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Page 40
... hundred ounces and made a good profit before the richer , softer gossan was worked out . Deeper prospecting and efficient treatment methods were now essential . Share interests , subdivided and sold at fantastic prices in 1886 , had ...
... hundred ounces and made a good profit before the richer , softer gossan was worked out . Deeper prospecting and efficient treatment methods were now essential . Share interests , subdivided and sold at fantastic prices in 1886 , had ...
Page 190
... hundred men belonged to the union . In 1899 perhaps 650 of the 3,000 wage earners at Mt. Lyell were unionists ... hundred to nine hundred miners and ten or twelve townsmen - more than twice the membership of the Gor- manston A.M.A. At ...
... hundred men belonged to the union . In 1899 perhaps 650 of the 3,000 wage earners at Mt. Lyell were unionists ... hundred to nine hundred miners and ten or twelve townsmen - more than twice the membership of the Gor- manston A.M.A. At ...
Page 223
... hundred or more cutters , axe in hand , returning to their huts and tents , and saw the curving wooden flumes in which a swift flow of water carried the timber down the gullies to high wood stacks beside the railway . Alongside the rail ...
... hundred or more cutters , axe in hand , returning to their huts and tents , and saw the curving wooden flumes in which a swift flow of water carried the timber down the gullies to high wood stacks beside the railway . Alongside the rail ...
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