If anyone wants to have a look around Chillagoe click on www.infocus.to/chillagoe and follow the links to chillagoe cabins who have the "Mining History of Chillagoe" on their site cheers -----Original Message----- From: The O'Donoghues [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, 14 August 2000 5:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Fisher in Chillagoe. Hi Deborah Searched the QLD Electoral Roll for 1900, but no result. I did find a William Fisher resident in Emu Creek 1884 if that is any help. Have you your grandfather's marriage certificate? It would show occupation. This extract is from "Pioneers' Country" by Glenville Pike. "In Dec 1897 the QLD Govt. gave the Chillagoe Co. approval to construct the railway...the Co rushed ahead to erect smelters and develop its leases but spent too little time and money on prospecting and testing. The report that half a million tons of ore estimated to yield 17,000 tons of copper, 1500 tons of lead and a million ounces of silver lay waiting, caused a boom on the Southern stock exchanges and a rush of men and their families to Chillagoe. Within a matter of months there was a bustling township among the craggy limestone bluffs on the bank of the permanately flowing Station Creek....The railway was completed in 1901" Hope this helps, Judy - for Cairns Historical Society.. > My grandfather was married in Chillagoe in 1908, under the name of George > Cunningham FISHER, aged 25. He was there until possibly 1913. > > I would like to know what archives may exist for Chillagoe this period to > help find out what brought him there from Ballarat. "- ==== AUS-NQ Mailing List ==== Please send Subscribe and Unsubscribe commands to [email protected] - note the "-request" bit. Substitute 'D' for the 'L' if referring to the Digests)