Billabalong Station

The lands are divided into 17 paddocks and watered by 23 wells, 16 bores and 38 windmills and was supporting a herd of 450 cattle in 2013, but able to carry a total of 8,000 head.

[1] The property was acquired by a partnership between Andrew Dempster and John Chow Miller in 1893 from the executors of Thomas Burges.

Billabalong comprised a total of 196,630 acres (79,573 ha), had a six-room homestead, stone shearing shed and 100 miles (161 km) of fencing.

At this stage it occupied an area of 800,000 acres (323,749 ha) and was stocked with 12,000 sheep, 2,500 head of cattle and 71 horses.

[9] Several stations in the area remained under water for over a month and farmers requested urgent assistance from the government to help alleviate losses.