The Rise of Broken HillThe story of the men who made and spent their fortunes, and of the miners who won that fortune from the Hill. |
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... syndicate Rasp was a boundary rider , George Lind was a book - keeper and storekeeper on the station , George Urquhart overseered the sheep , Philip Charley was a jackeroo , David James and Jim Poole were bullock owners who held a ...
... syndicate Rasp was a boundary rider , George Lind was a book - keeper and storekeeper on the station , George Urquhart overseered the sheep , Philip Charley was a jackeroo , David James and Jim Poole were bullock owners who held a ...
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... syndicate . David James , who was scooping out a dam near Broken Hill when the syndicate was formed , clung to his shares long enough to become rich . He sold his bullock team and even- tually acquired a team of racehorses at Kapunda in ...
... syndicate . David James , who was scooping out a dam near Broken Hill when the syndicate was formed , clung to his shares long enough to become rich . He sold his bullock team and even- tually acquired a team of racehorses at Kapunda in ...
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... syndicate members , spent his last years near Broken Hill . He died on the Black Hill sheep station , near the ghost town of Silverton , in 1915 . The Creators The members of the syndicate who kept together long after Broken Hill was an ...
... syndicate members , spent his last years near Broken Hill . He died on the Black Hill sheep station , near the ghost town of Silverton , in 1915 . The Creators The members of the syndicate who kept together long after Broken Hill was an ...
Contents
Illustrations | 7 |
The Magnates | 33 |
End of the Honeymoon | 49 |
Copyright | |
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Adelaide Australian mining Barrier Industrial Council Barrier Ranges base-metal Bavay became BHP's Block 14 Broken Hill companies Broken Hill mines Broken Hill Proprietary Broken Hill South cent Charles Rasp coast Cockle Creek concentrate danger Darling River Delprat dividends drill dust early favourable flotation process gold ground Hill's horse hydraulic fill industrial iron Kalgoorlie Labour lead-poisoning leaders line of lode London magnetic manager McCulloch Melbourne metal miles militants mill miners mining companies mining field Mount Gipps North Broken Hill open cut ounce paid plant plates Port Pirie profits railway Rasp rich rock Roy Bridges shaft shareholders shares sheep station silver and lead silver-lead silverfield smelters smelting South Australia South Wales stopes strike Sulphide Corporation sulphide problem Sydney syndicate Terowie timber tion town tralia underground union unionists W.S. Robinson wages Wilcannia workers Zeehan Zinc Corporation