CALLAGHAN'S AND SULLIVAN'S.

Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 670, 5 May 1870, Page 4

CALLAGHAN'S AND SULLIVAN'S.

Callaghan's Creek still maintains its nsual population, but the place suffers very often for the want of water. Messrs Startley, Gore and party, who own the largest water-race in the creek, ore washing away a face 12ft in height. The stripping is good, and the stuff runs away pretty freely. Boyle and party are working on the same terrace, with Stanley's party, and with much the same success. Hill and Co., lower down, are working at a face 32ft deep ; the ground is good enough, but it requires a large quantify, of water to move such an immense body of stuff, and they, in common with the rest of the raceowners in this creek, are sometimes short of the necessary element ; this party have had. a good _ washing up recently. The next party, Adams and Co., are trying to find' the. run of ground on which Hill's parly are ; working. In the first cutting which was taken in it was found that the washdirt was lower than the bed of the creekj and the party are taking in a fresh cutting lower down with the expectation lhat the bottom will rise again, k small rush took place a short time since six raile3 up iihe creek :; the ground was shallow, 2ft washdirt, with a prospect of 4gr'to- the' dish in the prospecting claim. It did not amount to anything, and there. are only two parties left at the place. Billmensen and party, who are working on a terrace over Jonathan Auld's store, ate working ground which will pay small wages, but the scarcity of available water is the great drawback. This party have taken their race along in the reef. There are three " hatters " working in the creek a long way down, but they are only fossicking. The population of this creek altogether is about thirty. Sullivan's Creek, which runs parallellto Callaghan's,' supports about 25 men, who are; engaged in turning over the old groundL: The party who now hold Mulligan, and Maher's water-race, on the range, are extending it further along, to work a terrace which has "been proved to contain payable gold lower down the creek. . There was some talk not long since about forming a party to take up a tail-race at the lower part of this creek, but the project has apparently fallen through. From what I could learn at the time, from the men' who were trying to promote this undertaking, the speculation would be likely to prove remunerative. It appears that Sullivan's Creek was very rich when first opened, and that the ground was as good, if not better, in the last claims worked, as it was in any part of the creek. The stripping became deep and the water became very troublesome, so that although the ground contained a large percentage of gold, it had to be abandoned in consequence of the difficulty of working it. This subject of the tail-race has cropped up several times within the last three years, and there is no doubt it will be commenced some day shortly, and carried to a successful issue. The proposed new road from the Arnold to the Ahaura will run through the lower part of Sullivan's, and in all probability this will be one of the first spots which will be thoroughly tried, when the new track opens up that part of 'thecountry.