NO TOWN.

Grey River Argus, Volume XV, Issue 1884, 20 August 1874, Page 2

NO TOWN.

Continuing; the remarks of an old resident whose description of the workings of this district, and his r philosophical observations thereon, and on the men-sand manners of the place, where so graphically given last weeky he now brings us,- in the course of his travelsj to one of 'the''-first opened mining localities in the Grey Valley— • , SUNNYSIDE TERRACE. ■ ■'; .\ ■-■ "•; ■> •f- m of which he says :— ln passing the Terrace .the other day, I met several of , -the old hands, who, after, trying most of the gullies, and creeks' in the upper -parts of the district, have fonnd. their Way : back to the old Terrace, verifying the. faying among the miners, that adigger is sure to to gravitate .to the place where' > he* has previously got a good deal o£» gold. Graham and party have again set in to their old claim, and if they succeed in again striking the run of pay. dirtfthey were working on before they, left or the Cockney Terrace rush, they will Boon have neighbors. . \ ROUaH AKD^ItfMBiJEeREEEi'i'S Old Rough is agaitt in onekf its periodical fits of intermittent prosperity.; ' : There haa been little or nothing doing here for a length of time, but the place is now beginning to look a little better^- Ooeof the old stagers, the locally world renowned jossioker, old Jack T., a former c "pardner>»

of the original Rough and Tumble, the first prospector of the creek in the byegone times, has dropped on very fair dirt in the bed of the creek. Should the. claim shape' as it prospects, the publicans and the peelers., will soon have a patch of " Rough " gold, for Jack is a good hand at patronising public-houses, and in the natural course of events the police camp, when he wants to invest his spare cash, Davey and party have the claim above and adjoining Jack's in the creek, and they are also on the gold. Lanky and Oo are taking in a head-raco to a terrace overlooking these claims ; they are putting in a dam to a reservoir in . Tunnel UulJy, from which) when complete, they expect a nearly constant supply of water. The value of water is increasing every day in the No Town district, and as a consequence, small side streams that would, not long a<*o, have been looked upon as mere feeders for a race, are now considered good water privileges. joyob's creek. The Tip Head ground sluicers have enjoyed a spell of easy work lately, but if this rain continues, and the dams hold good, they will have an opportunity, which will be lovingly embraced, you niay i be sure, of giving the Buckeye Lead a fair trial. Cowan and party have their race completed, and will be just in time for the rain. paddy's gtjlly. This once famous creek is nearly de- ; serted, only one or two fossickers being, left in it. There ia also a solitary China-, man, but as far as I could understand, from him, he is induced to remain chiefly because he has a bag of rice, yet to eat, and he does not care to leave until it is finished. BIG BILL'S CREEK. Ashcroffc and party are now busy wash-, ing with the water they were so longj bringing to this place. It has taken this; parly nearly two years, it is said, to make, their race, and in all that time they have not, literally, obtained a spec of gold.; Such enterprsie deserves success, and it is hoped and expected the present wash-ing-up will be a good beginning towards a full repayment for their labor. THE TOWNSHIP. Most of the miners who " dig " in the town have given up all idea of working any claim that won't pay something more than wageSj for mere wages are not thought much of, after the recent "heavy finds" of another description. Foundations of fortunes are sought for in other directions than by the obsolete plan of getting them "out of the ground." Marriageable young ladies, with' "dots," are novf mined, for about this, town, with an energy and perseverance seldom displayed by these lady-killing gold-seekers when at the tail of a sluice-fork or at the extremity of a long-tailed shovel. If some of these young-old sparks paid as much attention to undermining the faces of their sluicing claims as they do to undermining each other, for the sake of sbme of the good-looking faces, which it must ,be admitted can be seen here occasionally, it would be better fortheir worldly welfare. But what has worldly matters to do with the heavenly enjoyment of. wearing out the elbows of your: best . Sunday coat, lolling across the counter, while engaged in the sanguinary occupation of slaughtering a barmaid. By the way, the practice is fast becoming fashionable- about here of dropping 1 , the distinctive appellations of these fair Hebes^ when speaking of or about them. The young ladies are describedj when mentioned, by" some designation having reference to a particular grace or accomplishment she; possesses, or is supposed to possess, in the eyes of her adorer acrosß the aforesaid counter, but it must be allowed that some of these nicknames are no better than I call them, and ' indicate any tiling but good taste or real : affection "on the part of those, who use them, when speaking of women, they profess to like. Certain people here are somewhat indignant that in last week's Argus an insinuation should be made reflecting on the honor of any of our Road Board memberß. What business is it of anybody's if one of our respectable local representatives spent money that did not belong to him I Is it anything to any other man if our member did light his pipe with cheques which some of our storekeepers maybe ■were anxiously expecting, to enable them to wipe off a dead horse? And did it concern anyone else if, when the cheques ran out, one pound notes were resorted to by this choice- of the people, to light his pipe secondly? Certainly not : the only persons interested were the poor working men, who should have received the money for their hard labor ; but what of them, they ought to be satisfied with, the consolatory assurance that their hardly-earned cash was spent for them in a gentlemanly manner and as became a Road Board member from No Town. I