Jack Mallet
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Name Jack Mallet Gender Male Emigration 2 Apr 1908 Adelaide 
Arrived via the Dunbea from Adelaide 
Droving23 Oct 1913 Doorawarrah Station Western Australia [1] Droving6 Sep 1918 Cardabia Station Western Australia [2] Droving11 Oct 1918 Yandil Station Western Australia [3] Droving23 Aug 1919 Boodarie Station Western Australia [4] Droving30 Aug 1919 Boundary Store Western Australia [5] Droving29 Jul 1921 Mount Enid Station Western Australia [6] Droving28 Aug 1922 Boundary Store Western Australia [7] Droving21 Mar 1923 Bangemall Western Australia [8] Droving11 May 1923 Yalbalgo Station Western Australia [9] Droving21 Oct 1923 Boundary Store Western Australia [10] Person ID I341 Drovers Last Modified 26 Mar 2024
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Event Map 
Emigration - Arrived via the Dunbea from Adelaide - 2 Apr 1908 - Adelaide 
Droving - Gascoyne STOCK MOVEMENTS Our Junction, correspondent writes:- Drover J. Mallet with 6000 sheep travelling in two mobs from Sherlock station en route to Doorawarrah, passed the Junction on October 23. He reports the track very dry and feed scarce. - 23 Oct 1913 - Doorawarrah Station Western Australia 
Droving - September 6:- 850 head of mixed - cattle from Cardabia Station to Mullewa. Drover J. Mallet in charge. - 6 Sep 1918 - Cardabia Station Western Australia 
Droving - Drover Mallet had a severe lose of stock recently. He was bringing a mob of cattle along the Ashburton River, and 250 of them died from poison. - 11 Oct 1918 - Yandil Station Western Australia 
Droving - The following travelling stock passed Boundary Store, Gascoyne River, on the undermentioned dates:- August 23, 2500 mixed sheep from Boodarie Station Onslow to Mullewa for sale, Messrs. Dalgety and Co. agents Drover J. Mallet in. charge. These sheep looked extremely well and half of them appeared good killable sheep. - 23 Aug 1919 - Boodarie Station Western Australia 
Droving - No travelling stock are reported as passing Boundary Store recently but Drover J. Mallet was expected in a week or so and Drover J. Lyons in about three weeks going south with sheep. - 30 Aug 1919 - Boundary Store Western Australia 
Droving - STOCK MOVEMENTS Drover J. Mallet in charge of 600 cattle from Mount Enid Station passed Coorara Claypan, Ashburton on July 29 to Mingenew. Elder Smith & Co., agents. - 29 Jul 1921 - Mount Enid Station Western Australia Droving - GASCOYNE NEWS. (From our own Correspondent.) August 28. Drover J. Mallet has passed the boundary store with 635 head of cattle enroute to Mullewa. - 28 Aug 1922 - Boundary Store Western Australia 
Droving - STOCK MOVEMENTS Drover J. Mallet passed through Bangemall on March 21 with his plan to lift 6000 sheep up Onslow way. - 21 Mar 1923 - Bangemall Western Australia 
Droving - Drover Mallet lifted 3000 young wethers from Artesian Station on the llth, and on the 16th 2500 wethers from Wogoola, which he is overlanding to Yalbalgo. - 11 May 1923 - Yalbalgo Station Western Australia Droving - Drover J. Mallet passed Boundary Store on October 21 on his way to Williambury to lift sheep. - 21 Oct 1923 - Boundary Store Western Australia = Link to Google Earth
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Photos J Mallet
J Mallet emigrated from South Australia in 1908
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Notes - , THE TOP OF THt HILL.
i Signposts of the-Outback.
Dear "Non-Corn."-Most city folk, when travelling bent, have their way plainly marked. Sign-posts or mile pegs mark the way.
The bushmen, especially the drovers with sheep and cattle from up north, have their road equally well marked. Although perhaps those "mile-pegs" may bear little significance to the average person, they are quite evident to the drover, telling him of a further stage of his journey over.
