AH Jack and Party Mining Leases

This collection of 27 mining leases for the Cope Harding, Tingha, Peel and Uralla in northern NSW, and date from 1911 up to 1940. There are two with Quin Jack’s name as ‘Ah Jack’. Some leases were signed by Quin’s son, Les Jack. Most of the leases are for Quin’s half-sister — Ellen Mon How née Tootong – who was also later known as Ellen Hyde, there are also some with her husband John Hyde’s name. This is indicative of mining being an extended family enterprise.

Two of the mining leases dated 1915 and 1916, with Ah Jack’s name

Possibly Ah Jack’s mining party, c1900s. Image credit Glenda More.

numerous reports can be found on Trove

Intercolonial Mining News – New South Wales – 1899.
At the old Phoenix, on Stoney Creek, which has been let on tribute to Quin Jack and party (Chinese), work has been going on for some time, with fairly payable results, but having a heavy body of water to contend with, they are compelled to bale night and day by horse power, which entails great expense for feed, which has risen fully 75 per cent, during the past couple of months.¹

NOTICE TO APPLICANTS FOR MINERAL LEASES. (1888, March 27). *New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW : 1832 – 1900)*, p. 2269. Retrieved March 21, 2024, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article222123850

Citations

1) Intercolonial Mining News. (1899, April 1). Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 – 1919), p. 24. Retrieved March 21, 2024, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71326023

2) NOTICE TO APPLICANTS FOR MINERAL LEASES. (1888, March 27). New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW : 1832 – 1900), p. 2269. Retrieved March 21, 2024, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article222123850

Chen Quin Jack