Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "The construction of a set of locks and weirs at intervals along the Murray enable traffic to extend throughout the year as far as Echuca, which is nearly to the border of N.S.W in Victoria."
A cattle census, dated Jan. 1, 1936, shows the sum total of beef cattle for Oregon to be 927,977. An estimate a year later indicated a decrease of about three per cent in this number. Even this number would reproduce many scenes like the one shown here.
