Geraldton Guardian 12 September 1925 Crooks at the Crooked Shoot Mine by C.P.J ‘Coo-oo-ey! Coo-oo-ey!’ sounded faintly through the semi-darkness of a cloudless night, which enveloped the ‘Crooked Shoot’ gold mine, situated in a hollow between two low-lying hills in a remote part of the Murchison Goldfields. A field of mulga spread like a carpet […]
The Dust, the Digger and the Barmaid
Murchison Times and Day Dawn Gazette – 25 September 1897, page 4 The Murchison Author unknown (From the London Financial Times) The Murchison was the earliest explored field in West Australia, not the first goldfield—that was Yilgarn, discovered by my friend Anstey—but the first upon which development work was undertaken. It went with a boom […]
Barmaids, Dust Storms, and the Wild Men of Yalgoo
Murchison Times and Day Dawn Gazette – 25 September 1897, page 4 The Murchison (From the London Financial Times) Author unknown The Murchison was the earliest explored field in Western Australia, not the first goldfield—that was the Yilgarn, discovered by my friend Anstey—but the first upon which development work was undertaken. It went with a […]
The Story of the Murchison – part 2
Following on from the first part of this tale from last week: The Story of the Murchison Part 1 Extract from a paper prepared by F Bateson and read to the WA Historical Society on 25 October 1946. Early in 1895, I (Frederick W Bateson) was offered a position at the Star of the East […]
Mick of the Murchison – ‘Doing Time’
Western Mail 8 July 1937, page 11 The Dolly Pot – Over the Plates. “Doing Time.” In Tuckanarra, a mining town about 25 miles north of Cue, there resided in the late 1800s a man named Mick. He was an excellent judge of a horse, a good rider and bushman, and knew to a penny […]