'Pambula Voice' 15 December, 1899
GOLD DISCOVERY
Messers N. and J. G. Jansen have reported to the local Mining Warden's Office the discovery of payable gold on their prospecting protection area, parish Yambulla, situated some twenty miles south and two miles north of Timbillica River. The yield of gold is given as four ounces, 16 dwt 12 gr, from three and a half tons of ore. Tailings have not yet been treated.

Dutchess Mine. Yambulla.

'Pambula Voice' February 16, 1900
THE NEW GOLD FIELD
Considerable misconception exists with regard to the locality of a recent discovery of payable gold some miles from Pericoe. In the majority of cases it is associated with Timbillica and is believed to be part of an extension of the latter gold field. This is a mistake. The new find is not so far south as Timbillica and is reached by a different road. Its proper designation should be the Yambulla Gold Field, and Pericoe (12 or 15 miles distant) is the nearest post office. Several local miners have recently visited the find and one or two have pegged out claims. There are some sixty men on the ground and a few sales have already been effected. While a large area is 'pegged' though as yet not many leases have actually been taken up. There are numerous good surface shows and every indication that the field will prove permanent. But so far none of the claims have been tested at a depth. The leases applied for vary in area from six to twenty acres. Mr. Sam Solomon, son of Mr. Solomon of Eden, holding two of the largest leases. Two leases are also held by a Sydney syndicate. The field is 36 miles from Eden and the best route is via Pericoe Post Office though there is a shorter but very rough track from Towamba. Brothers Jansen were the first to report striking payable gold though Mr. A. Brown has also worked in the vicinity for some years. Mr. J. M. Ryan, butcher and storekeeper at Pericoe visits the mine twice a week with a supply of provisions.

McDonald's battery with part of Yambulla township in background.1905 In foreground: Tom Hite and Tom Rowley with their horse team, Ted Hoff, Mrs. Hoff, Bob McDonald, Martin Pola and the two Hoff children. Photo courtesy Eden Killer Whale Museum

'Pambula Voice' March 16, 1900
EDEN ITEMS
There are now upwards of one hundred men on the Yambulla gold fields and latest reports from the field are of a favourable nature. New finds of gold bearing reefs are being made daily and in addition to upwards of one hundred acres leased for gold mining purposes. A large tract of country has been pegged out by intending lessees. It seems probable that some attention will now be devoted to prospecting the locality of Arsenic Creek near Nethercote in the vicinity of which auriferous and argentiferous stone has for some time been known to exist.
* T. Hite Snr., and party have applied for a gold mining lease of three acres, parish Yambulla.
* It is stated on what appears to be reliable authority that the completion of the purchase by a combined local Sydney sindicate of Browns mine at Yambulla for £1,200 has definately been decided upon.

'Pambula Voice' March 30, 1900
* A licensing court will be held at Eden on 5th April.
* The undermentioned gold leases at Yambulla have been applied for since the 1st March: J. G. Barron 20 acres, P. Lindwall 8 acres, T. Hite 2 acres, C. James 2 acres, T. Hite & party 3 acres, E. Falkner 6 acres, S. Solomon 12 acres, P. Lindwall 8 acres, total 61 acres.
* A promising find of gold is reported from Yambulla. It appears that a miner named Frank Woods while passing near what at first light appeared to be a huge mass of granite stopped to knock off some pieces of stone, to his surprise found that the supposed mass of granite was in reality a huge body of quartz carrying gold wherever tested. The find is in hilly country adjoining Martin's claim and situated north-west from Solomon's mines. The discovery is regarded locally as being of great importance.

'Pambula Voice' May 8, 1900
MINING
During last week the Pambula Mine Limited treated the following ores for Diorites Syndicate, 20 tons yielding 11 ½ ounces of gold, the tailings assayed 8 dwts per ton. A parcel of 4 tons from Messers C. J. Roberts and parties, Indigo Mine, Yambulla, yielded 6½ ounces gold per ton from plates and boxes, the tailings assayed 1 ounce 1 dwt of fined gold and 1 ounce 14 dwt fine silver per ton.

