The Rise of Broken HillThe story of the men who made and spent their fortunes, and of the miners who won that fortune from the Hill. |
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... Wilcannia Times , which circulated in an area larger than Holland , published threats in its advertisement columns as the drought became worse . The compositor on the Wilcannia Times almost knew by heart the warning which he set in type ...
... Wilcannia Times , which circulated in an area larger than Holland , published threats in its advertisement columns as the drought became worse . The compositor on the Wilcannia Times almost knew by heart the warning which he set in type ...
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... Wilcannia . When a stock and station agent from Burra , John Lewis , reached Mannahill on his way to Wilcannia he met seven or eight travellers who had been waiting a week for transport to the silverfield or Wilcannia . The coach ...
... Wilcannia . When a stock and station agent from Burra , John Lewis , reached Mannahill on his way to Wilcannia he met seven or eight travellers who had been waiting a week for transport to the silverfield or Wilcannia . The coach ...
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... Wilcannia , and then 140 miles west in another coach to Broken Hill and Sil- verton . An alternative way was to travel 450 miles in the train to the town of Hay in the Riverina , spend two days and nights in the mail coach to Wilcannia ...
... Wilcannia , and then 140 miles west in another coach to Broken Hill and Sil- verton . An alternative way was to travel 450 miles in the train to the town of Hay in the Riverina , spend two days and nights in the mail coach to Wilcannia ...
Contents
Illustrations | 7 |
The Magnates | 33 |
End of the Honeymoon | 49 |
Copyright | |
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Adelaide Australian mining Barrier Industrial Council Barrier Ranges base-metal Bavay became BHP's Block 14 Broken Hill companies Broken Hill mines Broken Hill Proprietary Broken Hill South cent Charles Rasp coast Cockle Creek concentrate danger Darling River Delprat dividends drill dust early favourable flotation process gold ground Hill's horse hydraulic fill industrial iron Kalgoorlie Labour lead-poisoning leaders line of lode London magnetic manager McCulloch Melbourne metal miles militants mill miners mining companies mining field Mount Gipps North Broken Hill open cut ounce paid plant plates Port Pirie profits railway Rasp rich rock Roy Bridges shaft shareholders shares sheep station silver and lead silver-lead silverfield smelters smelting South Australia South Wales stopes strike Sulphide Corporation sulphide problem Sydney syndicate Terowie timber tion town tralia underground union unionists W.S. Robinson wages Wilcannia workers Zeehan Zinc Corporation