Show I I I Conditions in i Australia Booming r EC USE the celebrated boom bm period pero BECAUSE D In gold mining In Australia died out Et years cOn ago a o the public ns as ni u a general thing hats has hit grown to consider tho tue biggest bl Jest Island In the world as n n a sort of dead proposition from the standpoint of or rapid growth In iii population und ned in wealth Yet nothing could be further from tho to truth for tor Australia u sent out last Int year moro moT s gold ld than ever the Island produced In It I its history totaling In nil ni In itt gold goM bullion whereas In 13 there thero was only I mined However the fact that tho the gold fields fods are ure all al now note practically long since staked out ont and belong to organized or companies with thousands of or stockholders has bus taken the Australian gold old hells fields out oll of oC the thc news newspapers newspapers papers and only accounts of or romantic discoveries of or proportionately small mall quan quantities titles tiles of or gold Jold by lIy n a poor starving minor miner arc ura occasionally seen Been Oo On the other hoed baud the tie fact aC that Australian gold companies have hyc grown enormously rich during tho the r past few tess years ear huts has only been mentioned III In till tho annual reports of o the tho th various or companies owning the thc mutes mines Hut Dut Australia u has bus another source of wealth not so spectacular ns nM the gold nelds but yielding far tar sums Mums of or money these c are ore the vist herds of oC sup superb up orb erb Irh sheep whoso wool Is I acknowledged the very er finest ln t In nil ni the tue world It I tales u It fiock tock of 2000 2 O sheep In Australia to keep kecI the average family In comfort Tho Tue lund land needed to 10 this many lunny to 10 ground for or wheat growing In with lh all 01 the tho necca imry tools will wi cost about ZO Of vt course few te en emigrants to Australia are worth tills this full tul hut but the gee gov government 10 of oC the provinces sell sel tho the tholand theland land on long anti and easy cn I ms and so PiO O Is I amply to start the tho family So rapIdly do tb these families acquire In Independence independence dependence that In front from three a to finn Iro years they usually p ply y off or the Indebted Indebtedness ness nels of oC tho thu government This Is 19 shown I of course by 11 the books kept kert of ot the amounts owing to 10 the tho Ilo government by hr the 1 emigrants Wages run front from 2 to t 4 1 per I day tl for skilled and an unskilled laborers and nod il this leland IH is II really rea I nn an extremely ly wealthy section 1 of ot the globe globe J I Ii IiI I V |