A SERIOUS BLOW.
* - THE SLUMP IN LEAD.' :.:? By Tolejrapli.— Preat Association^-- CoDyYlgtft, (Received December l£j 10.20 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Tiie slump in lead is proving a son* oiis blow to Broken Hill. Fifteen hundred' men have been, dis* missed from various mines. v According to a Sydney paper, the he'wa that the price of lead had sustained a' sharp and heavy fall of 22s 6d per ton to £14 10s per lon, caused falls iii tho capital values of stock of tho saven Barrier Mining Companies most traded in aggregating £309,000; property.values suffering to the extent of £168,000, while South Broken Hill lost £60,000, and North Rjoken Hill £28,000 upon quotations for the half-day. . Tho Broken Hill Junction mine has shut, down. v
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 148, 19 December 1907, Page 7
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124A SERIOUS BLOW. Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 148, 19 December 1907, Page 7
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