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Page 108
... Government , after paying all expenses , had raised £ 106,000 in revenue from the west in the previous year . The Government , possibly playing for time in the hope that the overland railways might begin , promised to engage Napier Bell ...
... Government , after paying all expenses , had raised £ 106,000 in revenue from the west in the previous year . The Government , possibly playing for time in the hope that the overland railways might begin , promised to engage Napier Bell ...
Page 111
... Government should monopolize the copper - fields with its own lines . He urged his Minister to halt the Emu Bay railway at Rosebery before it began to compete with the government railway . He even suggested that the Government should ...
... Government should monopolize the copper - fields with its own lines . He urged his Minister to halt the Emu Bay railway at Rosebery before it began to compete with the government railway . He even suggested that the Government should ...
Page 165
... government the ex- penditure of the Mt. Lyell Co. was formidable . When the com- pany declared its first dividend in 1897 it had already spent as much money as the government had spent on education , customs , civil service , law ...
... government the ex- penditure of the Mt. Lyell Co. was formidable . When the com- pany declared its first dividend in 1897 it had already spent as much money as the government had spent on education , customs , civil service , law ...
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Australian mining began blast body boom Bowes Kelly Broken Hill cable cent copper company's Comstock copper Copper Mines cost Creek Crotty diggers dividends Dixon drill Emu Bay engineer feet field fire furnaces gold Gormanston gossan Government hauled Heemskirk Hobart hundred investors Iron Blow Karlson Kelly Basin King River Knox Launceston Linda Valley lode London Lyell Copper Lyell Mining Lyell open cut Lyell railway Lyell shares Macquarie Harbour manager McDonough Melbourne metallurgist miles mill miners Mining Company months Mount Lyell mountain North Lyell pany pegged Pieman Pieman River port price of copper profit prospecting prospectors pyritic Queen Queen River Queenstown R. M. Murray rail Renison Bell reports rich rock Rosebery Schlapp shaft shareholders shipped silver smelters smelting South Sticht stope Strahan sulphur Tasmanian Tharsis timber tons town track Trent Trial Harbour trucks tunnel underground union Victoria Waratah west coast West Lyell western Zeehan zinc