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Page 181
... hundred men , had just closed its brand- new mill after a brief trial run . The Blocks manager hired a care- taker to guard the mill , and removed all the trucks and rails from the mine . The creek of yellow mill - tailings that flowed ...
... hundred men , had just closed its brand- new mill after a brief trial run . The Blocks manager hired a care- taker to guard the mill , and removed all the trucks and rails from the mine . The creek of yellow mill - tailings that flowed ...
Page 190
... hundred men belonged to the union . In 1899 perhaps 650 of the 3,000 wage earners at Mt. Lyell were unionists ... hundred to nine hundred miners and ten or twelve townsmen - more than twice the membership of the Gor- manston A.M.A. At ...
... hundred men belonged to the union . In 1899 perhaps 650 of the 3,000 wage earners at Mt. Lyell were unionists ... hundred to nine hundred miners and ten or twelve townsmen - more than twice the membership of the Gor- manston A.M.A. At ...
Page 223
... hundred or more cutters , axe in hand , returning to their huts and tents , and saw the curving wooden flumes in which a swift flow of water carried the timber down the gullies to high wood stacks beside the railway . Alongside the rail ...
... hundred or more cutters , axe in hand , returning to their huts and tents , and saw the curving wooden flumes in which a swift flow of water carried the timber down the gullies to high wood stacks beside the railway . Alongside the rail ...
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