THE POSEIDON RUSH.

Marlborough Express, Volume XL, Issue 4, 5 January 1907, Page 1 (Supplement)

THE POSEIDON RUSH.

The Argus tells the story of the discovery of the 9600z nugget in the Poseidon rush. Five weeks before, ii nyners' Condron and "Woodall, walked to Poseidon, and were joined there by a man named Brooks. No success was met with. A man named V oods purchased a sixth share in the 9: n tm ™rv£ s' but after three days sold *KM £2 10s. TCiat share is now w Or th £s,°°v *or 17 loads of soil they got only 28dwt of gold, but one afternoon Woodall struck a hard substance with Ins pick fifteen inches from the surface, and levered out a huge nugget. It was embedded in a dark dry clay, and contained a fair proportion of quartz. A crowd quickly gathered, and the nu? g,6tr^,as.passed round (if a lump of metal 971b in weight can be said to be passed round) among the admiring and envious miners before it was escorted by the police to the bank. There it was found that the ordinary scales were quite^madequate to deal with the nugget. The miners are mostly mining for nuggets, and not for fine gold, knowing that the ground can be I treated for fine gold later on. Condron, the lucky prospector, thinks that nSn+if i ll st fO, r a year or ci ehte«n months, and that the ground will then be acquired by companies and systematically worked. Fifteen minutes before flic discovery of this nugget, foSV^Hl 7302 in™ight g was SZ? ™ty *feet 4 awa-T in another claim. The utmost good feeling prevails among the miners, who number over 1000; prospecting dishes are loaned picks sharpened, and each Xf ecte ls ready to'help his neighooui. ihere have been several lareer SISE? ths?' tl} i" 9600z- on* found gfn T™? Qf" Th° ,lar£ est was th^ " Welcome Stranger," found in 1869, near JJrf» aguL J* wa\ found almost on the surface, and weighed 2268J0z when it reached the bank. Pieces had, howbSnk 2280borC>ken^; it 3 V> tal AnoH 2i ßooz ' and its value £9sk. Another large nugget was the " Wei S;AS at Ballarat » 1868-: It £10 gsm P° Zi- and, 7 as sold for Rephcas of these may be hibTtbn Vlctorian Court the Ex!