Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 144, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 October 1921 — Page 7

Trhruthe Bush Countryf)\i2Qns\and. Australia

BUSBAXE, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA—A friend of mine in New Zealand told me about a wonderful trip he had made by motor through the Australian “bush ’ country of north--westerc New South Wales and southwestern Queensland. So I decided to do the same. From Brewarrina, the railhead ‘in the state of Netv South Wales to Cunnamulla, the railhead in the state of Queensland, the distance Is estimated to be 200 miles. We made this by motor car. The country through which we passed would be called a park country in western United States. It Is composed of some open plains, a good deal of timber of the eucalyptus, or gum, varieties of different sizes ar i an undergrowth which we In the United States would call bush. The Australian, however, call the whole country “bush.” The standard rate for motor car hire in this country Is 2a cents a mile each way. There were three of us, so the rate was fair. But, because it happened to be

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Queensland’s forests are one of her greatest sources of wealth. At one time there was IndWrlmlnate destruction of valuable timber In the state but the forestry- det>artment i# now giving that cond Itl .n attention. There are magnificent belts of commercial timber in Queensland. The 'orest tlmher-getters are busy dragging out huge logs and hauling them to railway sidings whence they arc trucked to mills or exported In the log from Brisbane to the southern states. The picture above shows a team hauling timber In the lurrainsn district, Queensland. Some of the most valuable timbers in the state are white '*k, nu pie, red oak, crow-foot elm, silky oak, W’alnnt, rosewood. i -lar, kauri, black and red been and t-lfi? many varieties of the eucalyptus tree.

during the Easter holidays, the price was advanced 50 per cent. The driver was a man not long out from England, but he claimed he knew the road. His car was an old second-hand Hupmobile, the tires were not in very good condition and he took gas enough for the trip one way only. I knew when we started that in the whole £OO miles we would see only two ranch houses aud that between these two ranches, or “stations,” as they cail them, we would cover a hundred miles without seeing a living soul. The driver was lost from the time we got thirty-fir' l miles away from the starting point. I knew the general direction he was keeping was all right Because the sun was north of us and we were heading north all the time and Cnnnamuiia lay that way. DANGEROUS TRIP THROUGH WOOD3. At many points we traveled through “bush” country where no track was visible. Our greatest danger was that of becoming mired in the banks or bottoms of the Bmail creeks we had to cross. It began to get dark on us before 6 o'clock and we still had fifty miles to make. From that point Into Cunnamulla there was a road with very deep ruts, cut by the wheels of wool wagons, drawn by thirty oxen, and carrying loads of from six to eight tons of wool from the shearing pens to the railhead. This road was hard to negotiate in the dark. All hands frequently had to clamber out and help the driver back the car out of ruts or sand and once out of mire. We had started with a leg of mutton, some corned beef, two loaves of bread and a full waterbag. We ate sparingly at lunch because we fully expected never to get through that day and we did not know when we mig\it have a breakdown or get mired and some of us would havp to walk from twenty-five to fifty miles to get help. However, at 10 o’clock that night we saw the lights of the village ahead and we pulled up at the hotel Just as every one was going to bed and just as the gasoline in our car gave out! A little Greek restaurant in the town then supplied us with “the best hand and eggs we ever ate.” The driver was going to return early the next morning so I settled with him that night. The meter on the car reg lstered 198 miles and I thought 200 miles was a close guess, but I was uot prepared for the driver’s statement that the meter ran slow and that he had actually covered sixty miles more than was registered and for which we had to pay at the rate of 37’A cents a mile Altogether I paid 1175 for bringing us 200 miles, but it was worth it. In no other way could we have gained the personal information necessary to understand the Merino wool sheep industry of Australia. MANY GATES TO BE OPENED. The whole country Is divided into paddocks (fields) that may be one to five miles wide and running to some point where there is water, either creek or tank (waterhole). Ben and Taylor took turns about opening the gates. After the fiftieth gate I lost count. The last hundred miles we traveled through Queensland. We came Into the Btate through a gate in a 700-mile rabbit fence, six feet high, which separates the two states. This fence Is patrolled from one end to the other by outriders of one state cr the other and is kept constantly In repair. For years before I came to Australia I had heard more about the rfbbits eating up the country than anything else. But through this 200 miles of sheep and cattle country we never saw a rabbit! However, we did see a few kangaroos and emus. The New South Wales side of the fence Is giten over to sheep, but when we got on the Queensland side we found sheep for the first fifty miles, then ran Info country devoted to both cattle and sheep. The state of Queensland Is the cattle country of Australia. Hera is to be found fine gra. s for grazing, instead of herbiage. Sheep do very well on herbiage but cattle will eat it only when they can get nothing else. The average rainfall In Queensland, the tropical state extending from 29 degrees south to 10 degrees south of the equator, is plentiful except in the west and southwest part of the state. In this state can be grown every variety of food for man and beast. We had to lay over In Cunnamulla all the next day because It is the end of a branch line and trains run only twice a week. I was surprised to find when we get to the station in the early morning that the train had sleepers for the entire 600-mile run to Brisbane, the state capital on the east coast, and that it also was carrying a dining car where neat girls served us breakfast, lunch and dinner, tea In the forenoon and tea In the afternoon and, if we still happened to be hungry, sandwiches and light refreshments between hours. Evidently, the department which administers the 5.655 miles of 8 foot, 6 inch gauge state-owned railways in Queensland (the greatest mileage