'Pambula Voice' June 8, 1900
PERICOE
The rainfall recorded here for the month of April was 460 points and for May, 1360 points. Most of the rain in May fell between the 14th and 28th and caused a flood in creeks and rivers delaying the mails, tore up the roads and did various other damage. It is said the road from Pericoe to Yambulla is in a fearful state and traffic can only be carried on with the greatest difficulty.
Those miners who were sluicing for alluvial gold in the vicinity of Yambulla have had to abandon work for the present owing to the flood. One of them, Mr. Fergus Sullivan who was sluicing for about four weeks showed me some very course gold he had won and considering the short time he was at it he has done very well. Mr. W. Ryan Jnr., also showed me some gold won by sluicing but it was a great deal finer than Sullivan's. It is stated that Lock Brothers have made splendid wages sluicing winning a considerable amount of gold.
Now that the Reappraisement Act is in force some of the selectors here are filling in forms to have their holdings reappraised. In many cases I expect to see them get their deeds as they have paid more in installments than the real value of the land. Many others ought to find themselves within easy reach of final payment. Of course a great deal will depend on obtaining a fair and reasonable assessment and care will be necessary in fixing values. Much trouble is caused at times owing to the valuators being theorists. I personally have a strong leaning to practical men with a full knowledge of country life and what can be done on poor land. With such men the matter might easily be settled but with men of theory only, it is difficult to arrive at true values. I am quite certain that a large number of selections in this district are worth nearer 5/- per acre than £1 per acre set upon them. It is to be devoutly hoped that practical experienced men will be appointed as valuators so that when the work is done it may be completed before the local land boards without recourse to appeal and settlement before the land court. The old Land Act seems so unreasonable for when the eyes were picked out of the country those who were forced by circumstances to take inferior and almost useless land, were compelled to pay as much for it as others paid for the choicest spots but as the old saying has it, "the longest lane has a turn". The turn has at last come and the only gleam of hope for thousands who were so unfortunate as to settle on poor land. Poor land will keep a man poor and if he got it for nothing it would never be worth double the price. I can say from my own personal experience in this district which extends over 16 years, I would say, "don't have anything to do with poor land" but if circumstances has compelled you to have it, only take it at its true value.

