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
... south to run for the Gnarlbine Rocks , but , delirious from thirst , would have perished without the help of Toobey ... south , was declared a goldfield , and a year later the Murchison , further south again , was discovered and ...
... south to run for the Gnarlbine Rocks , but , delirious from thirst , would have perished without the help of Toobey ... south , was declared a goldfield , and a year later the Murchison , further south again , was discovered and ...
Page 37
... South Australia . Things were quickening around the Cross . Solitary prospectors and small parties were wandering eastward more frequently now . When Ford sent word to Bayley on the Murchison about the Speakman find , Bayley came south ...
... South Australia . Things were quickening around the Cross . Solitary prospectors and small parties were wandering eastward more frequently now . When Ford sent word to Bayley on the Murchison about the Speakman find , Bayley came south ...
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... South Wales , Tasmania , South Australia - making a living somehow , a lone prospector never striking it rich , moving on with the rumours to the next find . And so he came West when the news of gold in the Yilgarn reached the Eastern ...
... South Wales , Tasmania , South Australia - making a living somehow , a lone prospector never striking it rich , moving on with the rumours to the next find . And so he came West when the news of gold in the Yilgarn reached the Eastern ...
Contents
A Town to Remember | 11 |
Background to Discovery | 21 |
The Cross over Kalgoorlie | 33 |
Copyright | |
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