descript=Coolgardie (Mother of the Goldfields) - No Town, to Boom Town, to Ghost Town. With a population of 15,000 in c1900 and now down to 1,000 and many of them have their jobs in the tourism industry. On September 17,1892 Arthur Bayley rode into Southern Cross and deposited with the Mining Warden 554 ounces of gold that he and his partner William Ford, had found at an area that was to become Coolgardie.
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