THE TEMORA GOLDFIELD.

Dunstan Times, Issue 968, 5 November 1880, Page 3

THE TEMORA GOLDFIELD.

The following letter from an old West Coast resident has been placed at the disposal of the Tmngahua Herald There are 8l)00 or 91101) people here -many doing nothing. The lead is about four miles long, and the gold very coarse but patchy, and li tle or no water. A company arrived here from Adelaide two days ago to bore for water. There are no creeks available for tliis diggings. A good deal of gold is being got by breaking it out of the dry dirt, while waiting for rain. Seven or •eight dams are built, and more are going up. Pnd king machines are also going up. Ido not think much of the place Miners ran come and look for themselves, but I would not advise any to do so ; but if there was a good supply >-f water it would be a good diggings. Provisions are very cheap. In the best hotel you nine at a sidling. Beef is 2.1 to 3 1 per Ib'the 2 lb loaf 0 I, and ■everything in proportion. Public-house-keepers are making a pile at sixpenny ■drinks. It, does not cost much to get here. The steerage passage from Wellington to Sydney. L 6.10; from there you travel 260 miles by train for 35s to Cootamundra ; and from there tn Temnra is thirty-five miles, which you travel for 8;. Water is 2 1 per bucket. If we get a dry summer p.-ople will suffm much.