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Page 42
... Launceston , the exchequer of Tas- manian mining . There is probably no mullock heap or old shaft within twenty miles of Launceston , yet the investors of that small city drew most of the prizes and a fair share of blanks in Tasmanian ...
... Launceston , the exchequer of Tas- manian mining . There is probably no mullock heap or old shaft within twenty miles of Launceston , yet the investors of that small city drew most of the prizes and a fair share of blanks in Tasmanian ...
Page 118
... Launceston , promised to spend £ 500,000 on a hundred miles of railway and to build smelters at Devonport or Launceston in return for a grant of half a million acres . It would smelt ore from the northern copper - fields - Cutty Sark ...
... Launceston , promised to spend £ 500,000 on a hundred miles of railway and to build smelters at Devonport or Launceston in return for a grant of half a million acres . It would smelt ore from the northern copper - fields - Cutty Sark ...
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... Launceston terms or nothing . ' Negotiations collapsed again . Francis Webster , who represented 200,000 shares , de- nounced the Launceston terms , for he believed that the Mt Lyell Co. would cease to smelt within a year and that the ...
... Launceston terms or nothing . ' Negotiations collapsed again . Francis Webster , who represented 200,000 shares , de- nounced the Launceston terms , for he believed that the Mt Lyell Co. would cease to smelt within a year and that the ...
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A Silver Lining | 6 |
gorge 1896 | 39 |
Miners gathered at the mouth of the bonanza tunnel | 74 |
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