Miner's residence. 1900

'Pambula Voice' June 8, 1900
YAMBULLA GOLD FIELD
From "Sydney Morning Herald" special reporter:
Since the beginning of the present year reports more or less of a sensational kind have been circulated concerning the discovery of gold reefs on the Yambulla field and it was with the object of placing before the readers of the "Herald" some data concerning the new camp that the writer recently visited the place. Yambulla can be reached from several points both by water and by rail. Eden is the nearest sea port and Cooma the closest railway station. Yambulla is 40 miles by road from Eden via Towamba and Pericoe or it can be reached direct from Eden and Towamba without going to Pericoe although there is a difference of four or five miles less of bush track in favour of Pericoe. From Cooma via Bombala, Yambulla can be reached in 90 miles. The roads are good to within from 12 to 18 miles of the field; even the bush track is fast becoming passable, although the whole journey traverses the valleys and tops of the Jingera and Indigo ranges, the gradients being uncomfortably precipitous in many instances. The field, as might be expected, is just now in its preliminary stages of development, although since the beginning of the year each week has brought a fresh batch of prospectors anxious to locate a golden streak.
The number now on the field may be put down at one hundred all told and the number of gold bearing reefs at from 20 to 25. Yambulla is sometimes called Timbillica after a small stream or creek which heads from the Indigo Mountain and runs to the south of the field. The mines are, however, in the Parish of Yambulla, County of Auckland, immediately at the eastern foot of the Indigo Mountain below a "trig" called Mount Poole in the mining district of Eden. There are several claimants to the first gold discovery: Mr. N. Jansen is said to have been the first to hoist the red flag but Messers Burns and Smith are said to have been the first persons to register a claim on November 6th, 1899. Over forty years ago however, the Reverend W. B. Clark located gold almost on the very place the first recent discovery was made and just on the Victorian and New south Wales border not more than ten miles from the present location. Miners have been mining quantities of gold for years past. The whole of the country has been occupied as pastoral holdings and although gold was known to exist there it was not until the past two years that any attempt was made to prospect. The writer made his way to the field from Wyndham crossing the western flank of the Jingera rangers in the vicinity of Towamba and Pericoe where they branched and forked with the rest of the mountains. Apparently the gold bearing belt extends from Jingera southwards to and across the Victorian border and as little attention has been paid to the country there is ample scope for a well organized system of prospecting.
Referring again to the reefs or lodes of Yambulla the writer may mention that extraordinary stories have been circulated about the discovery of immense reefs studded with gold outcropping far above the surface. Although diligent search was made I failed to find the alleged discovery. The Yambulla Mining Company, some blocks worked by Mr. C. W. Richards on behalf of some Sydney gentlemen, about a mile east of the former property, the one worked by Mr. Haugh and others in the vicinity, might be mentioned as showing very fine surface prospects. The Yambulla Mining Company have at gross over 100 tons of ore which should give very profitable results. The shaft at the time of my visit was down some 16 feet but in addition to this a deal of ore has been mined along the western end from the shafts near the surface. The position of the field maybe shortly sized up so far as gold bearing locations are concerned there are many and as I before said, surface ores carry good gold values and is only a question as to whether these gold values carry down into the mineralised zones. If this be proved universal then there is a good future before the new Yambulla field. There is plenty of room and scope for mining skills on the field. Persons going there during the present winter months require to be equipped with plenty of warm clothing and blankets also strong watertight boots. Provisions can be obtained at a reasonable price and there is plenty of water and grass for horses. Timber and bark for building purposes are both plentiful. Excessively cold weather is the principal thing miners will need to provide for. Stores and a butcher and baker shop are already on the ground. In fact a small mining village is now in course of formation. Postal communication has already been established and also a newsagency.

'Pambula Voice' August 3, 1900
YAMBULLA GOLD FIELD
Mining matters are rather quiet in this locality but some of the leases at Yambulla are said to be developing well. A sensational find is reported on Alex Greig's lease, the ore being described as being studded with gold. No further new leases have been applied for since your last issue. However, more miners are constantly arriving. Mr. T. Hite has opened a store at the gold field and it is rumoured that Mr. J. M. Ryan has sold his store business to Mr. A. J. Ward formerly of Pipe Clay Creek.
The weather has been very wintery of late with frequent frosts.

'Pambula Voice' August 17, 1900
NOTES FROM YAMBULLA
Rifle shooting is becoming very popular, too popular in fact. Many of our shooters appear to be constantly practicing for forthcoming matches and the crack of the rifle is heard both day and night, so that one might almost imagine that they were in the vicinity of the South African town from which our township "Ladysmith" derives it's name. Any convenient tree is made a target so that the bush wayfarer has the monotony of his journey relieved by the probability of being require at any moment to stop a stray bullet. The dodging of which becomes quite an exhilarating and exciting pastime.
* A meeting of the Rifle Club Committee was held at Earl & Company's office on Tuesday night when it was proposed to celebrate the Prince of Wales's birthday by holding a £10 handicap rifle match. The club possesses a good working committee and an energetic secretary so that a good meeting is anticipated. Some of our crack's propose crossing the border on the 26th instant to try their luck at Wangrabelle, Victoria.
* There are still about a dozen men working for alluvial gold on the river. Some of them, however, are hampered for want of water. Ryan and Loch have expended a lot of time doing dead work. The former has a race cut over half a mile long and now expects to continue sluicing until Christmas.
* A parcel of 5 ton sent by Heartneady and partner to Dapto yielded 2 ounces 18 dwts per ton.

