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 44
... camels bringing water from Gnarlbine in thirty - three - gallon casks , two on each camel , for the few men , prospectors , and government officials who remained on Coolgardie . With the first rains of 1893 the men were on the move back ...
... camels bringing water from Gnarlbine in thirty - three - gallon casks , two on each camel , for the few men , prospectors , and government officials who remained on Coolgardie . With the first rains of 1893 the men were on the move back ...
Page 49
... camel trains of forty to fifty animals . These brought in the stores , the heavy mining machinery , the boilers ... camels were watered at up to £ 1 a head . Water varied from a shilling to half a crown a gallon . Freight was high - up ...
... camel trains of forty to fifty animals . These brought in the stores , the heavy mining machinery , the boilers ... camels were watered at up to £ 1 a head . Water varied from a shilling to half a crown a gallon . Freight was high - up ...
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... camel teams of Faiz and Tagh Mahomet threaded Hannan's into the complex network of settlements they served from Gerald- ton to Cue , from Esperance and Southern Cross to Coolgardie . Faiz and Tagh had brought hundreds of camels over ...
... camel teams of Faiz and Tagh Mahomet threaded Hannan's into the complex network of settlements they served from Gerald- ton to Cue , from Esperance and Southern Cross to Coolgardie . Faiz and Tagh had brought hundreds of camels over ...
Contents
A Town to Remember | 11 |
Background to Discovery | 21 |
The Cross over Kalgoorlie | 33 |
Copyright | |
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