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June 1866: In deep sinking - two companies are being watched ... Leviathan Co., private property, near
Mount Franklin; and at Deep Creek, the Smeaton Estate Co. have their machinery completed,
and are now engaged driving for a lead worked in the Ballarat Tunnel Co.'s tunnel. ... The
Ballarat Tunnel Co. mine has been swamped, now spoken of erecting a steam engine at the end
of the tunnel. 294
Sept 1866: Smeaton Estate Co. calling for tenders to erect additional puddling machines. 295
Dec 1866: Chief quartz gold producers - Old Cornish, Wonderful, and Specimen Hill ... The Wombat Hill
quartz reefs. Extending in parallels therefrom, are being worked with varied success by the
Cornish Co. 296
Dec 1866: In Alluvial workings - the lead running north-easterly from Wombat Hill is being worked by
the Exchequer, Cosmopolitan, Wallaby and Daylesford companies. 297
Dec 1866: The Deep Creek Lead is one of importance, and is being worked by large parties of men from
the bridge to Smeaton ... The Ballarat Tunnel Co. the Smeaton Estate Co., Messrs Christensen,
Morganti, Franconi, and others, are working hereon, and employ hundreds of men, together
with the machinery of almost every description, and of considerable value. 298
1867-1874: Cornish Quartz Company - In the year 1867 thought advisable to sink below the water level,
and to erect pumping and winding machinery, and also to erect more crushing power. A new
16-head battery was erected under the supervision of Mr W. Burall, of this town, and pumping
gear attached which worked a 6-inch lift in a shaft near the site of the present battery; and at
the same time it was resolved to register the company under the Act as a limited company, and
in this style work was pursued anew, and the shaft now known as the 'Old Shaft' on the
Wombat lode was commenced and continued to its present level, viz., 520 feet; and from this
shaft the books of the company show that very nearly 200,000 tons of stone have been raised
to date, producing a yield of 51,964 oz 16 dwt 6 gr of gold. Winding and pumping machinery
was erected on this shaft as the depth requiring such was reached. Operations at this shaft
were discontinued by the late manager, but within the last year it has again been placed in
thorough repair and work resumed; and the manager is of the opinion that a very large quantity
of stone will yet be raised from this part of the mine, and it is to be hoped that it will prove
sufficiently remunerative to meet the heavy outlay in other parts of the claim; but as we
purpose saying something presently of what is going on at the new (or main) shaft, we will
digress a little by stating that in the year 1874 the company occupied the premier position in
the Hepburn district. 299
1867 to 1888: Cornish Company crushed 169,809 tons for 51,067 oz ... They have paid no dividends since
1884 ... The Company have the most powerful and elaborate plant in the district, comprising
all the most improved mechanical appliances for winding, pumping and crushing. The
drainage from the underground workings is of a very formidable character, viz., 8,000 gallons
an hour, costing £54 per week, the number of men employed on average being 80. 300
1867-1880: Argus Company, 17,799 tons at 4_ dwts per ton. 301
1867: Trafalgar amalgamated with neighbour, formed the Nuggetty Ajax ... Nuggetty Ajax, old shaft
lies directly in the far western part of the middle of Raglan Street ... mine's dam is the reed
covered one just north-west of the shaft in Connell's shaft. 302
March 1867: 12,500 oz. have been obtained from both quartz and alluvial workings; and the best authorities
allot 4,500 oz. at the least from quartz reefs, and the remaining 8,000 oz., eight of our
numerous companies working alluvial claims (viz. the Cosmopolitan, Corinella, Concordia,
294 Mining Surveyors' Reports
295 Mining Surveyors' Reports
296 Mining Surveyors' Reports
297 Mining Surveyors' Reports
298 Mining Surveyors' Reports
299 Mining Surveyors Reports, March 1888
300 Mining Surveyors Reports, June 1889
301 Mining Surveyors Reports, June 1889
302 Maddicks, Henry T., 100 Years of Daylesford Gold Mining History, p.32-33