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As many as 33,000 sheep were shorn there each season in those early years. There were shearing sheds, mens quarters, homestead, stockyards, sheep dip, and other miscellaneous structurers. The shearing sheds were on top of steep cliffs so they simply rolled the bales over the edge to waiting barges to be transported downstream to railway lines.
Seeing the potential for wheat growing rather than pastoralist use of the land, a man named Paul Hasse subdivided some of his land and commenced a private town in December 1899. He then went about convincing farmers to take up land east of the river on vast tracts of Government land.
Some of the early crop yields were enormous, but after a number of years it became necessary to use superphosphate on the land.