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Gold- Net Australia Online. THE CANTON LEADby Jim Foster. I. n late May, 1. Chinese miner immigrants were making their way overland from Robe in South Australia to the Victorian goldfields.

While resting at Ararat in Victoria they discovered the fabulous Canton Lead. This find was to mark the beginning of the rich Ararat goldfield, which grew from empty wilderness to a population of more than 3. Being three miles in length, the lead was to become the richest shallow alluvial goldfield in the world. In the first three months it yielded three tons of gold and some ten tons of gold over the next ten months. The Chinese, however, broke an un- written law of the goldfields in not flying a red flag to disclose the discovery of a new find. European miners retaliated by burning their tents and chasing them from the ground.

Then the great rush began. Seven thousand diggers were on the Canton by the first week in June and hundreds more were on their way from the diggings at Dunolly, Maryborough, Avoca and other fields. Some walked carrying their swags, some pushed handcarts, and the lucky ones rode. Coaches packed with eager passengers jolted and swayed over the rough tracks leading to the new eldorado.

The Canton Lead was traced for nearly three miles. At one end it was 3. Gold bearing gravels were found on Surface Hill and the White Patch southeast of the Canton. Soon the roar of hundreds of gold cradles rocking the gold through, filled the Ararat valley as the diggers found the Wet Leads which branch from Mullock Bank and the Old Deep Lead at Bridal Hill and extended to Caledonian Lead north of the town."In one instance," wrote the resident Gold Warden "eleven pounds troy of gold was washed from three loads of stuff from the wet lead." In four hectic weeks the population soared to 2.

The Crescent City, Foo's Golden Age, The Ancient Briton, Noah's Ark, and a dozen other hotel bowling alleys and saloons took their share of the diggers' gold. There was said to be 5. Beef and mutton prices rose to eight pence a pound and before the autumn rains came, water cost up to sixpence a bucket. Watch Online Watch A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg Full Movie Online Film more.

Although the Chinese had been chased from the field at the beginning, not all of them missed out. Many fortunes were made and shipped back to villages throughout Kwangtung Province and its capital, Canton. The Chinese, having been responsible for the discovery of the Canton Lead, continued to play a major role in the development of the city of Ararat. It was to promote the public awareness of the role played by the Chinese in the discovery of gold and the settlement of Ararat that the Ararat Chinese Heritage Society was formed. The first project by the society was to commission local sculptress Dorothy Saaghy to create a life- size statue of a Chinese miner depicting the discovery of the Canton Lead. This statue can be seen in the temporary offices of the society on the Adelaide road on the northern edge of town. The society is preparing a site, including the original mine for the new Chinese Gum San museum just across the road.

Ararat today is a city of 8. Western Highway between Melbourne and Adelaide in the Great Dividing Range.

Nearby are the beautiful Grampian Mountains, the picturesque village of Great Western, home of the world famous Great Western Champagne. Seven other wineries are just a short drive from the city. Many beautiful old buildings still stand in the city, including the treasury, built to hold the tons of gold won from the diggings.

Visitors to the city are well catered for with many hotels, motels, and bed and breakfast establishments in and around the city. Poison Ivy: The New Seduction Full Movie. Two caravan parks cater for caravaners and campers. The surrounding bush contains many campsites for those who prefer to rough it. For the detector operator there is plenty of scope despite the Canton Lead being now beneath the city.

Locations such as Petticoat Gully, Garden Gully, Opossum Gully, Bridal Hill, Nil Desperandum lead and California Gully all offer the opportunity to search out and uncover nuggets missed by the old- timers. Ararat is located on the Western Highway 2. Melbourne, Australia, on the western edge of the world famous Golden Triangle not far from where the giant Hand Of Faith nugget was unearthed by a metal detector operator in the early 1. EXTRA - The fascinating story of the finding of the Ararat goldfield and the Canton Lead can be read in the book "XIANG AND THE NEW GOLD MOUNTAIN" to be published later this year. This is a story where fiction and historical fact is woven together.

Follow the fortunes of Xiang as he races against time to sail to Australia, make his fortune, and return in time to marry the beautiful Soo Lee Chin before she is forced to marry another. Written and published by Jim Foster this book can be ordered by contacting Jim & Cheryl. HISTORY OF THE BENDIGO GOLDFIELDSby John Morris. Today, driving into Bendigo, we see housing and large shopping centres like Lansell Plaza, but for the early diggers it was more scrub (Ed: bush) and a narrow track winding up to Eaglehawk and the site of the first gold discovered at Bendigo. A shepherd named Kenneky was working on the Ravenswood sheep run in those early days and had brought his wife Margaret to live there in a bush hut. One day, so the story goes, she was washing his clothes down by a small chain of water holes over by a ramshackle hut occupied by a man who was given the nickname "Bendigo" after a famous heavyweight boxer of the period. While washing clothes, Margaret discovered Gold and the rest was history and of course when giving directions to the new gold field it was always "Over near Bendigo's".

Bendigo produced 5. Victoria, mainly out of deep quartz mines, but the early alluvial finds were incredibly rich. In fact men laid on the ground at Eaglehawk with a pistol in one hand and a knife in the other to claim the ground that their body could cover and they could defend.

The dirt was so rich that they just carted it away in bags without washing it. One claim at Eaglehawk gave 1 1/2 ton of gold from an area 8 feet square and 4 feet deep. As we drive through the main street of Bendigo, we can see what gold has done for this city. The opulent architecture of the public buildings. The Post Office, the Town Hall, the Court Houses, the magnificent fountain in the town centre and directly opposite, the famous "Shamrock Hotel", dating back to 1. The "Shamrock" is full of history, so original that it was used in an episode of the television series, "The Man From Snowy River".

Beautifully restored and featuring stained glass windows, lovely lace ironwork, marble staircases and magnificent original plaster and timber throughout, it is open for business, as it was in 1. Australian Natives Association voted to allow a referendum on Federation. If this were in the U. S. A, it would be a museum. For in a real sense in this room was the cradle where our nation was formed into Australia.

The times and the circumstances of those early days created giants among men in Bendigo, The Beehive building just up from the Shamrock was the Stock exchange and it is still standing today. Watch The Swap Online Freeform there. This is where men lined up for hours just to get in and buy shares in the latest rich mines and the lines often went all the way down the street and into the public bar of the Shamrock.

There were 5. 00. Bendigo and a lot of them were owned or controlled by a man called George Lansell. He could be the subject of a whole series on his own and it would make a fictitious "Dallas" of T. V fame look pale by comparison.

Today, in and around Bendigo, modern electronic prospectors are continuing the early traditions with the advantage of modern metal detectors. We read regularly of a recent large gold nugget being found by some lucky fossicker, but this is only the tip of the iceberg as over 1. Australia by people operating hand held detectors. Are you getting your share"? You cannot win the lottery if you haven't bought a ticket.

Likewise you can't find gold if you don't go looking for it.