Mount Drysdale, New South Wales

The site of the former village lies within the County of Robinson, Parish of Moquilamba.{{Cite news|date=1893-10-18|title=Government Gazette Proclamations and Legislation|page=8155|work=New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW : 1832 - 1900)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article222198082|access-date=2020-11-01}}{{Cite web|title=Map of the County of Robinson [cartographic material]: Western Division, Land District of Cobar, NSW|url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-233874343|access-date=2020-11-02|website=Trove|language=en}} It lay approximately 4 km west of Kidman Way, north of Cobar. The nearest settlement is Cobar, approximately 40 km distant by road.{{Cite web |title=Mount Drysdale · Tindarey NSW 2835, Australia |url=https://www.google.com/maps/place/Mount+Drysdale,+Tindarey+NSW+2835/@-31.2718631,145.3929086,9z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x6b023deb26b02a63:0xab9231e711e1f162!8m2!3d-31.166332!4d145.865974!16s/g/11cjg73r11!5m1!1e4?entry=ttu |access-date=2023-09-30 |website=Google Maps |language=en}} The site lies west of Yanda Creek, an ephemeral tributary of the Darling River.{{Cite web |title=Map of Yanda Creek in New South Wales - Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia |url=http://www.bonzle.com/c/a?a=p&p=209000&cmd=sp |access-date=2023-09-29 |website=www.bonzle.com}}

The area that would become Mount Drysdale lies on the traditional lands of Wangaaypuwan dialect speakers (also known as Wangaibon) of Ngiyampaa people,{{Cite web|last=Office of Environment and Heritage|title=Cobar Peneplain - regional history|url=https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/bioregions/CobarPeneplain-RegionalHistory.htm|access-date=2020-09-24|website=www.environment.nsw.gov.au|language=en}} referred to in their own language as Ngiyampaa Wangaaypuwan. There is significant evidence of Aboriginal occupation{{Cite web|title=Bonzle: Mount Drysdale Mine - Aboriginal hearth|url=http://www.bonzle.com/c/a?a=pic&fn=dlfhapr2&s=3|access-date=2020-11-02|website=www.bonzle.com}} at Mount Drysdale and it has been declared as an Aboriginal place.{{Cite web|last=Witter|first=Dan C.|title=Mount Drysdale : Aboriginal place archaeological study: draft 2 - Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS)|url=http://aiatsis.library.link/portal/Mount-Drysdale--Aboriginal-place-archaeological/9wa0oWevT6k/|access-date=2020-11-02|website=aiatsis.library.link|language=en}} It lies 40 km east-north-east of the Mount Grenfell rock art site, an important Ngiyampaa Wangaaypuwan Aboriginal place.{{Cite web |title=Mount Grenfell Historic Site |url=https://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/visit-a-park/parks/mount-grenfell-historic-site |access-date=2022-07-20 |website=NSW National Parks |language=en}}

Settlers took over the area now known as Mount Drysdale, as part of the 'Tindarey' (or 'Tindeyrey') pastoral leasehold that was notified in July 1885. It was, at best, marginal country for sheep grazing, even more so after the spread of feral rabbits to the area.{{Cite news|date=1900-11-11|title=THE WOEFUL WEST; OR, A LOST PROVINCE.|page=1|work=Truth (Sydney, NSW : 1894 - 1954)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article168002875|access-date=2020-11-05}}

Settler records show that there were Aboriginal people still living on the 'Tindarey' sheep station in late 1885.{{Cite news|date=1885-11-14|title=GENERAL NEWS.|page=2|work=Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal (NSW : 1851 - 1904)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article62018256|access-date=2020-11-05}} It seems that there was frontier violence—probably including a massacre of local people by settlers in the Mount Drysdale area, either during the 1880s{{Cite web|last=cnet|title=Australian Frontier Conflicts – Timeline|url=https://australianfrontierconflicts.com.au/timelines/timeline-of-australian-frontier-conflicts/|access-date=2020-11-05|website=Australian Frontier Conflicts|language=en-US}} or in 1899{{Cite web|title=User notes about Mount Drysdale Mine in New South Wales - Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia|url=http://www.bonzle.com/c/a?a=p&p=302038&d=notes&cmd=sp&c=1&x=145.8678&y=-31.1681&w=40000&mpsec=0|access-date=2020-11-02|website=www.bonzle.com}}{{Cite web|title=Bonzle: Mount Drysdale Mine - Cemetery|url=http://www.bonzle.com/c/a?a=pic&fn=r6tvot5x&s=3|access-date=2020-11-02|website=www.bonzle.com}}—the earlier period seems more likely. Whatever it was that occurred is not well documented.{{Cite web|title=Centre For 21st Century Humanities|url=https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/map.php|access-date=2020-11-02|website=c21ch.newcastle.edu.au}} However, by 1907, official records showed no Aboriginal people as living at Mount Drysdale.{{Cite web|date=1908|title=ABORIGINES.(REPORT OF BOARD FOR THE PROTECTION OF, FOR YEAR 1907)|url=https://aiatsis.gov.au/sites/default/files/docs/digitised_collections/remove/22926.pdf|publisher=Legislative Assembly of New South Wales|page=18}}

