Discovering Historic Kadina South Australia : Includes the Kadina Heritage Trail
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Von Händler/Antiquariat, BOOK COLLECTOR [53856945], Sydney, Australia.
Details: This booklet is in very good condition. It shows only minor wear. The item is clean, tight and sound throughout. A previous owner's name appears on the title page. This 56pp. stapled booklet is in stock and ready to mail. It weighs approx. 120g. If possible it will be mailed within Australia at the cheaper 'letter rate'. Your book when ordered will be securely packed and promptly dispatched by The Book Collector (Established: 1993). ***Prompt professional service - satisfaction guaranteed.*** Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Train World Pty Ltd.
South Australia : Department of Mines and Energy, 1990. 56 pages b/w photos - Located 150 km north-west of Adelaide and 44 m above sea level, Kadina is the largest town on the Yorke Peninsula. The town owes its existence entirely to the discovery of copper. In 1866 R. P. Whitworth wrote: 'The country was never considered fit for anything until one of the oldest resident settlers, Captain Hughes, discovered that under the valueless surface, there were chances of great wealth in store for himself and others. He found traces of existing copper-bearing lodes on the beach near his station, and for years tried to follow those traces back into the country, but unsuccessfully until at length in the year 1860 a shepherd [James Boor], who was remarkably intelligent man, discovered copper ore thrown to the surface by the wombats in their burrowing under the limestone crust.' The area had been inhabited by Narrunga Aborigines prior to European settlement and it's name comes probably from their word 'caddy-yeena' or 'caddy-inna' which is thought to mean 'lizard plain'. The discovery of copper changed the entire area. From marginal agricultural land, which Walter Watson Hughes and John Duncan had been trying to graze sheep on, it quickly developed. The town of Kadina was laid out in 1861. By 1862 the Wombat Hotel (named after the animals who had discovered the copper) was open for business and a horse-drawn railway was operating at the Wallaroo Mine. The real future of the area came with the creation of a copper mining company in 1862 centred around Matta. The company was formed by raising £60,000 which was made up of 12,000 shares of £5 each. Over the next few years the company dug to a depth of 40 metres and extracted 1,500 tonnes of 23 per cent pure copper ore. By 1866 the Matta mine was bringing 50 tonnes of ore per week to the surface. The presence of copper attracted large numbers of Cornish miners to the area (there were considerable copper deposits in Cornwall at the time and they emigrated to Australia bringing with them their mining expertise). Kadina and the nearby towns of Wallaroo and Moonta form a triangle which is known as 'Little Cornwall'. By 1875 there were 20,000 people in the district and most of them were of Cornish origin. This Cornish tradition is celebrated each odd year (the next one will be in 2005) with the Kernewek Lowender (a Cornish Festival) which is held in May. The town became a municipality in 1872 and the main railway line opened in 1878. It was during the 1870s, particularly during periods of drought, that farmers used the machinery from the mines to distil water. By 1890 the copper mining companies in the district had amalgamated to become the largest industrial company in South Australia. For the next 33 years they employed between 1900 and 2700 people. Copper mining continued to dominate the town's economy until 1923 and by 1938 mining in the area had completely stopped. In their time the mines around Kapunda had extracted 3.5 million tonnes of ore. The Kadina Heritage Drive starts at the old railway station and is a leisurely drive of about 12 kilometres which can be completed in one to two hours. The trail gives visitors a balanced impression of the history and development of Kadina and surrounding settlement.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, John C. Newland, Cheltenham, Glos. [RE:5].
Used-Very Good. VG stapled paperback. A tidy copy in tight binding. Reprint.

Von Händler/Antiquariat, Cotswold Internet Books [2796792], Cheltenham, United Kingdom.
A tidy copy in tight binding. Used - Very Good. VG stapled paperback.

Von Händler/Antiquariat, Books Gone By [52451630], Collaroy Plateau, NSW, Australia.
pp56. Stapled cover has faded along spine area, otherwise in VG condition. Bookseller Inventory # 000309.

Von Händler/Antiquariat, Jo's Books [376855], Gerringong, NSW, Australia.