Maddicks, Henry T., 100 Years of Daylesford Gold Mining History, p ...

mid 1860s: The deep leads of Mt. Franklin and Franklinford. Two main leads were enriched by the Dry
Diggings Reefs ... first of several shafts of the Shakespeare Co ... Further north the lead was
sunk on near William Strawhorn's present home ... shaft was 157ft deep ... the lead was a wet
one, and in an attempt to drain it a tunnel was driven in from Jim Crow Creek, just opposite
where the creek runs alongside the road west of the area ... went in for a 1,000 yards.
Leviathan Company. North of the Township of Franklinford the lead was worked by the New
Era, just north of the Franklinford Cemetery ... the same lead continues running down to the
Yandoit-Jim Crow bridge, and has been worked from tunnels coming in from the creek and
heading eastwards. Directly to the west of Mt. Franklin another lead headed from Jim Crow
Creek and was worked by the Robert Burns ... Other mines to work these leads were the
Champion, Knickerbocker and the Mt. Franklin Co. 226
1863-1864: First free companies to register were the Old Cornish in the centre about where Orford and
Houston Streets cross. At the south end, just above the Smiths Creek northern side the Argus
claims, and on north of Stanbridge Street the Fear Not Co. 227
1863-1864: Deep lead mining, then northern end of the Crown Reef is thought to have been the source of
the Union-Township Lead, and various tunnels had been driven north-east under Stanbridge
and Queensberry Street ... One of the these was the Spillacis Tunnel of about 1400ft running
north-east under the North Crown lease in Queensberry Street ... Swiss miners. 228
1864-1889: The Cornish Quartz Co. was registered with the capital increased to 1300 shares of £3-10-0
each. Most were taken up by the original 16. Some of them retired and went home to
Cornwall. With the formation of a company and new winding engine, the shaft (Bonnards)
was bailed out, but the results were disappointing. So a new shaft was sunk nearer the
Havelock, seeking the Crown lode ... eventually the company sank to 600-ft. using the two
main shafts, Bonnards and Colliers. The original Cornish Co. continued as a good dividend up
until 1886. Wound up in 1889. 229
Jan 1863: A considerable number left the division for New Zealand. Quartz mining is reported to be
attracting a large share of public attention, but no new discoveries ...The want of water much
felt, and puddling and sluicing operations are at a standstill. 230
Jan 1863: Tunnelling is progressing much the same as usual. This branch of mining is not so much
affected by the scarcity of water as others, because of the general rule, the tunnel from which
the gutter is worked produces water enough to feed a puddling machine, and the more gravelly
stuff is therefor stacked until the following winter, only sufficient of the most clayey stuff
being washed to keep the party going. A couple of large claims have been taken up at the head
of Sailor's and Copper's Creeks, near the dividing range. 231
March 1864: Pickpocket - Pickpocket, Chance Reef, Clements and Christmas Reef, Petticoat and
Scotchman’s Gully. Yandoit and Forty-Foot - Shicers Gully and Flat, Old Nuggetty Gully,
New Nuggetty Gully, Yandoit Creek and Bald Hills, Jim Crow, below Shepherd's Flat, King
William and Cocker's Gully, Forty-Foot Gully and German Gully. Boots - Green and
Welcome gullies, Boots and Shicers gullies, Butterfly and Porter gullies, Yorkey and
Humphries gullies, Splitters Flat, Bald Hill Creek and Italian Gully, Bald Hill, Don't-wake-em,
Sulky and Keep-em-Dark gullies, and Adelaide Reef. Blanket Flat - Old Brandy Hot, New
Brandy Hot, Deep Creek and Italian Gully, Blanket Flat, Whiskey and Champagne, Black Jack
and Emu, Old Tom Gully, Switzerland, New Adam's, Frenchman's, German and Biggam's
Gully. Wombat - Burnt Swamp, Feehan's Gully, Lanky Gully, Stony Creek, and "The Ridge",
Blind Creek, Cameron's Gully, Melvins Reef, Specimen Hill and Wombat Creek, Italian Hill
and Smiths Creek.
Daylesford, Glenlyon, Sailors Creek, Spring Creek - Spring Creek and Old Racecourse,
Doctors and Cobblers Gully, Kidd's Gully, Welshman's Gully, Woman's Gully, and Elevated
Plains. Dry Diggings - Dry Diggings, Middleton Creek, and Sawpit Gully. Fryingpan and
Shepherds Flat, Glengower. 232
226 Maddicks, Henry T., 100 Years of Daylesford Gold Mining History, p.44
227 Maddicks, H. T, 1951, p.23
228 Maddicks, H. T, 1951, p.25
229 Maddicks, H. T, 1951, p.24
230 Mining Surveyors' Reports
231 Mining Surveyors' Reports
232 Mining Surveyors' Reports