Coorabulka

[3] The following year the property was owned by Ferguson, Woods and Co. and sent a mob of 1,700 head of cattle south to market after a good season.

John Collins and sons then placed a separate bid for Coorabulka alone; the 2,500 head of cattle and 100 horses were included as part of the sale.

At the time the property was 3,013 square miles (7,804 km2) in size and was made up of three leases (Coorabulka, Breadalbane and Mount Tarley) stocked with 6,700 head of shorthorn cattle and 166 horses.

[15] Both Monkira and Coorabulka were acquired by the North Australian Pastoral Company the same year as part of their plan to breed cattle at Alexandria Station in the Northern Territory and then fatten and sell from the Channel Country.

[17] The station manager estimated that 4,000 square miles (10,360 km2) of grazing lands was ruined by the plague with grass roots being destroyed and young trees being debarked.

The family were menaced by floodwaters in the homestead for 36 hours before being reached by two rescue parties, one on horseback and the second on an improvised raft built from a water trough and petrol drums.

The station manager of the time, Alistair Malone, commented that A$1.5 million had been spent capping bores and installing new pipework and storage tanks.