BRITISH STANDARD FREEHOLD GM CO

79 GREENBANKS LANE SNAKE VALLEY, PYRENEES SHIRE

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    BRITISH STANDARD FREEHOLD GM CO - History

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    BRITISH STANDARD G.M. CO.
    04.1858: ground first taken up by a cooperative party.
    1858: This Co. mined on land subleased from Mr. Johnson, a well known speculator from Ovens, for a royalty of 10% of the gross yield of the gold obtained. Mr. Johnson having leased 300 to 400 acres from Mr. Russell at a nominal rental and a royalty of 7% of the gross yield of the gold obtained. The British Standard being just one of the companies which leased land from Mr. Johnson.
    1865: Co. leased the ground from Mr. Johnson til 1865, by which time 4000 ozs had been obtained.
    02.1865: company formed
    12.09.1865: old machinery improved; machinery now consists of:a 16.25 inch by 36 inch horizontal high pressure steam engine for winding and pumping, a Cornish flue boiler: 24 feet 6 inches by 6 feet, and 9 inch pumps; the old shaft down 118 feet;
    new shaft down 101 feet, 3 compartments, 9 feet 6 inches by 3 feet; water struck at 96 feet, making at 550 gallons per hour; Contract let for erecting steam engine, setting boiler and building chimney stack with 9 foot square foundation and 47 feet in brick for £300; contract let for erecting poppet heads and fixing brace for £179
    26.09.1865: No. 2 shaft: boiler and steam engine set in bluestone; chimney stack, 55 feet high, completed; poppet heads erected, 55 feet high and 29 feet to the brace
    03.10.1865: rapid progress made in the erection of machinery
    10.10.1865: contractors nearly completed erection of machinery
    05.12.1865: tenders called for the supply of pumping gear.
    16.01.1866: sinking resumed with the aid of a bucket; expect to sink without using pumps
    23.01.1865: shaft bottomed, water drained, without the aid of pumps.
    08.05.1866: to erect 2 puddling machines.
    29.05.1866: bringing in heavy framing timbers for puddling machines.
    26.06.1866: erecting puddling machines
    24.07.1866: erecting puddling machines
    09.1866: just finished sinking a new shaft.
    03.1867: sold under a sheriff’s order; purchased by a company who have amalgamated it with the ground of the General Kossiaski Co.
    09.1867: results not very encouraging.
    02.1865: recorded production of 4,000 ozs or 124.417 kg.
    KOSSIASKI/GENERAL KOSSIASKI/GENERAL KOSIASKI COMPANY
    03.1865: placed on the share market and sold.
    1865: 1000 shares issued at £10 each; the claim consists of the old Hand in Hand Co., the Grey Horse Co. and the General Kosiaski Co.; lease is for 10 years and covers 4092 feet of ground; the poppet head is 58 feet high; two carpenters are employed at 1/6 per hour and eight men are employed at 1/- per hour; contract for setting boilers and building a 68 foot brick chimney is £238 18s 6d; 1000 tons of firewood at 4/6 per ton delivered; £85 for labour to erect the poppet head and capstan; contract for the frames for the pumps, winders and engines let for £76; the pumps and winding gear cost £736 with pipes being supplied by J. Martin and Co. Black Hill Foundry, Scarsdale; all the machinery was to be erected over the Hand in Hand shaft, which had bottomed at 135 feet.
    06.1865: erecting their engines, which are fine examples of efficiency and durability.
    09.1865: erecting permanent and efficient machinery.
    12.1865: machinery erected and it seems well adapted to its task.
    03.1866: entered the gutter and cleaned the old drives ready for work.
    09.1866: being reorganised.
    03.1867: new company has taken up this ground and amalgamated it with the ground held by the British Standard.

    Heritage Inventory Description

    BRITISH STANDARD FREEHOLD GM CO - Heritage Inventory Description

    Sites 44.01 to 44.05: All of these sites are almost totally destroyed. This Star of the East mine site consists of a number of mounds, including a pile of basalt and broken bricks, and covers an area 50m by 20m. The mounds are up to 1m high. The Rose Co site consists of some mounding covering an area 30m by 30m and up to 1m high. The site of the British GM Co consists of a number of mounds which cover an area 30m by 30m. and are up to 1m high. The site Kossiaski Co mine consists of mounding covering an area 50m by 30m and up to 1m high. The Saint David Co site consists of mounding covering an area 50m by 30m and up to 1m high.

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