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Page 71
... thousand feet to the undulating scrub country , where the Southern Ocean lay low in the west , and the chiselled peaks from Sedgwick to Jukes were lost in passing mists to the east . Five horses , plodding single file , dragged four ...
... thousand feet to the undulating scrub country , where the Southern Ocean lay low in the west , and the chiselled peaks from Sedgwick to Jukes were lost in passing mists to the east . Five horses , plodding single file , dragged four ...
Page 75
... thousand tons a day for thirty years . Five months later the Zeehan and Dundas Herald wrote : " It is the greatest mining property known of to - day in the Australias , and will , ere another year or two , stand pre - eminent as the ...
... thousand tons a day for thirty years . Five months later the Zeehan and Dundas Herald wrote : " It is the greatest mining property known of to - day in the Australias , and will , ere another year or two , stand pre - eminent as the ...
Page 131
... thousand cakes of copper a month , each cake weighing two hundredweight and containing 98.93 per cent copper , 8 ounces of silver , and 6 pennyweights of gold . On 29 June 1899 the eleventh blast furnace was blown in ; and Sticht ...
... thousand cakes of copper a month , each cake weighing two hundredweight and containing 98.93 per cent copper , 8 ounces of silver , and 6 pennyweights of gold . On 29 June 1899 the eleventh blast furnace was blown in ; and Sticht ...
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