File:Mount Drysdale, NSW, township c.1895 (Collection of Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW).jpg

In 1887, gold had been found at Mount Billagoe.{{Cite news|date=1887-09-09|title=COBAR.|page=3|work=Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent (NSW : 1887 - 1932)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article226862521|access-date=2020-11-01}} In 1892, payable alluvial gold was found on the western side of a hill at the northern end of the same range of hills. That caused a rush to the field and prospectors soon started to search for a reef. In October 1892, David Drysdale found the gold reef on that hill and it was named, Mount Drysdale, after him.{{Cite news|date=1894-09-11|title=THE DRYSDALE MINE.|page=2|work=Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent (NSW : 1887 - 1932)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article228227416|access-date=2020-11-01}}{{Cite news|date=1949-08-25|title=A MESSAGE FOR THE WEEK|page=4|work=Gilgandra Weekly (NSW : 1942 - 1955)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article112843986|access-date=2020-11-01}}{{Cite web|title=Mount Billagoe|url=https://www.google.com/maps/place/Mount+Billagoe/@-31.177232,145.8575856,14.28z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x6b023de0560ff9df:0x302901d65bbe73dd!8m2!3d-31.1833333!4d145.8666667|access-date=2020-11-01|website=Google Maps|language=en}} In August 1893, there were 120 men working on the field.{{Cite news|date=1893-08-26|title=MINING.|page=2|work=Western Herald (Bourke, NSW : 1887 - 1970)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article142709622|access-date=2020-11-01}}

The site for a village—on the eastern side of the base of Mount Drysdale, downhill from the Mount Drysdale claim—was selected in August 1893 and the village of Mount Dysdale was proclaimed on 18 October 1893.

In late 1894, there were around 400 miners working on the field{{Cite news|date=1894-10-20|title=Miscellaneous.|page=24|work=Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1907)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71265244|access-date=2020-11-01}} and land was reserved for the village's public buildings.{{Cite news|date=1894-12-12|title=RESERVES FROM SALE FOR PUBLIC BUILDINGS.|page=7821|work=New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW : 1832 - 1900)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article222193525|access-date=2020-11-01}} By mid-1895, the village had three hotels, a large store, a post office and a school with 90 pupils.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Mount Drysdale|url=https://nswgovschoolhistory.cese.nsw.gov.au/schoolHistory?schoolId=5529|access-date=2020-12-19|website=nswgovschoolhistory.cese.nsw.gov.au}} Around May 1901, the village's population was around 223.{{Cite news |date=1901-05-25 |title=Local and General. |page=2 |work=Cobar Herald |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article103836948 |access-date=2023-08-29}}

Although there were many claims and mines on the field, two mines would come to dominate the field, the Mount Drysdale mine and the Eldorado mine. These two mines were adjacent and, in time, would come be operated conjointly. The Mount Drysdale mine was operated by a listed mining company, the Mount Drysdale Gold Mining Company Limited. The lode was a rich one and the goldfield was prosperous for many years.{{Cite news|date=1932-06-18|title=MOUNT DRYSDALE!|page=5|work=Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate (NSW : 1894 - 1954)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article131608485|access-date=2020-11-01}}{{Cite web|title=The Mount Drysdale Gold Field. - A GEOLOGICAL PUZZLE. RICH ORE BODIES. NO DEFINED REEF. Written specially for the|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71231520|access-date=2020-11-01|newspaper=Australian Town and Country Journal|date=22 June 1895 |language=en}}{{Cite news|date=1893-09-30|title=Mount Billagoe Field.|page=16|work=Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1907)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71189720|access-date=2020-11-01}}{{Cite news|date=1899-09-16|title=Mount Drysdale.|page=5|work=Cobar Herald (NSW : 1899 - 1914)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article103836978|access-date=2020-11-01}}

