NIL DESPERANDUM CO
WEARY JONES LANE SNAKE VALLEY, PYRENEES SHIRE
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NIL DESPERANDUM CO - History
Contextual History:History of Place:
Heritage Inventory History of Site:
NIL DESPERANDUM CO.
03.1865: company placed on the share market and sold.
06.1865: found some good paying ground and the shares have considerably.
12.09.1865: two compartment shaft, 6 feet by 3 feet 6 inches, down 130 feet; machinery includes: an 11 inch by 24 inch oscillating high pressure steam engine for winding and puddling, a Cornish flue boiler: 17 feet by 5 feet, a 14 foot diameter puddling machine lined with sheet iron, and cages with baling tanks slung below; the poppet head is 35 feet high with a brace at 20 feet, which is not high enough for economical working.
03.1866: have been idle for some time.
06.1866: scarcely paying wages.
03.1867: doing well.
09.1867: results are not very encouraging.Heritage Inventory Description
NIL DESPERANDUM CO - Heritage Inventory Description
Site 45.01 has a large mullock heap with five fingers which fan out around an arc of 60 degrees. The fingers are between 40 m and 50 m long and up to 3 m high. The mullock heap is essentially intact. Unfortunately the shaft area and the section of the heap closest to the shaft are thickly infested with gorse.
Heritage Inventory Signficance: Local
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CARNGHAM MEMORIAL CHURCHVictorian Heritage Register H2427
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FINCHAM AND HOBDAY PIPE ORGANVictorian Heritage Register H2460
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THISTLE CO.Victorian Heritage Inventory
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