TAMBABOORA.
A correspondent of an Auckland paper writes : — "I have before me an unprejudiced opinion of the Tambaroora gold field, written by a visitor there who ia thoroughly familiar with quartz-mining. He writes, ' Tambaroora is overdone. Everything there is in the 'OctoberNovember state of Sandhurst. If a man sticks in four pegs, he immediately lays his ears back, pulls out his pipe, and waits for another ass to pay him from L 250 to LIOOO per pcg — a very good price for standing timber. The rich claims are about 10 in number, with 30ft to 170 ft of reef— perhaps about two acres, and they have pegged out 18 miles of ground — each peg being considered quite a fortune. Sydney people are paying the piper, whilst the publicans dance. The country is magnificent all about the Turon, and the place will go ahead, but they, don't know how slow quartz mining is in hard country. They will find this out presently.'" -.
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Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1131, 13 March 1872, Page 2
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161TAMBABOORA. Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1131, 13 March 1872, Page 2
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