ULMARRA NOW AND THEN.
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The first mention I have found of ULMARRA and FLOODS in the same newspaper articles is the one below from 1859.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3720740
The Moreton Bay Courier Wednesday 16 February 1859,
Most of the land put up for sale was very low and swampy, and at a considerable distance back from the river, with no high land to retreat to in case of floods ; from this cause the biddings were very languid, and two thirds of the lots were passed by, few of which are suitable for selection.
In 1860, Gentlemen were visiting Ulmarra with plans to join this area with QUEENSLAND. That would have been a very good thing for Queensland, so it would.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3717818
The Moreton Bay Courier
Thursday 27 September 1860
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The Moreton Bay Courier Tuesday 2 October 1860.
CLARENCE RIVER.-The Clarence and Richmond Examiner of the 18th. instant, speaking of the Clarence River gold-fields, says that the Upper Tooloom seems at present to be the favourite spot. All the diggers on the spot allow that there is plenty of gold, and that even the settlement itself is one large patch, the whole of which would pay for washing. For about £200 water could be easily brought, which would give employment to a thousand diggers. A company formed for that purpose would soon realise a fortune. The impression seems to be that, considering the area worked, this field is one of the richest in the colony.
Parties of four and five wash out 1000 ozs. in three months. There are about 150 diggers at work hore, some of whom have been very successful; one party netting each man £1500 in three months ; and another party 1000 ounces in four months, and other parties of five 1000 ounces to 1500 ounces in six months. Lower Tooloom is worked by about 100 diggers, most parties doing well. Elden’s claim turns out 1 lb. of gold per day. Two stores and one public house appear to be doing well. Joe’s Gully is almost deserted in consequence of the wet, but that large deposits of gold yet remain is quite certain ; and probably the large nugget sold for £600 is but a sample of what yet remains. At Ulmarra the crops of wheat arc progressing favourably. The brush ground wheat, though presenting a more luxuriant appearance than the forest land, is not likely to yield such a good crop. The land sown with wheat, in the parish of Ulmarra alone, is not less than 600 acres. Two years since the land was a forest, in all the uncultivated wildness of nature.
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http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article834204
The South Australian Advertiser
Tuesday 21 May 1861
The families brought in from the low lands have been provided with shelter in an empty house, kindly placed at their disposal by Mr. F. Timlin, and by the assistance of other residents. It is almost unnecessary to add that the torrent of water down the river was sweeping cattle, corn, and everything in its course.
The loss to the settlers on the river and its environs, consequent upon this second flood, must be very great ; occasioning, among the poorer classes, such distress and loss as months of hard toil will not replace.
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http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1281717
The Brisbane Courier
Wednesday 8 November 1865
A TRIP UP THE CLARENCE BY THE REV DR LANG.
From the stoppage of the works at the Clarence breakwater; while the vote for them is still unexhausted, as well as from what I afterwards saw, both on the river and in the district generally, I would suggest that this portion of the territory should be designated, by way of short title, The Neglected District.
Thc next stopping place on the river is Ulmarra, about four miles from Grafton. This is a regular agricultural and maize growing settlement, of which the population has been gradually increasing, principally by arrivals from the Hunter and the Manning rivers, during the five years that have elapsed since my last visit to these regions. We got up to tho Company’s wharf, at Grafton, about half-past 7 p.m. of the 12th, it being then quite dark.
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