LITTLE-KNOWN GOLDFIELD
30 MEN; 10 SQUARE MILES CAIRNS, April 2. The story of the development of a little-known goldfield in the heart ot Yorke Peninsula, was told to-day b> Mr. VV. A. Maclennan, naturalist and miner, of Batavia, who is in Cairns as a witness in the trial of Michael 0 Ducei, charged with the murder of Thomas Power, on the field, in Pehruary. Mr. Maclennan said that about 30 miners were scattered over at least 10 square miles, their only communication with the world being by letters and newspapers brought lort nightly by pack-horse from Laura, 2EO nnles away. Pood and other necessities uoie brought 110 miles hv pack-horse from Port Stewart, in Princess Charlotte Bay. This made prices high, a 5011). bag oi Hour costing 21s and a 701 b. bag ot sugar £2 6s. , , Beef was cheap, bullocks being on tabled from neighboring stations h.v groups of miners, the cost being about 4d a pound. Cold was first discovered lliere in 1913, said Mi. Maclennan. and had been worked intermittently tor several years. The gold occurred in rich pop jeets, and some good yields had been won.
O’Dwyer and his partners, Moronev and Densley, had sunk a. good gold-hear-ing shaft.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17233, 12 April 1930, Page 7
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