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Looking South East from N0. 1 Ore Shaft, Urquhart Shaft, headframe towards mount Isa township, known as Townside. Foreground are workshops and then on the right is the recreation reserve, tennis courts and swimming pool. The isa Street bridge can be seen as well as the Argent Hotel.

Definitely not 1919. 4 years before the discovery. Mineside looking South West. In the Foreground is O'Doherty Shaft into the Black Rock Orebody. This was the shaft that 3 miners were injured, 1927, and the first medical evacuation by an aircraft in Australia. This proved to the A.I.M. that medical evacuations were possible. The first evacuation was May 1928 by A.I.M. which later become RFDS. OK, back to the image. This is late 1929 or early 1930. One tradesmen Dormitory is completed, tin sheds, Known as "Ranches" still erected for temporary accommodation, Staff accommodation and MIM employee housing under construction.

Mount Isa, QLD Famous silver-lead-zinc mining town known as the 'Oasis of the Outback'. Origin of Name John Campbell Miles, who found the deposits of silver, lead and zinc which lead to the formation of Mount Isa, named the settlement in 1923 after a Western Australian goldmine at Mount Ida. He never explained why he changed "Ida" to "Isa". History * Prior to European settlement the area was occupied by the Kalkadoon First Nations people. * The Kalkadoon First Nations people resisted the arrival of pastoralists in the 1870s and early 1880s. * The First Nations people's resistance ended when native police and white settlers retaliated with a bloody massacre in 1884. * In February 1923 vast silver-lead-zinc deposits were discovered by the prospector John Campbell Miles. * Mount Isa Mines Ltd was formed in 1924. * By 1925 Mount Isa Mines Ltd had taken over all the leases to the field. * The railway arrived from Townsville in 1929. * By 1929 Mount Isa Mines Ltd owned 370 ha in the area. For more info chack the source: www.aussietowns.com.au/town/mount-isa-qld

In the forty years after Federation the most noticeable incursion of new settlers were the Soldier Settlers who came to the Boyne Valley after the war. Fifty-four families, with little or no farming experience attempted to farm very small areas. Before long most of them moved to more lucrative and certain incomes elsewhere. There were still two newspapers though The Advocate had been replaced by the Daily Times. The Commonwealth Bank of Australia, the Bank of New South Wales and the Queensland Bank all had branches in town; and there were two private hospitals and a chemist. Shops were numerous, and seem to have been larger. Friends store was well established, serving a much greater clientele than the town and there was a Cash & Carry, several butchers, bakers and car dealers. In a sign of real maturity in the town, the Post Office Directory lists a 'French Beauty Saloon' (though for 1939 it mentions only nine women by name). In short, everything was in place for the town to deal with the next wave, a population increase that was occasioned by the Second World War. Source: gragm.qld.gov.au/media/1017/waves-of-settlement-1901-1939...