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 36
... prospecting experi- ence in Queensland and Broken Hill before going to Southern Cross in 1889. Here he again met Bayley , whom he had known on the Croydon goldfields of Queensland . Bayley was a strong personality , energetic ...
... prospecting experi- ence in Queensland and Broken Hill before going to Southern Cross in 1889. Here he again met Bayley , whom he had known on the Croydon goldfields of Queensland . Bayley was a strong personality , energetic ...
Page 62
... Prospecting Company . W. G. Brookman and Sam Pearce left Adelaide by sea on 7 June 1893 , the day that Paddy Hannan left Coolgardie and headed for the mythical Mt Youle find . They landed at Albany and went overland to Perth , where ...
... Prospecting Company . W. G. Brookman and Sam Pearce left Adelaide by sea on 7 June 1893 , the day that Paddy Hannan left Coolgardie and headed for the mythical Mt Youle find . They landed at Albany and went overland to Perth , where ...
Page 177
... prospecting to keep as many men as possible out of the unemployment camps and off " the susso . " You could at least eat , smoke , and get petrol for your ute as you roved the flat , dry back - country where your father might well have ...
... prospecting to keep as many men as possible out of the unemployment camps and off " the susso . " You could at least eat , smoke , and get petrol for your ute as you roved the flat , dry back - country where your father might well have ...
Contents
A Town to Remember | 11 |
Background to Discovery | 21 |
The Cross over Kalgoorlie | 33 |
Copyright | |
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