The Work of Wealth of Queensland: Being a Sketch of the Progress and Resources of the Colony and Its Daily LifePole, Outridge, 1897 - 76 oldal |
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abundant acres agricultural alluvial Artesian Australian BLACKALL RANGES Bundaberg bush butter Cairns cane capital Central Sugar Mill Charters Towers coast colony Cooktown copper Creek crop cultivation Darling Downs district employed exported factory feet fence field finds flock freeholds goldfield Government grass grazing farmer ground Gympie Herberton horses HYDRAULIC SLUICING immigrants interest Isis Central kanakas KANGAROO POINT labor land lease look Mackay maize manufacture miles milking herd mill-owner miners mines months Mount Morgan Mulgrave River North Queensland opal ordinary paddock pastures Patrick Leslie payment Ploughing portion present produce profitable purchase Queens Queensland Turf Club race railway reef residence rich richest Rockhampton Russell River scrub season selector settlement shearer Sheep SLUICING FOR GOLD soil South Brisbane South Wales Station stream sugar industry Thursday Island timber tion towns tropical Victoria VIEWS wealth WESTERN QUEENSLAND winter yards yield
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50. oldal - The most striking features of the country are mountains of pure specular and magnetic iron ore. One of these, Mount Leviathan, is about 200 feet high and a quarter of a mile in diameter at its base. It is singular to reflect that these deposits, which, if they were located in England, would be colossal fortunes to their owners, are at present absolutely valueless owing to their geographical position.
41. oldal - ... dusky lustre, all incurious of its worth— To have trod for years upon it, I above, and Fortune under— To have scattered it a thousand times like seed upon the earth! Who shall say I am not justified who curse my day of birth? To have built my hovel o'er it— to have dreamed above it nightly— Pillowed on the weal of thousand lives, and dead unto my own! Planning paltry profits wrung from year-long toil, and holding lightly What lay acres-wide around me, naked, bright, or grass-o'ergrown—...
61. oldal - United Kingdom will prove the chief market, and as it is one for which there will ever be a keen competition, so it will be imperative that the article exported shall be of the very best quality. Denmark is at present the principal source of supply, and the exports from that country in 1895 amounted lo 1 3o,ooo,ooolbs.
30. oldal - Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific, and his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise," — if Keats could say this, whose mind had been unconsciously * Louis XIV.
42. oldal - ... per acre. The portion of the Mount which was outside Gordon's fence was subsequently secured under mining lease. Of the real value of their acquisition the Morgans had no conception, but that it would pay handsomely to work they were confident. To treat the stone it was necessary to erect a battery, and for this their resources were entirely inadequate. They proposed, therefore, to a Rockhampton resident a sale of half their interest for -£2,000, the money to be devoted to the purchase of machinery.
26. oldal - Two or more selectors of agricultural homesteads may associate for mutual assistance under license from the Land Board. A selector may perform conditions of residence for himself and any other member of the association, provided that at least...
69. oldal - ... and admire the wonderful grace of their movements, before they finally turn and continue their flight beyond the horizon. As he rides along he will see the plain turkey or Australian bustard, warily watching him as it sidles away through the grass or spreads its great wings to look for grasshoppers at a safer distance. This bird is excellent eating, and weighs as much as 2olbs.
70. oldal - He will be astonished to learn that this is a bird's nest. The scrub turkey, an excellent table bird, rather smaller than the fowl-yard specimen, constructs this great mound in which to deposit its eggs, which are hatched by the sun. Strange forms of life are interesting to any observer, but doubly so to the naturalist and man of science, and such will find in Queensland an entrancing field of investigation.
52. oldal - Queensland, demand, both in Europe and America, I am of opinion that mining for the precious gem ought to be placed on some more satisfactory basis than at present exists. There are, I am certain, tens of thousands of pounds...
44. oldal - GOLP. electricity and kept going continuously night and day. The top of the Mount has been quarried away, and on this portion, which received the overflow of the Pactolian geyser, was the richest deposit. Whilst this portion was being treated, from ^ 100,000 to ^"125,000 was distributed monthly in dividends, and though these sensational returns have now ceased, the company pay ^"25,000 a month with perfect regularity, and are likely to continue doing so for many years.