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Sept. 1882: Hamburg and Glamorgan Quartz Company, Yandoit, Have been engaged in sinking a main s
haft 494 .
Sept. 1882: Yandoit Grand Junction Alluvial Gold Mining Company have erected a 20 horse power engine
with winding , pumping, puddling machine and lift of 10 inch pumps 495 .
December 1882: The Western Star Quartz Mining Company on the Rising Sun line of reef, have finished the
erection of a 10 horse power engine 496 .
December 1882: The Mount Franklin Gold Mining Company, Franklinford have added some open-cutting 497 .
1880s: Just in Time Co., found by the local prospecting committee in the 1880s. Later worked in
1934-1950 as the Maxwell. 498
1883-1894: North Cornish Company was registered ... By 1886, this company had three shafts in
operation, the deepest being 700ft.It then took over the former Cornish Co. ground and
continued until 1894. The main North Cornish shaft is just south-east of the junction of Camp
and Stanbridge Streets, in the present pine plantation ... paid out over £100,000 in dividends
between 1885-1894 ... The North Cornish (Freeman's) battery and dam was below the No. 1
shaft in the corner of Duke and Stanbridge Streets. . 499
1883-1903: No. 1 North Cornish Company commenced, its shaft was 200 yards north of Stanbridge Street
(now houses) ... managed to carry on until McLeod's re-organisation of the Cornish line took
effect after 1903. 500
June 1883: The Argus Quartz Company United is now the Cornish Extended Company 501 .
June 1883: The Old Fearnot Company situated on the northern boundary of the Cornish Company's claim
and are now called the North Cornish Company 502 .
June 1883: The Rising Star Quartz Mining Company, at South Frenchman's Creek or Blind Creek, have
28 stamp heads continually going 503 .
June 1883: The Hepburn Rocky Lead Alluvial Gold Mining Company have fixed a new 20 horse power
with 2 cast iron puddling machines 504 .
June 1883: Hepburn Home Paddock Company, Smeaton, at No.2 shaft, are erecting an 18 inch cylinder
pumping engine with a set of pumps; and an 18 inch cylinder winding engine and gear, with 2
Cornish flue boilers 30 feet long by 6ft 6 in.; also 2 puddling machines. Tributers to the
company are also erecting a Quartz mill and engine 505 .
Sept. 1883: The Cornish Extended Q.M. Co. (formerly "Argus") has purchased another 21_inch engine
and it will be erected at once 506 .
Sept. 1883: The Florence Q.M. Co., late Samson and Co. in Kidd's Gully have purchased a crushing
engine, with 16_inch cylinder, and have erected 12 revolving stampers. They are raising
quartz to supply their battery from a 160-ft shaft 507 .
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