The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-02-08
A PROSPEROUS STATE.
New south Wales, Australia, Shows
Remarkable Developmc mt.

New South Wales, Australia, Shows
Remarkable Development.
The agricultural and industrial activ-
Ity of New South Wales, Australia, Is
improving constantly. Last year the
State produced in dairying and allied
interests goods valued at $17,000,0O0,
this sum including, in addition to butter
and cheese, the profits on swine, poul-
try farming and the rabbit industry.
The butter exported from the State
weighed nearly 20,O00O00 pounds. and
brought to the owners $4,090,000, which
was an addition to the public wealth of
the State. The output of bacon and
hams has increased nearly $50 per cent
since 1895.
Utilizing a pest, the rabbit Indus
| try is rapidly assuming the Importance
Of staple. During last year, 3,150,S00
pairs of rabbits and hares were export
ed, in addition to 4,593,961 pounds Of
rabbit and hare skins, the value Of the
whole amounting to S1,572,2G0, or dou-
BILE that of the previous year. There
was also an increased export Of poul-
try, almost the whole of which went to
South Africa and Asiatlc ports.
The number of sheep in New South
Wales In 1905 was estimated at 10000
Co., an increase of 20 per cent over the
record of 1904.
There were also 100000 cattle and
100000 horses in the State. The horses
exported to- countries outside the COM
monwealth numbered 5,406, and were
valued at $594,820. The wool exports
aggregated $67 7,231,30O, an increase Of
more than 10 per cent; and the live
sheep exports were valued at $7,304, 800.
The meat exports were $3,079,S35, or
almost $50 per cent more than those Of
1904.
In mineral production, too, New
South Wales is constantly adding to
her past records. In 1904 this produc-
ton was valued at $31, 100000; last
year it reached $35,0S9,7OO Its posi-
bilities are described as enormous. Coal
constituted about one-fifth Of the out
put, and copper and lead each one-sev-
enth. Silver increased to $1,441 900,
more than 40 per cent beyond the rec
ord for 1904; tin to $2,330,O0O, while
spelter, which showed a production of
1896, ,430 In 1904, figured at $6,754, ,715
in the market values of last year. There
are many known deposits Of kerosene
shale of payable quality in New South
Wales, but kerosene is imported from
the United States and elsewhere.
The tonnage Of shipping entering
Sydney harbor amounted to 4,697, 7,511
or nearly half that of Liverpool, and
more than that of Hull, Cape Town
Bremen, Havre, Copenhagen, Boston OF
Shanghai Prosperous conditions arc
evident on all sides. The savings banks
show a handsome increase in deposits
The value of deposits last, year was
$67, ,491 ,260. Sixteen thousand more de
lpositors held accounts than during the
previous year, and their deposits aver
i age $18.65 for the year.
Less than one-seventieth of the 80,
900 square miles of the State has beer
turned over by the plough, but the pro
duction last year averaged $55, 9
square mile Of the entire area. The
population on December 81 was 1,47S,
600 and the total wealth produced dur
ing the year was $3.50 head for every
man, woman and child Very few, II
any, States In the world can rival this
lnroSnerous record