New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-07-10
AUSTRALIAN GOLD REEFS.
RICH AND NUMEROUS. BUT EXPENSIVE
TO WORK.
WANT OF WATER SERIOUS DRAWBACK IN
WEST AUSTRALIAN GOLD FIELDs-A DOUBT
AS TO THE DEPTH OF THE VEINS


WEST AUSTRALIAN GOLD FIELDs-A DOUBT
AS TO THE DEPTH OF THE VEINS
Perth, Australia correspondence Of The birmns'
ham Post ..,s.
The time is rapidly approaching when these nelds
point Up the present no one VINO nas ev mental
ed weS to aDpse the eds a, their value
Either the extraordinary ESmneSs h oi visitor t to the
great difficulties the miner has to contend against
or has been the case WIN thn many abssnce of roads
and water have prejudiced the unhappy trav ,
and sent him home hopeless nva.n' WITH 'au"
This colony has gone ahead so rapidly, ana to peg
pies minds have been 50 ~ he
that no one put here can realize that the gay OF .ne
Ss sas1 H es s,SSs o
This colony has sxporsd Of up Which TO d sss Sss
western Australia may we'll be proud Of Blu! b ses
show a steady falling off each month Rich out ;
crops are no longer crushed In rude pest;e ana
saS f to the sqsss
Country is now reefng country ana must Ttan r0 Oe
s H aIm at depth we require cheap labor cheap
machinery and an unlimited supply OF wat Ter. TO-
Ss ons Of the mines
pay work unless the ore n over y TnSds r 70
tn nsn ton In the IN States less than half that has
made made such mines. as the Alaska TrsadSsll; the
Homestake-twO OF the nest properties w WIZ.
EVERY excuse must be made for new ned-me
void OF water: the dangers OF typhoid and dysenery
the Inposslbiity OF getting any fresh meat or vege
tables the absence OF rainfall and tho lack OF rail-
ways have Handicapped Western Australia as pos
siby no other new gold field has ever been handi-
CAPPED But the field Is now nearly five years Old
For the last two years II has had the advantage OF
unlimited money and unlimited publicity something
should therefore have been done to overcome the
initial difficulties.
THE PREVALENCE OF TYPHOID.
regret TO have to say that at present nothing OF
any account has been done Typhoid rs rampant.
There are practically sanitary arrangements even
In Coogardle. Il town OF 6,WO inhabitants. or IN
Perth the seat OF government and the capital. The
soil is sand, and this Is now saturated WITH sewage
In ali the mining camps. The fever germs remain In
the hot soil undestroyed and as vrulent az ever.
The summer heat Ii tremendous but It could easily
The air IL dry ard bracing. and the nights are al
ways cool-sJmctimes actually cold: The colony
with ordinary care might he made one OF the
heathest spots upon Gods earth. At present II IL
a hotbed OF fever. The Government spends large
sums o? money In building and keeping up hospitals
but half the money directed In a right direction
would do away with two-thirds OF the hospitals
Government. for without health no colony can
progress. Except upon the narrow belt OF land
which bounds the sea line. fresh water is unpro,
durable In any quantity. There rivers and
no lakes. The surface OF the land Is an undulatlng
sandy desert covered with trees and scrub. so We
have got 10 this point-that. without any adequate
water supply, mining will come to standstill and
the health OF the colony rapidly deterlorate. And
efforts are being made to overcome the difculty.