Copy of document: North Lightning Hill Company, near Eaglehawk. Share certificate for S.P. McGowan of Bendigo. This is a digital only document.cottage, miners, bendigo, mining, north lightning hill company, mcgowan, ralph, hunter

Five page handwritten and typed document with information about the Black Forest Gold Mine on the Hustler's line of reef. The Black Forest mine was situated one mile north of the Eaglehawk Post Office. To the west was the South New Moon on the Garden Gully line of reef and to the east was the Lightning Hill line of reef worked by open cutting to a depth of over 100 ft by Pascoe and Simonds. A party of Germans named 'Rothacker and Party', first worked the claim on the Black Forest mine approx 1860. Other mines worked on the Hustler's line north of the Black Forest were: Martha Company. Johns and company and Meaner (unclear) and Co.bendigo, mining, black forest gold mine