Broken Hill was founded in 1883 by a boundary rider called Charles Rasp who patrolled the Mt Gipps fences. In 1883 he
discovered what he thought was tin but when the samples came back they were Silver and Lead instead of tin and the ore body they came from became the largest and richest of its kind in the world. The Broken Hill
Proprietary Company ( BHP) was founded by the Syndicate of Seven (see mines link) to mine the ore body of Broken Hill in 1885. But in the early days there was water shortage and the mines and the people fought for
water so they would ship water on trains from the Darling River. Till 1952 when Broken Hill's demands for a permanent water supply were met with the completion of the construction of the pipeline to Stephen's
Creek. The city isolation was big problem till the Adelaide narrow gauge rail link was finished in 1888 and the construction of a rail link to Sydney. |
