NEW MINING DISCOVERIES,

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1174, 3 May 1872, Page 2

NEW MINING DISCOVERIES,

The South Australicm Register publishes the following extract from a letter sent from the Roper River by a member of Mr Todd's telegraph expedition : — " Wherever you go you see indications of gold, and I firmly believe that if that prospecting party comes here it will be the making, of the place." The same journal has also been favored with the following clippings from a letter written to an Adelaidean by a friend in he Northern Territory :—•" You , make mention of a gold party coming here, and I am of opinion that they cannot fail to do well, for the country about 150 miles from' Port Darwin is reported to be a gold country. I have been careful to make all possible ? enquiries, and the , reports are indeed good. Some of the parties have found gold in payable quantities. One of the men got a nugget said to be worth L 4. The gold is of a coarse nature, and all from surface sinking. The greats drawback is. the, difficulty of getting provisions to the field for want of stock. The roads are -tolerably good from. Port Darwin. A gentleman, who has been here some length of time, and: has seen a good deal of this place, re-, ports it to be a beautiful pastoral country, and he considers,. that it will turn i out a. far better gold-field^ than Victoria. About 140 miles from Port Darwin, : or 22 | miles from the telegraph road from Depot ; -No. 2,- say in a south-easterly direction, the gold region commences, and continues for about 80" miles in the same direction,' spreading east and west in , an unknown course at present. On the above men-r tioned ground I am sure you will find gold in payable quantities wherever you may try and wash a dish of earth for it. We are about 80 miles from the Roper.. I have seen some of the gold found by a resident here, and it is about the size of No. 1 shot when they are beaten flat."