The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-07-21

md rent mud sell machines in the same
way as In America. Nou can buy all kinds
Of American cameras here, and the Amer
can bicycle is to be seen everywnpre So
| far no wagons to speak of have been I'm.
ported. but there is n good demand for
parts OF our carriages and wagons and |
| think this field might be developed
The Australian Is fond of show He
likes a good horse aud a good buggy. and
| some of the rubber tired rigs which are
now being made in America might be sold
here at a pront.
one OF the best pushers of American
trade In Australia Is our consul at sydney
George w Bell. lie Is well acquainted with
tho markets and IL doing considerable good
He tells mo that many Of our goods sold
that some Of the importatiOns come n
London. This is so OF fencing wire, both
barbed and smooth Of which vast deal
Is used and also Of silver plated ware.
watches and clocks
In woolcns. cottons and other cloths the
SUPPLY comes chiefly from England and
pust American goods OF this Kind. and
the low freight rates TO Europe operate
could he built M IN American cottons ana
as soon as the tralsisthmian canal is COM
| plcted there will undouhtedly be large sh.p
mCnts Of calicoes, shlrtiHgs aud .denlms
American Corn for Australian Sheep.
Ono OF the great markets Of thr future
I for the corn OF the Mississippi valley viii
| frequent dpouths and M such times food
for stock Is, an imperative necessity. In
! Queensland saw green oats straw selling
| for $40 ton, and ! was told that several
! shipioads OF corn had been imported from
the Pacific States by that State to feed It's
cattle and sheep. There has been q great
| thousands. One man who had lS,00D sheen
ard nothing to feed them paid sac ton
| 70" American corn. nc soaked u and
One who has not visited Australia can
! have no Idea OF the need Of food in time
| OF drouth Within the past ten yenrs mil
vast numbers Of thirst. This state Of New
| South Wales had G2OOo.O01 sheep in 1891
| II has not more than 4l.VOl,O nov WIN
| in ten yenrs the number has fallen IN moro
| than 20.0o00O0 Estimating each sheep az
$50. this means a loss Of S9D00iOO IN
! the capital stock Of the squhtters In one
/ state only There have been large loss in
/ south Australia. Victoria and Queensland.
| am told that numbers OF sheep de almost
mast ten years have been almost continu.
The Horrors Of the Drouth
You feed not 90 far in Australia 70 hear
Of the horrors Of the drouth. You can
easily meet a man who has lost a fortune
by dry weather. Men sometimes go crazy
on their stations far off in the interior
because the rain fG1is to come They
| have thousands Of acres aud tens Of thon.
| sands Of sheep. AID they have 10 sit and
/ watch the animals die before their eyes
! knowing they can not feed them. The
] drouths clear the land Of everything green
! The pastures become as bare as the roads
/ and the sheep stagger about. nosinG In the
| dust for the seeds Of grasses and trees.
/ sometimes trees ore cut down 70 give them
food. One man who had 1000 acres Of land
| kept 100 men busy cutting on tho hranchcs
! OF his apple. oak and other trees to feed
tho sheep They eat the leaves ana even
the small twigs. This same maH had an
oifei force Ekinning dead sheep and an
sheep when they fell down and could MOI
rise n their own accord This Is 10 keef
them from the carbon crows. which hover
about ever them and pick out their eyes
II they fall
Rabbits and kanaaroos.
During these dTouths the rabbits die Al
wen as the sheep. They. drop dead outside