News From Kimberley
Of the West Australian goldfields> the Argus correspondent writes :-— " The reports from Eamberley are very encouraging j several large nuggets have been unearthed lately, notably three of about 30oz. each but it is generally recognised that it is not an alluvial field. At Mount Dockerell, several quartz claims are pegged ont. A strong syndicate have sent machinery up to McNeill's claim. Water and fuel are scarce, water being over a mile and a half from the line of reef. The teams with the machinery were some miles from the field, and the wet season' had commenced in the first, week of December. On the Brockman River, machinery had arrrived for tiie Lady Carrington Mine. Some heavy nuggets had been found en the river. On the Panton River, Grant's reef is looking well; at Butcher's reef gold is visible in the stone. Within 120 miles of Derby there are 80 men working on the Richenda River, and more are on their way to it. Owing to the amount of clay in the soil, dry blowing is an impossibility. If they get a fair rainy season a new goldfield will likely be proclaimed before long."
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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 90, 17 January 1888, Page 2
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