ESPERANCE RURAL PROPERTIES Esperance Rural Properties commenced in 1960 as the Esperance Land and Development Company, when they contracted with the West Australian State Government to partly develop and sell, large tracts of land in the district. The farmed land consisted of eleven stations. Over the years it became ELD Farms, Esperance Partnership and N M Rural Enterprises. In the late 1980s it was Australia’s biggest wool producer, but it has also produced sheep, cattle and cereal crops. The company was wound up around 2002. Sources: The Esperance Express, 1/4/2003, p. 9 - this listing, items: 8012A/10, 67, 73 PRIVATE ARCHIVES MANUSCRIPT NOTE (MN2844; ACC 8012A) SUMMARY OF CLASSES FILES PERMITS FINANCIAL RECORDS PHOTOGRAPHS MAPS REPORTS Acc. No. DESCRIPTION FILES 8012A/1 Date range: 1985 - 1989 Shearing Tally Books and Shed Wool Books for Bedford Harbour (ELD Farms), Cascades, Karranga Station, Lort River, Mt Howick Station, Munglinup Station (ELD Farms), Orleans Farms, West Lort, Willyama, Wittenoom Hills 8012A/6 Date range: 1961 - 1982 Alphabetical listing of files relating to Esperance Land and Development Company, ELD Farms, and Esperance Rural Properties – Advisory Board; Agreement Western Australian Government, number 2; Department of Agriculture 8012A/7 Date range: 1961 - 1992 Allen Chase; Allan Chase – arbitration; Amfac Associates; Annual Reports by General Manager, 1964 – 1989; Bank of New South Wales; Barley realisation 8012A/8 Date range: 1980 - 1991 Barley realisation; wheat realisation; Budget 8012A/2 Date range: 1966 - 1999 Budgets; Cattle Lort River; Cattle Mt Howick; Cattle purchases including cattle ex Buckingham Downs and Department of Agriculture requirements; Clover registration and certification; cropping; CSBP & Farmers Limited unsecured notes; dams to 1963 8012A/3 Date range: 1963 - 1989 Elders Adelaide correspondence senior staff; Elders Perth correspondence senior staff; Esperance Meat Exporters; Field Contract Advice notes; fertiliser; final take-up land buyers, 1977 – 1978; George F Fox and John B Perfumo; Governors meeting Esperance; Mr Blake Senior, ELD Farms, Governing Committee meeting San Francisco; Mr Blake C M Senior, Esperance Land and Development Governing Committee Meeting, New York City MN 2844 Page 1 of 9 Copyright SLWA ©2011 8012A/4 Date range: 1961 - 1986 Mr Blake Senior, Esperance Land and Development Company - Governing Committee meetings Esperance and San Francisco; operational plan, report on operations, balance sheet and accounts 8012A/9 Date range: 1973 - 2002 Mr Blake Senior, Esperance Land and Development Company Governors meetings and Governing Committee meetings; balance sheet and accounts and reports on operations; accounting manual; Government Department statistics 8012A/17 Date range: 1970 - 1988 Mr Blake Senior, Esperance Land and Development Company Governing Committee meetings Esperance, Hawaii, and San Francisco; balance sheet and accounts and report on operations; Governor’s meeting ELD Farms 8012A/5 Date range: 1960 - 1996 Grain; Hereford Stud; Investment agreement, c1970; land enquiries; land sales, 1961 – 1978; land sale advertising; land sales - pricing 8012A/10 Date range: 1960 - 1992 Land surveys – other; land valuations; livestock valuations; Mr D McVay; Memo Mike Back (3); Memo General Manager; Merino sheep stud and sheep breeding programme; miscellaneous, includes notes on Esperance Land and Development Company 8012A/11 Date range: 1961 - 1991 Multiple buyers; Price Waterhouse; National Mutual Life; Robert E Pursley; Public Works Department; Rainfall 8012A/12 Date range: 1961 - 1991 Rainfall; Salt; Benno C Schmidt; RM, KF & WI Scott, Location 764/Lots 3 and 4; Seed; Blake Senior, Rural Investment Rural conference; Senior staff; Senior staff members; Share-farming agreement; Sheds and houses; Sheep breeding programme 8012A/13 Date range: 1963 - 1996 Sheep stud; John W Siemer; Staff – salaries; Statistics; Sheep