Show THE NEWEST TOWN ON EARTH by mckinzie Mount Morgans west autralia Amt ralia nine since mount marons morons ana 1 an waste in tho de alt tlc alc dearest of iny tw was weeks away and the journey bullot peril none act out on it without long ar of those who started taking lari ua ae their guide the bf several lie still in tha lush around tonight I 1 go up to roy loom from iho regular five course hotel dinner and switch on the electric light to write this artilo it ia hard to realize ven naw nsw one h on alio very outa kirti ot civilization we have luxury untold abundant water both for washing and drinking the of the room would not discredit maple and pos from him I 1 must draw down my blind to shut out the glare of the electric arc lamps in the street below mount morgan prides itself on being tho newest town worthy to be called a town on earth OUT CLAIM 3 population oho thousand awo firc brigance a bra band water cupply electric light telegraphs and a weekly newspaper there will soon be a railway station tor the line from the chaet is being laid quickly as hands a secure sleeper to sleeper and rail to rail until apo locomotive cornea we have to contented be with the old fash boned coach and four there are tareo churches anglican wesleyan Wea leyan and salvation army the number of hotels 1 cannot give but they must be counted coun teI by the dozen for he bubines bu sines of liquor merchant is a profitable one in west ralia the streets are broad after a manner that london might envy awl run in straight luea and at right angle atop of tho hill stand ont the works 0 the gold mine on chichi the town depends the making of a town like this is not without interest at airet any man can pitch hid tent anywhere but niter i time the a hand 1 thus when population grew the government warden declared that mount morgans would be made a township and first comers could stake and secure quarter acre residence claims there was a generals holiday and each man stood around bis arms full 0 regulation pegs and mallet at a given moment a whistle was blown every one rush eato peg kuhis ou his claim tharo were many fights next hour aej then it was found that the best claims were pegged twenty times over each ap ready to edcar that his pegs were in first it lay nith the warden of mount margarets eight miles away to decide the claims must bo re staked he declared scarcely were the bordi out ot hia mouth before the entire assembly rushed out towards tho new township TOWN ON WHEELS the town sprang up As men grew tents rave way to weatherboard weather board ing mount morgans fitek while the neighboring town of margarets declined then the ahola town of margarets transferred itself to morgans houses and all for a weatherboard weather board house can camuy bo removed on wheel A post office and inland revenue office appeared and morgans itself sc men arc bringing their wives and there is a schoolhouse open THE MARKET AT MOUNT MORGANS aker was formerly a shilling a drink but the miners struck and after a hot fight forced the publicans public ans to reduce it to thirst at morgans is a very real thing arwe lie on the edge of the great al kalino desert the hot red sand blows avery where in the three worst summer months from december to february the thermometer day b day registers considerably over in the shade one week last summer it stood cypis day at and on a recent christmas day it registered degrees the air sucks up moisture as a sponge and will dry up any open stream in a short time by the simple process ot evaporation irv time no sane person thinks 0 going a mile out of the settled track unless he has a well sup plied water bag n hand the great bush around us stretching into infinity antu it looks from the hilltop hill top a great seaon green influences all our lives and thoughts prospectors are continually passing through our streets taft camel band walking slowly past the hotel cknight may irr a month find death or fortune in the unknown beyond every mother warns her children continually that they must never stray in the woods and backs her warnings by dreadful tales all too true now and then tribes of aborigines make their way in from the bubb beg ging for food there is little or no fear of violence from them ugly horrible pitiful the most wretched and debased of all peoples no thoughtful white can gaze at them without mixed emotions 0 l and remorse r repulsion at their enatt remorse at the thought of what civilization has brought them to THE the lie beyond desert of pin and eaird odthe of the hard patchy a eliat cuts horses hoofs and niarra progress almost of sand that barches parches and drive to desperation those caught in its embrace jt ii desert without and without water and yet there arc men hero mho will repeat the bravest journeys of alio preil ex of history and ot them one limekiln lime kiln owner for instance went right acroca the desert tol hill in ft light cart accompanied by one black tracker a few acara ago to buy aonie cheep and returned ironic tho vi ay A year afterwards he again and carefully picking lua seasons droe a herd of cattle and sheep across the journey took nine months and kimt rank among tho most courageous jour neye ever done the man till elivea at his kalns kilns and if you to ask him about the trip he would probably reply that he wanted bis stock and so went and pot mount morgans is a town with a future it is town of pioneers and ot brave men clean orderly and deserving all the good fortune that 13 comine to it |