With the Roebourne Plains falling be-hind after Yarraloola station is passed, it is not many miles before Chullyong Pool is reached. Situated in the Robe River, with one bank a line of cliff-like rocks, this is truly an imposing stretch of water, an ideal watering place for Stock, though quicksand is encountered here occasionally. Prom here the spinifex country stands out in contrast to the rolling Roebourne Plains.
From here passing Red Hill a table top hill is seen. It was here that two drovers were caught in a "willy." Jack Mallet, one of the drovers, pushed his sheep on to the table top hill, whilst Bill Clarkson, the other, was unfortunately caught in a water-course between the hills, with the result that Mallet got through with practically no loss, while Clarkson had a considerable number drowned.
The stock route winds from here, through portion of Nanutarra, and comes out on the Ashburton, near its, junction with Duck Creek. The Ashburton ls followed for a period, Bullaloo station is passed; and the route leaves the river again, travelling south till the Henry River is reached. It was near here that two well-known drovers had their smash.
Several years.ago, Joe Waldeck and Jack Lyons were coming down, only a day or so apart, and struck poison. Out of a mob of 4,000 old Joe lost approximately 1,600 sheep. Jack lost a proportionately large number from his big mob.
Not many miles from here, further up the Henry, is where old "Rusty" Fleming got into a fix with one of his native stockmen. Rusty was travelling south With stock at the time, and on one night camp the native "stripped for war," caught Rusty at a disadvantage, belaboured him with his nulla nulla, and ran vanished Into the night.
Leaving the Henry, Maroonah is passed, the Lyons River ls reached, crossed and followed, through Minnie Creek, across the Arthur River, past Lyons River station, till finally a few miles below Lyons River wool shed the route leaves the river and crosses a series of small plains. These have proved a death trap to numerous travelling sheep. Poison grows here at certain periods.
Crossing the Gascoyne near the 10 mile well, the Dalry Creek is soon reached and followed. Past a small low hill, said to be the site of a native battle in the long ago, past the remains of old Jack Jordan's "Boundary Btore" (haven of many a drover in days gone by), past plant's Well with Its poison patches, till eventually, reaching old Dick Fox's grave (at that time crudely marked with a peg but from a gum-sucker} the stock route leaves the "Dairy" once more, and strikes across the hills and "wanyu" scrub till Belang Pool is reached.
Walled in on three sides by high cliffs with the pool itself at the foot of a waterfall and only approachable up the creek bed itself this water.is a boon to the thirsty stock after their dry stage from Plant's Well.
It was here that a drover Jack Mallet, I believe) camped one night with a "jumpy" mob from the north. The mob "galloped" during the night, and the night watchman, with the fear crazed cattle tearing through the night, on one side of him, the steep bank of the creek on the other, and rough, broken ground ahead, raced the night horse through the darkness, until he finally blocked the mob only a few short yards from the cliffs, with their drop to the creek bed, some 50ft. below.
With Belang behind, the Worramel is crossed at Walarie, and Byro Station is soon reached. There the weary drover curses the fence that keeps his foot-sore stock from the softer ground of the creek bed, and forces them to travel for miles over low stoney hills.
Here also is where Atkinson had his smash. With his cattle stringing in the daylight gloom, he was greeted with the sight of about 40 of his beasts lying dead on camp. This was not his total loss either.
These are the drovers' "mile-pegs." As they battle down from the far north, past stock-route wells, with their long lengths of troughing, and upthrust whip-ping gear, across dry rivers, with their banks lined with gum trees, over erratic-ally meandering cattle pads ("sign-posts" of the water nearby) they are spread over hundreds of miles of country, slowly changing as the mobs string by, until eventually, they fade away where the last tired bullock, or last ragged sheep ls finally prodded up some trucking race, or counted over to an agent or buyer. .
They are always there, grim reminders bf the trials ahead, as they bridge the miles and mark the way on the stock routes outback.
SHORTHORN, Meekatharra. [11]
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