mining lease application · 1859
Mining lease applications in Application is made for power to work all the auriferous deposits within the area applied for. The company consist of ninety-six working shareholders, and who now hold the greater portion of the land applied for under their miners' rights. Proposed minimum number of men to be employed, twenty (20), the whole year round; generally all the shareholders will be employed. Proposed term of lease, three (3) years, Clunes, April, 1859, One hundred feet north of Clunes Quartz Mining Company's paddock and 1 other place (4 entries).
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ExtentEleven (11) acres
Mining Type"
Mining TypeNo capital exclusive of machinery.
Investment CapitalTwo thousand pounds (£2000) including machinery
Mining TypeQuartz
Mining TypeDeep sinking
Investment CapitalTen thousand pounds (£10,000)
Victoria Government Gazette, No. 99, 1859.
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People in this noticeJames William Esmond. Clunes "North Quartz Mining Company" (L.5594) · Richard Martin and eight others. "Victoria Prospecting Company" (M.5928) · William Boyd and party, consisting of twenty-four shareholders. "Falcon Prospecting Company" (M.5922)
Elsewhere in this issueThis notice details the sale of several allotments of Crown land, incl · A petition signed by 161 householders in Daylesford, Victoria, praying · A petition outlines the proposed boundaries for Smith Ward, Melbourne, · A petition signed by 1003 householders in Smith Ward, Melbourne, prayi · All 127 notices in this issue
Near this placeApplication is made for power to work all the auriferous deposits within the area applied for. The company consist of ninety-six working shareholders, and who now hold the greater portion of the land applied for under their miners' rights. Proposed minimum number of men to be employed, twenty (20), the whole year round; generally all the shareholders will be employed. Proposed term of lease, three (3) years. · Clunes, April, 1859 · One hundred feet north of Clunes Quartz Mining Company's paddock · Brown's Diggings. Commenced operations in May