The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-01
AUSTRALIA TODAY.
Two-Thirds Of 1t Desert, Yet Pro-
ductiveness lis Enormous.

A"o-4hIrds OF 1t Desert, Yet Pro-
ductiveness Us Enormous.
e. Sheridan DoweII in Ainslee's.
Iurn to the picture of Australia as
sne Is today. The land which these men
opened, In size is nearly five -sixths the
area of the United States, containing
z,Sl3,OOO square miles against 1902 900
Square miles Of our country But while
IN IN extent Australia stands as % is to s.
IN population she is only at 1 to rs or
ner 4,0O9O00 inhabitants only 200 900 are
aDorlglnes, whose number has been
steadily declining, not because of hos
tility on the part of the settlers b,1t az
IL py inherent degeneracy in the face of
the new conditions Moreover. there are
4,VU Cinnamon and half-caste Chinese;
and in recent years restrictive measures
nave been adopted to prevent the in
e, ess of Hindoos and other Asiatie i'm
migrants. The bulk of her people. of
oo .sT,wo, are h colonists from England.
IWo-thlrdS of the Australian CONT
nenI IS desert, and yet her productive
n ness Is enormous. This land contains
f over one ne, hundred million sheep, be-
Tween thirty ard thirty-fiVe million head
OF cattle and horses 1t has given 70
the commerce Of the world over SO jO)CC0
III goo, copper, coal and tin. The two
P paJ-o OF Ballara and Bondigo alone
d ia produced Sl00, 100000 of gold, and
as as L1uch more has come from the great
dainDaroora and Landing Flat in New
nuaiy M yar u It oa sends en0 to England an
mutton. UeS anu
Consider the sheep alone: Forty years
ON 006 1nr no output OF wool amounted to 81
oCo,oV0,OoO pounds. Australia furnishes
one,Iourth of the worlds wool and Of
sue f5en :. quality as to make it one-third Of
e ear tocai value. 1t is recorded that the
10y co!onlSts used to kill their sheen
SIMPLY for the fleece and taIIoW IeaV1
iHs the meat for the dogs. Later thev
b hone c 20 export canned mutton to the
was introduced Australia began her shin
iuenls OF frozen mutton which have
crown amazingly, until in 1900 these ex-
ports amounted to POS Goo. 600 no11nJS
Meanwhile her shipments of p4 4innaG
meats steadily advanced reacti,,o In1.t
year 100000 pounds last
,,d GQ0K Tor moment over her mineral
~ ~ III Tor year: Because of the war
III the ITansvaal and an immense ninino,
GSFelopment In West Australia the ne11
TS6o era in 1899, with $50 COG, 900 output
Ieu the world in product of gold Rv COR
slant gains her silver product has he
come TO equal one-ninth of the worlds
supply. For the past year her total min
ed Ia DO output amounted to nearly $780,
VvV,O0V, or US to every inhabitant Her
mineral possibilities in copper. tin lead.
antlnleny, iron, quicksilver and coal can.
not be oVerestimated
. AS result of her astonishing fertiI-
lty, Australian shipping has reached fine
total of 2O0G0.000 tons. Her first railway
that from Sydney to Parramatta-was
oPSlleu IN $500 1t was only fourteen
miles in length. Today she owns Is. zoo
miles of railways. A curious light on her
prosperity is the fact that she has a. mil
hon Items in her daily mail. in propor-
tlon to her population the highest aver
age In the world
What is more remarkable is that this
colossal national wealth has been built
UP by only four million people. AS a
consequence. average individual wealth
IN Australia is the highest in the world
for instance, let us compare the child
with the parent-Australia with Eng
land Australians revenue for this year
Will probably exceed $780, 000,00O, which
sum is nearly one-third that of Eng
lands But with only one-third that oS
E,ngland'S population Australia is. there's
fore, Individually three and third times
there are the savings banks, with S7OO.s
100000 in deposit. This gives $50 per hea&
to the people of Australia again the
highest average in the world -