Cogla Downs Station is a pastoral lease and
sheep station
A sheep station is a large property ( station, the equivalent of a ranch) in Australia or New Zealand, whose main activity is the raising of sheep for their wool and/or meat. In Australia, sheep stations are usually in the south-east or sout ...
located in the
Mid West
The Mid West region is one of the nine regions of Western Australia. It is a sparsely populated region extending from the west coast of Western Australia, about north and south of its administrative centre of Geraldton and inland to east of W ...
region of
Western Australia
Western Australia (WA) is the westernmost state of Australia. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east, and South Australia to the south-east. Western Aust ...
.
The word ''Cogla'' is the
Aboriginal name for the fruit of a climbing plant found in the surrounding
mulga country.
Description
Situated approximately to the north-west of
Sandstone
Sandstone is a Clastic rock#Sedimentary clastic rocks, clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of grain size, sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate mineral, silicate grains, Cementation (geology), cemented together by another mineral. Sand ...
and south east of
Meekatharra, the station covers an area of . The property adjoins
Yarrabubba to the north, Barrambie to the east, Windsor Station to the south and
Yarraquin
Yarraquin or Yarraquin Station is a pastoral lease that currently operates as a cattle station and had previously operated as a sheep station.
It is located about east of Cue and north of Mount Magnet in the Mid West region of Western Aust ...
Station to the west.
The country is rangeland and covered by natural grasses,
mulga,
spinifex,
saltbush Saltbush is a vernacular plant name that most often refers to ''Atriplex'', a genus of about 250 plants distributed worldwide from subtropical to subarctic regions. ''Atriplex'' species are native to Australia, North and South America, and Eurasia. ...
,
bowgada and
carara.
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History
Mr. W. McKenzie Grant owned the station in 1917, which was a reasonable year at Cogla, with 129 bales of wool
Wool is the textile fiber obtained from sheep and other mammals, especially goats, rabbits, and camelids. The term may also refer to inorganic materials, such as mineral wool and glass wool, that have some properties similar to animal w ...
produced from 7,000 sheep. The property was being steadily improved with extra fencing and well sinking during the year.
Cogla Downs was put up for sale in 1920; at this time it occupied an area of approximately and was divided into 18 paddocks with about of fencing. Stock could be watered using the 15 wells that had been sunk. It was stocked with about 9,000 sheep.
Owned by Messrs Beaton and Broad in 1923, the station had a good season, shearing some 10,300 sheep in total for a total of 173 bales of wool.
The station despatched 1,000 wethers in 1926 to metropolitan markets from the Day Dawn
Day Dawn is a ghost town in the Mid West (Western Australia), Mid West/upper Murchison River (Western Australia), Murchison region of Western Australia. It was a significant mining town and mine in the late nineteenth century. Located a short ...
trucking yards.
In 1927 the station had a good season with 7,600 sheep being shorn to produce 153 wool bales.
The station was once known as ''Nettlie'' and was owned by Chas Beaton in 1928; at this time Beaton was experimenting growing navel orange
The navel orange is a variety of orange with a characteristic second fruit at the apex, which protrudes slightly like a human navel. This variety first was caused by a mutation in an orange tree, and first appeared in the early 19th century at a ...
s and lemon
The lemon (''Citrus'' × ''limon'') is a species of small evergreen tree in the ''Citrus'' genus of the flowering plant family Rutaceae. A true lemon is a hybrid of the citron and the bitter orange. Its origins are uncertain, but some ...
trees on the property. The station had a satisfactory clip later in 1928 with 8,000 sheep and lambs being shorn to produce 113 bales of wool.
When advertised in 1929 the property had 29 wells equipped with mills and troughing and was subdivided into 21 paddocks fenced with over of fencing. Cogla also had 14 room homestead, another 7 rooms for shearing quarters and three out-stations. It was stocked with approximately 9,000 sheep at the time with 50 cattle and 40 horses.[
In 1930 the flock was clipped producing 224 bales of wool. At the time the flock consisted of over 8,442 ]sheep
Sheep (: sheep) or domestic sheep (''Ovis aries'') are a domesticated, ruminant mammal typically kept as livestock. Although the term ''sheep'' can apply to other species in the genus '' Ovis'', in everyday usage it almost always refers to d ...
and 3,204 lambs with stragglers not included.
The Beaton family still owned the station in 1953.
The station was purchased by the Indigenous Land Council on behalf of the Yulellah Fabrications Aboriginal corporation in 1994.
See also
*List of ranches and stations
This is a list of ranches and sheep and cattle stations, organized by continent. Most of these are notable either for the large geographic area which they cover, or for their historical or cultural importance.
Africa
* Obudu Cattle Ranch
* S ...
*List of pastoral leases in Western Australia
Pastoral leases in Western Australia are increasingly known as "stations", and more particular – as either sheep stations or cattle stations. They are usually found in country that is designated as rangeland. In 2013 there were a total of 527 p ...
References
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Homesteads in Western Australia
Stations in the Mid West (Western Australia)