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Ore Bins under construction. Lawlor Shaft, Rio Grande Orebody. 27th September 1930. This orebody was developed to bring the surface to be dumped into the bins. From these bins a train would take this ore around to a Glory Hole in the Black Star mine and dump the ore down to 4 Level Haulage. Around this time disaster struck the 4 Level Drive due to cutting into a huge aquifer and the water inflow was uncontrollable. The miners were sent elsewhere while the water inrush was being controlled. The miners started out to cut a downhill drive from 4 Level in the Rio Grande to a meet up with the 4 Level Haulage drive from Black Star Mine to No. 1 Ore Shaft, Urquhart Shaft. This made the surface operation at Lawlor Shaft redundant

MOUNT ISA MINES LIMITED. The following progress report has been receded from the Mine Superintendent of Mount Isa Mines Limited for the period ended November 15 :— Lawler Shaft.—Rio Grande lode, 150ft. level: North drive was extended 14ft. 6in, total 103ft, from the main crosscut. Average assay values were 28.5 percent, lead, and 28.7oz. sliver per ton, over a width of 53in., with ore on both sides of the drive South drive was extended 16ft. to a total of 82ft., from the main crosscut, in ore averaging 25.6 percent, lead, and 23oz. silver per ton, over a width of 47in., with ore on both sides of the drive. Diamond drill borehole No. 1 was sunk 57ft., to a total depth of 197ft. below the surface, and cased to 90ft. In hard shale and ironstone. Source: "The Brisbane Currier" 30 Nov 1926 trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/21087400#

Salt Lake City

Baldwin VO-660 switcher, built 1941, scrapped April 1966, www.rgmhs.org/data/diesels/switcher.html

1900 eh? wow

it's dated at 1938...can someone verify that?

"This was an annual ball. At the 1938 ball (during the sesquicentenary of European settlement in Australia) the President of the Republic of Lebanon, M. Edde [sic, Émile Eddé], presented the Commonwealth of Australia with six six-foot cedar saplings from the historic cedar grove, Arz-el-rub (Cedars of God). Also, the Consul-General for France, M. Tremoulet, presented to Mrs Therese Alam (wife of Anthony Alexander Alam MLC), a great worker for the Lebanon Ladies Annual, the purple ribbon of the Officier de l'Académie. This photo shows the assembled guests looking up at the camera." --Object Description A photo showing the cedars, and the presentation ceremony, is here.

I wonder where the saplings went.....

thepretenda — The Australian Lebanese Historical Society, Inc., apparently has a continuing search for the location of the six Cedars of Lebanon from 1938.

"The Society has been in contact with the Ambassador for Lebanon, H.E. Mr. Michel Bitar who has also been endeavouring to locate the 1938 Cedars through contacts in Canberra. Although he has yet to find the location of the 1938 Cedars, he has located a small growing on the lawns of Old Parliament House which we believe were a group presented as part of the 1988 Bicentenary. Mr. Bitar was also able to advise of another specimen growing in the Melbourne Botanical Gardens, which appears to be a 19th century planting. "We are awaiting the results of our own enquiries with Environment ACT and other ACT authorities that have responsibility for Canberra parks and gardens, about the location of the Cedars."

There's more info at their website.