It's assumed that this journal was read at the Ballarat School of MinesA small illustrated journal with advertisements and pictures. pages 328-356 (and 26 pages of illustrated advertisements). Illustrations include machinery, corn crushers, condensers, chlorination plants. stea, hammers, steam engines, steam pumps, lamps, saw bench, leather belting, casks, barrels, machinery, boiler, cohran and co, birkenhead, stern, cowles syndicate company, electric smelting works, aluminium manufacturing, w t glover and co, rope machine, steam travelling crane, webster wood fibre machine, automatic govenor expansion gear, international exhibition edinburgh, beacon light, air propeller, well boring tools and pumps, cochran and co.'s launch, tug and boat building yard, s.s. jeanette, cochran boiler, cochran and co's boiler shop, stern wheel steamer, s.s. esperanca, cowles syndicate co, milton, w.t. glover & co.'s patent compound rope making machine, bendh drilling machine, steam launch, bicycle, well-boring tools

Original photograph held by Helen Coulson. A copy is also held by the National Library. 1902 was a drought year. Compare the water levels with that of the same view in P000012. 'P. S Wandering Jew' was built in Victoria in 1866. ( Ref; "The Register of Australian and N.Z Shipping." By C.Earnshaw. Page 136.This photo is significant because it shows the extent of the 1902 drought. It also shows the type of cargo carried in barges, and also the techniques used to unload the cargo. It also show the difference between stern wheelers and side wheeler paddle steamers. It also shows the length nod the height of the bridge at Wilcannia to cope with high and low water levels.A copy of a black and white photograph taken in 1902. It shows 8 paddle steamers and 4 barges under a bridge over the Darling River near Wilcannia in N.S.W. Cargo is being unloaded onto the left bank. Two barges are also tied up on the right bank.Written on the back in pencil " see photo P000012 and P000014.1drought, 1902, darling river, paddle steamers, barges, cargo, river trade, murray darling river basin, irrigation, wilcannia