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Page 151
... floated one silver lease merely by printing an anonymous letter praising it . Zebina Lane , soon to be mayor of Broken Hill , hurried to a hungry lease 41⁄2 miles to the north - west and declaimed with that assurance that was to win him ...
... floated one silver lease merely by printing an anonymous letter praising it . Zebina Lane , soon to be mayor of Broken Hill , hurried to a hungry lease 41⁄2 miles to the north - west and declaimed with that assurance that was to win him ...
Page 187
... floated in England in 1894 , more mines than were floated from Johannesburg and all Africa . The boom had barely begun . Two amazing fiascos did not halt the rush for Western Australian shares . In the winter of 1894 two Victorian and ...
... floated in England in 1894 , more mines than were floated from Johannesburg and all Africa . The boom had barely begun . Two amazing fiascos did not halt the rush for Western Australian shares . In the winter of 1894 two Victorian and ...
Page 189
... floated the mine in good faith and that sharebuyers had willingly risked their savings . Perhaps he was right . Thousands who flocked to buy Londonderry shares did not really care if the mine were rich . Most bought shares to sell at ...
... floated the mine in good faith and that sharebuyers had willingly risked their savings . Perhaps he was right . Thousands who flocked to buy Londonderry shares did not really care if the mine were rich . Most bought shares to sell at ...
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The Rush That Never Ended: A History of Australian Mining. -- Geoffrey Blainey No preview available - 2021 |
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