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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

ISI9

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.