New North Clunes Co.
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Background
History
The New North Clunes Co. formed in 1859. The company paid £516,056 in dividends up to May 1887.[1]
| CLUNES MINING INTELLIGENCE. (From our own Correspondent.) | |
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| I am favored, through the medium of Mr James Stevenson, district mining registrar, with the following returns from his mining report, for the month of August, to which I have added some supplementary information in brackets: …The New North Clunes Company is spoken of as likely to be re-organised with an increased capital. The valuable plant of pumping machinery is at present lying on the surface, and ¼ the 40 horse power engine is idle. From the encouraging success of the adjoining claim (Victoria Company), I do not doubt but that this claim will soon be well tested and prove a good mining property.[2] |
| The New North Clunes Company had a meeting last Friday. Tenders are to be invited for sinking the shaft 40 feet deeper. The Phoenix Foundry has got the order for supplying pumping gear, and a set of pumps is to be procured in Melbourne.[3] |
| The New North Clunes Company is still engaged preparing engine frame and other requisites. The pumping gear is being made at the Phoenix Foundry Ballarat, and is expected to be Boon finished. People on Clunes are sanguine as to the success of this company in consequence of the Welcome Reef looking so well in the Victoria Company's claim, which is next to them.[4] |
| The New North Clunes Company has all the requisite machinery now on the ground. The horses for the engine are in course of erection, and the whole of the work is being proceeded with as rapidly as possible. The various portions of machinery manufactured by the Phoenix Foundry, Ballarat, for the company, are finished in a very superior style, and the Clunes shareholders appear to be well pleased with the manner in which the contract has been executed.[5] |
| CLUNES MONTHLY MINING REPORT. | |
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| The New North Clunes Company is continuing the main shaft, and as the sinking at present is through soft slate the contractors are progressing both rapidly and satisfactorily. A new drawing lift, manufactured at the Soho Foundry, Ballarat, is now on the ground and will be fixed shortly.[6] |
| CLUNES WEEKLY MINING REPORT. | |
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| The New North Clunes Company is sinking at present through slate and quartz mixed, with an increase of water. Mr Hamilton, from Ballarat, is now engineer in place of Mr Lewis, who has accepted the situation of foreman in the fitting shop of the Victoria Foundry, Ballarat. The loss of Mr Lewis. on account of his engineering skill and general ability is mach regretted by the shareholders.[7] |
Site
Innovations
This company donated two guineas towards a reverberatory furnace for treating Pyrites at the Ballarat School of Mines.[8]
Community Involvement
Works Produced
Workplace Relations
The People
William Cotchett, Manager in 1867.[9]
James Esmond, original shareholder (1859>)
Dr James Stewart was lucky in mining investments, particularly in the New North Clunes Company, from which he drew £40,000..[10]
Legacies
John Lewis of the North Clunes Quartz Mining Company was associated with the Ballarat School of Mines in 1872.
See also
Further Notes
References
- ↑ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~carrick/Ballarat%20a%20to%20b.html accessed 15 March 2013.
- ↑ The Star (Ballarat, Vic. : 1855 - 1864), Friday 5 September 1862, page 4.
- ↑ The Star (Ballarat, Vic. : 1855 - 1864), Monday 18 May 1863, page 2.
- ↑ The Star (Ballarat, Vic. : 1855 - 1864), Monday 29 June 1863, page 2.
- ↑ The Star (Ballarat, Vic. : 1855 - 1864), Monday 20 July 1863, page 4.
- ↑ The Star (Ballarat, Vic. : 1855 - 1864), Saturday 5 December 1863, page 1.
- ↑ The Star (Ballarat, Vic. : 1855 - 1864), Wednesday 27 January 1864, page 3.
- ↑ The School of Mines Ballarat: A Statement of the Objects and Present Resources of the School, 1873.
- ↑ Ballarat Star, 08 December 1867.
- ↑ Sydney Morning Herald, 14 June 1906.
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--Beth Kicinski 14:09, 2 February 2012 (EST); --C.K.Gervasoni 15:33, 5 August 2014 (EST)