ABSTRACT
The deciding fact was that the industry was thriving and expanding, especially after Goyder, the Surveyor-General, found that the Torrens country was good pastoral land, and not 'arid sands and saline deserts',! as formerly supposed. The wool exported at this time nearly equalled the return from agriculture, and the squatters occupied 24,000 square miles at an average of a farthing an acre.2
