Her best ground, however, is said to be ahead, and when Cornish Point is reached there is tested ground there that should produce record yields. Notwithstanding many stoppages for breakages and the alteration of parts, has turned out a lot of gold. Garland's dredge is now working at Sheep Station Point, and Garland, and em- brace such well-known old gold-producing centres as Cookey's Flat, Lower Mookerawa, Sheep Station Point, Cornish Point, Geary's Flat, Butcher's Flat, Gum Flat, Surface Point, Yahhoo, and Trianbil. The leases between these upper dredges and their more successful contemporaries lower down the river, are owned by the pioneer, Mr. Hungerford, the general mana- ger of the Associated Macquarie dredges. 2-now known as the Macquarie Central-and is operating under the management of Mr. 1, or the upper one, and a small company owns the No. and one of them put up a record yield, but through various causes and disasters, chiefly the result of inexperience, the companies came to grief, and the dredges got into other hands, since which time they have been operated continuously with successful results. They both got gold, as, indeed, they could not fail to do.

Two companies were formed to build dredges and work this ground-the Macquarie No. Here leases were taken up, ex- tending almost to the confluence of the Macquarie with the Turon.

The history of the river above Garland leases is also interesting. Is that the Lady Macquarie is now an accom- plished fact, and her buckets will soon be delving for gold at the lowest point of the river yet taken up for dredging, and from all that can be gathered, she will prove a successful gold winner.

Hand-dredge creek