In 1910, the Mt Drysdale mine had reached a depth of over 500 feet, and had also struck water.{{Cite news|date=1910-04-29|title=Mount Drysdale Mine.|page=5|work=Cobar Herald (NSW : 1899 - 1914)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article103488136|access-date=2020-11-02}} Later in the same year, the main shaft of the mine reached 572 feet, reportedly making it the deepest gold mine in the Cobar mining region at the time. Once the shaft had been timbered, it was planned to remove ore from areas that previously could not be mined profitably, above the 460 foot level, and make new drives to the north and south, at the 560 foot level. The work on the shaft had been expensive, but the company's directors were optimistic, and raised more capital.{{Cite news |date=1910-06-03 |title=Mount Drysdale. |page=6 |work=Cobar Herald |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article103485671 |access-date=2023-06-10}}{{Cite news |date=1910-07-15 |title=Mount Drysdale Cold Mine. |page=6 |work=Cobar Herald |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article103489054 |access-date=2023-06-10}} Work on the new drives was well underway by early 1911.{{Cite news |date=1911-01-30 |title=MINING NOTES. |page=11 |work=Sydney Morning Herald |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15233650 |access-date=2023-06-10}} The two companies were working to amalgamate their interests, into a single company, in 1911.

By mid 1912, both the Mt Drysdale and Eldorado companies were in financial difficulty. Mining was suspended, probably as early as mid 1911,{{Cite news |date=1912-07-10 |title=MINING IN THE STATE. |page=20 |work=Sydney Morning Herald |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15343376 |access-date=2023-06-10}} and, in March 1913, it was resolved to wind up the Mt Drysdale company.{{Cite news|date=1913-03-19|title=MOUNT DRYSDALE GOLD MINING COMPANY LIMITED.|page=1783|work=Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales (Sydney, NSW : 1901 - 2001)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article226760054|access-date=2020-11-01}} In 1916, a syndicate was formed to dewater the Mt Drysdale mine and restart operations,{{Cite news|date=1916-05-26|title=SUMMARY.|page=2|work=Western Age (Dubbo, NSW : 1914 - 1932)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article136721947|access-date=2020-11-01}} Work reportedly did commenced, in mid 1916, and dewatering was underway in August 1916.{{Cite news|date=1916-06-26|title=MOUNT DRYSDALE TO START.|page=4|work=Leader (Orange, NSW : 1899 - 1945)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article117796411|access-date=2020-11-01}}{{Cite news |date=1916-08-02 |title=They Say. |page=4 |work=Leader |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article117811441 |access-date=2023-06-13}} The efforts seem to have failed, because the mine's surface equipment was sold to the CSA mine, in mid 1917,{{Cite news|date=1917-06-29|title=JOHN BRIDGE & CO.'S REPORT.|page=1|work=Molong Argus (NSW : 1896 - 1921)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article105667567|access-date=2020-11-01}} and the syndicate was wound up in May 1918.{{Cite news|date=1918-05-17|title=IN THE MATTER OF THE MOUNT DRYSDALE SYNDICATE LIMITED.|page=2341|work=Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales (Sydney, NSW : 1901 - 2001)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article229426077|access-date=2020-11-01}} The machinery and buildings at the Eldorado mine were up for sale in August 1918.{{Cite news|date=1918-08-01|title=BUILDING MACHINERY AND MINING MACHINERY.|page=4|work=Wellington Times (NSW : 1899 - 1954)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article143231621|access-date=2020-11-01}} The buildings from the Eldorado went to the C.S.A. mine at Elouera and the machinery to the Gladstone Mine at Wrightville.{{Cite news |date=1919-09-09 |title=SUMMARY. |page=13 |work=Western Age |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article136905005 |access-date=2023-06-19}} Subsequent attempts to reopen the two mines by others{{Cite news|date=1919-05-20|title=THE MT. DRYSDALE AND ELDORADO LEASES.|page=3|work=Western Age (Dubbo, NSW : 1914 - 1932)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article136905595|access-date=2020-11-01}} seem to have failed too. After the deep shaft had been sunk, it seems that the miners had 'lost the lode'.

