MINING IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 59, 14 December 1871, Page 3

MINING IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

We have been favoured with the following extract from a letter received by Mr Thomas Rawdon, manager of the Shamrock claim, from a friend at present on the Gulgong diggings, N.S.W. We gladly give publicity to the facts contained iu it. u Dear Sir, —According to promise, I write you a few lines to let you knowhow the countiy looks. I have been in this place a week, and as yet think very little of it. There are two leads, the Happy Valley and Black Lead, which are turning out very well, some of them as much as a pound weight to the load. 3ozs is common on these two leads. The Caledonia lead looks well too, although only two claims are on it; yet it is all on the frontage system, and unless a man goes in for a uiue month’s shepherding, there is no show here, as the ground is pegged in for a long distance on those leads. There is any amount of more leads, but no gold getting. The country here is very dry. There is no chance of washing before the rain comes. In the Happy Valley some of the outsiders pay r,s well as the lead. The Prospectors No. 1, No. 2. No. 3, are verv poor: No. 4 all at once got very rich : we are therefore prospecting for a branch which we fancy must come in here. We are also shepherding on a lead called the Star, where the prospectors have got a little gold. I have very little hope of doing anything here. _ Tlieie is a good size township, but misera e buildings. The weather is very hot d dry, ard water is two shillings a bu r t. Tell anybody thinking of coming e that they had better stop where they e, as I think anybody coming now stauds veiy little show.—Yours, &c., “ Ne;l ROSIaG.”