BOOM IN QUEENSLAND

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2166, 3 June 1914, Page 10

BOOM IN QUEENSLAND

' HUSH FOR SHEEP COUNTRY. For tho last live years, the annual selection of land in Queensland lor all iwrposes has represented about 0,(100,000 acres. And this .vear tho average area tliiwn open will certainly he exceeded. J lie recent record of over 000 applicants lor H'clltown station, near lioomliivindi, ( «-as exceedtd on May 20 by 13)0 applications .lor two grazing homestead leases on Alice Downs, "a ivoll-knon'ji station near Blackball; in fact, the railway runs thrown the north-enstorii oorHur.oF the block drawn by Mr. (!cov»e Broiigliton, of (loondiwindi. The second block was drawn by ,\lr. J. JJ. Palmer, of G'apella (().). Portland Dnivjis conies next, with 700 applicants for tlireo blocks, and recently there were over -100 applicants for throe blocks on Lansilowne station, on the Wind Hiver. Tlie capital represented by the 1200 applicants for Alice Downs must have reached a total approaching £3,000,000. The deposit money (first year's rent) amounted to nearly £230,000. This may be accepted as an Australian record. Apnrt from the large area already open for grazing selection, at Hip present tune, there arc; 2,000.000 wires about io be Uiro.vn npen '!<..« hoinc!;t' , ads ivitliin the next four months, and with a carrying capacity of no fewer thsni all.liOO f-lii'P|>. War an-ns from 100 to 1000 square miles are mil. included, lining oiitirelv ('alllo eoiinlry' open inidi>r tlie neenpation license couiptintis of th(> Lands Act.' The rainfiill is too heavy for sheep. The rentals on this class of country nre nominal, from Os. to 12s. (id. nor square mile. Ami Queensland is tho premier cattle State, possessing over 5} million head.