Pioneering days of Miriam Vale and district', Queensland by W. G. Blomfield, 1946-1947 - Page 21
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out there & E.K. COX took EVESHAM as his share. Two year after the older stock had grown into fat bullocks, & were walked all the way to MELBOURNE, where they topped the market as fats, good droving. My father then set out to increase the herd, & all out by 1883 there were 10,000 head, but a two year drought reduced them to 5000 head, & in my first visit there in 1885 they were having a square tail muster, & to this day it beats me how they expected to balance there budget, with the staff they had. "They did not". Mr Witt, C.S? Roe, C. Dawson & Mr Cudden(?) & a ? (white) A. Kanacee as rouse about, YORKIE TOMMY JIMMY TOM BUNDA & TOMMY (WILSON) abos & they took months to muster & to square tail 5000 head.
Mr Witt was an exceptionally nice Englishman, but he was not a cattle man. Mr Roe had the herd nice & quiet, they had been very wild, they got whole camp (1000 head) in & tailed (shepherded) them, & yarded at night, & they tailed the weaners for 6 weeks each year, as they weaned them, &