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CHARTERS TOWERS

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 953 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARTERS TOWERS , a See also:

mining See also:town of See also:Devonport See also:county, See also:Queensland, See also:Australia, 82 m. by See also:rail S.W. of See also:Townsville and 82o m. See also:direct N.N.W. of See also:Brisbane. It is the centre of an important See also:gold-See also:field, the reefs of which improve at the See also:lower depths, the deepest See also:shaft on the field being 2558 ft. below the See also:surface-level. The gold is of a very See also:fine quality. An abundant See also:water-See also:supply is obtained from the Burdekin See also:river, some 8 m. distant. The See also:population of the town in 1901 was 5523; but within a 5 M. See also:radius it was 20,976. Charters Towers became a See also:municipality in 1877.

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