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The Mines of New South Wales. 1897

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PREFACE.

The first issue will be full of errors and omissions, but must be an infinite improvement or none at all : and a platform from which future perfection may be reached. Such were the words of wise encouragement with which the mention of our intention to publish this modest volume was greeted by Mr. Harrie Wood, late Under Secretary for Mines. With a full knowledge that the first portion of the prophecy has been amply fulfilled and the hope that, with the continuation of the kindly assistance we have so universally received, the second may be, we offer it to the public. The information contained is the result of over five thousand enquiries and is so various as to embrace the record of the Broken Hill Proprietary Co., Ltd., with its £6,512,000 of dividends, and that of a Coal Mine worked by its proprietor in his spare time. Two facts must strike the most casual consulter of these pages ; the vast mineral resources of New South Wales ; and the tenacious hopefulness of her mine owners. Paramount in the Southern hemisphere in her Coal, rivalling the Old and New World in her Diamonds and Opals, equalling South Africa in her Gold, with Copper in infinity,- abundance and in Silver well-nigh supreme. New South Wales is surpassed by no territory in the variety of her mineral resources. Mining has been supposed to be a speculation : our readers may assure themselves it is a science. It has been credited with a foundation of lies : the following pages disclose a self-depreciating veracity in advertisement which no other trade and few professions can equal. In hope that it may be judged in a measure by our intentions we commend the first issue of the Mines of New South Wales to those having need of it.

C. W. CARPENTER. Sydney, December, 1897.

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