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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1903

1,018 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 9 of 51

Outside District News. Pastoral, Mining, Agricultural and Various Matters. Typhoid at Collie

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 26 February 1903 · page 14

Collie is the latest small country town to be struck with typhoid, there being 85 cases…

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THE Electric Belt Fake. Flashes of Lightning Your Your Waist. [?]afty Concocters of Cunning Schemes. Mudgee People Taking the Bait. [?]en Guineas Worth of Gold Plated Lightning

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 26 February 1903 · page 13

Some of the most successful of the [?]ny cunning devices to coax cash [?] the pockets of simple people, are [?]old as the hills. Tho yarns pitched…

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Mining News. the Ilfold Gold-rush. No Fresh Finds

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 27 February 1903 · page 4

CAPERTEE, Wednesday.-- There is nothing fresh to report re the Ilford rush. There has been no sensational find so far. Several local men have gone up to try then luck, and have not returned yet…

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Mt. David Mine

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 27 February 1903 · page 3

The Mount David manager reports : 100ft. level, western reef: No. 2 north west drive connected with No. 3 southwest crosscut. Immediately the necessary timbering is completed over the winze, the…

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Airly. the Shale Mines

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 27 February 1903 · page 5

The majority of those miners who were lately dispensed with at the Genowlan shale pit have been reengaged, also a few extra hands. At New Hatley the men are working the black holing shale one day,…

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Miners on Strike. Exchange Shots with Officers. to Prevent Injunction Being Served, London

National Advocate · Friday 27 February 1903 · page 3

Two hundred and fifty Virginia miners on strike at Charlestown, armed with Winchesters resisted the efforts of a hundred Federal officers to…

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Mining

The Blayney Advocate and Carcoar Herald · Saturday 28 February 1903 · page 2

Another effect of the continued dry weather was felt this week, the Junction Reefs mine (near Mandurama) having to close down for want of water. About 100 men are therefore…

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Lost Six Fortunes. a Mining Man's Troubles

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 28 February 1903 · page 2

The ups and downs of fickle fortune were never more graphically illustrated than in the case of John Philip Lawson, mining engineer, who was…

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Strike in United States. Miners Armed with Win. Chester's. London

Leader · Saturday 28 February 1903 · page 2

Two hundred and fifty Virginia miners are on strike at Cher[?]town. They are armed with Wine[?] and resisted the efforts of hundre[?] is of the…

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Ballarat Mine

Leader · Monday 2 March 1903 · page 2

The mine superintendent of the Ballarat of New South Wales reports:— The stope going vest has been extended a total ol 38ft. from north…

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Katoomba South Mines

Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 3 March 1903 · page 2

That the mines will soon be in full swing again is evidently now beyond doubt. We are in a position to state on the best of authority that the A. K. O. and M. Company have taken a lease on…

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Mining News

Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 3 March 1903 · page 2

Great excitement exists in Adelaide mining circles over latest developments at Arltunga goldfields. Numbers of persons are proceeding thither, the Government geologist being one of them. Two…

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On the Williewa. Getting Fair Gold

Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 3 March 1903 · page 2

The number of miners on the Williewa Creek has been slightly increased during the past week, and the majority of the diggers are getting fair gold…

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Rich Gold Finds at Aritunga (.S.a.), and Bega (N.s.w.) Sydney

Leader · Tuesday 3 March 1903 · page 3

At Adelaide great excitu[?]ment continues over the Aritu[?]ga goldfields. This morning the fortnightly train for Oodnadatta took 40 persons [?]und…

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Floods in Pennsylvania. Coal Mines Submerged. London, Monday Afternoon

National Advocate · Wednesday 4 March 1903 · page 3

Disasters floods have occurred throughout Pennsylvania. Besides doing great damage, 56 mines have been submerged, and no less than 640,000…

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Floods in Pennsylvania. 20,000 Miners Idle. London

Leader · Wednesday 4 March 1903 · page 2

Disastrous floods have occurred throughout Pennsylvania. Besides doing great damage to farms and buildings, 56 mines have been…

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Not Much Gold at Iiford

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 5 March 1903 · page 15

Mr. John McKenzie, a miner well-known in Lithgow, returned from Ilford on Saturday, and did not give a very glowing account of the field…

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Charge of Stealing Gold Amalgam. SYDNEY

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Thursday 5 March 1903 · page 3

Joh Darrell was brought up at the polios court to-day on an alleged charge of stealing a quantity of gold amalgam etc., value £700 at Reno, near…

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Alled German Outrage, a Bomb Amongst Coal London

Leader · Thursday 5 March 1903 · page 2

Venezuelan stokers affirm that the Germans left a) dynamite bomb amongst the Restaurateurs coal, and has caused excitement in Caracas…

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Outside District News Pastoral, Mining, Agricultural and Various Matters. Butter Factories Closed

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 5 March 1903 · page 15

[?] butter factories and ereameries the Molong district have been and owing to the drought…

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