A IVOICE FROM BROKEN HILL

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1822, 23 April 1888, Page 2

A IVOICE FROM BROKEN HILL

The "Thomoa Advertiser" publishes a privato lottev from Broken Hill, sant by a former resident at the Thames. The writer says : — " Thore are forty-two hotels at Brobou Hill at present, all doing a routing trade, and more are m the course of eroction, Some of them contain seventy to eighty rooms, and the demand for aooemmodatian ia bo greßt that it necessary for a atranger to bespeak a bed the first thlnir m tho morning or go without it. There la a population of about 10,000 people there at present ; and owing to the bad nccomrnodatioD, hot weather, scarcity of water, and insanitary condition of tho place, typhoid fever is becoming rampant, and many a strong healthy young fellow it has and ia laying; low. There wero Beven put under the Bod yesterday. According to the latest aconuntj there are 160 cases reported. 1 know thut tho Broken Hill Hospital 1b bo overcrowded that they are obliged to send some of thoir patients down to Sllvetton Hospital. Fo you will see that this country has its drawbacks, I should not advise any young man of twenty years of ago to como here. It ia vory difficult for ' a young follow of lv's age to get work hero Oii coureo thoro aro somo young follows of that n.o;e emplo> od about the rnineß, but they aro managers' sons or rolativea of somo sort. I aru told that the grouod around Broken Bill is poggod ©ft for a radius of twonty miles. The lodea hore run through a kind of bluiah-grey strata, and full ot ! galonu — iv fact, you would think you wore looking at a, bar of loud. All up and down tho faco m ovory atopo lit i>) the same, and all along tho lode. It sooms to mo that, silver is moro equally distributed through the lodos that carry it than gold is m qunrtz roofs. Every stone you break out iv any part of the lode contains silver and lend m it. It is a kind of quartz, but not quiio so hard as the quartz on the Thames It ia blaokish- looking saiil: owing to it« being bo mixed with galena. Tho Umberumbeika mine sonda all its stuff to Adelaide, and sells it there at an avenigo ot £20 a ton. A ton of the stuff measures twelve pubic feet,"