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Page 101
... British investors would retain the majority of shares in the Mt. Lyell Company . He must convince the British shareholders that he himself , and not Bowes Kelly , was the man to direct this great mine . Above all , he must conduct his ...
... British investors would retain the majority of shares in the Mt. Lyell Company . He must convince the British shareholders that he himself , and not Bowes Kelly , was the man to direct this great mine . Above all , he must conduct his ...
Page 103
... British owners of nearly £ 5,000,000 of Lyell shares depended for reliable news of their investment . The loudest of Crotty's new fanfare of trumpets was the British Australasian , an authoritative journal on Australian affairs which ...
... British owners of nearly £ 5,000,000 of Lyell shares depended for reliable news of their investment . The loudest of Crotty's new fanfare of trumpets was the British Australasian , an authoritative journal on Australian affairs which ...
Page 164
... British in- vesting public paid £ 25,000 for 5.3 per cent of the shares . For the same money the Australians received twenty shares , the British financial clique three shares , and the British investing public one share . In theory the ...
... British in- vesting public paid £ 25,000 for 5.3 per cent of the shares . For the same money the Australians received twenty shares , the British financial clique three shares , and the British investing public one share . In theory the ...
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Australian mining began blast body boom Bowes Kelly British Broken Hill cent copper company's Comstock copper cost Creek Crotty diggers dividends Dixon drill Dundas Eldon Ranges Emu Bay engineer feet field fire furnaces gold Gormanston gossan hauled Heemskirk Hercules Hobart hundred investors Iron Blow Karlson Kelly Basin King River Knox later Launceston lease Linda Valley lode London Lyell Copper Lyell directors Lyell Mining Lyell railway Lyell shares Macquarie Harbour manager McDonough Melbourne metallurgist miles mill miners Mining Company months Mount Lyell mountain Murray North Lyell pany pegged Pieman Pieman River port price of copper profit prospecting prospectors pyritic Queen River Queenstown rail rich rock Rosebery Schlapp shaft shareholders ship silver smelters smelting smoke South Sticht stope Strahan sulphur Tasmanian Tharsis timber tons town track tram Trent Trial Harbour tunnel union Victorian Waratah west coast West Lyell western Zeehan zinc