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Page 152
... hundred shareholders . Many shareholders were humble working people who owned £ 5 , £ 10 or £ 20 of shares and worked in foundries , meat - markets , ironworks , shipyards , breweries , warehouses and roller mills . At the other end of ...
... hundred shareholders . Many shareholders were humble working people who owned £ 5 , £ 10 or £ 20 of shares and worked in foundries , meat - markets , ironworks , shipyards , breweries , warehouses and roller mills . At the other end of ...
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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... hundreds of wooden veran- dah posts stretching in unbroken line on each side of the road , shabby old - fashioned shops ... hundred people - a mere mountain outpost of Queenstown . The Queenstown miners once walked for more than an hour ...
... hundreds of wooden veran- dah posts stretching in unbroken line on each side of the road , shabby old - fashioned shops ... hundred people - a mere mountain outpost of Queenstown . The Queenstown miners once walked for more than an hour ...
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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