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Page 14
... Hobart . Winter came and Heemskirk was deserted , but with the approach of summer , prospectors hurried back to test the thousands of acres of tin - bearing ground . There was no rush . Transport was the problem . The over- land trail ...
... Hobart . Winter came and Heemskirk was deserted , but with the approach of summer , prospectors hurried back to test the thousands of acres of tin - bearing ground . There was no rush . Transport was the problem . The over- land trail ...
Page 107
... Hobart was the first port which threatened to wrest the trade of the copper field from Strahan . In 1896 , two rival companies lobbied for permission to build railways from Hobart to the west . The Great Western Railway Company ...
... Hobart was the first port which threatened to wrest the trade of the copper field from Strahan . In 1896 , two rival companies lobbied for permission to build railways from Hobart to the west . The Great Western Railway Company ...
Page 110
... Hobart resi- Idents rallied behind Sir Richard Baker and hurled abuse at Braddon . Angry speakers inferred that it was the duty of Parlia- ment to ensure that the Hobart railway received a monopoly of the wealth of the west . They ...
... Hobart resi- Idents rallied behind Sir Richard Baker and hurled abuse at Braddon . Angry speakers inferred that it was the duty of Parlia- ment to ensure that the Hobart railway received a monopoly of the wealth of the west . They ...
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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