<P> Gold was found at Cue in 1891 by Michael Fitzgerald, Edward Heffernan and Tom Cue . This became known as the Murchison Rush . </P> <P> In September 1892 gold was found at Fly Flat (Coolgardie) by Arthur Wesley Bayley and William Ford, who next to a quartz - reef obtaining 554 ozs (15.7 kg) of gold in one afternoon with the aid of a tomahawk . On 17 September 1892 Wesley rode the 185 km (115 miles) with this gold into Southern Cross to register their reward - claim for a new find of gold . Within hours had started what was at first called the Gnarlbine Rush . Overnight the miners who were flocked on the Southern Cross diggings moved to the more lucrative Coolgardie Goldfield . The reward - claim for Bayley's party for discovering the new goldfield was to be granted a 100 - foot (30.5 - metre) deep claim along the line of reef . This claim was said to cover an area of five acres (2 hectares). On 24 August 1893, less than a year after Arthur Bayley and William Ford's discovery of gold at Fly Flat, Coolgardie was declared a town site, with an estimated population of 4,000 (with many more mining out in the field). </P> <P> The Coolgardie goldrush was the beginning of what has been described as "the greatest gold rush in West Australian history". It has also been described as "the greatest movement of people in Australia's history", but this is an exaggeration . The greatest movement of people in Australia's history was in the period 1851 to 1861 during the gold - rushes to the Eastern states when the recorded population of Australia rose by 730,484 from 437,665 in 1851 to 1,168,149 in 1861, as against an increase of 20% of this amount for Western Australia in the period 1891 to 1901, a 137,834 increase of recorded population for Western Australia from 46,290 in 1891 to 184,124 in 1901 . </P> <P> On 17 June 1893 alluvial gold was found near Mount Charlotte, less than 25 miles (40 km) from Coolgardie, at what became the town of Hannan (Kalgoorlie). The announcement of this find by Paddy Hannan only intensified the excitement of the Coolgardie gold - rush, and led to the establishment in Western Australia's Eastern Goldfields of the twin towns of Kalgoorlie - Boulder . Prior to moving to Western Australia in 1889 to prospect for gold Hannan had prospected at Ballarat in Victoria in the 1860s, Otago in New Zealand in the 1870s, and at Teetulpa (north of Yunta) in South Australia in 1886 . The first to find gold at Kalgoorlie were Paddy Hannan and his fellow Irishmen Thomas Flanagan and Daniel Shea . </P>

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