'There is naturally great interest in the apparent discovery of a new and extensive silver field in Norther Queensland. Mount Isa, as it is called, is about 80 miles' from Gloneurry, and the presence silver has been known for two or three years. More recently expert examinations have been made and to use an old digger's phrase the present statements are taken not from the prospectus but from the warden's report. Indeed the caus tion one usually finds in the latter document is very evident in all the reports, but the existence of many loads, running parallel over an area about five square miles in extent, with outcrops of exceeding richness, induce the Government Geologist to describe the find as "wonderful."
Tels asserted that it will make another Broken Hill, and some say that if the lodes will only go down the find will result in several Broken Hills. Already the Queensland Government is having inquiries made as to railway construction to Mount Is. There is talk of using aeroplanes to have a topographical map made of the locality, and the fir service from Charleville, west of Brisbane, 's tu be extended from Clonevrry to the new field, As matters stand at present there is every appearance that Mount Isa will be rapidly developed along the most modern and efficient lines, very different from the old slow and. wearisome struggle which marked the birth of other mining centres.
The Dead Heart.
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