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Page 76
... dividends but again they were too prodigal in paying away their profits . Soon they starved for capital to sink deeper and gold output slumped and the dividends in 1877 were less than one - fourth of those paid in 1872. Bendigo's mines ...
... dividends but again they were too prodigal in paying away their profits . Soon they starved for capital to sink deeper and gold output slumped and the dividends in 1877 were less than one - fourth of those paid in 1872. Bendigo's mines ...
Page 240
... dividends that built mansions and villas and paid valets and footmen in distant cities . Ten years after the finding of Mount Morgan the return on the actual capital invested was over 200,000 per cent and dividends had exceeded £ 3 ...
... dividends that built mansions and villas and paid valets and footmen in distant cities . Ten years after the finding of Mount Morgan the return on the actual capital invested was over 200,000 per cent and dividends had exceeded £ 3 ...
Page 380
... dividends and losses , 256 , 290 ; later attitude to Kal- goorlie , 293 ; de Bernales and British investors , 313-16 ; Mount Isa , 328- 31 ; after World War II , 338 , 357 , 358 Broad Arrow ( W.A. ) , 183 , 190 , 194 , 196 , 309 ...
... dividends and losses , 256 , 290 ; later attitude to Kal- goorlie , 293 ; de Bernales and British investors , 313-16 ; Mount Isa , 328- 31 ; after World War II , 338 , 357 , 358 Broad Arrow ( W.A. ) , 183 , 190 , 194 , 196 , 309 ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Victorias Rushes | 28 |
Ballarats Ditch of Perdition | 46 |
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