Tin Dog Creek
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Tin Dog Creek is a small watercourse in Dowerin, Western Australia
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The name is said to have come from gold miners
travelling to the Yilgarn
goldfields who called their tinned beef "tinned dog" and would discard tins at the creek.
Dowerin, Western Australia
Dowerin is a town and shire located north-east of Perth in the central Wheatbelt region of Western Australia.-History:In 1906 the government extended the railway from Goomalling to the developing Dowerin Agricultural Area and decided to develop a townsite at the terminus...
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The name is said to have come from gold miners
Gold mining
Gold mining is the removal of gold from the ground. There are several techniques and processes by which gold may be extracted from the earth.-History:...
travelling to the Yilgarn
Southern Cross, Western Australia
Southern Cross is a town in Western Australia, 371 kilometres east of Perth on the Great Eastern Highway. It was founded by gold prospectors in 1888, and gazetted in 1890. It is the major town and administrative centre of the Shire of Yilgarn...
goldfields who called their tinned beef "tinned dog" and would discard tins at the creek.