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Identifier: saustraliaitshis00stow (find matches)
Title: South Australia : its history, productions, and natural resources
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Stow, Jefferson Pickman, 1830-1908
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Publisher: Adelaide : E. Spiller, govt. printer
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what had been sold and occupied. The Imperial Parliament had advanced £Lj5,000 to meetColonel Gawlers dishonored bills, and a further sum of £27,290was also advanced for the same purpose. Captain Grey afterthis drew on the Home Government for money to pay otherdebts of Colonel Gawlers, not provided for, but these drafts weredishonored, great distress being thereby occasioned. All theseearly trials were overcome by the colony, but the losses of indi-viduals were never repaid. While South Australia was rescued from insolvency by Gover-nor Greys policy, and the attention of the settlers turned towardsfarming and pastoral pursuits, prosperity came also from other.sources. To those of the pioneers possessing any geological or miner-alogical knowledge. South Australia presented the appearance ofa country rich in minerals, and the impressions then formed havebeen amply justified. Within three or four years of the proclama-tion of the colony, several lodes of silver lead were discovered on
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iiMiMiiijiMltl THE PI0XEEK8. 19 the slopes of the hills overlooking Adelaide, and some thousands ofpounds worth of the ore were raised and exported. These work-ings were, however, soon abandoned as unprofitable. In 1842 theKapunda mine, fifty miles from Adelaide, was discovered by theyoungest son of Captain Bagot and Mr. (afterwards Sir) FrancisDutton, late Agent-General, about the same time and independ-entlv of each other. Capt. Bagot and Mr. Dutton secured the land,and after raising a quantity of rich ore, disposed of the propertyto a company, by whom it was profitabl) worked for years. Severalj^ears ago operations were suspended, but a fresh lode has beenfound on the mine, and is being worked on tribute. But the greatmineral discover), that contributed a new epoch in the history ofSouth Australian progress, was the world-renowned Burra mine, ahundred miles from the metropolis. This was found by a shepherdnamed Pickett, who never received any reward, or at any rate anyworthy of men

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