Hardships In The Goldfields

Americana who are thinking to try their fortune in the new Eldorado of western Australia should consider some of the conditious of lite in the new goldfields bef ore starting on a fool's errand, says a correspondent. Recent letters are full of doleful tales of hardship. Not more than five men in a hundred are lucky enough to strike it rich, and the región is already vastly overpopulated. The lack of water is the greatest drawback. Water commands 25 cents a gallon at Coolgardie, 37 cents at Hannens and 50 cents elsewhere. In the gold district mauy horses have died of thirst by the roadside. Five hundred men at Coolgardie are anxious to get work at auy wages.