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Page 74
... Bendigo resembled a neat stack of corrugated iron . The slates and sandstones had once been flat like a stack of ... Bendigo's reefs and given the practice of dispensing the profits as soon as they were earned , Bendigo's prosperity ...
... Bendigo resembled a neat stack of corrugated iron . The slates and sandstones had once been flat like a stack of ... Bendigo's reefs and given the practice of dispensing the profits as soon as they were earned , Bendigo's prosperity ...
Page 77
... Bendigo was infatuated by depth . The Americans who went nervously down the lifts of the skyscrapers of New York and Chicago were making mere jaunts compared to the distances which the Bendigo miner travelled daily to his work . When ...
... Bendigo was infatuated by depth . The Americans who went nervously down the lifts of the skyscrapers of New York and Chicago were making mere jaunts compared to the distances which the Bendigo miner travelled daily to his work . When ...
Page 299
... Bendigo quartz miner , unlettered , alert and sympathetic , formed the Bendigo Miners ' Association in the summer of 1871-2 . Similar associations were formed at Stawell and Clunes and the deeper fields . In 1872 the wages men of Bendigo ...
... Bendigo quartz miner , unlettered , alert and sympathetic , formed the Bendigo Miners ' Association in the summer of 1871-2 . Similar associations were formed at Stawell and Clunes and the deeper fields . In 1872 the wages men of Bendigo ...
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The Rush That Never Ended: A History of Australian Mining. -- Geoffrey Blainey No preview available - 2021 |
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