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Page 48
... began to trek to Zeehan in search of new mines . Several directors of the Silverton Tramway Company , then beginning its amazing career as one of the richest Broken Hill companies , drew up plans to spend £ 70,000 on a private railway ...
... began to trek to Zeehan in search of new mines . Several directors of the Silverton Tramway Company , then beginning its amazing career as one of the richest Broken Hill companies , drew up plans to spend £ 70,000 on a private railway ...
Page 170
... began to inspect the small silver and copper mines between Waratah and the Pie- man . Three years later , Herbert Muir , the old North Lyell manager , inspected the same country without success . Meanwhile , W. H. Cundy had climbed Mt ...
... began to inspect the small silver and copper mines between Waratah and the Pie- man . Three years later , Herbert Muir , the old North Lyell manager , inspected the same country without success . Meanwhile , W. H. Cundy had climbed Mt ...
Page 174
... began to erect works at North Fremantle in Western Australia , the rising wheat state . The company built these works because it had pyrites to burn . By 1908 , however , the Mt. Lyell open cut was taxed to the utmost each week ...
... began to erect works at North Fremantle in Western Australia , the rising wheat state . The company built these works because it had pyrites to burn . By 1908 , however , the Mt. Lyell open cut was taxed to the utmost each week ...
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