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lands, temperate, sub-tropical, and tropical, have never seen, I 

 think, more beautiful land, or land which responds more quickly 

 to any reasonable treatment or sufficient supply of water. . . . 

 You are blest with a wonderful situation. You are fortunate in 

 having a Government that is helping you in every way in regard to 

 buildings, the terms on which you take up the land, and in the 

 provision of water, and I am sure it only rests with yourselves to 

 make a success of your residence here as farmers." 



At present there are about 600 irrigation farmers at Yanco 

 settled within eighteen months on holdings aggegating nearly 30,000 

 acres. The only township in the area is Leeton, which is growing 

 with the famed rapidity of towns in the American west. Other 

 townships are planned for other parts on the huge area, and sites 

 are already available for the town of Griffith, in the Mirrool district 



MIXED FARM. 



of the Yanco. Leeton district is connected by railway at Yanco 

 siding on the Hay-Narandera line, and the Mirrool end also will 

 have a train service in the near future with the Barellan line. Ulti- 

 mately no farmer on the Yanco area is to be distant more than 

 10 miles at most from the railway, and in the future one is tempted 

 to prophesy it of the near future the Yanco farming area will be 

 the heart of the agricultural area of Australia. 



THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN VALLEY. 



The only other State of Australia which derives any benefit 

 from the Murray River system is South Australia. The Murray 

 flows for the last 450 miles of its course through this State. There 

 are no more tributaries after it crosses the border into South Aus- 

 tralia, and consequently no more schemes of the sort described in 



