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 111
... early into Goldfields reform movements , and whenever there was opposition to the Government the cry of separation was raised . " Big John " Forrest placated Coolgardie in the early troubled years by the extension of the railway from ...
... early into Goldfields reform movements , and whenever there was opposition to the Government the cry of separation was raised . " Big John " Forrest placated Coolgardie in the early troubled years by the extension of the railway from ...
Page 119
... early arrivals there , " White Featherers , " had left because of the water shortage . Dams in catchment areas helped , but were not sufficient . Boring revealed only highly mineralized , unsuitable water . Government and private ...
... early arrivals there , " White Featherers , " had left because of the water shortage . Dams in catchment areas helped , but were not sufficient . Boring revealed only highly mineralized , unsuitable water . Government and private ...
Page 214
... early citizens who formed the first Progress Association mainly on a public health issue would be astonished now if they knew that their town , at the end of a pipe - line hundreds of miles long , has sewerage and septic installations ...
... early citizens who formed the first Progress Association mainly on a public health issue would be astonished now if they knew that their town , at the end of a pipe - line hundreds of miles long , has sewerage and septic installations ...
Contents
A Town to Remember | 11 |
Background to Discovery | 21 |
The Cross over Kalgoorlie | 33 |
Copyright | |
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