Mining and exploration continued on a smaller scale, during the 1920s{{Cite news|date=1924-09-01|title=GOLD NEAR COBAR.|page=3|work=Lithgow Mercury (NSW : 1898 - 1954)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article220695381|access-date=2020-11-01}}{{Cite news|date=1924-09-19|title=DRYSDALE GOLD.|page=2|work=Western Age (Dubbo, NSW : 1914 - 1932)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article137161240|access-date=2020-11-01}} and 1930s{{Cite news|date=1935-03-16|title=GOLD MINING REVIVAL|page=3|work=Recorder (Port Pirie, SA : 1919 - 1954)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article100819191|access-date=2020-11-01}}{{Cite news|date=1932-07-29|title=MT. DRYSDALE MINE|page=2|work=Western Age (Dubbo, NSW : 1914 - 1932)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article137154028|access-date=2020-11-01}} but the heyday of the gold field had been over, once the two dominant mines closed. The police station closed in October 1914.{{Cite news|date=1915-01-20|title=NOTICE.|page=30|work=New South Wales Police Gazette and Weekly Record of Crime (Sydney : 1860 - 1930)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article251646603|access-date=2020-11-01}} The school closed in 1913 and its building was relocated to another mining settlement, Elouera, in 1919.{{Cite news|date=1919-12-30|title=Official Correspondence.|page=3|work=Western Age (Dubbo, NSW : 1914 - 1932)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article136903101|access-date=2020-11-01}} The Mount Drysdale hotel closed in 1917, and its licence was transferred to the new Royal Hotel at Elouera.{{Cite news |date=1917-12-14 |title=Licensing Court. |page=4 |work=Western Age |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article136912598 |access-date=2023-06-13}}

There was a smaller, neighbouring village known as Drysdale West—proclaimed in November 1894{{Cite news|date=1894-11-21|title=Government Gazette Proclamations and Legislation|page=7396|work=New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW : 1832 - 1900)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article222192267|access-date=2020-11-01}}—but it seems to have not lasted long and its design was cancelled in 1922.{{Cite news|date=1922-12-15|title=PROPOSED CANCELLATION OF DESIGN OF THE VILLAGE OF DRYSDALE WEST, PARISH OF MOQUILAMBA, COUNTY OF ROBINSON.|page=6619|work=Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales (Sydney, NSW : 1901 - 2001)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article225132875|access-date=2020-11-01}} There was a market garden, run by ethnic-Chinese, near West Drysdale.{{Cite web|title=Chinese market gardens in southern and western New South Wales – AHR|url=http://australianhumanitiesreview.org/2005/07/01/chinese-market-gardens-in-southern-and-western-new-south-wales/|access-date=2020-11-05|language=en-US}}

The village could still raise a cricket team in the late 1920s.{{Cite news|date=1928-05-17|title=CRICKET.|page=2|work=Western Age (Dubbo, NSW : 1914 - 1932)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article137074715|access-date=2020-11-01}}{{Cite news|date=1929-11-28|title=WARATHAHS v. MOUNT DRYSDALE|page=2|work=Western Age (Dubbo, NSW : 1914 - 1932)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article137071868|access-date=2020-11-01}} By 1932, all that was left of the village was a store, a post office, a hall and about four houses "distantly situated". In late 1934, voting took place at a private residence, suggesting that the post office had closed by then.{{Cite news |date=1934-09-10 |title=COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA |work=Barrier Miner |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49518783 |access-date=2023-06-13}} The old school site was resumed in 1946,{{Cite news|date=1946-04-05|title=Government Gazette Notices|page=892|work=Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales (Sydney, NSW : 1901 - 2001)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article224762660|access-date=2020-11-01}} and the reserves of land for public buildings were revoked in 1951.{{Cite news|date=1951-10-19|title=REVOCATION OF RESERVES FROM SALE, LEASE, ETC.|page=3047|work=Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales (Sydney, NSW : 1901 - 2001)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article220107980|access-date=2020-11-01}} There were only seven voters there at the 1950 election.{{Cite news|date=1950-06-23|title=Election Result|page=1|work=Western Grazier (Wilcannia, NSW : 1896 - 1951)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article133436922|access-date=2020-11-01}} In 1962, it ceased to be a polling place.{{Cite news|date=1962-06-14|title=APPOINTMENT, ABOLITION AND ALTERATION IN THE NAMES OF POLLING PLACES.|page=2007|work=Commonwealth of Australia Gazette (National : 1901 - 1973)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article241008020|access-date=2020-11-01}} The old village faded away. Its last residents were known as 'Dot and Joe', whose deserted cottage was still standing in 2006.{{Cite web|title=Bonzle: Mount Drysdale Mine - Deserted Cottage|url=http://www.bonzle.com/c/a?a=pic&fn=w9xcx8oa&s=3|access-date=2020-11-02|website=www.bonzle.com}}

