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Why were old timer newspaper reports so detailed?
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<blockquote data-quote="Hawkear" data-source="post: 667756" data-attributes="member: 4728"><p>I think back then gold had to be sold to the government via local gold commissioners. So all the gold from an area could be reported on from a single source ie the commissioners office.</p><p>At the time the colonial government was then trying to encourage production so information was recorded in much detail and there were no privacy laws or indeed qualms about disclosing those details publicly to encourage others.</p><p>For parties known to be working claims in a particular field there would be no secret as to where and how deep they found there gold.</p><p>The govt was particularly keen to record details of the larger nuggets for newsworthy reasons and as a result to this day we have a fine record of the larger Victorian nuggets although not complete by a long shot.</p><p>”Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Victoria</p><p>No 12.</p><p>List of Nuggets Found in Victoria”</p><p>Of course one always has to treat information from prospectors as to exactly where they report finding their gold with some caution, and I would suggest it would have been little different in the old days.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hawkear, post: 667756, member: 4728"] I think back then gold had to be sold to the government via local gold commissioners. So all the gold from an area could be reported on from a single source ie the commissioners office. At the time the colonial government was then trying to encourage production so information was recorded in much detail and there were no privacy laws or indeed qualms about disclosing those details publicly to encourage others. For parties known to be working claims in a particular field there would be no secret as to where and how deep they found there gold. The govt was particularly keen to record details of the larger nuggets for newsworthy reasons and as a result to this day we have a fine record of the larger Victorian nuggets although not complete by a long shot. ”Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Victoria No 12. List of Nuggets Found in Victoria” Of course one always has to treat information from prospectors as to exactly where they report finding their gold with some caution, and I would suggest it would have been little different in the old days. [/QUOTE]
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