A QUEENSLAND EL DORADO.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2897, 8 July 1882, Page 2

A QUEENSLAND EL DORADO.

“ Atticus” tells the following in the Melbourne “ Leader” Bret Havto has given us his ‘ Story of a Mine’ among the desolate Californian sierras ; perhaps Brunton Stephens will take up the other ‘Story of a Mine’ at the

junction of the Capo and Suttor rivers in Queensland, for certainly it is almost as full of wild romance. More than 20 years ago Eichard Daintree, the' surveyor, declared the spot was auriferous, hut for a time no one credited his tale. At last three miners took up the ground, struck the cap of the reef in a few week’s sinking, took out enough gold to allow them to go on a glorious ‘ bust’—went, and never returned. The mine lay idle and became filled with water. Some storekeepers in Charters Tower, the nearest centre, then resolved to try the deserted claim, and accordingly erected machinery and started pumping. One day they roceivod a telegram in the morning, “ Mine looking well.” At three in the afternoon they received another, “ Struck the bullion room of the Bank of England.” The find was so rich that the manager would not leave the spot until he had re* filled the shaft with water,, locked up the pumps, and given the keys to the police. A share in that mine has just been sold for £IO,OOO, and the stone is expected to yield 50oz to the ton.