New Gold Town
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Growth of Edie Creek, N.G.
From Our Own Correspondent.
Edie Creek, May 4.
THIS year, 1935—with the opening of the new road from Wau to Edie Creek, the removal of the headquarters of N.G.G. Ltd. from Wau to Edie, and the installation of their new batteries, the proving of “Development’s” lease (Edie Creek Gold Mining Co. N.L.), the com pletion of the cyanide plant and connec tion of hydro-electric power by Day Dawn Ltd. —is the most important year in the history of Edie Creek since its dis covery in 1926.
Edie Creek has grown in the last 12 months from a scattered collection of miner’s camps into an important centre, and a fair-sized commercial and residen tial town is growing around the mines.
That there are opportunities here for men with business acumen and capital to “get in on the ground floor” and grow with the town, is obvious.
The opening of the graded road from Wau to Edie Creek, on April 25, makes a great difference. The country is so moun tainous and broken that we have never been able to flatten out enough of it to make an aerodrome; so our freight had to be left by the planes at Wau, and labour iously carried over 12 miles of donkey track.