Gold

[Goldchaser1]

To much doom & gloom and drama at the moment,these early miners did it a whole lot tougher then we ever did,pics borrowed from west australian virtual miners museum on FB,the site is worth a look,some amazing historic photos of the early days in west oz.....

 

[madtuna]

Love it! What a refreshing post!

 

[Guest]

thanks goldchaser :Y:

 

[Goldchaser1]

Love it! What a refreshing post!

Youd love it tuna,every pic has a description with near all partys and blokes named and where they were when the photo was taken,i found it a few months ago,memorial not virtual museum as i stated,post a few more and the link if anyones interested......

https://www.facebook.com/WAVMM/

 

[Anniegee]

Ahhhh! At last there is light :sunny: :sunny: :sunny:

 

[Goldchaser1]

No 9 shaft cosmo newbury approx 1935......

 

[Rockhunter62]

And if you look very closely at pic #4 you will see Steve in the background aiming his rifle at the camel. :lol: :lol: :lol:

Cheers

Doug

 

[madtuna]

you and I have probably whacked a fair few of their direct descendants

 

[Goldchaser1]

The young fellow on the bike was John William Thistleton who rode to the Mt Ragged rush and back to coolgardie,1000 miles as stated on the photo......

 

[madtuna]

Love that pic.
Looking at the patches on the tyres, always amazed how he and the like of Dr Laver made it 1000's of klms on pushbikes when we have double gee's that will stop a tank in its tracks.

 

[Goldchaser1]

Love that pic.
Looking at the patches on the tyres, always amazed how he and the like of Dr Laver made it 1000's of klms on pushbikes when we have double gee's that will stop a tank in its tracks.

Yeah and imagine the roads,well tracks at best,1895 is long before cars were tripping about so a few cart tracks here an there i imagine.....

Another ripper:Hawks Nest 1902-3

 

[Ded Driver]

Our roughest swag camping trip in a 4WD would be upper class glamping to those guys hey!

 

[madtuna]

It's amazing how 100+ years latter you occasionally still come across the remains of some of those huts.

 

[Flowerpot]

Brilliant post Goldchaser1, the photos are amazing. Tough folks back then. :Y: :Y:

 

[reefer]

Wonderful insight into the old days!...What tough souls they were.We certainly have it much easier nowadays, but I doubt whether we would have the same resolve as those old timers.Great stuff Goldchaser1 :Y:

 

[Nanjim]

Thanks for sharing

Cheers Nanjim
Jim

 

[Goldchaser1]

Thanks and i get a big kick out of the history of the early days,allready had squandered a bunch of them photos to my phone,at some stage id get some printed and framed,they look good hanging on a wall!!!

 

[Swinging & digging]

Wonderful insight into the old days!...What tough souls they were.We certainly have it much easier nowadays, but I doubt whether we would have the same resolve as those old timers.Great stuff Goldchaser1 :Y:

Yes, i found the site of 3 old Miners huts from the 1860s a few months back pretty sure very few others would know of it?
Over the years i have found many hut sites, usually a small levelled out area and a pile of rubble marks the remains of a chimney.
Will be running my coin machine over the site within a few weeks to check for lost relics, coins etc. :idea:

 

[Goldchaser1]

A Lonley Prospector Waiting to Die:

One of Australia's Loneliest Men

In constant pain from the stump of an amputated leg an 83 year old bachelor dollies stone at his lonely tin camp in the ghost town of Kanowna while waiting to die.

He is Irish-born Joe (Joseph Patrick) Palmer who has been prospecting for more than 50 years. 'I have no friends and nowhere else to live,' he said yesterday. 'I don't like hospitals, cities or beer. All I want is to die.' Although he is regarded locally as an uncommunicative hermit he welcomes' the occasional visitor with all the enthusiasm of a lonely man. When he interrupted . his stay on the Goldfields to try coal mining his leg was cut off
days after he arrived at Collie.
For 32 years his gold prospecting has been handicapped by an artificial leg and a partly crippled arm. He has never struck it rich, his best find being a 22oz. slug which he picked up at Lake Darlot many years ago.
Now when he uses his dolly pot and pestle on odd stones he picks up he does not expect to find many colours. He is just 'keeping out of the way and waiting to die.' . And while waiting he is avoiding all that is distasteful to him - the din of city life, raucous laughter and the tinkling of beer glasses.
Joe Palmer is one of Australia's loneliest men. His dollypot is his only comfort.

Daily News (Perth, WA : 1882 - 1950), Monday 17 January 1949, page 9

Note: Joe passed away not long after this article was written and was buried in the Kalgoorlie Cemetery on the 4th Oct 1950.

 

[Anniegee]

Poor bugger....but a great way to go to the "Gold fields in the Sky" O O O