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One Man’s Goldfield: the story of the Horseshoe Bend Diggings, William Rigney and Somebody’s Darling
the east side of the River to that on the west bank which crossed the Beaumont and
Island Block hills.
Figure 2 Bell / Meyer's "Black Cat Inn"
Photo from Mrs McElwain.
Figure 3 Bell / Meyer's "Black Cat Inn"
Photo from Mrs McElwain.
The hotel was never opened and Bell sold the building to another miner, William
Meyer, and left the area. Meyer mined the area around the house to the extent that
the miner's acre is almost a miner's island, bounded on three sides by drops into
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