The Mile that Midas TouchedThe story of Kalgoorlie's golden mile - the richest few acres of gold-bearing country in the world - and of the rest of the Eastern goldfields in Western Australia. |
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Page 61
... Brookman and Charles de Rose had been working the lease without much success , and George Brookman , a businessman who was backing them , had gone to Dashwood's Gully with an experienced prospector , Sam Pearce , to discuss the matter ...
... Brookman and Charles de Rose had been working the lease without much success , and George Brookman , a businessman who was backing them , had gone to Dashwood's Gully with an experienced prospector , Sam Pearce , to discuss the matter ...
Page 62
... Brookman and Sam Pearce left Adelaide by sea on 7 June 1893 , the day that Paddy Hannan left Coolgardie and headed ... Brookman moved their camp . While Brookman was away at Coolgardie applying for twenty acres , Pearce discovered a rich ...
... Brookman and Sam Pearce left Adelaide by sea on 7 June 1893 , the day that Paddy Hannan left Coolgardie and headed ... Brookman moved their camp . While Brookman was away at Coolgardie applying for twenty acres , Pearce discovered a rich ...
Page 64
... Brookman's " Sheep - run " claimed a certain awed respect . As for Brookman's Syndicate , five years after its formation it went into the most remarkable voluntary liquidation in Australian financial history . Had each of the original ...
... Brookman's " Sheep - run " claimed a certain awed respect . As for Brookman's Syndicate , five years after its formation it went into the most remarkable voluntary liquidation in Australian financial history . Had each of the original ...
Contents
A Town to Remember | 11 |
Background to Discovery | 21 |
The Cross over Kalgoorlie | 33 |
Copyright | |
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