Hilda Jarvis Traditional Cache
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Located about 34 kilometres from Kalgoorlie, the cache is in the old townsite (or ghost town) of Bulong.
This town began with the discovery of gold towards the end of 1893.
Bulong was gazetted in 1895, and within five years the town has six hotels, a brewery, three stores, a post office, police station and warden's court, churches, town hall, mechanic's institute and hospital.
The area soon became famous for alluvial gold found there. Within a couple of weeks over 500 men were at these diggings, leading the government to create a townsite.
The main mine at Bulong was the Queen Margaret.
The initial settlement was known by the name of the first lease 'IOU', but a surveyor was instructed to carry out a survey at 'IOU' and suggest "a better name for it".
The name 'Boolong' was proposed, the Aboriginal name for a small soak nearby, but spelt Bulong to comply with the Royal Geographical Society's system of orthography.
This cache has been named 'Hilda Jarvis', because by 1989, Mrs Hilda Jarvis was the only remaining resident of Bulong.
She was affectionately known as the 'goat lady' as she ran a small herd of goats in the town.
Her father was once mayor of Bulong.
There is still mining operations at Bulong, not for gold, but nickel and copper.
The cache is a small, square lunch style box.
Contains a log book and pen and a few small swap items to get the cache started.
Please cover well again after finding the cache.
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