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Page 55
... received 45,000 shares and the Broken Hill group received 55,000 shares for their £ 5,000 . Bowes Kelly received 20,000 , Orr 15,000 , Herman Schlapp 10,000 , Alec Kelly 4,000 , D. McBryde and W. Knox 2,500 each , while three of their ...
... received 45,000 shares and the Broken Hill group received 55,000 shares for their £ 5,000 . Bowes Kelly received 20,000 , Orr 15,000 , Herman Schlapp 10,000 , Alec Kelly 4,000 , D. McBryde and W. Knox 2,500 each , while three of their ...
Page 163
... received free " promoter's shares " and lucrative contracts as well as annual fees that would make a modern director envious . Some companies spent almost as much on administration as on mining : in thirty months the Comstock Co. spent ...
... received free " promoter's shares " and lucrative contracts as well as annual fees that would make a modern director envious . Some companies spent almost as much on administration as on mining : in thirty months the Comstock Co. spent ...
Page 164
... received 64 per cent of the shares ; the promoters , new directors and their friends paid £ 45,000 for 30 per cent of the shares ; the British in- vesting public paid £ 25,000 for 5.3 per cent of the shares . For the same money the ...
... received 64 per cent of the shares ; the promoters , new directors and their friends paid £ 45,000 for 30 per cent of the shares ; the British in- vesting public paid £ 25,000 for 5.3 per cent of the shares . For the same money the ...
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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