[14] Near the mine entrance were a poppet head, 55 feet high, winding machinery, sawmill, farrier's shop, the stamper batteries, and the manager's residence.

[15] The mine being atop a hill, water was pumped from Jones Creek, at 2,000 gallons per hour, 870 feet uphill,[16][17] to the higher of two dams.

The well was the site of a horrendous death by scalding, in September 1899, when a platman accidentally stepped into an open lift compartment and fell a short distance, into the well of hot water.

[12] The large steam engine, powering all thirty stamper heads, had serious damage in July 1900, resulting in no gold production for around six weeks, while parts were obtained from James Martin in Gawler, South Australia.

[19] At around the same time, the mine installed a second-hand air compressor, to power rock drills, and extended its main shaft to 500 feet in depth.

[25] After producing nearly £100,000 worth of gold—another source says £122,000—the London-based directors took a decision to close the mine and sell it and its equipment.

[28] Shares in the Prince of Wales mine were floated in Melbourne in August 1904, with plans to commence operation using the 10-head stamper battery that remained at the site.

At the time of reopening, there were reportedly 80,000 tons of tailings, with a significant gold content, which were sold off separately to the mine and its equipment.

[29] The renewed operation was brief; the company could not pay its debts, and its lease and assets were sold at auction in March 1906.

Some very rich patches of reef were found, including a ton of quartz that yielded £1,000 worth of gold.

In 1910, it was reopened, by a syndicate, including James Robinson and some local Gundagai businessmen, but not George Rice.

Rice and some local businessmen became aware of that plan, formed a syndicate, and obtained the new lease first.

It had taken around seven weeks to move the boiler the eight or so miles from Gundagai to the mine, as its weight damaged bridges and ploughed roads along the route, delaying progress.

Then, in 1901, the boiler was hauled, from the mine back to Gundagai, by a team of 32 bullocks, two horses and seven men, on a specially designed 'trolley', taking only eight days.

In February 1897, 146 oz 17 dwt of gold was produced from 11 tons 8 cwt of ore.[16] It employed around 18 men.

[67] As well as the hotel there were shops, including a general store, bakery, butcher, and chemist (pharmacy).

[72] Predating the hotel was a venue known as 'the Kimo Workingmen's Club', which achieved some notoriety, apparently as a means to circumvent liquor licensing laws;[73] its building was eventually replaced by a drapery shop in 1901.

[78][79][80][81] The images reveal that, while the mine buildings were typically robust industrial buildings for the time, the shops and dwellings of the village and its immediate surroundings were of primitive construction, being slab huts with corrugated iron or tree bark roofing.

[63] The public school stood on dedicated land, immediately to the south-east of the area covered by the village plan.

[77] The early end of large scale gold mining at the Prince of Wales mine,[82] compounded by Reno's relatively close proximity to the larger town of Gundagai, resulted in the rapid decline and eventual complete disappearance of the village.

In August 1928, the Lands Board leased the, by then, nearly-deserted 40 acre village site, for use as a poultry farm.

The land is mainly used for grazing, with some cropping on the alluvial flats of the Jones Creek valley.