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 30
... Gnarlbine Rocks , but , delirious from thirst , would have perished without the help of Toobey . There was water at Gnarlbine , and they were able to rest for a few days , and to face a shortage of food as they retreated back across the ...
... Gnarlbine Rocks , but , delirious from thirst , would have perished without the help of Toobey . There was water at Gnarlbine , and they were able to rest for a few days , and to face a shortage of food as they retreated back across the ...
Page 43
... Gnarlbine . The field was at first called the Gnarlbine Rush , but the Gnarlbine Rocks , where the track turned north - east to the new find , were twenty miles from Bayley's Find . Apparently in the local native tongue " Kool- goor ...
... Gnarlbine . The field was at first called the Gnarlbine Rush , but the Gnarlbine Rocks , where the track turned north - east to the new find , were twenty miles from Bayley's Find . Apparently in the local native tongue " Kool- goor ...
Page 44
... Gnarlbine Rocks ; the camels they kept at their Coolgardie camp . By December most of the surface water in the small rock- catchments near Coolgardie had gone . Official instructions were issued by Warden Finnerty , as was to be done ...
... Gnarlbine Rocks ; the camels they kept at their Coolgardie camp . By December most of the surface water in the small rock- catchments near Coolgardie had gone . Official instructions were issued by Warden Finnerty , as was to be done ...
Contents
A Town to Remember | 11 |
Background to Discovery | 21 |
The Cross over Kalgoorlie | 33 |
Copyright | |
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