Ogden Daily Standard | 1920-02-18 | Page 3 | Explorer Finds Fine Australian Lands

j Explorer Finds Fine I Australian Lands j MELBOURNE, Feb. IS. David J Lindsay, the explorer, has discovered 3 large tracts of agricultural land' in the j northern territory of Australia which previously had been marked on the I maps as desert land. Tho explorer reports re-ports that water is freely obtainable at a shallow depth and that cotton can be successfully grown in the region. i ' He asserts that cotton already is grow- 1 ing wild over scattered areas there. ' David Lindsay v. ho was born in Aus-i Aus-i 1 tralia in 1856, has carried out wide i lours of exploration in the country. 2 Notablo among his discoveries was the existence of a large auriferous area in I west Australia in JS90, which resulted ' 3, in the finding of the greajL gold fields in that region. :1 1 oo