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 71
... tion was started ; action was taken to see that rubbish was burnt or buried , that teamsters with their horses and Afghans with their camels refrained from camping in the main streets , and that water sellers kept their tanks covered ...
... tion was started ; action was taken to see that rubbish was burnt or buried , that teamsters with their horses and Afghans with their camels refrained from camping in the main streets , and that water sellers kept their tanks covered ...
Page 87
... tion to themselves for some days , while they unloaded their shares on the stock - market before the prices completely collapsed . The Londonderry crash was followed by the market collapse of the Wealth of Nations , another vastly ...
... tion to themselves for some days , while they unloaded their shares on the stock - market before the prices completely collapsed . The Londonderry crash was followed by the market collapse of the Wealth of Nations , another vastly ...
Page 103
... tion and the treatment of the alluvialists . John Forrest had been absent when the regulation was passed , but on his return from London he was expected to visit Kalgoorlie to open the Menzies railway . In issue after issue of the Miner ...
... tion and the treatment of the alluvialists . John Forrest had been absent when the regulation was passed , but on his return from London he was expected to visit Kalgoorlie to open the Menzies railway . In issue after issue of the Miner ...
Contents
A Town to Remember | 11 |
Background to Discovery | 21 |
The Cross over Kalgoorlie | 33 |
Copyright | |
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