Excerpt from The Adelong Goldfield Special mention must be made of the great obligation under which the writer is placed to Mr. N. Holman, General Superintendent of the Gibraltar Consolidated Gold Mines, Limited. Mr. Holman placed his services almost entirely at my disposal both underground and in discussing mine plans and problems. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.