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Page 68
... building four miles of the railway ; and buying launches and barges for the King River . This was an ambitious estimate but at least it was a beginning . The directors hoped that rich silver and the sale of shares on a slowly awakening ...
... building four miles of the railway ; and buying launches and barges for the King River . This was an ambitious estimate but at least it was a beginning . The directors hoped that rich silver and the sale of shares on a slowly awakening ...
Page 71
... building ; kilns baked hundreds of thousands of red bricks . The long iron smelter building and its huge brick flue and chim- ney stack , rising 250 feet above the smelter floors , began to domi- nate the landscape . Crushing plant ...
... building ; kilns baked hundreds of thousands of red bricks . The long iron smelter building and its huge brick flue and chim- ney stack , rising 250 feet above the smelter floors , began to domi- nate the landscape . Crushing plant ...
Page 131
... building , which stood on the site of the present coarse - crushing mill , was enlarged to hold two remelting ... building site at Port Kembla , N.S.W. , and sent E. Tuxworth , the brickyard foreman at Queenstown , to build the new works ...
... building , which stood on the site of the present coarse - crushing mill , was enlarged to hold two remelting ... building site at Port Kembla , N.S.W. , and sent E. Tuxworth , the brickyard foreman at Queenstown , to build the new works ...
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