set Ia
from lsoi to 1880. period of So years
me colony of Victoria has produced So,
sscs0l4 ounces OF gold, worth 81 1877, AL 4S0
This was virtually all mined from tn.
i5allarar and Bendigo lodes or reefs a:
a aHey are called there. isis gives al
average OF over $50, goo 600 per Year. After
working these two great reefs. on which
set two cities of nearly 100000 people each
for over a generation. tSsre were taker
rom 81 me e. drives beneath them in 1884,
over sll,Oo0,000 of gold.
ONE SENSATION AFTER ANOTHER
A new impetus was given to the min
Ing INDUSTRY at this low ebb when the
Band and Albion went down another
lUlv feet in Balarat. and George Land
sen sent the ''lsO Victoria North" in
Fossicking ceased on both fields, more
tnan ~ years ago. Until this day the
old alluvial flats look as if thegr had been
rrSooted over by hogs looking for potatoes.
Ihese great fields produced one sensa-
tlon a1ler another. The riches seemed in
exhaustible. While some lucky diggers
celeprated their sudden fortune by light
ing cigars with 800 (f20) notes, others,
other parts.
A miner. after spending his all. foot
sore ragged and penniless, threw his
PICK violently TO the ground with an oath
chuck the whole - thing" he
muttered, heartsick with disgust at his
Fhe sharp tool struck a hard substance.
and bounded away The incident an
geIed the unlucky. digger. Gripping the
It into the same place with terrific force
Ii bounded further away In its wild
Jump ne noticed a yellow streak the point
he saw specks of gold
Inen MS joyous heart overleaoed the
nlSht OF his anger. and he was soon on
his knees, prodding the dirt about the
tcd hts
His eyes bulged wider and wider as his
nusy hands, cleaned the dirt from about
the pig yellow face, which lay near the
SURFACE. The find was the great s9Wel-
come nugget 1t was a solid mass of
virgin gold about a foot long six inches
VIDE and Irregular shape. with a thick
q so ounces. For this piece of gold the
miner was paid $43. 800. He went home
and quit mining.
NUGGET WORTH SI7, 76O.
The Welcome is not the biggest mug
get ever found. The largest is the Wei
ounces and was worth S47, 100 Tie Wei
come was found at Ballarat, June l. 1855
A model OF 1t is in the Ballarat school of
MINES me .Berlin, Ss4 ounces 10 pen
Beauty S17 ounces pennyweights, are /
the biggest Jumps of native gold found, !
next in size to the above. Since the COS /
no large nuggets of sensational size have 1
been found in all Australia.
The old surface foss.lker left Ballarat /
olSSngs nearly quarter of a century 1
ago, when systematic reefing set in TO
mine tine rock in uhe bowels of the earth.
The last sensation on this famous field
was in 1879. when the Hishfieid pot was
struck. Some one found a sand lode in
z yard and followed i into a gutter. 1t
was called golden gully" 1t was simply
a SandWash lodged in a small rift. or
was the filling up of a small ditch from
some rich source. More than 1000 ounces
from =ot,
the owner $4,000, and set every crazy loon
to digging up his yard for an expected
mo. lnere were over 200 Mother HirSh-
ield. Sister Hirshtield,' Queens Hirsh-
ield'' and the like, with some designating
lumber or prefix named after the original
ttch- 1t is now extinct. Another, the
d-Point-Gutter, took out $500 900 of
llluyial gold in Al days.
TEN YEARS OFF TENT LIFE.
In its ten years of tent and semi-tent
ife Ballarat put more than twice as much
old in the ground in search of the metal
han she took out. 1t came from other
arts. SO she did not feel the strain And
5 millions of it came from abroad, Aus
ralia did not feel it,, She only felt the
areSt and the temporary high price of .
wing entailed. III remains to be said that
ne aboriginal meaning of Baal-a-rat is,
without a rat. The fact is that there is
OF rat in the modern, well built city '
{ 100000 inhabitants.
These who have attempted TO explain 2
MS curious circumstance say that it is +
ecause of the mineral character of the
liner either exterminated the breed by I
ating them or so cleaned up all the I
valuable food at the terribly high price f
it that the domestic mouse. starved on S
lie cheese cloth. Miners arrived much 6
.s,.er Ilan food They walked. and rode
which could carry them, sell
ON thinking of food or the price of it. a
III that is true of every gold field, and