'Pambula Voice' September 28, 1900
PERICOE
Mr. Haugh's new battery at Yambulla was opened on the 11th instant.

'Pambula Voice' November 2, 1900
NOTES FROM YAMBULLA
*At the monthly meeting of the Yambulla Progress Committee held on Saturday night last, it was decided to make application for a telephone and an accelerated mail service. The committee also decided to follow the good example shown by the Pambula committee and form themselves into a working bee with the purpose of clearing the streets of the township, the first meeting of which is taking place next Saturday afternoon.
* An accident happened to a man named McGrath whilst working in a shaft, a quantity of stone falling on him severely bruising his shoulder and arms. He left here by coach to obtain medical treatment. The extent of this injuries has not yet been ascertained.

TED LOVE'S HORSE TEAM OUTSIDE EDEN POST OFFICE EN ROUTE TO YAMBULLA GOLDFIELDS. No date. Photo courtesy C. and G. Clements

'Pambula Voice' November 30, 1900
* The Yambulla GM Company are calling for tenders for the carriage of their machinery from Eden so that it is probable this property will shortly be profitably developed. The four men who have been working upon it for some time past are now engaged making a road to the mine.
* A narrow escape from a fearful accident occurred here on Saturday. Two men employed in making the road to Yambulla Company's mine, named McCarthy and Moffitt, had put in a charge of dynamite which it appears only partially exploded blowing the "tamping" out of the hole. Not thinking that any of the charge remained, the men proceeded to drill the hole to a greater depth when the charge suddenly exploded blowing the men a distance of some fifteen yards from the spot. They were both much bruised and cut but were not so seriously hurt as might have been expected. Their escape is considered almost miraculous.
* The Progress Committee held their usual fortnightly meeting on Saturday night last but no new business of importance was bought forward. Considerable indignation was however expressed at the delay at getting the Towamba-Yambulla road attended to and the secretary was instructed to again write to their member for the district to urge upon him the necessity for trying to expedite matters.

'Pambula Voice' December 7, 1900
NOTES FROM YAMBULLA
* Magnificent stone was raised last week from Haugh's 10 acre lease at the depth of 85ft. The specimens obtained being the richest seen on the field. Next crushing to go through will probably be from this property.
* A terrific thunder storm passed over here on Friday afternoon last. The rain which was preceded by vivid flashes of lightning and tremendous peals of thunder. It was the heaviest ever witnessed here. The weather still continues showery and unsettled.
* Roberts and party are sinking a new vertical shaft which they expect will cut the reef at about 50ft. Shares in this property are reported to have recently changed hands at a satisfactory figure.
* Mr. Surveyor Small is camped here now and is engaged in measuring some of the leases. It is hoped that he may also be instructed to layout the township whilst here. Where is the township site to be? This is now becoming a somewhat vexed question. The residents of "Ladysmith" with considerable amount of reason and justice on their side take it as a matter of course that - as they first located themselves on what appears to be the best building sites on the field and had a main street and several allotments surveyed where most of the business places of importance are situated,- the township must be there and nowhere else. They must not overlook the fact, however, that the 'Spion Kop' is fast becoming a formidable-like rivalry; rapidly increasing population is centering in that locality including one or two residents as of much push and energy who are already putting forward their claims for recognition and although at present there seems but little doubt as to the result it is anticipated that a battle royal will result before matter is settled.

'Pambula Voice' January 18, 1901
Yambulla
* Mr. D. S. McDonald has made a start with his new hotel, the site being cleared and fenced. Building operations have somewhat been delayed owing to the difficulty of getting material delivered on the ground. Mr. McDonald states that satisfactory arrangements have now been made with Mr. D. Heffernan of Bondi sawmills and the timber is expected to arrive here this week. He expects to have the building completed in eight weeks time.
* "Cleanliness is next to godliness". This fact is evident recognised by the good folk of Yambulla, by at all events the male portion of them, who unable to show their godliness by going to church on Sunday, do what they deem the next best thing, mainly their weeks' washing shown by the quantity of clothes hanging out to dry each Sunday.

