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Limited Edition of 150 Reproductions each of 5 sizes, 750 in total Only
It was a very dry year in 1889, and lack of water made it very difficult to continue mining operations at Mount Britton. However a gold rush had started up at Eungella Range in the hills along Broken River about 30 miles as the crow flies from Mount Britton.
Charles Gibbard had just finished building a flash new hotel, which he called the Mount Britton Hotel, beside his old Digger’s Arms Hotel at Mount Britton. Gibbard decided his prospects looked better on the new diggings up at Eungella, so he transferred the licence of the new Mount Britton Hotel to his stepson, dismantled the Diggers Arms Hotel, and loaded the lot – timber, corrugated iron, and alcoholic beverages onto three wagons.
With each wagon being pulled by fourteen horses, they started the difficult journey through scrub and grassland, for there was no road, negotiating logs, steep banks, dry sandy creek beds, and steep rugged ranges. As the crow flies it was about 30 miles they had to travel, but because of the terrain they had to travel about twice that distance.
In this painting one of the horse teams is featured as they leave behind the distinctive peaks and mountain ranges that surround Mount Britton, and head off across the plains on Homevale Station.
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