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Page 64
... Lyell shares at any time in the next two years . Thus if Mt. Lyell shares soared , investors could exchange a £ 100 deben- ture for shares worth double or treble that sum . If shares did not rise , debenture holders were reasonably ...
... Lyell shares at any time in the next two years . Thus if Mt. Lyell shares soared , investors could exchange a £ 100 deben- ture for shares worth double or treble that sum . If shares did not rise , debenture holders were reasonably ...
Page 76
... Lyell , and their shares were bought and sold each night after the plates were cleared away and the kerosene lamps lit in the new Mt. Lyell Hotel . Some companies were mere pawns , awaiting a mining boom . All lacked the lifeblood of ...
... Lyell , and their shares were bought and sold each night after the plates were cleared away and the kerosene lamps lit in the new Mt. Lyell Hotel . Some companies were mere pawns , awaiting a mining boom . All lacked the lifeblood of ...
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... Lyell's copper was sold in Germany and more than five out of every six shares were held in the British Isles , the company maintained a busy office in Palmerston House , Old Broad Street , London . To reassure the suspicious North Lyell ...
... Lyell's copper was sold in Germany and more than five out of every six shares were held in the British Isles , the company maintained a busy office in Palmerston House , Old Broad Street , London . To reassure the suspicious North Lyell ...
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