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Page 113
... Kelly Basin on the evening of 11 August the Orowaiti brought the first shipment of rails and fishplates to the partly built jetty and was unloaded by a gang of men from the new brick- yards . That month the sale of eighty - four ...
... Kelly Basin on the evening of 11 August the Orowaiti brought the first shipment of rails and fishplates to the partly built jetty and was unloaded by a gang of men from the new brick- yards . That month the sale of eighty - four ...
Page 114
... Kelly Basin , foundered at the heads , a few cable lengths away from the battered hull of the Grafton . These wrecks aroused the wrath of the western towns and in- spired a second " Facts and Figures " deputation , which hurried to ...
... Kelly Basin , foundered at the heads , a few cable lengths away from the battered hull of the Grafton . These wrecks aroused the wrath of the western towns and in- spired a second " Facts and Figures " deputation , which hurried to ...
Page 122
... Kelly Basin , gleaning information on freights from woodcutters , prospectors , and storekeepers all along the way ; but the North Lyell company's method of charging and weighing goods was so slapdash and inconsistent that he could not ...
... Kelly Basin , gleaning information on freights from woodcutters , prospectors , and storekeepers all along the way ; but the North Lyell company's method of charging and weighing goods was so slapdash and inconsistent that he could not ...
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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