Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 168, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1911 — Australian Ranchers. [ARTICLE]

Australian Ranchers.

The squatters In Queensland Australia, are the equivalent of the ranchers in Canada and the United States. They opened up the country and generally acquired enormous holdings, and, after a few years of hardship, lived like princes. Of course, during the droughts they suffer, but on the whole they are a well-to-do class of highly intelligent, well-educated men. The largest station in Queensland is Warenda, 600 square miles. Some of the large stations carry immense flocks of 160,000 to 200,000 sheep, and in goodjseasons their profits are enormous. One pastoral company In Queensland owns 600,000 sheep. The ordinary sheep station carries from 20,000 to 40,000 sheep.