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Why were old timer newspaper reports so detailed?
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<blockquote data-quote="mbasko" data-source="post: 515881" data-attributes="member: 4485"><p>Australia was then (& still is) a very young country.</p><p>Once the goldrush officially started here the governments + towns wanted people to join the rush to boost both Australias & their own local prosperity. I'd guess people were encouraged to talk the goldfields up & many were happy to do so.</p><p>Government Geologists were sent out to prospect ground & report on it to entice further prospecting in areas also.</p><p>Miners were required to report on production but I doubt all did. You can find these reports on sites like DIGS (NSW) but I'm not sure they were made public back then. Either way it seems some were very free with information & no doubt some others likely weren't. Probably more to do with being the popular news story of the day.</p><p>During the 1850's to late 1800's gold was the big news topic so occupied a lot of newspaper space. During this time there were a lot of travelling reporters covering the goldfields news. It petered out as most of the prolific goldfields also did & as such the reporters left the fields so I suspect the drop in detailed information is refelected in that time (after the late 1800's).</p><p></p><p>Some good reading are the articles by Charles de Boos & "A Visit to the Western Goldfields" by Anonymous.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mbasko, post: 515881, member: 4485"] Australia was then (& still is) a very young country. Once the goldrush officially started here the governments + towns wanted people to join the rush to boost both Australias & their own local prosperity. I'd guess people were encouraged to talk the goldfields up & many were happy to do so. Government Geologists were sent out to prospect ground & report on it to entice further prospecting in areas also. Miners were required to report on production but I doubt all did. You can find these reports on sites like DIGS (NSW) but I'm not sure they were made public back then. Either way it seems some were very free with information & no doubt some others likely weren't. Probably more to do with being the popular news story of the day. During the 1850's to late 1800's gold was the big news topic so occupied a lot of newspaper space. During this time there were a lot of travelling reporters covering the goldfields news. It petered out as most of the prolific goldfields also did & as such the reporters left the fields so I suspect the drop in detailed information is refelected in that time (after the late 1800's). Some good reading are the articles by Charles de Boos & "A Visit to the Western Goldfields" by Anonymous. [/QUOTE]
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