It's said his object was to own stations all over Australia so that, in times of drought he could move his stock around the country without ever leaving his own properties, he came very close owning properties in all mainland states other than Victoria.
Drought was a constant problem in Australia way back then, some part of the country was always in desperate need of rain, Sidney Kidman recognised this and took steps to deal with the problem.
The book written by Jill Bowen (Kidman The Forgotten King) is a great read.
This map gives some idea of his holdings, very difficult to read the script, gives a pretty good idea.
-- Edited by Santa on Saturday 19th of October 2019 05:55:53 PM
BW said
06:33 PM Oct 19, 2019
An old outback tale was, Kidman would sack you , if you used a match to light a smoke whilst there was a campfire going.
TheHeaths said
07:56 PM Oct 19, 2019
Another vote for the book Santa mentions.
Read it last week, and it certainly gives a good idea of the man, his vision, how he achieved it, and he opposition he faced.
In my opinion, a great pastoralist and thinker. Also generous in supporting causes and people he believed in.
Phillipn said
12:15 PM Oct 20, 2019
Santa wrote:
Kidman was certainly a man with a vision.
It's said his object was to own stations all over Australia so that, in times of drought he could move his stock around the country without ever leaving his own properties, he came very close owning properties in all mainland states other than Victoria.
Drought was a constant problem in Australia way back then, some part of the country was always in desperate need of rain, Sidney Kidman recognised this and took steps to deal with the problem.
The book written by Jill Bowen (Kidman The Forgotten King) is a great read.
This map gives some idea of his holdings, very difficult to read the script, gives a pretty good idea.
-- Edited by Santa on Saturday 19th of October 2019 05:55:53 PM
Ha HA, and their was no such thing as climate change then as the word had not been invented. We have a change in climate four times a year--- from winter to spring to summer then autumn. It is drought, floods, hot and cold.
A company that were doing deep soil testing in the Clarence valley near Ulmarra said that their had been a lot of big floods over hundreds of years from what they found.
Radar said
05:11 PM Oct 20, 2019
Santa wrote:
Kidman was certainly a man with a vision.
It's said his object was to own stations all over Australia so that, in times of drought he could move his stock around the country without ever leaving his own properties, he came very close owning properties in all mainland states other than Victoria.
Drought was a constant problem in Australia way back then, some part of the country was always in desperate need of rain, Sidney Kidman recognised this and took steps to deal with the problem.
The book written by Jill Bowen (Kidman The Forgotten King) is a great read.
This map gives some idea of his holdings, very difficult to read the script, gives a pretty good idea.
-- Edited by Santa on Saturday 19th of October 2019 05:55:53 PM
Hi Santa.
I read Miss Bowen book not long back, a lot of years after I read Ian Indriess book about the great man Sidney Kidman. Ian book was written at the time the man was still alive telling a story about Sid, Miss Bowen book is wrote a few years back after doing said "reseach". I liked Ian's version better as it was more personal wrote about 1938, Sid died in 1935 but Idriess had met the man in his travels having sat around a camp fire or 2. A good read either way.
Ausdigga said
10:18 PM Nov 17, 2019
I also read Indriess's book and noted that Kidman went through a lot of droughts , in some cases every animal including the horses died . Does this not indicate that he was putting stock on marginal land that was just not suited to cattle except in exceptional years ? Most outback travellers will have seen parched land with scrubby bushes and skinny cattle , the land may well benefit from longer recovery periods.
came across one of the stories of S. Kidman and his Cattle Empire.
We get Utube on our large home T.V. and I thought that it was a interesting sort of documentary of the man who created an empire.
It goes for 50 min, so if you have the time have a look.
Jay&Dee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvHKVy2EJtA
Kidman was certainly a man with a vision.
It's said his object was to own stations all over Australia so that, in times of drought he could move his stock around the country without ever leaving his own properties, he came very close owning properties in all mainland states other than Victoria.
Drought was a constant problem in Australia way back then, some part of the country was always in desperate need of rain, Sidney Kidman recognised this and took steps to deal with the problem.
The book written by Jill Bowen (Kidman The Forgotten King) is a great read.
This map gives some idea of his holdings, very difficult to read the script, gives a pretty good idea.
-- Edited by Santa on Saturday 19th of October 2019 05:55:53 PM
Read it last week, and it certainly gives a good idea of the man, his vision, how he achieved it, and he opposition he faced.
In my opinion, a great pastoralist and thinker. Also generous in supporting causes and people he believed in.
Ha HA, and their was no such thing as climate change then as the word had not been invented. We have a change in climate four times a year--- from winter to spring to summer then autumn. It is drought, floods, hot and cold.
A company that were doing deep soil testing in the Clarence valley near Ulmarra said that their had been a lot of big floods over hundreds of years from what they found.
Hi Santa.
I read Miss Bowen book not long back, a lot of years after I read Ian Indriess book about the great man Sidney Kidman. Ian book was written at the time the man was still alive telling a story about Sid, Miss Bowen book is wrote a few years back after doing said "reseach". I liked Ian's version better as it was more personal wrote about 1938, Sid died in 1935 but Idriess had met the man in his travels having sat around a camp fire or 2. A good read either way.