 A second wrote, "This well-known station home...is beautifully situated on a rise overlooking the Herbert, just before that river takes its plunge down the scrub-clad gullies to the level of the coast".From the 1880s north Queensland cattlemen began to participate in southern markets, especially Melbourne and Adelaide.Although growth slowed during the dry years of 1884-1885 and 1888-1889, in the 5 years from 1889 cattle numbers increased quickly, to reach a peak of 1,390,899 head or 19.8 per cent of all Queensland cattle in 1894.