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Page 98
... Crotty , that you are practically the pioneer of the Mt. Lyell field . " " Well , that title has been applied to me by others but not by myself . " And so the interview turned to Crotty's mines , and Crotty whispered his secrets ...
... Crotty , that you are practically the pioneer of the Mt. Lyell field . " " Well , that title has been applied to me by others but not by myself . " And so the interview turned to Crotty's mines , and Crotty whispered his secrets ...
Page 101
... Crotty was equal to the task . He had prepared a secret weapon , the Mount Lyell Standard , whose presses first clattered in Queens- town on the day Crotty and Kelly clashed at the Melbourne meeting . The first edition of the threepenny ...
... Crotty was equal to the task . He had prepared a secret weapon , the Mount Lyell Standard , whose presses first clattered in Queens- town on the day Crotty and Kelly clashed at the Melbourne meeting . The first edition of the threepenny ...
Page 102
... Crotty's cause , describing " the halo of glory which belongs to James Crotty alone " , they amused countless readers on the west coast . The history of the mine was distorted to fantastic lengths to praise Crotty . Thus the Karlsons ...
... Crotty's cause , describing " the halo of glory which belongs to James Crotty alone " , they amused countless readers on the west coast . The history of the mine was distorted to fantastic lengths to praise Crotty . Thus the Karlsons ...
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Australian mining began blast body boom Bowes Kelly British Broken Hill cable cent copper company's Comstock copper Creek Crotty Crotty's diggers dividends Dixon Dundas Eldon Ranges Emu Bay engineer feet field fire floated furnaces gold goldfield Gormanston gossan Gould gully hauled Heemskirk Hobart hundred investors Iron Blow Karlson Kelly Basin King River Knox later Launceston Linda Valley lode London Lyell directors Lyell Mining Lyell railway Lyell shares Macquarie Harbour manager McDonough Melbourne metallurgist miles mill miners Mining Company months Mount Lyell mountain North Lyell North Lyell Company open cut ounces paid pany pegged Pieman Pieman River port profit prospecting prospectors pyritic Queen River Queenstown rail rich rock Rosebery rush Schlapp shaft shareholders ship silver smelters smelting South Sticht Strahan sulphur Tasmanian Tharsis thousand timber tons town track Trent Trial Harbour tunnel Victorian Waratah west coast West Lyell western Zeehan zinc