'Pambula Voice' February 1, 1901
NOTES FROM YAMBULLA
* The secretary of the Progress Committee has been informed through the Member for the district Mr. W. Wood that the sum of £80 has been granted toward the much needed improvement of the Towamba-Yambulla road to be expended on the Yambulla end.

'Pambula Voice' February 1, 1901
NOTES FROM YAMBULLA
Periods of depression are common on almost every gold field. We are passing through one such period just now. That we will pass through it and that it is only temporary may be considered certain as knowing that gold exists here in payable quantities. It is not probable that it will be allowed to remain for long. Yambulla has from the outset laboured under exceptional disadvantages. In the first place it had to contend with the strong prejudice that exists in the minds of mining investors against south coast gold fields generally. Holdings are also, for the most part, too small and are held by men with neither the means, ability or inclination to properly develop them and it is evident that to work the field profitably a number of these will have to be amalgamated and worked by one company. In the meantime numbers of men who have come here seeking employment have had to leave again disappointed. As with a few exceptions none of the claims are being legitimately worked but are merely being "shepherded" pending the arrival of the capitalist who still holds aloof.

Tom Hite with wife and family at McDonald's battery. Yambulla. 1907 Children from L - R: Jack, Tom, Harry and Vera. Photo courtesy Eden Killer Whale Museum

'Pambula Voice' February 22, 1901
NOTES FROM YAMBULLA
The Progress Association met as usual Saturday night last. It was a fair muster of members with Mr. J. Stott occupying the chair. A letter was read from Mr. P. Durie, Inspector of Schools notifying his intention of visiting the township on Wednesday the 20th instant and expressing a wish to confer with the residents on the subject of the establishment of a public school here and the secretary was instructed to notify all parents to meet at his rooms at 2pm on a day named to confer with Mr. Durie. A report was also laid before the committee that notwithstanding the caution given by the police, washing was being carried on to the banks of the creek by certain residents and that soap suds, dye and other filth was observed running into the water and also that dirty socks were seen floating about in the stream. As this state of things was considered not conducive to public health and did not tend in any way to improve the flavour or the purity of the drinking water, the secretary was instructed to again write to the police urging them to take the necessary steps to put a stop to the nuisance.
To one who has been in the midst of a typhoid epidemic and witnessed the fearful ravages caused by that dreadful disease. It seems extraordinary that people can be so criminally careless. It may be possible that some people are foolish and callous enough to imagine that because they are not obliged to drink the filth which they allow to stream into the drinking, water they do not run any danger themselves. Should typhoid, however, make its appearance it will be found that it makes no distinctions in this or any other respect and that it usually travels from from house to house with lightning rapidity paying its visits impartially. We are at present blessed with that priceless boon denied to most gold fields vis a stream of beautiful clear water and it is sincerely to be hoped that the efforts of the Progress Association to keep it pure will be successful.

'Pambula Voice' September 26, 1902
* Mr. Peter Martin a miner well-known in connection with the Pambula gold fields is about to try his fortune at Yambulla.

Eden Observer & South Coast Advocate
April 4, 1908
ADVERTISEMENT

'Pambula Voice' August 4, 1911
Mr. John Hartneady has opened a branch store at Yambulla, and is, we are informed, doing good business. So, you see, our Towamba tradesmen have some push in them.

'Pambula Voice' July 10, 1914
TOWAMBA
Mr. John Hartneady has decided to close his store at Yambulla, and is having it pulled down and going to rebuild the store and billiard room in Towamba.

Hartneady's old store and billiard room, moved from Yambulla to Towamba. This was still operating as a General Store in Towamba until the 1940's. Photo K. Clery

'Pambula Voice' September 18, 1914
We are a very small community now there is no store. Mr. Hartneady is pulling down the premises which were some years ago erected by the late Mr. Miradian.

