RUTHERGLEN DISTRICT.

Grey River Argus, Volume XI, Issue 948, 10 August 1871, Page 2

RUTHERGLEN DISTRICT.

;' : .; J>£OM OTTK OWN . COBKB3?pNMBNT.] . ..... — r: •9p!J.j3j7^? :::r ~^~* It is . no$ ;«earljifiTe;;yj»» mma&l&s^iflc mond Gully was; first opened^- ?md~any; ~ stranger passing by it cstrmot help being '-./ Struck with, the thorough overliaalmg \ ■ has had from one end £d thg other." r '"*li s g : "' very formation of $he bottpin^shows. clearly at gome rempte period it formed thp channel of ft large river. There is. no doubt about its having been a good poor - mail's diggings, and in a few instanoes some parties were fortunate in making > small rises. It was first known as Brighton « Gully, and shortly after the first rush a lawsuit took place in reference tola dain^l'li' situated at the rear of the present township. It was then called Dam Gully, but the name being altogether, too rough,; -it T Wa> softengd into Diamond QuUy, and when the Government established a post* ■ office, it was then, calledAlthough; the gully itself, has, Deea,\ tii|r6nghly worked past the township by the" Cornish party, and found to pay remunerative wages, the terraces^ are still being worked by various partießwithitiituS same favorable results, and axe likely. to do so for some time to comt. • The ; Cornish X3omp'aify^are worKui^j^"^' a low terrace %ear Me German and' Diamond Gullies. This ground formerly -wu- i found to pay by the; most; ; primitive jjf manner of working, and cannot now fail to db so tothe present parties, who take' H<■ everything on a face and pass it through the sluice. Hart and Co. are still working on the terrace where they have ijejßii, '' for the last three years, and as they also! hayej a wholesale way of sluicing, they ,■ gejt over •■■^_ lwge piece of ground .'wlich '] l ;.:\ ■ na# long ' Deen knbwp 1 to contain g00d : , .. paya ble gold, so that it caJinipt lail tp'^e high y remunerative to them. Collins a and who were the first to introduce H in tl b district the use. of the hydraulic in sluic ng, are still at the old spot. Their water cpniniand|ng some of the ..., best .., slflip ng grofind ip. ' tjie npighbprhopdV ' maki a their claim one of . tha moat valu- * able fin the district." Dalpelle 1 and Co., and Wrijhtand Co., are,%d. atwo^ki^?' > the iis rial result. There are several other small parties scattered "about, and, altogeth;r, there seems to be as muoh^ermar. r . i nenfy in the immediate neighborhood ofc.

Rutherglen as there has been for the last two years* Of course the labor that has been . bestowed in bringing in water is the great^eyer by which our present permanency is !&pt up. There is not the same amount of bustle and confusion now as there was three or four years since; everything ; is , conducted in a more natural and legitimate manner. Further from Butherglen there are many other parties at work. Paulsen and Co. are still sluicing near the Saltwater Creek, and the splendid cottages which they have built shows that they have a very high opinion of the permanency, of jtheir wprkj ia fact, these beautiful little residences form quite a relief to the monotony of the bush as a traveller passes along tho tram* The site on which these cottages .are built is now known as German Terrace, Saltwater. This speaks volumes as to how the sluicing pays, and augurs well for the permanency of the district. .: . : , ; .