The miners who had left the Burra for goldseeking gradually came back, and the nine remarkable copper mines of Moonta and Wallaroo attracted the Cornishmen, who preferred steady wages and homes to the diminishing chances of Ballarat and Bendigo where machinery and deep sinking demanded capital, and the miners were paid by the week.
"An Autobiography"
Catherine Helen Spence
The Moonta and Wallaroo district was still richer in that precious metal.
"The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon"
José Maria Gordon
Mrs. Strong tells of a party who came from H.M.S. Wallaroo on one Thanksgiving Day, when "the kitchen department was in great excitement over that foreign bird the turkey" and all was confusion.
"The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson for Boys and Girls"
Jacqueline M. Overton