Show l Western Australia Is coming to the fore with giant strides The yield 1 l of gold from there began in 1SSG and that year amounted to 302 ounces In 1898 the Amount had swelled to 1050183 ounces The figures for the first nine months of last year were 1160000 ounces valued val-ued at 22000000 and this year promIses prom-Ises a still greater product i a The result has been a transformation of that region though the people who had settled there prior to the discovery of gold were as tough as ever follows when Ignorance and poverty Join hands to eke out a meanexistence in a country coun-try which Is practically beyond all the refining Influences of civilization Now railroads connect the agricultural coast country with the mines r which are far within the desert and the market supplied by the mines has converted large areas which were but pasturelands pasture-lands into fruitful fields and It Is predicted Jhat J by next year all the breadstuffs and fodder needed by the mines will be produced at home The farmers too are planting fruit trees and In a small way have begun to establish es-tablish dairies v The vitalizing Influence of gold in developing de-veloping a country find softening down a rude people Is In full evidence in Western Australia |