'Magnet' March 14, 1931
An application has been lodged with the Warden's Clerk at Eden, by John Zimmeer or Zimmerer, of Ascot Road, Bowral, for gold mining lease of 8 acres, being original G. L. 44, Parish of Yambulla. Representing a German mining Co.
Ditto application from Robert Henry MacKenzie also of Bowral.
According to records in Eden office, application No. 1900/1 was lodged in 1900, 2 June, by Patrick McCloy as agent for John Chas. Roberts, John Henry Roberts, Herman Bollman, Thomas Prendergast, John Karvelin, Hugh Carragher, Arthur Jarvis, James Fredrick Roberts, and William Donaldson Robertson - effective on May 25, 1900.
Next application: No.1900/2 lodged for Thomas Schafer by his agent, George Arnold. 4 acres.
No. 1900/3 - 2 acres Robert H. McKenzie
* A map of the leases granted and surveyed gives names of some well known mines. Yambulla Mines: Spion Kop, Golden Rhine and Heathy Gap.

Federal Hotel, Yambulla No Date

Magnet' March 14, 1931
* Yambulla became a deserted village and although its hotel survived for some years as a guest house for occasional travellers on the through road to Wangrabelle, it too became unprofitable and was sold and removed from the locality. The country is fairly well watered and is otherwise well suited for prospecting. A road connecting Yambulla with the western road via Pericoe has fallen into disrepair.

'Magnet' April 18, 1931
* Nine miners out at Yambulla.

'Magnet' April 25, 1931
* Government Notice: application by T. G. Napier, J. T. Dunbar, D. J. Walker surrender part of freehold portion 83 - about 273 acres in exchange for about 273 acres of Crown land in four parts, Parish of Nungatta, County of Auckland.
* A map of the leases granted and surveyed gives names of some well known mines. Yambulla Mines: Spion Kop, Golden Rhine and Heathy Gap.

'Magnet' June 20, 1931
* Stone taken from Yambulla mine yielded poorly so mine once again closed down.

'Magnet' July 11, 1931
* Mr. George Brown commenced work on the old Yambulla field and expects a successful digging.

'Magnet' November 21, 1931
* Brown Bros. struck promising stone at Yambulla, original finders of payable gold at Yambulla.

'Magnet' August 12, 1933.
PERICOE
Yambulla, about fourteen miles distant from Pericoe was an extremely busy settlement in the gold mining days. It could boast of a splendid hotel and a public school and a spacious dance hall. It possessed facilities for sport and happy prospectors after a week's hard work would joyfully participate in athletics, tennis, football, etc., Now everything is in ruins. Truly Yambulla is a deserted village. Messers R. Williams and B. Branch at present prospecting in the Yambulla district intend visiting Bowral for a brief sojourn. They, with the Quigg Bros comprise the whole the population of Yambulla.
* Messers R. Williams and D. Branch at present prospecting in Yambulla district..

'Magnet' March 24, 1934
* Those mining at Yambulla Goldfields: Mr. Pola, Mr. Joseph Miradian and Mr. Wall, a brother-in-law of Mr. Miradian.
* Yambulla Mines: Spion Kop and Solomon mines.

'Magnet' March 31, 1934
YAMBULLA MINES
The return of one of Yambulla's most successful miners Mr. M.J. Pola to the field after an absence of many years since of the disposal of his interests there marks what it is hoped will prove to be the beginning of a big revival of gold mining in a locality which although prosperous enough in its early days should under modern conditions of mining and ore treatment prove very much more prosperous for many years to come. The lease secured by Mr. Pola in conjunction with Mr. W.L. Wall consists of five acres of auriferous land comprising what was known as the prospectors claim at Spion Kop about one and a half miles on the Eden side of the old Solomon mine at what when the field was first opened up was the main Yambulla field.
On this lease Messers Pola and Wall had at the bottom of their shaft at a depth of 40 feet a quartz reef about six feet wide from which bulk assays at 1 oz. to 25 cwts have been obtained while at the end of a tunnel from 250 feet to 300 feet long put in at an estimated depth of 150 feet the reef is five feet wide giving good assays . Satisfactory tests have also been made along the chute showing on the surface for a length of 150 feet or so and to a depth of 12 or 15 feet so that the existence of a fairly big block of auriferous stone ready to be worked to economical advantage has thus been proven. Further prospecting is in progress and there seems every likelihood of the possessors of the mine being able by their efforts and example to attract to this field capital seeking investment in bonafide gold mining enterprise. Mr. R.H. McKenzie's gold mining lease of two and a half acres is also situated some distance away from the old Yambulla G.M. Co's line but in another direction and is believed by the lessee to have all the attributes of a good gold mining property.

