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Blue Mountains · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1900

12 stories in Blue Mountains's papers

Women Delve for Gold

The Mountaineer · Friday 2 February 1900 · page 4

A man who has lately returned from Klondike has remarked on the number of plucky and adventurous women who are seeking their fortunes there…

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'Poachers' in the Coal Yard

The Mountaineer · Friday 2 February 1900 · page 4

In the great coal yards abutting on important railway stations may often be seen tramp-like individuals, who having obtained by some means or other leave from…

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Ways of Living. State Secrets Bought with Gold

The Mountaineer · Friday 11 May 1900 · page 4

The traitor to his country who, confidentially employed in some important embassy or bureau, is in reality the secret agent of a rival State, is to-day perhaps…

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Gold from the Mountains

The Mountaineer · Friday 15 June 1900 · page 2

A small quantity of gold was brought to Wentworth Falls on Wednesday, by a miner named Morgan, from a part of the Kowmung River…

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The Queen's Gold Plate

The Mountaineer · Friday 15 June 1900 · page 4

The Queen is the owner of a great quantity of almost priceless gold plate, the Accumulated treasure of successive sovereignties. This plate is stored at…

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Two Millions of Gold in Tow

The Mountaineer · Friday 6 July 1900 · page 4

'One of the most novel yet responsible tasks ever deputed to me,' remarked a well-known detective to the writer the other day, 'was that of guarding two…

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No Coal Like It

The Mountaineer · Friday 3 August 1900 · page 4

I have been trying (writes a clergyman) to get some of my pupils into the way of writing bnsiness letters. Here is one of the results:—…

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The Two Proposed Routes for the Wyalong Railway. Mr. Cook on Their Rival Claims. the Coal Question

The Mountaineer · Friday 17 August 1900 · page 2

Referring to the Public Works Committee report in favor of constructing the line to Wyalong, via. Temora, Mr. Cook made a pertinent…

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KATOOMBA A. H. & I. SOCIETY. Department of Mines and Agriculture, Sydney, 7th September, 1900

The Mountaineer · Friday 14 September 1900 · page 2

Date of letter under reply, 5th September, 1900 ; Subject, Enquiring whether the Katoomba Agricultural Society are likely to obtain a special…

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KATOOMBA A. H. & L. SOCIETY Department of Mines and Agriculture, Sydney. 6th September. 1900

The Mountaineer · Friday 14 September 1900 · page 2

SIR,—I am directed to acknowledgs the receipt of your letter of the 5th instant asking if the Agricultural Society is likely to obtain a special…

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The World's Gold Supply. Diminished by £15,000,000

The Mountaineer · Friday 28 September 1900 · page 3

Owing to the stoppage of the Transvaal mines the world's supply of gold has diminished £15,000,000 during the past year…

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The Emery Mine in Naxos

The Mountaineer · Friday 2 November 1900 · page 4

All the emery used In the world comes from the little Island of Naxos, near Greece. As It Is one of the harden substances known, ordinary quarrying tools can't be…

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