The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-07-14

Copyrighted 1901, by Frank G. Carpenter)
Brisbane, Queensland.
Queensland Is the coming country Of the
The good lands of Victoria have long
since been taken up, New South Wales
u fairly well developed, and South
Australia and West Australia are so
largely desert that they can never sup
port great population. 1t is different
with Queensland. The state has vast tracts
|of arid land, which it expects to use
through artesiau wells. 1t has already re-
deemed a country twice as great as the
State of New York, and l am told that thu
most of the vast area beyond the coastal
ITange is underlald with subteTanean lakes
and streams, which will furnish water fW
lst0ck The cultivated lands are increasing
every year. The government is slowly but
surely pushing the railroads on into tLe
INTERIOR and enough pastures for lS,oOo'Vvu
sheep are now in use, Queensland has a.
1ready more cattle than all the rest of Aus
4 all sorts of tropical fruits and crops are
being raised with labor from the South sra
Islands,
The Newest England.
But let me tell you something of this
Frontier colony of Australia, which may be
scalled The Newest England" of thfse
! English south lands. Queensland Is a piln-
scipalty in itself, 1t comprises the Moth
#eastern quarter of the Australian coati-
fnent, having a coast as long as from Sew
4 York city to the Great Salt Lake. In d.
erect line from North to South II is as long
+ ps from Washington to Omaha, and f-om
4 East to West about as long as from Wash
&lngton to Chicago. 1t is half again as large
rs all our Atlantic states from Main' to
Florida. II is four times as big as france,
Hlhd twelve times the size of England and
Il ales. The York peninsula at the North
&u IN, II Is larger than Ireland, and the state
Nal told would make seventeen staiet as
tlalge as Ohio, or more than thirteen the
Xsize OF New York. Queensland contains
HogsSOp square miles, or 42T, 100000 acres, OF
8Wach less than 100000 are cultivated,
me entire upper half of 1t is troplsal. II
n " not far from the equator, and the coast
ahas VIII raise all sorts of tropical fruits
&eld crops There are more than 10000
lsoiee ID sugar, and eighty sugar mills. The
II nsaE business is In the hands of trust
~ u increasing the product 0veV year,
eS WV which Is now making something like
sois tons OF sugar annually. In the SAME
Zion coffee plantations are helng started,
asie are extensive rice fields, aud pine
bIsfs and all sorts OF tropical fruits are
o mseu Tor shipment 10 the cities further
o OSsn, Last year the exports amounted TO
s. ,U'nrSH,nYe million dozen bananas, half n
lt tllvn dozen pineapples and million and
Iralt dozen oranges.
me lower half of Queensland Il much
rn.. northern Florida There are large
sSSsts, such as the Darling Downs which
H. SOIL as rich as the Red Rive valley.
49, you md all sorts of crops. Including
sr, corn and alfalfa. Some OF The land
In ~ ~ told Is too rich to raise what, until
$500 uss oeen tarmed for few year.. Some
II rgdpneeS no bushels OF corn to he acre.
~ on some farms two crops a,e raised
d si,aSittss r. great deal Of money Z made
.Eisras ia ~ grows very rank, anC In some
sear az manN as nine crops are dIt In one
y Ne eacn cutting producing from one 20
tons per acre, 1t Is not uncommon for
afnnrsr,t 70 get hundred dollars phr acre
n No OUT OF alfalfa. This is, u course,
Dc fsr 1sITy pest farms. As general thing
! ne rraa.1lng Is carelessly done. Che seeds
Il u.sreV sown and the crop realed. There
theias. artificial fertilization. nut never
n AZ lue farmers make money
Aafsa present. most of the land s held In
rolnnriseS 49, mere are single fans witch
holds ~ ooVo square miles, and there are
ernns.. enat are ten miles square The GOV.
sna se still owns 81 per cent of all the
seqs In the state, and Il leases ut large
Farmers " tue squatters and su'"il
~ ne government and the Firmers.
ne government Of Queensland Is a sort
' ~ ,pairarchial Institution for iursing the
s Both town and country demand all
NJ ~ things OF It. Not long &c a depu
,allsd upon the officials hfe at Bris
Il a. enu demanded that they should ex.
nl as 10 raising certali kinds OF
"a The demand In this cae was pre-
+ ..,g and the official angry said:
NE can't spend the State mney In thai