Volume 01: Production and resources of the northern and western districts of New South Wales, 1854 [ca. 1850-1857] - Page 91
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DISTRICT OF NEW ENGLAND.
SALE OF STATIONS AND STOCK IN THE NORTHERN DISTRICTS - 1850.
SALE OF BURGOORA STATION BALONNE RIVER MARANGA DISTRICT 2nd FEBRUARY 1850
This Station with improvements & a mixed herd of 1900 Cattle running on it was Sold by S Lyons in Sydney at eleven Shillings a head Burgoora is Situated near to St Georges Bridge.
1850
SALE OF DUNDEE STATION NEW ENGLAND
This Station with a Stock of 10,848 Sheep and 6,230 lambs given in the right of Station & improvements were sold for four Shillings & Six pence a head for the Sheep Considerable improvements have been made on this Valuable Station which is Situated 68 miles to the Northward of Armadale
SOLD IN SYDNEY FEBRUARY 1850 BY SAMUEL LYONS
A lot of 42 Mares with 15 foals & 25 yearlings were Sold for £102. £1.4.11 each
WOOL PRICES CURRENT IN SYDNEY FOR FEBRUARY 1850
Superior clips 1/1½ to 1/2¾ Fair to good 1/ to 1/¼ Low to middling 9d to 1/- Looks pieces etc 5d to 9¼ Sheepskins 3½d to 5d per pound.
SALE OF ABERFOIL STATION NEW ENGLAND 23rd AUGUST 1850 BY MESSRS MORT & BROWN
This Station with Thirteen thousand & fifty nine A.1. Sheep & 306 head of Cattle were Sold Say for Sheep 5/5d a head & the Cattle afterwards valued at 10/6 per head wool drays working Cattle, ploughs, farm implements, Stores etc to be taken at a valuation
Return of Sheep 3074 full mouthed & aged ewes
2075 Ewes three & four year old
1210 Ewes two & three year old
1640 Ewes one year old
4710 withers one year to three years
350 Rams
13,059 More or less
Warranted never to have had either Scab or Catarrh, & the run to Carry 25,000 Sheep besides a herd of Cattle with the improvements
SHEEP SOLD IN NEW ENGLAND MAY 1850
TERMS CASH One Thousand Ewes were Sold in Beardy plains
New England these Ewes were a particular fine
lot of Sheep for three Shillings a head.