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Title: Ipswich And Bundamba
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Queensland Government Intelligence and Tourist Bureau
Subjects: Queensland West Moreton South East Queensland coal mining Ipswich Bundamba tourist guide State Library of Queensland
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906 were as follow:— Acres underCultivation. H(rses. Cattle. Sheep. Pigs. DugandanEskGattonGoodna ...Harris villeIpswioh ...Laidley ...Marburg ...ilosewood • 10,4755,181 23,6235718,0594,558 18,8137,7388,662 3,6276,0416,1935782,5234,6463,9031,6322,915 30,93279,37236,080 1,86520,66022,86919,128 9,84121,984 2291,1513543234687816436275 5,7904,0247,1572763,4682,7335,9504,159 4,144 ; 87,680 32,058 24?, 731 3,465 37,701 Timber Reserves. In the Cooyar Timber Reserve on the Blackbutt Range it is estimatedthat there, are 240,000,000 superficial feet of pine; and on the Blackbuttreserves about 40,000,000 superficial feet of pine, besides large quantities ofironbark, blackbutt, and other hardwoods. On Colinton Timber Reserve it is estimated that there are 80,000,000feet of pine. At the head of the western branch of the Brisbane River thereis a reserve containing 100,000,000 feet of pine, also hardwoods. Thereare various other smaller reserves; and a State forest at Mount Byron of17,000 acres.
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14 IPSWICH AND BUNDANBA. IPSWICH. Ipswich, the capital of West Moreton, is distant 24 miles by rail, and 50 milesby water, from Brisbane. It is picturesquely situated in a sort of natural basinsbrrounded by hills more or less remote. The river Bremer winds through thecity. Some of the mountains, like Mount Crosby, belong to the DAguilargroup ; others, like Mount Goolman and the conical Peaks Mountains, standout in solitary outline. Faint and far to the north-west rise the mountainsthat form the watershed of the Brisbane River. Dim and distant to westwardlooms the blue barrier of the Main Range. Standing on Denmark Hill, thehighest point in the city, you look round and realise a sense of space—ofwide fertile tracts stretching on three sides to the feet of the mountains. Youexperience in a measure the sensations of the early pioneers, who knew notwhat Eldorado lay beyond those iron hills. You receive the impression that,ages since, all this country was once a huge lake or marsh, out o

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