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NSW Turon Gates/River - pls explain "Chinese" raceway walls
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<blockquote data-quote="OldDogNewTrick" data-source="post: 368953" data-attributes="member: 3148"><p>Turon Gates property has drystone walls running alongside and higher than the river.</p><p>The property owner says they were built by the Chinese miners in the 1850s to carry water.</p><p>But for what?</p><p>I walked and follwed the line of wall for 5=KLMs and it must have taken a whole lot of $ to build.</p><p>So why?</p><p></p><p>I did try googling such as "turon raceway miners" and found references in the Govt "trove" digitised archives.</p><p></p><p>It mentioned that in Sofala and along the Turon in the 1850s rush nearly every inch of the river was being mined.</p><p>techniques included building "raceways" to divert the river under or above the river natural line so as the make then bed dry.</p><p>then the miners would dig down through the bed to bedrock and excavate alluvial gold from there.</p><p></p><p>Anyone have any facts to add to shed light on the raceway I mention.</p><p>Because if it was simply to drain a river section it need not be so long and costly.</p><p></p><p>I find all this very interesting from a historic perspective.</p><p>Those miners were very skilled and working in hard conditions - what they did was amazing.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/13017299" target="_blank">http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/13017299</a>?</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.turongates.com/our-story" target="_blank">https://www.turongates.com/our-story</a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/71594199" target="_blank">http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/71594199</a></p><p></p><p>Dave</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="OldDogNewTrick, post: 368953, member: 3148"] Turon Gates property has drystone walls running alongside and higher than the river. The property owner says they were built by the Chinese miners in the 1850s to carry water. But for what? I walked and follwed the line of wall for 5=KLMs and it must have taken a whole lot of $ to build. So why? I did try googling such as "turon raceway miners" and found references in the Govt "trove" digitised archives. It mentioned that in Sofala and along the Turon in the 1850s rush nearly every inch of the river was being mined. techniques included building "raceways" to divert the river under or above the river natural line so as the make then bed dry. then the miners would dig down through the bed to bedrock and excavate alluvial gold from there. Anyone have any facts to add to shed light on the raceway I mention. Because if it was simply to drain a river section it need not be so long and costly. I find all this very interesting from a historic perspective. Those miners were very skilled and working in hard conditions - what they did was amazing. [url]http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/13017299[/url]? [url]https://www.turongates.com/our-story[/url] [url]http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/71594199[/url] Dave [/QUOTE]
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