BONSHAW CO
362 ALBERT STREET SEBASTOPOL, BALLARAT CITY
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BONSHAW CO - History
Contextual History:History of Place:
Heritage Inventory History of Site:
BONSHAW Co.
BONSHAW FREEHOLD Co., Crawfish or Prospect Lead, located on private property, No. 4 or Southern Division/Central Division Ballarat.
1858: began as a co-operative of 46 shareholders leased 180 acres from Jock Winter for 5 years payinga deposit of £1000 and £100 per year in rent eventually purchasing the whole 640 acres for £20,000. The No.1 shaft east of the Colac-Ballarat road was worked out by the end of 1866.
17.01.1860: drove into very deep ground in April 1859; worked at some disadvantage for months; had 3 horses below; eventually swamped out; the 10 hp engine being unable to cope; let the mine stand for 6 months until last August when they commenced putting up a 30 hp engine supplied by Messrs Carter & Co; it is now finished and the company anticipates getting back to the earlier yield of £15 per man per week.
09.1861: still driving for the gutter.
1865: The second shaft half a mile north west of the first near the old Portland Bay Road was bottomed at 325 feet during 1865. Company now had capital of £84,000 in 3360 shares of £25 each. 600 yards of gutter was worked by between 50 and 55 men per shift on about 20 faces. Purchase of the property was completed and most of the property was leased for agriculture and mortaged by the company for £8000.
06.1866: have struck a gutter which appears to be the continuation of the one worked by the Sebastopol companies; good prospects; yield of 984 ozs 16 dwt for 5 weeks work.
09.1866: yield of 2520 ozs.
Mid 1860's: the Bonshaw Freehold, the Buninyong Freehold, and the Leviathan were huge companies and were financed by speculators and capitalists mostly from Ballarat; these mines employed experienced Welsh and Cornish miners who were prepared to work for wages.
12.1867: company had won almost 30,000 ozs of gold worth £120,000.
10.1862 to 03.1874: recorded production of 93,535 ozs 9 dwt 8 gr (or 2909. 346 kg).Heritage Inventory Description
BONSHAW CO - Heritage Inventory Description
The shaft is full of rubbish including a couple of pieces of concrete which may have been part of the pump bob pit. There are a few blocks of stone in the grass north of the shaft, and a large dam 70 m by 50 m is located 50 m further north. A mullock heap, 50 m by 25 m by 5 m high, runs east from a point just south of the shaft, and another, 25 m by 25 m by 4 m high, runs south from the same point. These two heaps define the west and north sides of an area approximately 50 m by 50 m from which mullock has been removed. Both mullock heaps that remain have had material removed from them, and the site is very disturbed. The mullock heaps are prominent landscape features.
Heritage Inventory Signficance: Local
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