Physical description

Two page document titled ' Report on lease blocks Nos. 5360 and 5361 Garden Gully line of reef, Bendigo. Produced by the Department of Mines 1899. The area described is about 'one mile and a quarter southeast from the centre of the city of Bendigo, immediately south of the Great Southern Gold Mining Company's workings and is intersected by two auriferous gullies ... Salomon's Gully and Derwenter's Gully'.
The alluvial deposits, the Garden Gully line, the Great Souther Co.and old workings are discussed in the paper. A map of the Garden Gully line of reef is attached to the report, showing claimholders and mine names along that section of the reef.
Mines named on the map:
Great Southern Garden Gully
United Ulster
Londonderry
Burrows Horwoods
Sea Amalgamated
Garden Gully United
Victory and Pandora
Unity
Carlisle and Garden Gully and Passbye United
Cornish United
Koch's Pioneer

Inscriptions & markings

James Stirling, Government Geologist