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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1901

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Hidden Gold

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 6 April 1901 · page 4

Gold for various reasans disappears rapidly in all countries, but nowhere else does it pass out of sight so rapidly as in India and China. So rapidly does the…

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Coal Trouble Settled

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 6 April 1901 · page 4

THE coal trade trouble has been brought to a satisfactory conclusion, both sides meeting in conference to discuss the points at issue. Last month the collier owners issued an ultimatum…

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Bedsteads Made of Gold and Silver

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 6 April 1901 · page 7

SOME years ago a magnificent bedstead was constructed in Paris to the order of an Indian prince. Besides the costliness of the materials used in its…

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Great Cobar Copper Mining Company

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 6 April 1901 · page 4

BEFORE Mr. Justice Walker, in the Equity Court, on Tuesday, an application was made on behalf of a number of the shareholders in the Great Cobar Copper Mining Company, Limited,…

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Druids' Gold Wheel Race

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 10 April 1901 · page 3

Martin won the Druids Gold Wheel Race at Melbourne, and also the 10 Miles Championship…

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Narr[?]mine. (Fbom Our Own Correspondent). April 5

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 10 April 1901 · page 2

A FAREWELL evening was tendered the Rev. J. Lund on Wednesday last, but owing to the squally state of the weather the attendance was only moderate. The…

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Mining

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 13 April 1901 · page 2

Sea lengthy report on Cobar Chesney as printed on our supplement. Mr. J. M. Scott, mining broker…

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Modern Ocean Coal Gluttons

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 13 April 1901 · page 3

During the last ten years the race for the transatlantic record has been far more interesting than in any ether period, for it has been in this decade that the great…

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Cobar Chesney Copper and Gold Co. Mr Greenway's Report

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 13 April 1901 · page 5

(MINING 'STANDARD.') At the half-yearly meeting of the Cobar Chesney Copper and Gold Mining Company, N.S.W., held in Melbourne last November, it was…

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Mining

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 20 April 1901 · page 2

The Cobar Phoenix Company, Limited reports having completed the. repairs to their Berribungie shaft, which is now in good order and condition,…

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The World's Coal Resources

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 20 April 1901 · page 6

The duration of tho coal resources of various countries has been calculated by a German statist. In a century or two, he estimates, exhaustion will overtake Durham…

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How the Gold Brick Swindle Is Worked

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 20 April 1901 · page 6

PERIODICALLY the people hoar of the perpetration of the gold brick swindle, although it in safe to say that it is one of the crimes committed far more frequently…

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Eggs Worth Many Times Their Weight in Gold

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 20 April 1901 · page 6

THOUGH not an uncommon bird, little is known of the nesting habits of the graceful frigate. It eggs are laid on a miserable platform of sticks, two in number, the…

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W. Jno. Baker's Cutlery Trophy Championship Prize, and 10 awarded the Gold Medal, the First Prizes Royal Agricultusal Society, 1901

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 20 April 1901 · page 5

The cutlery exhibit of Mr. W. Jno. Baker, in the main pavilion, well deserved the awards as [?]merated above, these being the latest to a list of some 45 first prizes. The…

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The M. C. Mine

The Wellington Times · Thursday 25 April 1901 · page 2

Matters at the above mine are progressing favorably, and the time is not far distant when it will pay the proprietor handsome dividends. Mr. Manwell, the present…

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More Colliery Trouble. a Miner Compelled to Leave

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 27 April 1901 · page 6

"This is the true story of how I came to leave the old Bulli colliery," said Mr. Robert Spinks, timber contractor and orchardist, Bulli, to a…

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Latest Cablegrams. Colliery Explosion. London

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 1 May 1901 · page 4

A disastrous explosion occurred on Saturday at a colliery in Belgium by which 18 men were killed…

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Against the Coal Tax

The Bligh Watchman and Coonabarabran Gazette · Wednesday 1 May 1901 · page 2

In England,, a strong agitation has sprung up among coal' owners, colliers, and coal exporters throughout Great, Britain against the newly imposed duty of Is…

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Gold-Mining Leases

The Wellington Times · Thursday 2 May 1901 · page 2

Notice is given that rent is due and owing upon the gold-mining leases held by the undermentioned, and unless paid within thirty days of date of notice, 26th April…

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Mining

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 4 May 1901 · page 2

The Mount Boppy mine commenced running with forty head last week. It should not be long now before thin large reef should be thoroughly tested. Should…

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