109 
tlje Moonlight Gully, which has given j)erhaps the best yields on the field, 
Ch' being evenly distributed along the whole length of it. This and also the 
£ 'daman’s, Starlight, and Daylight Gullies all head from the same hill, around the 
of which the Three-moon Creek bends. Several reefs occur on this hill, some 
which are being worked. On the other side of the creek, Paddy’s Gully has proved 
best.” 
jj, the Mount Eose Eeef the gold is in white quartz ; near the surface 
^ouud in calcite. It is “ met with in very rich patches, and at times over 
in been broken down in one patch. All the gold in this reef is coarse 
the t Garry Ow'en and Mount Hope Eeefs crushed over 2 oz. to 
The Kroombit Diggings, on the other side of the watershed and west of Cania, 
KnlT in Eebruary, 1870, just a month before Cania was opened. Of the 
he 1 ^^ these falls the Eoan Colt and Denny’s have, perhaps, proved the best. They 
^’’nin a small round hill which is itself partially covered with alluvial drift to a 
^^Pth of 20 feet, which has yielded a fair amount of gold. There is another round- 
hill about a mile to the east, which has also a similar drift on its summit, 
hill • ^*^'^'^ing also from the hill have been payable to wmrk. The drift on these two 
guir^^ ®''i‘tently of a date anterior to that found in the beds of the present creek or 
^ It is probably of Post-Tertiary age.” 
Ihe above quotations are from Mr. Hands’ “ Eeport on the Gold Pields of 
^0, Calliope, Milton (Norton), and Cania, &e.”* 
1 ,g ■'■he returns from these fields are very incomplete. Prior to 1877 I have only 
to find records of the output of 18()6 and 1868. The best years of the 
2 oqq^^ ^'Sgings, as will bo seen from Mr. Hands’ report, are omitted. An estimate of 
this for the eleven omitted years is probably well within the mark, and 
’ the recorded output, brings the total yield up to 70,192 oz. 
^ieid or BAOLAif, Calliope, Bouton, Cania, and Keoombit Gold Fields. 
Year. 
1863 
1866 
1868 ' 
1869 
18^7 
1878 
1879 
1880 
1881 
1882 
1883 
1884 
1885 
1886 
1887 
1888 
1889 
1890 
to 1865 
to 1876 
Stone Crushed. 
Yield therefrom. 
Alluvial Gold. 
Tons. 
Oz. 
Oz. 
107 
1,209 
791? 
222 
956 
329? 
926 
1,517 
785 
3,430 
823 
2,072 
998? 
returns) 
463 
1,172 
594 
817 
1,550 
583 
687 
1,469 
631 
841 
2,166 
1,072 
1,067 
2,610 
1,170 
1,752 
3,731 
590 
1,020 
2,963 
1,134 
3,008 
3,409 
855 
Total 
Total. 
Oz. 
say, 6,000 
3,235 
3,960 
16,000 
2,000 
1,285 
1,517 
3,430 
3,070 
3,996 
1,766 
2,133 
2,100 
3,238 
3,780 
4,321 
4,097 
4,264 
70,192 
Brisbane : by Authority : 1885. 
