NEW GOLD COUNTRY.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 169, 24 April 1872, Page 3

NEW GOLD COUNTRY.

TiIK construction of the overland telegraph line through South Australia, may lead to important results in the Northern territory, as gold is being constantly found by the men engaged on the work. An Adelaide resident has received from a member of the Todd Expedition, who has been in the Northern Territory before, a letter, dated the River Roper, Gib February which remarks:—“ Wherever you go you see indications of gold, and I firmly believe that if that prospecting party come:; here it will be the making of the place.” The following are clippings from a letter written to an Adclaidean by a friend in the 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 fine gold country. I have been careful to make all possible inquiries. and the reports arc indeed good. ’Some of tlifc parties have found gold in payable quantities. One of the men got a nugget said to be worth £l. The gold is of a coarse mature, and all from surface sinking. A gentleman who has been here some length of time, and has seen a good

deal of this place, reports it to be a beau-’ tiful pastoral country and ho considers that it, will turn out a far better gold-field than Victoria. About 140 miles from Port Darwin, or twenty-two miles from tho telegraph road from Depot. No. 2, say in a south-eastern direction, the gold region commences, and continues for about eighty miles in the same direction, spreading east and west to an unknown course at persent. On tho above-mentioned ground I am sure you will find goldin payable quantities wherever you may try and wash a dish of earth for it. We are about eighty miles up 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.”