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Mining & the mines, 1901

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Later Cables. a Colliery Disaster. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 19 February 1901 · page 2

A fire which broke out in a colliery at Cumberland, British Columbia caused the imprisonment of upwards of 65 miners. Of the imprisoned miners 56 were…

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Mining. Springdale

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 20 February 1901 · page 2

The week's run (five heads) on stone from the Reward resulted in a return of 12oz; 28 tons were treated. Other mines working as usual, with…

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Mining at Cherry Hill

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 20 February 1901 · page 2

MR. G. F. MARSHALL, who is working on the Cherry Hill goldfield, was in town this week, and gives some particulars of the find. Cherry Hill…

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Mining

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 22 February 1901 · page 2

THE Kiandra dredge saved 45oz of gold last week. Dredging stock bus gone up on the Sydney market, and within the past…

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One Heart Is Mine

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 22 February 1901 · page 1

I shall not murmur at my lot Or think it aught but good, Though I must toil with head and hands…

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Mines and Miners

The Worker · Saturday 23 February 1901 · page 2

The miner, how is he on a level with the worker in town? He has a weight round his neck. We are told that the miners patriotically stood by protection in the past. Are we to whip…

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The Canker Worm of Gold

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Saturday 23 February 1901 · page 16

British society has been eaten into by the canker of money. From the top downwards the tree is rotten. The most immoral pose before the public as the…

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District News. (From Our Correspondents.) Tumbardmba. Mining League

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 23 February 1901 · page 4

A meeting of the Mining League was held on Saturday night last at the Tumbarumba Hotel, at which there was a fair attendance, Mr. Jas. Thomson occupied the chair. The…

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A Mine Explosion

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 26 February 1901 · page 2

By an explosion in a mine at Bendigo three men were injured, one fatally…

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Mining. Lagoon Gully

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Tuesday 26 February 1901 · page 3

Considerable stir is taking place at Lagoon Gully, the scene of sensational developments in mining. We met a few of the lucky prospectors at Batlow…

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Mining. Cullinga

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 27 February 1901 · page 2

The Commonwealth battery, to which Mr. Summers has added some noteworthy improvements, has been running on Gift stone for the past eight or ten days, and…

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All for Gold! a Bogus Will. Or, a Dead Man's Signature. in There Parts. Part I.

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 27 February 1901 · page 3

THE sun had gone down behind the distant hills even the last faint streaks of purple and gold which for a time lingered in the…

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Later Cables. Terrible Mining Disaster. Forty-nine Miners Burnt. London, Tuesday Afternoon

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 28 February 1901 · page 2

A terrible colliery disaster is reported from Diamondville, in the State of Wyoming, on the easton slope of the Rocky Mountains U.S.A…

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The Mining League

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 1 March 1901 · page 4

The almost ex[?]net Mining League is just experiencing a slight [?]. A little convulsive flutter caused by the debut of Mr. Archie M'Eachern…

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Tumbarumba Mining Matters

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 1 March 1901 · page 4

TEH weather continues to be dry, and no apparent promise of rain is given. The drought is felt by agriculturalists and miners alike, and…

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Mines and Miners

The Worker · Saturday 2 March 1901 · page 7

The trouble brewing between the Goldfields Wood Supply Company and the woodcutters in their employ, who demand an increase of 6d. per ton, has been brought to a head, when…

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Grains of Gold

The Worker · Saturday 2 March 1901 · page 6

Repose is the cradle of power.—Holland. The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.—Emerson. Children have more need of models than of…

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Gold in a Seige

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 2 March 1901 · page 6

The lady who conducts the children's page in the "Southern Cross" recently asked her youthful contributors to writs a poem on the Boer War, after…

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Mining on Property

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 2 March 1901 · page 5

The Black Range Mining League, which recently applied to the Minister for Minec urging various reforms in the Mining on Private Property Act, and in…

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Important Gold Development at Wyalong

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 2 March 1901 · page 2

An important development has taked place at the Great Britain (reports the Wyaloog correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph.") In sinking the shaft on the mineral are, at a…

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