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 52
... Coolgardie . Little was known of the new find except that the few soaks on the way were dry . Renou , the newly ... old Coolgardie cemetery shows that he came from Chigwell , in Essex , and was only twenty - eight when he passed away ...
... Coolgardie . Little was known of the new find except that the few soaks on the way were dry . Renou , the newly ... old Coolgardie cemetery shows that he came from Chigwell , in Essex , and was only twenty - eight when he passed away ...
Page 228
... Coolgardie and Kal- goorlie , had eased the problem of bringing in heavy mining machinery and equipment and supplies for the busy towns and their growing populations , the days of the teamsters and the carriers on the old Coolgardie ...
... Coolgardie and Kal- goorlie , had eased the problem of bringing in heavy mining machinery and equipment and supplies for the busy towns and their growing populations , the days of the teamsters and the carriers on the old Coolgardie ...
Page 229
... old Coolgardie Road . Later on , when there was talk of " pioneers , " those who had walked the Old Coolgardie Road from the Cross or had swamped up behind the wagons acquired a status of their own . They could talk of the Track and the ...
... old Coolgardie Road . Later on , when there was talk of " pioneers , " those who had walked the Old Coolgardie Road from the Cross or had swamped up behind the wagons acquired a status of their own . They could talk of the Track and the ...
Contents
A Town to Remember | 11 |
Background to Discovery | 21 |
The Cross over Kalgoorlie | 33 |
Copyright | |
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