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Page 48
... began to trek to Zeehan in search of new mines . Several directors of the Silverton Tramway Company , then beginning its amazing career as one of the richest Broken Hill companies , drew up plans to spend £ 70,000 on a private railway ...
... began to trek to Zeehan in search of new mines . Several directors of the Silverton Tramway Company , then beginning its amazing career as one of the richest Broken Hill companies , drew up plans to spend £ 70,000 on a private railway ...
Page 174
... began to erect works at North Fremantle in Western Australia , the rising wheat state . The company built these works because it had pyrites to burn . By 1908 , however , the Mt. Lyell open cut was taxed to the utmost each week ...
... began to erect works at North Fremantle in Western Australia , the rising wheat state . The company built these works because it had pyrites to burn . By 1908 , however , the Mt. Lyell open cut was taxed to the utmost each week ...
Page 202
... began , Regan had slipped quietly away to find work elsewhere . He signed on with a gang on the Flowerdale - Burnie railway but after half a day the men discovered who he was and refused to work with him . He went to the Magnet mine ...
... began , Regan had slipped quietly away to find work elsewhere . He signed on with a gang on the Flowerdale - Burnie railway but after half a day the men discovered who he was and refused to work with him . He went to the Magnet mine ...
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