There is perhaps more genuine enthusiasm, though it has not yet become demonstrative, respecting these new gold fields than any other yet discovered in these colonies. Each day adds to the number who are determined to try their luck on the tributaries of the Columbia . Though allowance must, of course, be made for more or less coloring in the accounts hitherto furnished of the operations of last fall, the striking similarity between the various statements received is of itself sufficient to satisfy the most sceptical that an extensive almost unbounded range of rich shallow diggings exists in that section that will afford lucrative employment to as many as one are likely to find their way there for some time to come.
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| Title: | Big Bend Excitement |
|---|---|
| Internal ID: | 0051.0064 |
| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | December 18th 1865 |
| Collection: | 0051 |
| Publisher: | Victoria Daily Colonist |
| Pages: | 3 |
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Newspaper article telling of more genuine enthusiasm for the new gold field than any other discovered in the colonies.
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