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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1918

94 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 5 of 5

The Evolution of Forbes From Gold to Wheat

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 22 October 1918 · page 3

Prom a mining centre, where a large crowd of men were in search of gold, Forbes has changed into a promising agricultural locality. When…

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Water Sn Mines. Can It Be Stopped? Mr Grasset's Opinion

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 22 October 1918 · page 3

Mr Louis Grasset, who looked over the old Forbes mining leads last week, thinks the water problem in the wet leads is capable of solution…

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Latest Telegraphic. Barrier Miners' Demands. Exchange of Prisoners. Arrangement with Turkey. Sydney

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 22 October 1918 · page 2

Mr Watt, speaking at St. Kilda, said the Federal Cabinet had sent a cablegram to Mr Hughes, asking him, in view of the startling dramatic…

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Mining Notices

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 23 October 1918 · page 4

Rents are due and owing upon the Undermentioned leases, and if not paid within 30 days from the date hereof (September 27, 1918), such leases…

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Mi[?]ne Memorial

Western Champion · Thursday 24 October 1918 · page 28

At the unveiling of the memorial to the late Edmund Milne in Waverley cemetery on Sunday afternoon there were considerably over 2000 people…

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Another Gold Find

Forbes Times · Tuesday 5 November 1918 · page 2

Archie McKellar, the gold-finder, has just landed on another reef, a few miles from Trunkey, near Bathurst. The reef is about 2ft. wide, and the…

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Cowra Gold Mining. The Prospectors at Shelley's to Crush Next Week

Cowra Free Press · Wednesday 6 November 1918 · page 3

Operations on the mining field on Lieut. Shelley's property are now in fall swing, and as the prospectors claim, is further opened oat it is…

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Mining

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 8 November 1918 · page 6

Platinum miners are still hung up for water—even water for stock and domestic purposes is becoming scarce. Prospecting operations for iron are…

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Worth Their Weight in Gold

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 9 November 1918 · page 4

When the shoe clerk of the present day says, "Madam, these shoes are worth their weight in gold," he accurately is not very far off. A shoe manufacturer in Lynn, Mass…

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Worth Their Weight in Gold

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 13 November 1918 · page 7

When the shoe clerk of the present day says, "Madam, these shoes are worth their weight in gold," he accurately is not very far off. A shoe manufacturer in Lynn, Mass…

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Removing German Mines

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 15 November 1918 · page 2

France has informed Germany that only permissable negotiations between the armistice are those dealing with timed mines or other dangerous…

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Gold at Dark Corner

Forbes Times · Friday 22 November 1918 · page 4

The district Mining Waden of Bathurst, Mr. A. B. C. Burke, has been advised of an important discovery of gold at Dark Corne[?] eight miles from…

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Ardlethan Mining

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 3 December 1918 · page 3

At the tin mines there is an amount of activty. The new battery for Carpathia is being pushed ahead, and is rapidly approaching completion. The…

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Gold at Peak Hill

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 6 December 1918 · page 3

A syndicate of 14 has been formed to work a reef found at Trewelga (or ingelo) some years ago. It is situated in Mr T. Stanford's property…

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