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Page 119
... spend a breathless fortnight in the Australian bush . Instead , they spent thousands of pounds a year , cabling coded ... spent £ 12,838 on directors ' fees , cablegrams , printing , travelling fees and expenses of administration - more ...
... spend a breathless fortnight in the Australian bush . Instead , they spent thousands of pounds a year , cabling coded ... spent £ 12,838 on directors ' fees , cablegrams , printing , travelling fees and expenses of administration - more ...
Page 121
... spent £ 65,000 before the branch line reached the North Lyell mine . This blunder embarrassed the directors . Having spent over £ 300,000 on a railway which came no nearer their mine than the much abused Mt. Lyell railway , they built a ...
... spent £ 65,000 before the branch line reached the North Lyell mine . This blunder embarrassed the directors . Having spent over £ 300,000 on a railway which came no nearer their mine than the much abused Mt. Lyell railway , they built a ...
Page 138
... spent Christmas at Menzies Hotel , Melbourne , hiding from angry shareholders . When finally cornered he said that ... spent November refuting adverse rumours from Crotty , it spent December blessing and 138 The Toy Smelters.
... spent Christmas at Menzies Hotel , Melbourne , hiding from angry shareholders . When finally cornered he said that ... spent November refuting adverse rumours from Crotty , it spent December blessing and 138 The Toy Smelters.
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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