Place Names of South Australia
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Burra
Burra
The Mine
Also see South Australia - Mining.
An informative letter setting out facts surrounding the discovery of the mine and later events is in the South Australian,
15 August 1845, page 3b; also see
19 August 1845, page 2b,
24 October 1845, page 3e (poem).
"When We Were Boys" is in the Register,
8 and 15 January 1898, pages 5i and 6d.
"Early Burra Days" is in The Critic,
5 October 1901, page 8.
"Sixty Years of Its History" is in the Chronicle,
26 March 1904, page 33; also see
Express,
15 and 18 May 1871, pages 3d and 2a.
Reminiscences of the "Nobs and the Snobs" are in the Register,
4 February 1887, page 3f,
Observer,
22 January 1887, page 26a.
"Early History of Burra and Its Mines" is in The Mail,
17 and 31 October 1925, pages 17 and 14c,
Register,
27 November 1925, page 10f,
1 August 1927, page 14f.
The mine is described in the Register,
28 November 1846, page 4a,
Observer,
15 January 1848, page 2a,
Register,
23 September 1848, page 3c and
"A Visit to the Burra Burra" on
9 June 1847, page 2a,
19 September 1850, page 4a,
13 and 23 January 1851, pages 3d and 4a,
21 March 1855, page 2g.
A historical sketch of the mine is in the Advertiser,
29 May 1867, page 4c.
"Observations Upon the Burra Mines and District" is in the Observer,
15 September 1860, page 8b.
"The Burra-Burra Mine - Sixty Years of Its History" is recounted in the Advertiser,
17 March 1904, page 6f,
"Latest Scheme of Development" on
19 March 1904, page 8e,
"A Marvellous Mine" on
9 April 1906, page 8c.
"Burra's Early Days" is in the Register,
1 August 1927, page 14f,
"The Story of a Famous Mine" in the Observer,
22 June 1929, page 28d.
A letter from a miner complaining of the timbering and security of the underground workings is in the South Australian,
8 June 1847, page 2d; also see
11 June 1847, page 3d.
A strike and its aftermath is discussed in the Register,
20 and 23 September 1848, pages 3 and 3b,
18, 21 and 23 October 1848, pages 2c, 3d and 3d,
1, 8, 15, 22 and 25 November 1848, pages 4d, 2a-d, 2b-2 (supp.), 3a and 2c; also see
South Australian,
17 October 1848, page 2b,
14 November 1848, page 4c:
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"Strikes" never do any good, but always harm, to the individuals who adopt them as a means of obtaining justice. Labour is like everything else; it is regulated by supply and demand.
16 December 1848, page 3a,
"The Smelting Works at the Burra" is in the SA Gazette & Mining Journal,
21 April 1849, page 2d; also see
Register,
11 December 1861, page 3a.
An entertainmsent for miners is reported in the Observer, 7 July 1849, page 3b:
On 24 June 1849 a convivial party, consisting of some 30 or 40 carpenters employed at the 'Monster Mine' met at the Burra Burra Hotel to partake of a sumptuous entertainment provided through the liberality of their employer. Suitable toasts and hilarious songs contributed to enliven the recreative scene in the spacious hall, followed by like convivialists, agreeably enchanted the captain's and officials of the Association's establishment, for whom the best parlour was set apart.
At that late hour, when the pot-valiant are wont to 'call spirits from the vasty deep', the 'Demon Alcohol' appeared to have been invoked; for:
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Utensils then lay strewn about,
And all was racket, noise and rout,
And swaggering to and fro
The Worthy Host, who'd done his best
To give the gen'rous treat a seat,
Was curs'd like the bitter foe.
In the issue some leading men ceased to be exemplary and although (to our knowledge) there was no Cock-Robin funeral enacted for living men, we are credibly informed that a sympathising Wren dropped the curtain upon more than one bacchanal and many an outre scene.