Cobar Shire advertised for sale 20 allotments in the old village, to recover rates that had not been paid by their long-absent or deceased owners, in 2006.{{Cite periodical |date=27 January 2006|title=COBAR SHIRE COUNCIL: Local Government Act 1993, Section 713: Sale of Land for Unpaid Rates|url=https://resources.reglii.com/NSWGG.2006.1.27.G13.pdf|periodical=Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales|publisher=Government Advertising and Information|number=13|pages=519–523}} At least notionally, the village of Mount Drysdale still exists.

McKell Street still appears on maps, now at the locality of Tindarey, as do many allotments of the former Mount Drysdale village.{{Cite web|title=McKell St, Tindarey|url=https://www.google.com/maps/place/McKell+St,+Tindarey+NSW+2835/@-31.170036,145.8698691,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x6b023dc10148d787:0x3a6abea6a6129855!8m2!3d-31.1700406!4d145.8720631|access-date=2020-11-01|website=Google Maps|language=en}} Other now lost streets of the former village included Kelly, Cotton, Waddlell, Gould, Macpherson, Cobar and Carter streets.{{Cite news|date=1935-05-03|title=NOTIFICATION OF CLOSING OF UNNECESSARY ROADS.|page=1856|work=Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales (Sydney, NSW : 1901 - 2001)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article224749151|access-date=2020-11-01}} The village has a cemetery.{{Cite web|title=Australian Cemeteries Index - Cemetery 1829 - Mount Drysdale|url=https://austcemindex.com/cemetery.php?id=1829|access-date=2020-11-01|website=austcemindex.com}}{{Cite web |title=Find a cemetery or crematorium |url=https://www.cemeteries.nsw.gov.au/community/find-cemetery-or-crematorium |website=NSW Government - Cemeteries & Crematoria NSW}} The 'Mine Tank', an in-ground water storage once used by the mines, still exists,{{Cite web |title=Satellite View, Mine Tank - Tindarey · New South Wales 2835, Australia |url=https://www.google.com/maps/place/Tindarey+NSW+2835,+Australia/@-31.1618713,145.8660169,363m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x6b0228af0f6cc567:0x40609b490440550!8m2!3d-31.022708!4d145.9100775!16s/g/1tgwsdlb?entry=ttu |access-date=2023-06-10 |website=Google Maps |language=en}} as do remnants of the market garden;{{Cite web |date=16 February 2022 |title=Mount Drysdale now listed on State Heritage Register – The Cobar Weekly |url=https://cobarweekly.com.au/mount-drysdale-now-listed-on-state-heritage-register/ |access-date=2022-12-03 |website=cobarweekly.com.au}} all lie to the north of the village on the far side of the hill close to the site of West Drysdale.{{Cite web|title=Mine Tank|url=https://www.google.com/maps/place/31%C2%B009%2740.9%22S+145%C2%B051%2742.9%22E/@-31.1618815,145.8637503,17z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d-31.1613611!4d145.8619167|access-date=2020-11-01|website=Google Maps|language=en}} There is a surviving government caretaker's cottage. Otherwise, apart from its worked out mines, rusting equipment and some ruins, there is nothing left of Mount Drysdale.{{Cite web|title=Pictures relating to Mount Drysdale Mine in New South Wales - Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia|url=http://www.bonzle.com/c/a?a=p&p=302038&cmd=sp&d=pics|access-date=2020-11-02|website=www.bonzle.com}}

In February 2022, Mount Drysdale was added to the N.S.W. Heritage Register as the Billagoe (Mount Drysdale) Cultural Landscape, noted for both its Aboriginal and settler heritage significance.{{Cite web |last=Cross |first=Jarred |date=17 March 2022 |title=Decades-long campaign sees Billagoe added to NSW heritage list |url=https://nit.com.au/17-03-2022/2815/decades-long-campaign-sees-billagoe-added-to-nsw-heritage-list |website=National Indigenous Times}}{{Cite web |title=Mount Drysdale (Billagoe) cultural landscape case study - Preparing your heritage property for the impacts of climate change |url=https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/-/media/OEH/Corporate-Site/Documents/Heritage/mount-drysdale-cultural-landscape-case-study-230049.pdf |website=NSW Government - Department of Planning and Environment}}

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