Expedition truck log Laverton to Warburton Ranges 1931

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Marbled 205x337 mm notebook, fly leaf annotated "Log of Michael Terry leader of Endeavour Mining Co NL expedition to Warburton Ranges 1931. Bird and Young expeditioners. Several pages at back of book list stores of food and gear etc. Each daily entry includes camp number (eg C22) and a weather report.

  • 26 March 1931 Bird, Adelaide, Pt Augusta, Yacka, Alice Springs, Laura, Wilmgton, Kalgoorlie, JH Young, Victoria Hotel, Royal Chambers Hotel, Palace Hotel, Rundle Brothers, Water Supply Department, train to Laverton

  • 1 April Tom Leahy's pub, Brockman, White Cliffs Station, camel hire arranged, Talbot, Sam Haslett, Turner, Roads Board, Burtville, George Dwyer, Pt Salvation, Pt Kidman, entomological specimen collected from marsh, Quest party, FH Hann, MacIntyre, Sullivans Find, Jacksons Rock, Vincent and Jack MacIntyre, Rulter Grave Soak, sandalwood, Cosmo Newberry cattle Station, ordered to return Adelaide by 27 July, Layden, Mooltram, 14 April list of words, Point Virginia, Point Newland, Hasletts rockhole, granma holes, Franki (Australian Aboriginal man), Java Sparrow, Thatchers soak

  • 1 May Laverton, Jim Layton, Jacksons Rock, Constable Hunter, Bullant McIntyre, Harry Swimseer 1907, Frank Hann, Talbot, Carr Boyd, Theo Byers, Holtman, Hill End nugget, Virginia Range, 10 May list of words in Wangada language, Minnie Creek, Jalsons Rocks, Yungityerra and Frankie (Australian Aboriginal men), camels, estimated 4 inches rain in last few days, Bird, Young, Haslett, Warburton Ranges in sight, Theo Byers 1927 tracks, Hughes Creek, Elder Creek, Hasletts Well, 25 May pyrites, Talbot's report, Warburton Creek, cairn, galena and copper, Quest party, Jameson Range, Albert and Marie Range, 'Devil's dice', Johnson Creek, Laverton, J Forrest 1874, Mt Harvest, cairn, marking "TB, WH, VS, A, 14-9-28" and "MT, JY, WB 1-6-31"

  • 1 June Johnson Creek, Elder Creek, gold, gossan stone, Harry N Domeyer, Thomas Kelly of Quest party, Gall, Ooldea, Laverton, Mt Weir, White Cliffs, prospectors speared in Rawlinson Ranges, Pompey (Australian Aboriginal man), Scamp Creek, McGilbert, 6 June unidentified mineral like Wolfram, 13 June meteor impact estimated 60 miles distant 'a little this side of Jamieson Range', 18 June planted date and barley seeds, Theo Byers, marked and cut cork tree, 27 June gnamma holes, boulder marked "DC, CD cable, FB, JET FD 04, CB 96" ?Spring Granite? 28 June gold, took soil samples for Waite Institute on a tarertine ridge, more date and barley planted

  • 1 July towards Hasletts Well, 5 July, 7 July took soil samples for Waite Institute, 11 July met WA Survey party out to fix Lightning Rock, FL Paine, Weeks, Joe Lysaught, McIntyre, mileage pegs marked "PB" (Pastoral Boundary), Virginia Range, Thatchers Soak, heading into Laverton, Bob Sutheland, sandalwood, Gall, spearing of men at Rawlinson Ranges, Cosmo Newberry, Claypan Well, 15 July Laverton, Banks, Harris and Lemond, Jim O'Neil, Lyall press cuttings, Jack Cox, Golden Bell mine, Birtville, departed Laverton for home, Malcolm, KooKymie, Cornetvale, Kalgoorlie, packed material to go to Adelaide, George Hughes, Inspector Speering Smith, provided mileages and maps of the trip, by train to Port Augusta, 23 July 1931

CreatorMichael Terry
ControlAA 333/5/17
Date Range1931  -  1931
FormatsDiaries
Series AA 333/05