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... Linda Valley , where the five and a half mile branch line would leave the main line . The railway , however , did not reach the mine . After winding for nearly three miles through deep cuttings and along high earthworks , the rail- way ...
... Linda Valley , where the five and a half mile branch line would leave the main line . The railway , however , did not reach the mine . After winding for nearly three miles through deep cuttings and along high earthworks , the rail- way ...
Page 177
... Linda , where only the Royal and Linda Valley hotels were in business , the two proprietors of the burnt - down hotel at North Lyell entered the trade . Sidler demolished the two - storied general office at Crotty , known as the " white ...
... Linda , where only the Royal and Linda Valley hotels were in business , the two proprietors of the burnt - down hotel at North Lyell entered the trade . Sidler demolished the two - storied general office at Crotty , known as the " white ...
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Geoffrey Blainey. The Linda Valley became famous for its sportsmen . On a Saturday afternoon or evening , outside the hotels , the sight of seventy axemen chopping through logs for a valuable purse , or sinewy old - time miners striving ...
Geoffrey Blainey. The Linda Valley became famous for its sportsmen . On a Saturday afternoon or evening , outside the hotels , the sight of seventy axemen chopping through logs for a valuable purse , or sinewy old - time miners striving ...
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Australian mining began blast body boom Bowes Kelly British Broken Hill cent copper company's Comstock copper cost Creek Crotty diggers dividends Dixon drill Dundas Eldon Ranges Emu Bay engineer feet field fire furnaces gold Gormanston gossan hauled Heemskirk Hercules Hobart hundred investors Iron Blow Karlson Kelly Basin King River Knox later 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 open cut 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 Trent Trial Harbour tunnel union Victoria Waratah west coast West Lyell western Zeehan zinc