Western Mail (Perth, WA : 1885 - 1954), Saturday 24 December 1904, page 21


ALLUVIAL FIND IN KOOKYNIE

MSTEICT.

Kookynie, December 1<3.

Larkins and party, who have been pros-pecting near- Linden for some time, arriv-ed at Yundamindera today and reporterhaving found payable alluvial gold at a spot five and afialf miles from Box Creek,, on the Linden-road, and thirty miles f rom The Granites {Yundamindera). A rush to the locality of the find has taken place, and there are now sixty or seventy men on the .ground. All hands are reticent as to the results. No coarse gold has been ob-tained, but fine "gold of good quality has been picked up. Water is procurable at 4d. per gallon. Several miners employed on the Potosi Consolidated mine left work to proceed to the find. , About sixteen par-ties are working claims, and others are shepherding.