'Magnet' September 29, 1934
* Hopes are entertained for the revival of the Yambulla goldfields where on account of excessively wet weather interfering with the opening up of the mine, developmental operations by Messers Pola and Wall were suspended a few months ago. Backed it is understood with a sufficiency of capital, these enterprising miners who had profitable experience of the fielding days when gold was half its present price, will shortly arrive to open up our auriferous reefs. Some of them in new country adjacent to the old field from which, in the earlier days, much wealth was won.

'Magnet' November 17, 1934
* Interest in Yambulla is by no means dead. Prospectors, geologists and others often inspect the deserted goldfields. Rain and age have rendered the neglected Pericoe-Yambulla Road almost impassable. A sedan car had to be moved from a bog only a few days ago.

'Magnet' March 9, 1935
YAMBULLA GOLD FIELD
Mining Revival
Messers M. Pola and W. Wall who some months ago took up an almost untouched mining area at Yambulla with which they were acquainted in the earlier days of the gold field, have, following the suspension which they were allowed on account of the flooding of the mine by inordinately heavy rainfall, taken a course that bids fair to result in a definite revival of payable industry on this once-famous field.
On terms that will ensure a thorough testing of the property, a four months option to purchase has been secured from Mr. S. W. Stewart of Sydney who is losing no time in getting out the water and sampling the mine.
Mr. Dockerell, a mining expert has been out to the mine for the purpose of making as comprehensive an inspection as possible and reporting to his principal.
The water in the main shaft has been baled out to a depth of 40 feet disclosing a reef from 5 feet to 7 feet wide. Samples taken across the reef gave values ranging from 3 ½ oz. to 8 dwts. per ton representing an average from 1 oz. to 30 dwts. to the ton for the full width of the reef.
He's confidently expected that the further opening up of the reef will be attended with satisfactory results and lead to the introduction of modern machinery and large scale operations.
Our gold mine is at present quiescent, as timbering and general fitting up are going on. Certainly some splendid specimens have been taken out of the solid. I should say, from what I have seen, the reef is certainly worth trying. But development work is monstrously expensive.

'Magnet' August 17, 1935
YAMBULLA MINES
Prospects of Revival
The likelihood of a mining revival at Yambulla and the spending of £200 on the road to the mines were mentioned at the Imlay Shire Council's last meeting.
A largely-signed petition from residents of Yambulla, Pericoe and Towamba asking that the branch road to Yambulla from the Pericoe-Eden road be made trafficable at an early date, was before the meeting.
Mr. E.P.Rodd, clerk, reported that the holder of mining leases at Yambulla had called on him and had mentioned that he had spent over £200 in improving the road but that further attention was needed. A spot near the junction at Ryan's and another at White Gum Flat appeared to be the greatest cause of trouble, he (the clerk) gathered.
Councillor Wiles: 'If all those signatories will assist we can do something.' (laughter)
The president mentioned that between twenty and thirty sleeper cutters were operating in the locality and councillors considered that this probably had a bearing on the petition.
Councillor Mitchell said that the people of the locality seemed to think the mines were going ahead and in view of this he considered that the petition should be reported upon.
It was decided that this be done.

Remains of cooking pot.	Remains of boiler.
Fireplace possibly hotel.	Remains of a small rail.