Fields Find Cemetery on the Old Yalgoo Road

Fields Find Cemetery – Coordinates: -29.03668, 117.25572 On mining reserve No 14350 12 known burials In a thicket of acacias on the low side of the present Yalgoo Road, hidden from passing motorists, lies the Fields Find Cemetery. It is a good 1 ½ km by car from the old mine, but half of that as the […]

The Shadow of Death Hotel & Tiger Tail Jerry

There was a man by the name of John Hawes who was a parish priest up to the 1930s in the Yalgoo/Murchison district. In a biography on his life he tells of how, after riding all day, he spent the night at a lonely wild spot with a well called the ‘Shadow of Death’. There […]

The Fields Find Tragedy-

The worst accident ever to happen on the Yalgoo Goldfields at Fields Find was on the 31st Aug 1899. On this date there were four men working in the No 1 shaft of the Fields Find GM. They were Daniel HOGAN (22), William PAYNE (38), Frederick Robert SMITH (27), and Edward Era KING (30). The […]