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sink to a vertical depth of 120 feet. Down to this depth it is estimated that .15,000 tons of ore will be won averaging about 6 dwts. pelr ton, but even at this figure it should be a very payable proposition. When Tom and Dave were 13 years of
age they both had a successful tribute in the Talisman Mine.
Very few people would have forgot­
ten "Dave Tuckett," the father of these two brothers. The late Dave Tuckett was a very thrifty man and on one oc­casion printed an advertisement in

which the following words were in­cluded: "Dave Tuckett, the man who makes £5 notes out of other peoples rubbish heaps."
In the earlier history, Dave Tucket.t tributed in the Victory Mine and struck a rich block of stone which paid £20,000 to the four tributers. Another	lease
which Dave Tuckett took up was the Swedenborg which was taken over by a company and produced some very fine crushi1ngs about the years 1936-1938.

Gold Production Figures-Old and New

THE TOTAL CRUSHINGS 12 MONTHS ENDING JANUARY, 1889
	
					ozs	dwts.	tons.	cwt.
Alexandria				203	0	143	0
Alexandria Hill (n.1.) 			195	0	127	15
Band of Hope				349	0	334	0
Black Jack				67	0	78	0
Black Jack Block 				51	3	38	0
Caledonian P.C.				334	0	75	0
Day Dawn Block and WYndham .		885	0	518	0
 Day Dawn 3 West. 				1148	0	302	0
Day Dawn 4A West 				1763	10	317	0
Day Dawn 5 West 				62	5	97	0
Day Dawn 6 West 				77	0	53	0
Day Dawn P.C.				2489	10	2537	0
Elsie Konig 				51	18	29	0
Gladstone P.C. 				128	0	54	0
Golden Crown 				142	0	160	0
Golden Gate 				346	0	217	0
Great Britain				222	0	128	0
Iron Duke					85	0	63	0
]ust-in- Time Block 				53	0	79	0
Kelly's Caledonian 				140	0	35	0
Lady Mary Tribute 				471	0	151	0
Lal Lal					134	15	28	0
Lubra					120	0	104	0
Lord Nelson 				64	0	23	0
MOUnt Charles				82	0	256	0
Mystery					16	13	53	0
Mexican					113	0	142	0
Old Identity 				605	0	480	0
Papuan .					122	0	59	0
Papuan Block Extended			118	0	230	0
Queen, North 				86	0	103	0
Queenslander 				91	0	105	0
Rainbow P.C.				759	0	380	0
St. George Queen and Victory 			931	11	422	0
Sunburst					154	0	52	0
Sovereign					144	0	120	0
Stockholm P.C. 				241	0	147	0
Swedenberg P.C. 				617	10	188	0
Stockholm No.1 North 			73	0	58	0
St. George P.C. 				1050	0	211	0
Union					160	0	1269	0
Victory					2673	0	1269	0
Worcester and Victory			119	17	65	0	
			16698 	12
Value 1889, approximately £50,094. Present value, 1950, approximately £259,800.

CHARTERS TOWERS GOLD PRODUCTION FIGURES FROM 1938 TO 1949

Year 	Fins Ozs		Value
1938 	12,832.5 		£114,404 
1939	14,586.3 		137,286
 1940 	14,096		 150,237
1941 	10,662		 113,680
1942 	6,871		71,802 
1943 	 1,945 		8,266
1944 	1,794		 7,623 
1945 	1,765		7,509
1946 	2,770.8		27,360
1947	 5,192		 55,814 
1948 	 4,610.4256 	43,852
1949	3,135.2499	 31,724
	79,864.2755