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Page 111
... Lyell , " whispered the promoter . Critics who pointed out that the ... Lyell quietly running its profitable trains , the manager of the govern- ment railways ... railway . He even suggested that the Government should build a railway from ...
... Lyell , " whispered the promoter . Critics who pointed out that the ... Lyell quietly running its profitable trains , the manager of the govern- ment railways ... railway . He even suggested that the Government should build a railway from ...
Page 121
... railway that slowly climbed around the foothills of Mount Owen , leapt the loop past Gormanston to the Gap , rolled along the ridge past the South Lyell shaft and crossed over the Mt. Lyell Com- pany's haulage to the North Lyell hotel ...
... railway that slowly climbed around the foothills of Mount Owen , leapt the loop past Gormanston to the Gap , rolled along the ridge past the South Lyell shaft and crossed over the Mt. Lyell Com- pany's haulage to the North Lyell hotel ...
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... railway was far from adequate . The difference between the North Lyell and the Mt. Lyell railway was most marked in 1902 , the first and only year of full competition , when the decade - old quarrel between Kelly and Crotty resolved ...
... railway was far from adequate . The difference between the North Lyell and the Mt. Lyell railway was most marked in 1902 , the first and only year of full competition , when the decade - old quarrel between Kelly and Crotty resolved ...
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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