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Australia, and the quantity cut in two years, according to the official Industrial Return*, were as follows : —
Jarrah (with blackbutt and red gum)
Karri
Banksia _
Tuart
Paper Bark
Wandoo
Salmon-gum,. gimlet-wool, etc.
Total
> Sut including sandalwood.
Acrea. 8,000,000
r,ooo,oQO
4,000,000
1918 1919
Super, ft. cut. Super, ft. cut.
r5,a64,2S4
u ,tsmm
- 3.>.«>
30.<»«r
U«7,6M
20,400,000 * 94,989,690
112,1'
4,584
35,813
6,000
1(1,000
30.JCO
! '.'01 > 131,476,741
• The acreage of timbered country gt*M is that of the regions in which the various timbers are found. The approximate present areaof prime forests of Jarrah, Karri, Wandoo, and Tuart, fit for reservation for all time, is 4,918 sq. miles, viz., Jarrah, 4,350, Karri, 400, Wandoo, 100, and Tuart, S tq. miles.
The live stock at the end of 1 919 consisted of 1 74, 91 9 horses ; 880,644 cattle : 6,697,951 sheep ; 58,160 pigs ; 31,986 goats ; 6,137 camels ; and 6,888 mules and donkeys. The wool export was, during the year 1916-17, valued at 1,420,291*., during 1917-18 at 585,819*., during 1918-19 at 1,952,141*., and during 1919-20 at 3,937,106*., these values representing respectively, 24,405,283 lbs., 10,682,022 lbs., 29,644,556 lbs. and 59,600,535 lbs., of wool. The wool clip for the above four years respectively was : 31,334,638 lbs., 38,294,093 lbs , 43,404,670 lbs. and 39,214,336 lbs This does not include wool exported on skins, which, during 1919, amounted to 7,085,045 lbs.
Many millions of acres are available for pastoral purposes.
Gold was first obtained in Western Australia in 1886. The sensational gold finds at Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie in 1892 and 1893 gave an impetus to rn Australian gold mining, which, in a fe :me, placed this
State at the head of all the Australian Colonies as regards gold output. The aggregate output to the end of 1919, was 33,130,549 tine ozs., valued at 140,729,627*. There were in the State, in 1919, 819 leases of gold mines; men employed in the mines, 7,021, viz., 3,030 above and 3,941 under- ground ; output of gold, 734.066 fine ozs., value 3,118,113*.
The total mineral wealth of the State for two years is shown in the following table : —
191S
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Quantity
Value
Quantity
Value
£.
£
Coal 1 . . tons
337,039
204,319
401,713
270,355
Copper ore B . M
1.643
450
9,740
Copper, ingot, matte, tc- ,,
478
41.2(59
4
365
Gold •. . fine oxs
S76.511
3.723,183
734.066
3,118,113
Silver'
109,830
22.711
223,332
Lead and silver lead (ore and
55,342
concentrates) * . tons
282
3,045
3,704
Pyritic ore 1 . ,,
2.2".2
1,629
4,136
4,919
Tin ore and ingot 2 . ,,
416
76,958
318
47,269
Wolfram* . . . „
25
31
■4
15
Zinc, spelter, Ac. 1 . „
—
Bismuth'
—
05
15
Mi' 1 *'- . . . ,,
—
—
•95
514
Antimony *• . . . ,, Magnesite 2 . ,,
-*
226
—
_
1 Raised. a Exported. S Exported and minted locally.
