Extraordinary News from the Palmer.

Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 260, 22 September 1874, Page 7

Extraordinary News from the Palmer.

J 'ifftij Wjitt.’f.lMßeWlfclßS OP IJOiENSS: tiiu io/W W( , tjjli j . tO grist balhiitUla thppijrer is the daily-recbivbd ; frOirtiifc fectly astounding—#-ihuih I 'ftb' the though reliable authority,' stjll his the apneapance of;a,fairy tale, describing!as he does the rush to a ffrsL'clari A Tom Tiddler’s e-; W fthq chooses to put a pick in. the ; go - - -wrong—gold is everywhere ;and although the-rushea-Jare.) quickly.worked out,: fresh ... groqnd is beinq opened in every direction, especially towards'* the and the lead .evidently taking towards the in ,Walsh aud the .Tate, between which rivers •> tiiereis anUmineuse amount of country to « E open. 5 Pur correspondent says that all the i J, A^pto^li9^re'; ' ! pjUd'^verybody. : is--'Off:' to the :■ • Wad- -party :n.;-deserted-; men were not > tb behad-for love. .or money. The reefs. ' were quite deserted for the alluvial, and , thb iOOO pebple on the rushes were nearly air on . gold, , the average . earnings; being ■s fuom. luz to 4oz per day,' and a great numi- ber as> much as lsoz to 20ozs per diem. The gold is easily got, and in large quantities, :a_hd over a large area. • Several letters have ,been handed! to us- by residents of n: Gooktownj. the gist of them all being to advise each writer’s friends to go upf—that the]rush was' the best alluvial one ever opened in Queensland, and that from loz „to; per day was the average earnings of ' diggers.' The ground is awfully broken and 1 ragged, and, teams cannot get to it, so diggers will, have to rely on their horses for provisions, especially during the wet seasoh. O’ Grady says that Jessop, SMith, and Stewart are working as one party in a - ravine on Jessop’s Creek, eight miles from Sandy Greek,' upon which there were at least 590 people, all getting good gold, . Jessop’s party obtained 561b weight (672 oz) in four weeks, and O’Grady was shown by Jessop the result of one morning’s work, which was 3Jib weight (420z). The, Cooldown Herald of sth August says:—-“ From the tenor of the last letter of our correspondent, we may judge by the late news received that .what he said as to the richness, <kc., of the Palmer goldfields, is- 1 quite true. Several men who have arrived in town the last few days state that the Palmer is everything that has been-said about it, and that at the ouset of the rush there was a far greater number flocking to the ground, with less encouragement than there is at present. Everyman who returned from the Palmer River, be he ‘ pig-iron,’ corn-husk,’ or * banana’ dig- . tger, gives a most encouraging report of the new field, and one and all say that it is the richest and largest goldfield ever opened in ‘Queensland. Nearly every man who comes from the'diggings is possessed of more or less gold, and during the last few days our local banks have had as much as they can •do Tn- banking small parcels. The men that have, returned all expressed them- . selves in the highest terms of the goldfields, r and nearly every man openly states that he will return as speedily as possible, so ■sopn as he can get horses upon which he can depend during the next season. Large •quantities of gold have arrived in town of late, and during the last few days, and by . the shipment per Lord Ashley and Boomerang; 80690z. were received by that means. men, we know for a fact, brought IOOOoz, and one man brought in no ; less than 2000oz. Jessop’s party arrived in town bringing GOOOoz, which was got ;in a very little time; so that, on the whole, everything on the Palmer is in a most flourishing condition. The banks shipped by the Boomerang over GOOOozs, ; all brought down by private hands, and it "! is said that at least 25,0000zs are awaiting - escort at. Palaxerville, for conveyance to Cooktown,’’ |