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Page 111
... Lyell , " whispered the promoter . Critics who pointed out that the ... Lyell quietly running its profitable trains , the manager of the Govern- ment Railways ... railway . He even suggested that the Government should build a railway from ...
... Lyell , " whispered the promoter . Critics who pointed out that the ... Lyell quietly running its profitable trains , the manager of the Govern- ment Railways ... railway . He even suggested that the Government should build a railway from ...
Page 121
... railway that slowly climbed around the foothills of Mount Owen , leapt the loop past Gormanston to the Gap , rolled along the ridge past the South Lyell shaft and crossed over the Mt. Lyell Com- pany's haulage to the North Lyell hotel ...
... railway that slowly climbed around the foothills of Mount Owen , leapt the loop past Gormanston to the Gap , rolled along the ridge past the South Lyell shaft and crossed over the Mt. Lyell Com- pany's haulage to the North Lyell hotel ...
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... railway was far from adequate . The difference between the North Lyell and the Mt. Lyell railway was most marked in 1902 , the first and only year of full competition , when the decade - old quarrel between Kelly and Crotty resolved ...
... railway was far from adequate . The difference between the North Lyell and the Mt. Lyell railway was most marked in 1902 , the first and only year of full competition , when the decade - old quarrel between Kelly and Crotty resolved ...
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Australian mining began blast body boom Bowes Kelly British Broken Hill Burnie cent copper company's Comstock copper copper mines cost Creek Crotty diggers dividends Dixon drill Dundas Emu Bay engineer feet field fire furnaces gold Gormanston gossan Government hauled Heemskirk Hercules Hobart hundred investors Iron Blow Karlson Kelly Basin King River Knox Launceston lease Linda Valley lode London Lyell Copper Lyell directors Lyell Mining Lyell railway Lyell shares Macquarie Harbour manager McDonough Melbourne metallurgist miles mill miners Mining Company months Mount Lyell mountain Murray North Lyell pany pegged Pieman Pieman River port price of copper profit prospecting prospectors pyritic Queen River Queenstown rail rich rock Rosebery Schlapp shaft shareholders ship silver smelters smelting smoke South Sticht stope Strahan sulphur Tasmanian Tharsis timber tons town track tram Trent Trial Harbour tunnel union Victoria Waratah west coast West Lyell western Zeehan zinc