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On 25 June 1849 the friends of the total abstinence in Kooringa held a public tea meeting in the Wesleyan Sunday and day school room. The Reverend William Lowe in a short address mentioned among the evils incurred by drunkenness, no fewer than 42 diseases of the body... Mr. Osborne from his heart thanked God that he was a teetotaler. True were the principles of teetotalism and they must prevail... He had been robbed of an education through the drinking habits of his father, but he rejoiced that teetotalism had reclaimed his parent, who subsequently became a humble Christian and who was now, he trusted, in Heaven. Mr. Jeffery upbraided those of the Cornish at the Burra Burra who hesitated to become teetotalers, and could not those of his countrymen who were now in the land of 'milk and honey', who had plenty of meat, abstain - This last speaker was loudly cheered...
"The Burra Burra Mine and Smelting Works" is in the Observer,
24 March 1855, page 3d.
The reminiscences of Elizabeth May are in the Advertiser,
8 January 1926, page 7d.
The mine is described in the South Australian,
26 February 1850, page 2d,
16 April 1850, page 3b,
"Sketch of the Formation of the Burra Company, Its Progress and Present Prospects" on
20 June 1851, page 4c; also see
Observer,
21 September 1950, page 2d,
28 December 1850, page 4d.
"Burra Burra Mismanagement" is in the Register,
20 April 1850, page 4a.
The Register of
29 September 1851 at page 2e says an English mine in Devon had been named "The English Burra-Burra".
"Burra Burra Contributions to the Exhibition of All Nations" is discussed on
29 August 1850, page 2d.
"The New Burra-Burra Company" is in the Register,
14 and 18 April 1863, pages 3 and 3e,
14 September 1863, page 2f.
Editorials on the mines are in the Register,
11 April 1870, page 5b,
24 December 1870, page 4d,
Information on teamsters and the route to Adelaide is in the Register,
9 June 1865, page 3g.
"The Workings at the Burra Mine" is in the Register,
4 and 18 April 1867, pages 3f and 2g,
Observer,
6 April 1867, page 2g (supp.).
Its closure is reported in the Advertiser,
7 March 1867, page 2b,
9 May 1867, page 2c.
"Present Conditions at the Burra" is in the Register,
11 December 1868, page 2e.
An obituary of James Hamilton, smelter manager, is in the
Register, 12 August 1871, page 15f,
of Captain Robert Sanders on 28 July 1879, page 4g,
of Captain Killicoat on 23 January 1886, page 5c,
Observer, 23 January 1886, page 29c
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The mining villages are described in the Register,
21 February 1878, pages 6c-f.
An article on the "Nobs and Snobs" is in the Register,
4 February 1887, page 3f.
An informative letter appears in the Advertiser,
3 January 1888, page 7f.
A proposal to reopen the mine is traversed in the Advertiser,
16 and 20 October 1888, pages 4e and 4e,
Register,
21 June 1901, page 5d; also see
26 September 1901, page 7d.
"To Be Put Under the Hammer" appears on
23 October 1915, page 6g; also see
27 January 1916, page 4e.
Information on the mine, including photographs, is in the Chronicle,
2 September 1899, page 26 (supp),
20 June 1914, page 32.
"Its Copper Industry" is in the Observer,
21 April 1900, page 13c.
"Slag Extraction Works" is in the Chronicle,
16 March 1901, page 38d.
"Reopening Proposed" is in the Register,
21 June 1901, page 5d.
An obituary of Captain James W. White is in the Register,
2 January 1903, page 4f.
"Past Payments and Present Prospects" is in the Chronicle,
14 April 1906, page 41d.
A poem about the mine is in the Register,
8 August 1906, page 7f.
The purchase of the mine by W.A. Horn is reported in the Advertiser,
19 April 1907, page 4d.
A photograph of Morphett's Shaft is in The Critic,
18 January 1911, page 14.
"The Romance of the Burra" is in the Advertiser,
17 August 1909, page 7f,
2 November 1931, page 10d.
The sale of the mine is discussed in the Register,
23 October 1915, page 6g.
The reminiscences of James Vanstone are in the Register,
24 March 1917, page 9c.
10 March 1932, page 34,
21 March 1935, page 33.
