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Page 76
Next year at least seventeen companies held leases at Mt. 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 ...
Next year at least seventeen companies held leases at Mt. 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 ...
Page 99
The syndicate then bought £ 45,000 of shares in a new London company , of
which Crotty would be chairman . The North Mount Lyell Copper Company was
registered in September 1897 to acquire and work the mine of the North Mt. Lyell
...
The syndicate then bought £ 45,000 of shares in a new London company , of
which Crotty would be chairman . The North Mount Lyell Copper Company was
registered in September 1897 to acquire and work the mine of the North Mt. Lyell
...
Page 192
Union leaders not only encouraged hard work , they also encouraged miners to
speculate in shares or work their own ... They knew that miners who bought
shares provided capital for new mines and therefore more work for miners ; share
...
Union leaders not only encouraged hard work , they also encouraged miners to
speculate in shares or work their own ... They knew that miners who bought
shares provided capital for new mines and therefore more work for miners ; share
...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Peaks of Lyell |
| Author | Geoffrey Blainey |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Melbourne University Press, 1959 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 26 Feb 2009 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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