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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1910

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Housing Miners. Lesson From Prussia

The Wellington Times · Thursday 22 September 1910 · page 5

It is interesting to learn from the "Continental Correspondence" that in the Prussion state budget a regular item appears as expenditure for the housing…

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Mining

The Cobar Herald · Friday 23 September 1910 · page 5

Queen Bee mine is about to be worked iu a small way. A number of contracts have been let for work. Canbelego's new Post Office, an…

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Mining

The Cobar Herald · Friday 23 September 1910 · page 3

Work is to be started at Overflow mine this week. At the Wardens' Court on Thursday, the application of Great Cobar…

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Mining Man's Death

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 24 September 1910 · page 5

Joseph English, a mining investor, largely interested in Berry Consels died at Melbourne to-day, aged 83. He left property valued at £100,000…

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Dignity of Meadows Cloth of Gold

The Western Herald · Saturday 24 September 1910 · page 6

The thirty-acre piece is one sheet of brilliant gold—rolling over the bank where the lone ash tree stands, solidifying into orange on the top of the…

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Mining Man's Death. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 24 September 1910 · page 4

Joseph English, a mining investor, largely interested in Berry Consols, died at Melbourne yesterday, aged 83. He left property roughly estimated at…

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Mining

The Cobar Herald · Tuesday 27 September 1910 · page 2

Mining matters in general are very dull. The wan flicker of the Boppy Boulder of a week or two ago has subsided. There are…

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Victoria's Coal Mines. Effect of Competition

The Wellington Times · Thursday 29 September 1910 · page 2

A deputation representing the business men of Korumburra, Outtrim, and Jambunna, as well as the miners and mining companies in those places, was…

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Mining

The Cobar Herald · Friday 30 September 1910 · page 5

At the Leslie Mine, situated some 2½ miles. North-east of C.S.A., there are three men at work sinking the main shaft which is now down…

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The Confession. The Latest. Senkovitch admits his guilt. The Greed for Gold overcame him and he tomahawked his friend. Sydney

The Cobar Herald · Friday 30 September 1910 · page 5

Boris Senkovitch, charged with the murder of Alexander Eismond, stated to the interpreter that while Eismond was asleep in a tent…

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Famous Rushes for Gold

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 1 October 1910 · page 7

Stewart wont mad, Waiters dropped their trays, workmen their tools, drivers their reins, and stampeded.' Thus a daily paper, in its description of…

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Mining

The Cobar Herald · Tuesday 4 October 1910 · page 3

Calls are announced on the following companies, due on the [?]2th instant:—Cobar Gladstone Co., 2d; Cobar-Peak S.M. Co., 2d. See…

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Mines Nationalisation. London

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 8 October 1910 · page 4

The British Miners' Federation Conference proposes to agitate for the nationalisation, of the coal mines. At his rooms on Wednesday, October…

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Disastrous Explosion in a Mine. London, Monday night

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 12 October 1910 · page 2

Following an explosion in the Colorada coal mine it has been discovered that in addition to many dead, 51 miners are alive with but little hope…

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Mining

The Cobar Herald · Friday 14 October 1910 · page 3

The Queen Bee Copper Mining Company'report:—An extraordinary general meeting of shareholders in the Queen Bee Copper Mining…

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Colorado Mine Disaster. Harrowing Scenes. Trinidad, U.S A.

The Cobar Herald · Friday 14 October 1910 · page 6

Pathetic scones have followed the explosion at a Colorado coal mine, by which many of the miners were entombed. A number of bodies have been…

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Barrier Miners' Agreement. Better Terme Wanted

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 15 October 1910 · page 4

THE A.M.A. met again on Sunday in camera, and agreed to an amended wages agreement to be placed before the managers, in lieu of that terminating at the end of the current year…

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Mining

The Cobar Herald · Tuesday 18 October 1910 · page 2

The Queen Bee Copper Mining Company report for two weeks ending 8th October, 1910:—South drive at 570ft. level extended 2lft., total 12ft.,…

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Ballooning for Gold

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 19 October 1910 · page 4

Further information on the subject of the gold discovery at Bitter Creek, British Columbia, has boon sent to Lord Strathco[?], High Commissioner for Canada, by the…

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Mining

The Cobar Herald · Friday 21 October 1910 · page 5

The Mt. Allen tributers are sanguine that they will make their spec pay. Operations at the Budgery mine…

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