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 45
... Victoria . William Ford lived quietly in well - to - do circumstances until he was over eighty , dying in 1932 at Chatswood , Sydney . Gold was the foundation of the credit and monetary systems of the expanding world economy of the ...
... Victoria . William Ford lived quietly in well - to - do circumstances until he was over eighty , dying in 1932 at Chatswood , Sydney . Gold was the foundation of the credit and monetary systems of the expanding world economy of the ...
Page 84
... Victoria , he left school at fifteen and went into the mines at Ballarat and elsewhere . He'd had union experience before arriving on the Boulder , where he worked on the Perseverance mine and joined the local branch of the Australian ...
... Victoria , he left school at fifteen and went into the mines at Ballarat and elsewhere . He'd had union experience before arriving on the Boulder , where he worked on the Perseverance mine and joined the local branch of the Australian ...
Page 97
... Victoria ; men with the strong traditions of the Ballarat goldfields behind them . And although Kalgoorlie did not ... Victoria in the fifties was different from that of the Coolgardie and Kal- goorlie fields . In Victoria the fabulous ...
... Victoria ; men with the strong traditions of the Ballarat goldfields behind them . And although Kalgoorlie did not ... Victoria in the fifties was different from that of the Coolgardie and Kal- goorlie fields . In Victoria the fabulous ...
Contents
A Town to Remember | 11 |
Background to Discovery | 21 |
The Cross over Kalgoorlie | 33 |
Copyright | |
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