Gows Creek

Date: 1935

By: Lovell-Smith, Edgar McLeod, 1875-1950

Reference: Eph-C-GOLD-1935-01

Description: Shows bird's-eye view of the area with roads, water-races, swamp, sandstone terraces, timber-covered hills, Lake Hochstetter, Nelson Creek, Gow's Creek, water race and pipe line. The shafts and hand workings are also shown, as are the Aldinga dredge workings. The other side of the pamphlet advises that there is a prospectus for the company, available on application. The values obtained from every shaft sunk, are described. There are recommendations from Mr J F McFadden, Director of the Westport School of Mines; Mr H Lowther, Manager of Lawson's Flat Gold Mining Co; and Mr Denis F Dennehy, Director of Golden Sands. The directors of the Greatr Western Company were to be: Mr Daniel Dennehy, Mr W S Richards, Mr R T Tosswill, Mr H L Bowker, Mr A McKellar, all of Christchurch. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on pamphlet. Physical Description: Photolithograph on pamphlet 280 x 440 mm.

Date: 1880s

By: Perkins, William Herbert, -1927; Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881

Reference: PAColl-5267

Description: Most record the bridges and flumes bringing the water-race from Lake Hochstetter to the Nelson Creek gold workings. Also Brook Street Valley Nelson and Sumner, Christchurch Quantity: 12 b&w original photographic print(s).