16.—REPORT ON ALLEGED TIN AND GOLD DISCOVERY AT 
FALLS CREEK, NEAR BRUTHEN. 
(By H. Herman , B.C.E., F.G.S.) 
In accordance with instructions I visited the site of the alleged tin and 
gold discovery reported at this office last week by Mr. G. Park, of East 
Melbourne, and found that the prospecting on which that gentleman’s 
statements were based was done about twenty years ago, and that Mr. 
R. A. F. Murray, F.G.S., late Government Geologist, had reported* on 
both the locality and the discovery as far back as 1890. I was accom¬ 
panied by Mr. E. Jarrett, the prospector referred to by Mr. Park as the 
discoverer, and Mr. John McRae, who, with his partner, Mr. W. R. 
Mackisson, has recently been prospecting in the locality. Falls Creek, 
the scene of operations and a northern tributary of Dead Horse Creek, which 
flows easterly into the Tarnbo River, is distant about 10 miles in an E.N.E. 
direction from Bruthen. and may be reached by horse via either the old 
Buchan road or the Tambo Valley road and Dead Horse Creek. The 
SKETCH LOCALITY PLAN 
Scale-2 Miles to the Inch, 
area of granite in which the tin occurs has not yet been mapped, but 
its approximate boundaries will shortly be ascertained by an officer of the 
Geological Survey for delineation on the new geological map of the State 
shortly to be issued.f Nothing appears to have been done, as far as I could 
learn, since 1880 until a few months ago, when searching licences (see plan 
above) Nos. 2914, 2915, and 2917 were granted respectively to W, R. 
Mackisson, John McRae, and J, Park. These three licences cover in the 
* Murray, Quarterly Report, Mines Department, December, 1890, p. 41. 
t Now issued (23/7/02). 
