VICTORIA COMPANY

M47 TRACK AMHERST, CENTRAL GOLDFIELDS SHIRE

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    VICTORIA COMPANY - History

    Contextual History:History of Place:
    Heritage Inventory History of Site:
    September 1866: The Victoria Co., at White-horse Reef, near Amherst, has erected a steam engine, of 30 hp, outlay of £3000. 10-head of stamps.
    September 1870: Arrangements to let the Victoria battery on tribute, so that good returns may be looked for from White-horse Reef
    December 1870: Quartz mining in this division does not appear to be well understood of we should not have valuable lodes like Blucher's, White Horse, and the Big Reefs, which are known to yield good payable returns, standing idle.
    September 1871: Forbach Company, in Amherst, have collapsed for want of means to carry on the works, not withstanding a first-class crushing and winding plant on the ground.
    March 1888: Mine employed 11 men, for a yield of only 11 oz.
    June 1888: Mr Stone, the proprietor, struggling on - £2000 out of his own pocket, having paid full wages to 9 - 11 men for a considerable time.
    September 1888: Mr Stone persevering at his own expense. Indifferent success.
    March 1889: Very little work done on lease by Henry Stone. After spending £2000 over the past two years, has been on two occasions unsuccessful in getting assistance from Maryborough Prospecting Board. Reef would be payable if sufficient capital spent on development.
    June 1889: No crushing done this quarter at the White Horse Reef battery.
    September 1889: Mr Stone, proprietor. Labour covenants suspended for three months, for prospecting. Shaft 700 ft.
    December 1889: Mine remained idle, except small amount of prospecting my two men - indifferent.

    Heritage Inventory Description

    VICTORIA COMPANY - Heritage Inventory Description

    /n(Victoria Company operated in the mid 1860s, the battery continued to be used until at least 1889) Mullock heap - Partly quarried large mullock heap, quarrying is still taking place. Machinery site - Flattened site with a spread of red brick, stone and mortar rubble. 200 metres to the east, is a narrow, largely buried, stone structure with 2ft thick walls. The walls of the structure are 25ft long and set 10ft apart. Settlement - Near the mine, on the north side of the track, is a small clearing which has been extensively dug-over by 'treasure hunters'. The clearing is littered with nineteenth century bottle glass.

    Heritage Inventory Significance: Local Integrity of the site reduced as to have very little interpretive value. May have some archaeological potential to yield artefacts.

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