Show J WILD RUSH FOR I RICS GOLD FIELDS FAIRYLIKE STORIES FLOAT FROM AUSTRALIA I Fortunes Picked Out of the GrassRoots I Roots In n Few HoursAs lsual the Section Is Arid and Lulnvit jug Generally San Francisco Cal May nThe most important news received from Australia by the steamer Alameda ideals i-deals with the rush to the new mining camps of Cool Gardie in West Australia Aus-tralia and of Wyalong in New South Wales Many districts of New South Wales have been drained of labor by the wild rush to the Wyalong gold fields The new district is the north end of Gipps county The gold lies in reefs Early in March there were 3000 men on the ground and the number has since been swelled several hundred daily On March 30 it had reached 8000 The road from the nearest settlement thirty miles away is in fearful condition and the water supply is bad The camp swarms with men who have no experience exper-ience in mining and who fall ready victims vic-tims to sharpers Others who have no means and who expected to get work have crowded in They are practically destitute and the government will have to help them out Whether the mines will fulfill the first promise time alone can tell The field I will probably consist of a main backbone back-bone of volcanic formation of uncer I I tain length trending northwest by 1 north and crossed by numerous feeders 1 principally of quartz and ironstone running northeast by southwest but what portions of the main portions of the reef and of the feeders besides those already found carry payable gold I is a question that remains to be discovered discov-ered and only strenuous persistent labor la-bor can solve I On April 12 the new field twelve miles away was discovered rich ore being I I found in porous rock Three fjuaPters of the prospectors at Wyalong rushed to the new camp in a day but most I I of them soon returned Fresh prospecting l prospect-ing at Wyalong soon developed that I gold was found from two to six feet I i i deep and could be worked with placer I apparatus This brought a fresh crowd i i of miners and unemployed 1 The Cool Gardie gold fields in west I I I Australia are separated from settlements settle-ments by over 200 miles of desert destitute i des-titute of water Much freight and water I is carried in on camel trains as horses i do not stand the journey well Two I miners who left Paramatta nine months I I ago for the new camp have just returned I f I I re-turned They showed twentyfour I I pounds of solid gold thirteen pieces in all the nuggets varying from thir tyseven ounces to eighteen ounces I which were got out of the earth at j Kurnalpi not more than a foot or two down All the gold was picked up in i I four or five days and their claim became I be-came known as the Potato Patch At j I I the White Feather the party have some valuable reefing property Both strongly strong-ly advise people not to go to Cool Oar I die without at least 103 in their pockets pock-ets Fully 90 per cent of the people on the field are not doing anything and would be glad to get away They left Kurnalpi three weeks back and met about 1000 people on the road to the fields The great drawback is water which at the mines is as salt as brine On April 9 it was estimated that from 15000 to 20000 men are at the field or on the road to it Two days later la-ter a good flow Of artesian water was struck in a government well and the same day a big nugget weighing eighty two ounces was picked up |