THE PALMER DIGGINGS.
The following is orti of tho latest accounts of the above diggings, as extracted from a Sydney paper : taken place to a place called Sandy Creek, about twenty-live miles further up the Palmer than the Old Head workings. Gold has been struck in sinkings from tho to twelve feet below the surface. Plenty of claims are turning out from one ounce to three ounces a day per man. Sumo reach as high from three ounces to seven ounces a day. Other estimates are given which are so extraordinary that wo forbear to publish them till tho arrival of tho Victoria places us in command cf fuller and surer information. Flour is 4s per lb. ; wheat is Is Oil per lb. Everything is paid fur in gold, even grog, so that tho storekeepers must be making a very pretty pile. The gold is of excellent quality. Several diggings, where res pectablo results were being obtained, aie being deserted for the new El Dorado. There is a great lack of proper tools. Orders are now being received for those in Sydney and elsewhere. Ballarat and Bendigo are said to bo surpassed by Sandy Creek. There is a good dray road to the locality, and provisions are being supplied without much difficulty.” ,
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Dunstan Times, Issue 644, 21 August 1874, Page 3
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