The rural economy and agriculture of Australia and New Zealand / as seen by Robert Wallace.

  • Robert Wallace
Date:
1891
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Credit: The rural economy and agriculture of Australia and New Zealand / as seen by Robert Wallace. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    this colony in 1852, with the main object of getting rid of scab among sheep, a work which has been effectually completed.] Under the guidance of these two gentlemen, for whose attention thanks are also due, the following places of interest lying to the north and west of Adelaide were favourably viewed :—(i.) Dry Creek silver smelting-works, at the distance of a seven miles’ drive from the City; (2.) The Roseworthy College and farm, which are dealt with in another pl^ce ; (3.) Kingsford Station, the property of the Hon. J. H. Angas ; (4.) Anlaby station, nine miles from Kapunda, the pro- perty of Mr. F. H. Dutton (lately deceased), which was under the management of Mr. H. T. Morris ; (5.) Hill River Estate, near Clare, also belonging to Mr. Angas, and managed by Mr. Adams. A week was occupied in seeing the places mentioned, and in subsequently running up to the great silver-mine. Broken Hill, on the western border of New South Wales. Much of the country round Adelaide consists of a great bed of clay twenty to thirty feet thick, with a layer of from one to two feet of nodular limestone above, and a surface covering of sandy loam of varying thickness. Through these strata has been sunk an artesian well, 258 feet deep, for the supply of water at Dry Creek smelting- works. The flow was so powerful that it rose twenty-one feet from the surface, and discharged 30,000 gallons in twenty-four hours. The water was distinctly alkaline or “sweet,” and al- though good enough for stock to drink, and for use in a smelting-works, it was clearly of no value for irrigation purposes, although even at the time referred to, those in authority hoped that it might be shown by experiment to be suitable. The greater part of the surface of the colony in the