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Page 49
... Dundas might not offer prizes as rich as Broken Hill ? Investors who had already earned £ 2,100,000 from one mine at Broken Hill thought the silver age was dawning and began to rush Zeehan shares in January . Almost every day ...
... Dundas might not offer prizes as rich as Broken Hill ? Investors who had already earned £ 2,100,000 from one mine at Broken Hill thought the silver age was dawning and began to rush Zeehan shares in January . Almost every day ...
Page 50
... Dundas mine in 1889. That was the first main- land capital in Dundas . In the next few years Kelly made plunge after plunge , financing mines , railways and smelters . He spent £ 20,000 , and lost all . William Orr was older and not as ...
... Dundas mine in 1889. That was the first main- land capital in Dundas . In the next few years Kelly made plunge after plunge , financing mines , railways and smelters . He spent £ 20,000 , and lost all . William Orr was older and not as ...
Page 51
... Dundas Herald , became in- terested in the Iron Blow . Walking back from South Dundas with a mine manager named Luke Bryant , Schlapp stopped to eat his lunch on the hillside near the Mariposa mine . He was reading the newspaper that ...
... Dundas Herald , became in- terested in the Iron Blow . Walking back from South Dundas with a mine manager named Luke Bryant , Schlapp stopped to eat his lunch on the hillside near the Mariposa mine . He was reading the newspaper that ...
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