Bunbury Herald 5 June 1907, page 3 The Story of Bob and Jack A PROSPECTOR’S SACRIFICE By R. M. Cochrane Every prospector knows the dreary tracts of the Mount Margaret goldfields of Western Australia, but few are acquainted with the unspeakable dreariness of the tracks beyond, leading to the McDonnell ranges. So far as the […]
One Crowded Night of Life – by John Drayton
That day Mount Margaret was as quiet as a cemetery on a Sunday morning in Melbourne. Andy Flannagan, the ‘Learned Bushman’ and his mates, had reported a strike of alluvial gold 18 miles east, and all the prospectors not on good shows, and had pulled out for the new find, from which Flannagan’s party had […]
The Cemetery at Mt Margaret –
Mt MARGARET CEMETERY Established in 1897 when the townsite of Mt Margaret was gazetted. 11 Burials between 1896-1901 except for one in 1930 and one in 1942. Latitude: -28.806418 Longitude: 122.168054 GPS: 28 48.38505, 122 10.08316 The name of Mount Margaret could mean several things. It could be: The Mt Margaret Goldfields The Mt Margaret […]
Too Late to Say Goodbye –
Kalgoorlie Miner 17 July 1942, page 1 Boy Seriously Injured On Warburton Ranges Track – Laverton Ambulance on Long Trip About noon yesterday, the Laverton ambulance commenced a 200 miles trip each way along Warburton Ranges to attend to a boy seriously injured when run over by a tractor-trailer. The boy is John William Wade, […]
The Fight for the Ida H:
With thanks to Gary Cowans: Truth 16 February 1930, page 6 THE FIGHT FOR IDA H Who discovered the Ida H gold mine, twenty miles from Mount Margaret, in the State of West Australia? Who got the half-million sterling extracted from it? Whence was its name derived? Ask those questions of old Dick (Richard) Heaphy […]