THE RECENTLY DISCOVERED GOLDFIELD IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 545, 21 August 1869, Page 2

THE RECENTLY DISCOVERED GOLDFIELD IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

TRUNKEY GOLDEIELD. (fbom the special coijbespondent sydney houningr ueeald.) Batiiubst, I hove just returned from Trunkey Creek, where I saw all the reefs—of which tho five on Crooked Tree Creek are the chief. The stone looks very well, but nothing specially astonishing ; indeed it is not so good looking as the stone at Emu Creek. The best claims will go perhaps from three to four ounces to the ton. The country has a decidedly auriferous look. Crooked Tree Creek runs into Trunkey Creek, and alluvial gold is found in both, with good surfacing. Similar reefs, all showing gold in the stone, on cap, on ridges, are to he found in all directions within a circuit of twenty miles. There is very little work doing, oidy some four or five parties having opened out their reefs or claims. All the country is taken up along the line of reefs for ten miles, in five, ten, twenty, and even fifty-acre leases, men come on to the ground, find it all taken up, and having nothing to do, go away. Speculation is likely to destroy a very valuable goldfield, as thirty or forty persons arrive every day, and the same number leave or go prospecting. The alluvial ground i 3 even taken up on lease.