97:(within 3 years the price of a fat bullock rose from £2 10/ to £15 or £17). He purchased drafts of cattle wherever he could buy them up, and drove them across to Victoria, where the diggers bought them up at high prices. He was an excellent horseman, and spent most of his time in the saddle at this period, being obliged to make many long and rapid journeys to keep up the supply of stock. He extended his operations to supplying the Adelaide market and droving mobs of cattle and sheep into Victoria, in some of the largest droving operations in the history of either State.
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