![Gold mines on the northern end of Hawkins Hill & Nuggety Gully, looking south-east](../../media/files/9de2b0c6681b16b20b552f93b02eb0910b7b1965_1392920237.jpg)
Gold mines on the northern end of Hawkins Hill & Nuggety Gully, looking south-east
1872
Glass photonegative
Glass photonegative
A correspondent to the D50, 3 December 1872, was surprised by the appearance of Hawkins Hill.
The ‘claims’ of Hawkins Hill do not at all answer to one's preconceptions of a gold mine, for which perhaps £150,000 [more than the construction cost of Government House, Melbourne] have been paid. A few sheets of bark or of corrugated iron, to keep the rain off, is all that is visible of the far-famed Beyers and Holterman's or Krohmann's. The entire property consists, on an average, of about a hundred feet of space. Claims are as close together as a row of huts in a back street …