From 1894 to the present day, in Western Australia the ‘Department of Mines and Petroleum’ merged with the Department of Minerals and Energy in 2001, AKA The Department of Mines, have produced an annual report on all aspects of mining. These not only provide a current valuable record for future planning but also provide an […]
The Exchange Hotel Broad Arrow:
Following on from the recent article on the hotels of Broad Arrow I received an email from an OFH reader, John Hanley. His Gt Grandfather James Hanley owned and ran the Exchange Hotel and his family is fortunate in that the original cash book from the hotel has been preserved and passed down through the […]
A Strange Coincidence
Just goes to show that you shouldn’t believe everything you read in the paper (sorry TROVE its not your fault). I was going through a pile of archived newspaper cuttings, collected many years ago, before TROVE existed, and of course I read and checked all the ‘Mine Accidents’. There have in the past only been […]
The story of Joe Hogan
The following story was told by Jack Drayton, well know in the early Goldfields days as a journalist and a prospector. From the day he arrived in Coolgardie in 1894 Joe Hogan was a “loner”, who never had a mate and never told anyone where he was going, although he always came back to town […]
Black Flag – ghost towns
BLACK FLAG:- R H Henning and party pegged the Black Flag lease which in October 1894 was reported to be ‘doing very well.’ The property was sold the following year to Lord Sudley’s syndicate for $48,000. By this time men were opening up their claims, many with good results. In December, the following year, there […]
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