Historical and Other Notes

  Star (Ballarat,  Vic.:  1855 - 1864), Saturday 14 June 1862, page 2   MONKEY GULLY.  (From our own Correspondent.)  12th June.   QUARTZ MINING. -The Lancashire Reef, situated between the head of  Budgeon's  and  Monkey Gullies,  which was first brought into public notice by Dr Griffiths some 15 months ago, has now become one of the most popular, and is likely to prove one of the most profitable mining investments in the  Woady   Yaloak  district. The want of capital in some instances, and a hankering for the distant goldfields of Tuapeka and Lachlan, caused many of the working miners and their sleeping partners to abandon the speculation. The Energetic Gold Mining Company's numerical strength became reduced to nine; but these nine being mostly members of the Great Western Company on Warren's Lead, and men possessing that combination of capital, skill, endurance, and perseverance which are the indispensable adjuncts ...

    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 dept...