I was surprised at the improvement visible since my last visit a few years ago. The old homesteads had a prosperous appearance, new ones have been erected, a great deal of fresh land has been lately brought under cultivation, more is being cleared, the road is improved, and there is a neat schoolhouse under the care of Mr Figgis, from which the hum of many tongues could be heard as I rode past.
The last farm is passed about eighteen miles from town, and then we enter upon Hall's bridle track. Last summer £50 was laid out on this by the Government, and very judiciously, expended. The track has been widened, the sideling cuttings touched up, the worst places corduroyed, and other improvements made, much to the comfort of the numerous travellers who now pass along this route to and from the tin-mines. After passing through a belt of rich agricultural soil, where one solitary deserted tenement is met with 20 miles from town, the character of the country changes, and first slaty hills and then low quartz gravel ranges, with wide swampy flats, are passed over.
Twenty-seven and a half miles from town is the turn-off to the Denison diggings, on the Little Forester River, now deserted ... NOTES ON THE NORTH-EAST COAST. (1876, June 8). Launceston Examiner (Tas. : 1842 - 1899), p. 3. Retrieved July 31, 2015, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article37141863
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FOR SALE - One hundred thousand 15in and 16in shingles. Also 9ft post and rails, also 5ft and 6ft palings, pine spars for masts or ladders. George Wright. Cameron-Street.