of qfiy state In the commonwealth) is Inclined to see that its passengers do not go hungry, for about 4:30 o’clock the next morning the sleeping car porterconductor awoke the slumbering passengers to proffer morning tea and biscuits. although shortly after 7 o'clock •we were due to breakfast at one of the thirty-two lunch stands and dining rooms and saloons which the government operates along its railroads. CHEF GETS OUT AND PLUCKS 2 MELONS. The dining-car charges were most reasonable and the food good. I was much amused to see the chef climb out of the car at one sjtop and pluck two ripe watermelons from vines alongside the tracks, where in days gone by someone had thrown watermelon seeds from the dining car, wuich had taken root and flourished. It was a striking instance of the truth of the claim of the Queenslanders that

anything will grow in their state if it has water. The first day our way lay mostly through “bush” country very similar to that which we traversed by motorcar and devoted largely to cattle and some sheep. ’But we saw many broad acres of thickly growing, tall grass, much of it wild and some sown, which is one reason why Queensland feeds around 6,000,000 head of cattle a year, almost double that of any other state, and is the second sheepra'sing state, with 17.000,000 head. About dark we began to notice that the land was covered with cactus aud prickly pear aud we found it still alongside early the next morning. , In certain parts of the state these pests apparently cannot be wiped out aud unfit the land for farming, hut leave it in fair condition for the grazing of livestock. The closer we got to the coast, and the area of greater rainfall, the richer grew the land and the more it was cultivated. The ground has barely been scratched, howwer. for of its 429,120,000 across, less than 2,000,000 acres, is being cultivated. Sonia 300.000,000 acres are leased for grazing. Queensland has a population of nearly three quarters of a million people. The “White Austrlia" policy of the government prevents the Importation of

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yellow or black labor, which is the kind of labor that would bo able to make tropical Queensland produce the greatest quantities of things to eat which she is best able to grow. It is likely, then, that she will remain largely a cattle aud sheep and mining state and that agriculture and fruit raising ‘will remain for some t*me in second place. She has millions of acres which will carry vast herds of cattle and horses and Cocks of sheep, but these lands are as yet untouched. Her mines are very rich, but labor too high to work them. 5 ACRES REQUIRED FOR ONE SHEEP. The general run of the country will carry one sheep to five acres under normal conditions, but near the coast, where tame grasses are sown for pasturage purposes and where the ra.nfall is heaviest, there are places where for half the year three sheep may be grazed upon one acre. In the same places cattle and

horses are carried on an acre each, al- ! though the general run of the state re- | quires ten acres to one of either beast. ! Merino sheep are bred principally in the ; western portions, while In the coastal ! regions the British breeds and crossbred sheep are favored by the mixed farmers who raise sheep for both wool and mutton. The Merino requires much less water than other sheep, and I am told that th dry areas or the middlewest of Australia and the absence of much water is largely the reason why Australia alone can produce the finest Merino wool in the world. At the Bellevue Hotel, where we stopped In Brisbane, we bad dally reminders of the richness of Queensland 801 l in the shape of splendid fruits and the beautiful flowers which adorned all i the table*. I have seldom tested better fruit and was Interested to learn that the delicious bananas could be grown almost , to the very border of New South Wales, twenty nine degrees south of the equator. I know of no other country where ba i nanas grow so far from the equator. Sugarcane is responsible for about twoj thirds of the agricultural wealth of I Queensland. The state grows the bulk ! of the sugarcane which is needed to furi nish the commonwealth with sugar, but 1 the demand is getting ahead of the ?nt s

