Had the `ground' in the cemetery been `open' Dave would have gone to the point

under which he expected the gold to lie, sunk a shaft there, and worked

the ground. It would have been the quickest and easiest way -- it would have

saved the labour and the time lost in dragging heavy buckets of dirt along

a low lengthy drive to the shaft outside the fence. But it was very doubtful

if the Government could have been moved to open the cemetery

even on the strongest evidence of the existence of a rich goldfield under it,

and backed by the influence of a number of diggers and their backers --