This is most difficult. There is no central bureau where you can ascertain anything. The Government asked me to go to Lawler's. I looked it up, and found it 200 miles N. by W. of Menzies. WA is no place for a poor man.
Expenses are enormous.
Pub. in Menzies 12s. Better to camp under a quandong tree, with a sheet over it, and eat 'dog', than live in a pub. As regards medicine, the field in the Coolgardie and in the Murchison districts is more than fully occupied. Until the gold areas are more developed, and more miners about, or until the seasons get unhealthier, or drink or typhoid work havoc among the present G.P's, I certainly advise men to think twice before coming here. Any fee less than a guinea, and several of them daily, cannot possibly compensate a graduate of London or the colonies or elsewhere for the hardships, the discomforts, the lack of the necessities, even the decencies, of life, not to mention little water, intense heat, and famine prices.