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production because of the demand for sugar in the ever-growing fruit ind .stry in Australia. With canning and preserving works springing up to take care of the products of the new fruit-growing districts opened up through imgation Australia has been forced to go abroad aud buy sugar. Again the question of labor enters into the matter. Cane raising is essentially a tropical industry and Ideal work when cheap colored labor can be obtained. Unless Queensland can get i white labor for its sugarcane plantations its ability to grow enough cane tc meet even the home demand will be some time in the future, go far the producers of sugar have bten paid a big bounty by the state government. Queensland ranks fourth among the states of the cominorweaith in the production of minerals, but she leads In none. She Is third in gold und second in copper, tin and coal. Mostly her mineral wealth is due to the wonj derful Mt. Morgan gold and copper mines jin the northeast section of the state, ; which were discovered in 1886 and which ! has had an output since then valued at $125,000,000. ! Bier 'forests are another source of ! wealth, but until recently the state of | Queensland has followed in the footsteps of her sister states and has permitted indiscriminate destruction of valuable timber, a mistake which she is seeking to rectify now by foresting in the state reserves. BRISBANE I’LEAS ANT CITY. We were glad that we were privileged to come into Queensland by the kitchen, as it were, to see for ourselves the country about which we had heard so much and to wind up in the parlor, which is * the capital city of Brisbuue. And I be-. lievo it was a good thing that we re- [ versed the usual order of things, for wo j found Brisbane very pleasant, our hotel a delight and the inclination to take | things easy difficult to resist. We aro | wondering how the big, nervous, bustling, I bustling cities of the United States will seem to us after spending these mouths in Australia and particularly sixteen days in Brisbane where the natural languor of tropical lands is cur.ously mingled with the steadiness aud aggressiveness of British blood. Our first views of Brisbane were from j one of those vehicles which sometimes are | designated as "sea going hacks," and it j was a full mile and a half from tho sta- I tion to the hotel. The ancient steed j which drew the hack along took his time j about it, but we did not car*. No one . seemed to be In any great rush and not j even we, whose lunch time had com© and j gone without food, felt Inclined to hurry j either. We came to Brisbane, a city of 200,000

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There is a saying that anything will grow in Queensland If you can give it water. Certainly the rich soil in the northern part of tiro state has proved it can grow anything that grows in other lands within the tropics. Peculiarly, fruits native to other countries and which have been transplanted to Australia, seem to grow larger and taste better. Here is a pineapple plantation In northern Queensland, tho homestead set up on the highest point and the surrounding hillsides covered with pineapple plants. The Queensland pineapple is said bv experts to surpass in taste that of Hawaii, where the whole crop is sold years before it is planted.

population, around the beginning of the Australian autumn and we discovered that the showers which fell at frequent intervals during our first day had been doing that same thing for a mouth. Ouo day we awoke to find it ruining and it rained steadily all day. During the last ten years the average summer heat was below 100 degrees and the greatest cold was over 36 degrees Scores Smoking Girls With Smeared Faces PATERSON, N. J., Oct. 26 - A warning against the “smoking girl” was given by Rev. Frank MacDonald in a sermon on “The Young Woman a Y’oung Man Should Marry.” lie also declared he never would use the word “obey" in the marriage service. Girls who smear up their faces are spoiled daughters, the pastor said. “Women were not put on earth to be doll-babies or playthings," he declared He pictured his ideal as the young worn an who is willing to go on a “fifty fifty" basis. She must be a womanly woman, not the kind who emulates men by smoking and in dress.

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above zero. As for us, we found the weather very comfortable. It was not unpleasantly warm by day and by night i one could use a blanket with comfort. From tho window of my room I saw j across the street a dignified building a block long and almost as deep. It was , tlie ouilding which houses the parlia- ; tnent of Queensland, the meeting 4>lace of the men who have passed more freak | laws than any other governing body in I the world and who have Bought by means I of legislation to cure all the evils of the ; state. For Queensland has had for many | years a labor government with Socialistic ideals. They have had every opportunity to work out all the various things which we are told ought to be worked out in order to achieve an ideal government.

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attempting to get him to swear falsely, fhrown out of court, because Boy-Ed was a citizen of a country with which wa are at war and an alien enemy. The case grew out of a divorce suit Boy-Ed's wife had brought The court ruled Boy-Ed was a German citizen and could not testify. and the was thrown out of court.

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