The Mile that Midas TouchedThe story of Kalgoorlie's golden mile - the richest few acres of gold-bearing country in the world - and of the rest of the Eastern goldfields in Western Australia. |
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Page 117
... Water Supply Scheme , sixty years before , by Sir John Forrest , then Minister for Defence in the new Federal Parliament . That blistering summer's day when the pipe - line from Mundaring Weir supplanted the rusting condensers was one ...
... Water Supply Scheme , sixty years before , by Sir John Forrest , then Minister for Defence in the new Federal Parliament . That blistering summer's day when the pipe - line from Mundaring Weir supplanted the rusting condensers was one ...
Page 119
... water from the Scheme reached Kalgoorlie . Lack of water had been the major problem in the develop- ment of Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie . A fearful typhoid epidemic had killed hundreds on Coolgardie when , during drought , some of the ...
... water from the Scheme reached Kalgoorlie . Lack of water had been the major problem in the develop- ment of Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie . A fearful typhoid epidemic had killed hundreds on Coolgardie when , during drought , some of the ...
Page 124
... Water Scheme has been improved and modernized . Along the length of the pipe , run- ning 346 miles from Mundaring Reservoir to Kalgoorlie , the welder's torch has made the lead - packed joints out of date . The main conduit is now in ...
... Water Scheme has been improved and modernized . Along the length of the pipe , run- ning 346 miles from Mundaring Reservoir to Kalgoorlie , the welder's torch has made the lead - packed joints out of date . The main conduit is now in ...
Contents
A Town to Remember | 11 |
Background to Discovery | 21 |
The Cross over Kalgoorlie | 33 |
Copyright | |
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