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... pegged three quarter - acre claims in the gully below the Iron Blow , and hurried back to Howard's Plains to collect stores and mining implements . A dozen diggers followed them back to Chamouni and pegged claims and pitched tents in ...
... pegged three quarter - acre claims in the gully below the Iron Blow , and hurried back to Howard's Plains to collect stores and mining implements . A dozen diggers followed them back to Chamouni and pegged claims and pitched tents in ...
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... pegged it in March . And in November he had been within an hour's walk of it before the discoverers filed past his camp . He could have pegged even then , while the McDonoughs and Karlson sank holes in the creeks . Above all , when the ...
... pegged it in March . And in November he had been within an hour's walk of it before the discoverers filed past his camp . He could have pegged even then , while the McDonoughs and Karlson sank holes in the creeks . Above all , when the ...
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... pegged mineral district in Australia . Of the copper - fields near Lyell , the Dora field caused most excitement in the summer of the boom . Prospectors wore a rough track from Lyell to the back of Mt Sedgwick , where shallow trenches ...
... pegged mineral district in Australia . Of the copper - fields near Lyell , the Dora field caused most excitement in the summer of the boom . Prospectors wore a rough track from Lyell to the back of Mt Sedgwick , where shallow trenches ...
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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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