Gold Mining News

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 62, 25 November 1886, Page 2

Gold Mining News

THE TEETULPA GOLDFIELDB. ' [VEB. UNITED PBKBS ASSOCIATION.] Adel a ibe, \N oreni her T7. • Payable gold has been struck in > Stambridgo Gully, Teetulpa. Men ! are pegging out th& claims. One man . showed the Warden a 2oz nugget, "but refused to disclose the locality until he had sent for his friends. Several other good nuggets hare been unearthed. A pratieal digger estimates the population on the field at 5000: souls. Many lucky miners are reticent as to their sucdess. It is. i generally believed that one party of four men have got £1400 worth of > gold! since the field was opened, while 1 another party at Brady's Gully are reported to have made £400. Another [ informant says he was shown two , jam tins full of gold speciments. The price paid for the gold is £3 17& 6d per ounce, which is low considering the good quality. The Government [ geologist has discovered au old drift, . which he thinks is auriferous. Evt perienced men are greatly pleased t with the appearance of the drift, and • say it resembles country from which ' good results have been obtained by ' sinking in other tolonies. November 2& Favorable reports as to the Teetuipa , gnlriiield continue to be received. A r rumour is eurreut to the effect that a . ; sixty-ounce nugget has bean found in » the district. 1 It is estimated that fully 4000 peo- • pie are now on the- Teetulpa goldfiulds. > HoKi'mcA. 2S rion gciountl is heing worked in the black sand lettdi uu the North Town Belt The pj«oapQotors. ara getting Sozs. to the load. M klbwbnb, Ti>'s Dny. j The steatnshiy Aileliwle bas taken an- . other batch of " digsfers, numbering 200,. t<> Adelaide en viMtte- to Teetwlpa. Good I accounts of tlu* fi&kl ooututue to be r«---j ceived daily.