The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-12-01
CannibaIs Still Remain in Austria
Ian Desert.
Not Many Visitors to Australia Tempt
ed to Penetrate Center of Country
Everybody Says It's Vast
unexplored Region.


View York.-If you have a mind to
visit Australia it might be just as we'll
ito keep away from the center of the
continent, according to d. c. Cameron,
Ia Scotchman who has lived out there
for 20 years and who is now at the
Imperial Especially would MI. Cam
Ieron be disposed to recommend that
you refrain from travelling alone.
why? Cannibals-
Not that many visitors to Australia
Eare tempted to penetrate the center of
the country Everybody says It's a
vast u%nexplored region. a desert. But
sometimes a man goes out prospect
Fng and Is heard OF again. and
then down to civilization come tales
Pf how the bones of what had appar-
Iently been q white man had been
Wound bleaching about the remains OF
camp fire, and hen bit by bit the
fact comes out that the solitary seek
FER for gold had fallen into the hands
pf some OF b first families of the
fou.try and made a contribution to
fhe aboriginal table d'hote.
1t wasn't tc tell about this that Mr..
sober, practical business man, and he
Is in the United States to see how
milk Is manufactured here. Not the
calcereous beverage obtained by treat.
ment of disaphanizomenated aqua GRO
tona that used to find a ready market
here before some New Workers had
heard about cows. but powdered milk.
They are going to start a new manu-.
featuring industry in Australia and
Mr. Cameron is the general manager
of the company and he is travelling to
get points
Our factory is being built at a place
about 125 miles from Melbourne said
Mr.. Cameron within a radius of
four miles from 1t there are yielded
every morning from $4,000 to 170, 000
pounds of milk. That, Of course. is a
great cattle country: and there are a
lot of butter factories. OF curse a
great part Of the milk produced is con.
Suned by the butter factories; In the
spring the supply is such that the
waste cannot be consumed by the
calves and pigs In the neighborhood.
20 which it Is fed. We are building a
plant to cost $4,000. and an English
engineer IS installing machinery. l
nave been visiting factories in Canada
and Syracuse and l am now going over
90 England to study the process there.
We shall begin on a small scale, but
we expect the far east to furnish .
great market
Big holdings of land In Victoria
are rapidly going out. the big estates
being rapidly divided into smaller
properties and sold of. Just a month
before I left an estate of 1000 acres
was divided up and sold. ard a great
deal OF 1T realized $500 an 8 re. This
was not for city lots, mind you, OF
orchard land. but for what had been
dairy land for some years. A curious
thing about the sale was that the PEG
pie who bought were all residents OF
the district
What we call the bush is o Sc
EAR from Melbourne on one side" said
Mr. Cameron In answer to a question
I'm fact, it lies only about thirty miles
20 the west. The aboriginal inhabitants
are very few now and most of them
are kept In colonies by the govern
meat, corresponding somewhat to
your Indian reservations. In parts OF
western Australia. ! should say neal
the center of the continent, the blacks
are savages. and like their bit Of hu
man flesh at times. They are not q
fighting lot and don't believe they
Kill and eat one another to any extent
hut an occasional prospector gets In
among them and realizes his mistake
loo late
They are very fond of Chinese, too
and il a Celestial gets among then
they are apt literally to devour him
There used t be a lot more of Chinese