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 22
... Murchison Rivers , and the great area of no rivers where the wealth of Coolgardie and Kal- goorlie were found to lie . Their efforts brought about the greatest political , social , and economic changes and develop- ments in the shortest ...
... Murchison Rivers , and the great area of no rivers where the wealth of Coolgardie and Kal- goorlie were found to lie . Their efforts brought about the greatest political , social , and economic changes and develop- ments in the shortest ...
Page 34
... Murchison - for those fields were being well prospected , largely by the gold - seekers who had been drifting south from the disappointing Kimberley field . Indeed , in those early years the North - West - the country from Carnarvon to ...
... Murchison - for those fields were being well prospected , largely by the gold - seekers who had been drifting south from the disappointing Kimberley field . Indeed , in those early years the North - West - the country from Carnarvon to ...
Page 44
... Murchison goldfields , and their ship , the old Ballarat , was in Albany when the news of Bayley's find had come through . They immediately decided to give the Murchison a miss and try the new field . At York they bought good horses ...
... Murchison goldfields , and their ship , the old Ballarat , was in Albany when the news of Bayley's find had come through . They immediately decided to give the Murchison a miss and try the new field . At York they bought good horses ...
Contents
A Town to Remember | 11 |
Background to Discovery | 21 |
The Cross over Kalgoorlie | 33 |
Copyright | |
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