CHARLESTON
Munster Mining Company: 1869. On Fenian Flat. Owner—James O’Keeffe.
Independent Company: 1869. Charleston Flat. Owner—Cornelius O’Connor.
Perseverance Cement Crushing Company: 1869. Sardine Terrace. 6 acres. Owners—Wm. McKay & Co.
D. & T. Murphy’s: On Ballarat Hill. 2 acres. Owners— D. & T. Murphy.
Queen’s Own Goldmining Company: 1869. On Town Lead. Capital £1,200. Owners—Wm. Marris & Co.
Homeward Bound Cement Crushing Company: 1869. On Back Lead. Capital £1,500.
Criterion Goldmining Company: 1869. On Victoria Terrace, Candlelight Flat. Owners—James Parsons & Co.
Duke of Edinburgh: On Brown’s Terrace.
Morning Star: On Victoria Terrace. 4 stamps. Owners—Collins & Co.
Enterprise: On Back Lead. W. Norris and party.
Co-operation Mining Company: On Jones Terrace. Owners—J. E. Gillespie & Co.
No Name: On Candlelight Flat. Owners—John Woodcock & Co.
City Sluicing Company: On Township Lead. Capital £700. Owners—Chas. McCarthy & Co.
Who’d Have Thought It? Cement Crushing Company: On Charleston Flat. Capital £1,500. Owners—J. G. Jackson, G. C. Bowen, and others.
Mitchell’s: On Brown’s Terrace: Owner—Frank Mitchell.
Tom-tit: Back Lead.
Corn in Egypt; Kohinoor; Fiery Cross; Metropolitan; William Fox; Hagendorn’s; Venture; Tuscarora; Colleen Bawn; Hurburgh and Craddock’s: 1899. 4 stampers.
Mr. William Dickson, of Back Lead, was the designer of many of the batteries, and Messrs. Hurburgh and Craddock undertook much of the building.
In 1868 was formed “The Charleston Prospecting Association” who employed practical miners to go on “prospecting tours of the back country within a radius of five miles of
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