Basalt Town - Boots Gully Slate Quarry - Charlesford Mine - Henderson Spring
BOOTS GULLY SLATE QUARRY Kyneton Observer (Vic.: 1856 - 1900), Thursday 15 February 1894, page 2 The Daylesford Gold Find. Touching the rush near Daylesford, to which we referred in our last issue, the Daylesford correspondent of the Age writes: —For the last few days the people of Daylesford have been considerably excited over a rich find of stone made by a couple of miners named Charles White and Jackson in a claim at Welcome Gully, a place about four miles from Daylesford as the crow flies, and between Basalt Hill and German Gully. Welcome Gully and also the next gully (Smith's) has for years yielded large nuggets at various times, and prospectors have worked there with varied fortune for a considerable time, sinking shafts from 3 to 20 feet in depth. With the exception of spasmodic prospecting the country may be looked upon as practically untried. White and Jackson have been working there for about two years and a half, and on Friday last, at a depth of 20ft, they came