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... Mt Burges after an old friend , and a few days later he named a small , brown hill Mt Robinson . Mt Burges is only eight miles north of Coolgardie , and Mt Robinson six miles east of it . As Mt Burges can be seen from Maritana Hill at ...
... Mt Burges after an old friend , and a few days later he named a small , brown hill Mt Robinson . Mt Burges is only eight miles north of Coolgardie , and Mt Robinson six miles east of it . As Mt Burges can be seen from Maritana Hill at ...
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... Mt Burges and thus find Coolgardie . By 1888 mining had declined in the Kimberleys , but the dis- coveries there had been the first of importance for many years , and , at a time when gold loomed large in national economies , there was ...
... Mt Burges and thus find Coolgardie . By 1888 mining had declined in the Kimberleys , but the dis- coveries there had been the first of importance for many years , and , at a time when gold loomed large in national economies , there was ...
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... Mt Burges and Hunt's Track , for Bayley remembered Gilles McPherson's story , " Plenty of gold between Gnarlbine Soak and Mt Burges . " Near Mt Burges they picked up the tracks left by Withers some years before . Then eight miles south ...
... Mt Burges and Hunt's Track , for Bayley remembered Gilles McPherson's story , " Plenty of gold between Gnarlbine Soak and Mt Burges . " Near Mt Burges they picked up the tracks left by Withers some years before . Then eight miles south ...
Contents
A Town to Remember | 11 |
Background to Discovery | 20 |
The Cross over Kalgoorlie | 32 |
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