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Page 118
... gave little or nothing to charity . And by trying to per- suade the widow to enter convent and to deprive her of the luxury to which she had recently been accustomed , he seemed to be de- manding a sacrifice which he himself was not ...
... gave little or nothing to charity . And by trying to per- suade the widow to enter convent and to deprive her of the luxury to which she had recently been accustomed , he seemed to be de- manding a sacrifice which he himself was not ...
Page 202
... gave him two hours to leave the town . He was hounded out of Waratah , Renison Bell , and the Hercules mine , and within a month of leav- ing had returned to Mt. Lyell where the company gave him half pay and told him to remain quiet ...
... gave him two hours to leave the town . He was hounded out of Waratah , Renison Bell , and the Hercules mine , and within a month of leav- ing had returned to Mt. Lyell where the company gave him half pay and told him to remain quiet ...
Page 224
... gave Lyell a gloomy reputation were removed . The treeless valley of boulders and black peat in a bastion of rocky , mist - clad mountains gave Linda and Gormanston the reputation of being the most depressing mining towns in Aus- tralia ...
... gave Lyell a gloomy reputation were removed . The treeless valley of boulders and black peat in a bastion of rocky , mist - clad mountains gave Linda and Gormanston the reputation of being the most depressing mining towns in Aus- tralia ...
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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