The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-07-21
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New York, N. Y.-If goufGhaye 9
mind 10 visit Auctralia VI might be
Just as! well to keep away from TING
center Of the comment, according tc
D. c. Cameron, scotchman, who Ia.
lived out there for 20, years and wins
is now at the Imperial. Espeeialls
would Mr.. Cameron be dspp:edl u
recommend that you refrain From
travelling alone. Why? Cannibelss
Not that many visitors 10 Australia
are tempted to penetrate the center
Of The country. Everybody says It's
a vast unexplored region, desert.
Butsometimes a man goay out pros.
rectfng and is never heard Of again
and then down to civilization come
tales Of how the bones Of what had
apparently been a white man I, had
been found bleaching about the re.
mains Of a camp. fire, and then hit
by bit she fact comes out that the
solitary seeker Of gold had fallen into
the hands Of some Of the first famil
les Of the country and made con
tribution TO the aboriginal table
de'hote. ~
1t wasn't to tell about this that Mr.
Cameron came to- New York Heeis
a sober, practical business man. and
he is In the United states to see. how
milk is manufactured there. j.. 3: i,
Not the calcareous beverage obtained
by treatment of disaphaaIzomera' cd
aqua ctotona that used to find ready
market here before some New York
ers had heard about COWS, lbut pow.
dered milk.
They are going to start new man.
ufacturing industry in Australia and
Mr.. Cameron is the general manager
Of the company and he Is travelling
to get points. 8! itom
"0ur factory is being built at 6
place about 1926 miles from Mel
bourne" said Mr.. Cameron with
in radius OF four nliles!0f It there
are yiolded every morning from 1GO,,
600 to 10000 pounds of milk.
That Of course, is a great cattle
country; and there are ailetof but
ter factories. OF course great palt
of the milk produced is consumed by
the, butter factories; in the spring
the supply. is. such that the waste can
not he consumed by tho calves anG
pigs in the neighborhood, 10 which II
is fed. t1rs q :.
I'VE are building a plant to scosl
$4,000, and an English engineer il
installing machinery. III have beet
visiting factories u Canada and syria
cuse and | am now going oyer to Eng
land to study the process there: VIC
;tall begin on "a small scale, but we
expect the far east loHfurplsh a greai
market. h.. .-dE
s"Big holdings Of land in victorie
afe rsPsls going out. theNlg estates
beingS rapidly divided j, into smalle,
propeCttcs and sold Off, Just month
boforcI left an estate, of 10000 acres
wss divided and sold, and agreat deal
Of II realized $500 an aero. This was
not for city loto, mind you, ,or or.
chard lard, but for what had beer
dairy land for some years, A cur.
lous thing about the sale was that
the people who bought were all resi-
dents OF the district.
What we call the bush Is not sc
far from Melbourne on one side,' said
Mr.. Cameron in asnwer to a ques-
ton. an fact, it lies only about &c
miles TO the west. The aboriginal
inhabitants are very few now and
most OF them are kept in colonies by
the government corresponding some.
what to your Indian reservations. In
part, OF western Australia, l should
say near the center Of the continent
the blacks are savages, and like their
bit Of human flesh at times. They
are not a fighting lot and don't be-
lleve they kill and, eat one another
to any extent, but an occasional pros
pector gets in among them and real.
ICES his mistake too late. n
"They are very fond Of Chinese too,
and II a Celestial gets up among them
they are apt literally to dcyour him.
There used to be lot more OF Chin.
ese disappearing by this means some
years ago than is the case now. be.
cause our immigration laws prohibit
them from coming into Australia and
those that were already in the coun.
try have grown cautious about leav-
ing the thickly settled parts OF the
country. The aborlgines have apquir
ed many Of the vices and apparently
moo Of the virtues of civilization