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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... Coolgardie red bricks from the brickworks near Hampton Plains , and fine building - stone from the quarries , rose ... Kalgoorlie had increased the West's annual gold production to £ 6,200,000 . The government administration offices at ...
... Coolgardie red bricks from the brickworks near Hampton Plains , and fine building - stone from the quarries , rose ... Kalgoorlie had increased the West's annual gold production to £ 6,200,000 . The government administration offices at ...
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... Kalgoorlie and the surrounding country . The extension of the railway , late in 1896 , from Southern Cross to Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie eased the transport prob- lem and gave the Palace management a chance to introduce a new feature to ...
... Kalgoorlie and the surrounding country . The extension of the railway , late in 1896 , from Southern Cross to Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie eased the transport prob- lem and gave the Palace management a chance to introduce a new feature to ...
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... Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie . A fearful typhoid epidemic had killed hundreds on Coolgardie when , during drought , some of the miners had begun drinking from stagnant Cool- gardie Gorge . Kanowna had first been called " The White Feather ...
... Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie . A fearful typhoid epidemic had killed hundreds on Coolgardie when , during drought , some of the miners had begun drinking from stagnant Cool- gardie Gorge . Kanowna had first been called " The White Feather ...
Contents
A Town to Remember | 11 |
Background to Discovery | 21 |
The Cross over Kalgoorlie | 33 |
Copyright | |
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