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Grey River Argus, Volume III, Issue 184, 19 March 1867, Page 3

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The BAimiER Ranges Gold Fields.— We take the following, as to the rewly-re-ported gold field at the Barrier Ranges, from the South Australian Advertiser of the i 28th ultimo :—" We have received the following additional particulars respecting the discovery of gold in. the Barrier ranges from Mr Edmunds, manager of Messrs Goocle and J one's run in that quarter, who left tho station about a month ago, on account of ill health. The discovery is close to .Messrs .Gopde and head station, had been kept icpinparatiyely• quiet'for some time!' About three" months ago brie of the shepherds, an old yßendigo quartz-reefer,- with another of the hands, found a nugget in a creek near by, and on this, side tho exreefer" j)rocured a hammer and tfied^th c quartz, succeeding inknocking out several nuggets?. Shortly :after he left the station, -intending, according to his own statement,; to claim the pf L2OOO offered;]by; the New South Wales Government^ioir/the discovery a;gold field. The aifairfcreated somebxeitementin'the neighborliobd, the more so fromJthe likely character of the country, but the discovery of alluvial gold near the; same-spot, occurred;, after Mr EdmuridV left for' Adelaide. The locality is about 100 miles from Menindie and Mount Murchisou. There, are ho permanent lakes within forty miles, and the water generally is inferior. Campbell's Creek is near the new diggings, and Contains a good . deal of water for some' months; in the year, but the diggers would have to; depend mainly on what they stored in winter or obtained by sinking. The gullies and rises and the lay. of, the land remind^ old diggers very strongly; of the auriferous country in Victoria. There is abundance of quartz, often leading away in ridges for great distances.. | Ironstone abounds, and slate, arid, what is- very promising a pipeclay bottom. Numbers of nien are rushing to the spot, and the squatters are already feeling the inconvenience seriously in the loss of their "handjs." '