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Page 122
... company's method of charging and weighing goods was so slapdash and inconsistent that he could not compare their tariff with the charges of the rival railway . His experience was common amongst those who carried on business with the ...
... company's method of charging and weighing goods was so slapdash and inconsistent that he could not compare their tariff with the charges of the rival railway . His experience was common amongst those who carried on business with the ...
Page 139
... company . He observed that a more favourable contract for the sale of the company's ore could have been drawn up by an escaped lunatic , and condemned the railway to Gormanston with the scathing remark , " We have no more use of a line ...
... company . He observed that a more favourable contract for the sale of the company's ore could have been drawn up by an escaped lunatic , and condemned the railway to Gormanston with the scathing remark , " We have no more use of a line ...
Page 260
... company which characterized the early directorate . The growing importance of the company's manufacturing interests and the company's comparative poverty tended to cultivate conservatism and the desire for security at a time when bold ...
... company which characterized the early directorate . The growing importance of the company's manufacturing interests and the company's comparative poverty tended to cultivate conservatism and the desire for security at a time when bold ...
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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