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Why were old timer newspaper reports so detailed?
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<blockquote data-quote="Hawkear" data-source="post: 667776" data-attributes="member: 4728"><p>The motives of the early diggers differed something from us today. Back then they came to find gold to achieve a better life to what they felt they were destined for. Many of them were well educated and highly literate but lacking opportunity in their native lands. The Eureka stockaders were well versed in the ideas of the Chartist movement in England.</p><p>For us it is either an occupation or a hobby or something in between. For them they came to make sufficient to enable escape from the lifestyle they feared. Many stayed on for a life here or returned to from where they came somewhat richer, but not always so.</p><p>It was much more a quick buck mentality for them to bump themselves up the scale of life.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hawkear, post: 667776, member: 4728"] The motives of the early diggers differed something from us today. Back then they came to find gold to achieve a better life to what they felt they were destined for. Many of them were well educated and highly literate but lacking opportunity in their native lands. The Eureka stockaders were well versed in the ideas of the Chartist movement in England. For us it is either an occupation or a hobby or something in between. For them they came to make sufficient to enable escape from the lifestyle they feared. Many stayed on for a life here or returned to from where they came somewhat richer, but not always so. It was much more a quick buck mentality for them to bump themselves up the scale of life. [/QUOTE]
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