realization; Cattle realization 8012A/14 Date range: 1960s - 1991 Cattle realization; Stocking sheep; Mainly Supervisor’s Weekly Reports; Stone James & Co; Subdivisions – G Smith; Henry A Walker, Junior 8012A/15 Date range: 1965 - 2001 Weekly reports; Mr R E White, Junior – correspondence 8012A/16 Date range: 1970 - 1988 Mr R E White, Junior – correspondence; Wages; “Warriup”; Wool 8012A/18 Date range: 1968 - 1984 Alphabetical listing of surnames A – H relating to property settlement. Also includes individual’s superannuation plans 8012A/19 Date range: 1968 - 1984 H - M 8012A/20 Date range: 1968 – 1984 M - S 8012A/21 Date range: 1968 - 1984 S – W. Also includes Block history, 1960 - 1984 8012A/22 Date range: 1971 - 1992 Valuation reports and station descriptions for ELD Farms, Esperance Land & Development Company; Esperance Rural Properties 8012A/23 Date range: 1971 - 2001 Valuation reports and station descriptions for Esperance Rural Properties; Cropping yields; Field experiments – proJect sheet; Annual Schedules; Analysis sheets, asset registers MN 2844 Page 2 of 9 Copyright SLWA ©2011 8012A/24 Date range: 1983 – 1987 Annual Schedules 8012A/25 Date range 1987 – 1992 Annual Schedules 8012A/26 Date range: 1989 - 1995 Annual Schedules; “Annual Report”, 1989 8012A/27 Date range: 1960 - 1970 Applications; Applications – Assistant to General Manager; Austral/Pacific; Applications – Stockmen, 1963; Baillieu, PL; Contractors – agreements to perform work; Diary, 22 May 1962 – 2 January 1964 8012A/28 Date range: 1960 - 1968 Diary, 3 January 1964 – 31 December 1964; Diary notes, 3 January 1965 – 4 February 1965; Ednie, JE – personal; Elder Smith partnership; Esperance Pastoral Company; Insurance – various policies; Jackeroos; Land buyers – Bond Barker, Burchard, Ludwig, March, DF & EJ, McBride, C G de F Mills, Mytton-Watson 8012A/29 Date range: 1961 - 1968 Land buyers – Overheu, Spencer, G., Thomas, W., Trench, J O., Welke, E J., Yench, R.; Land buyers – enquiries; Land enquiries; Land sale – McDonald, D K; Land Sale agreements; Memos – General Manager; Motor vehicles – licenses 8012A/30 Date range: 1960 - 1968 Orleans Farms; Planting; Price Waterhouse & Co; Purchasing – implements materials; Reports – monthly; Reports – F M Collett; Weekly reports; Mr L Henke; Mr Benno C Schmidt; Seeding schedules 8012A/31 Date range: 1960 - 1974 Seeding schedules; Seed orders; Sheep dogs; Staff housing; Kitchen units; Staff housing – General Manager; Agreement between Esperance Land and Development Company and G Trichilo, 1963, Agreement between American Factors Associates of Australia Pty Ltd and Esperance International Pty Ltd and John Charles Hill, Jocelyn Yvonne Hill, and Joy Marena Cooke,1974, Contract of Sale between American Factors Associates of Australia Pty Ltd, Esperance International Pty Ltd and David Salter and John McDonald, 1974; Option American Factors Associates of Australia Pty Ltd, Esperance International Pty Ltd to South Coast Development Co, 1974; Second plowing; Plans and specifications Rural Homes; “Cascades Subdivision”; Telegrams; Visitors 8012A/32 Date range: 1960 - 2003 R E White; R E White, Junior; Quotation for supply and erection of Stockmans’ homes; Crop Protection Consultants consulting notes; Mick Quinlivan; Plans to reduce micron of ELD flock; Deed of Grant of Profit A Prendre, Neridup 1995. Oldfield 1995; Esperance Rural Properties station details; Esperance Rural Properties Land Sales Register 8012A/ 33 Date range: 1962 – 1999 Rainfall records for stations 8012A/34 Date range: 1966 - 2003 Rainfall records for stations; Lambing; Sheep – mating and lambing returns; Sheep – Genstock Pty Ltd; Sheep – health and quarantine; Supplier agreement; Sheep – feed supplement notes; Western Australian Shearing Contractors Association 8012A/35 Date range: 1972 - 2002 Seeding and cropping; Miscellaneous relating to Esperance Land and Development Company and Esperance Rural Properties 8012A/36 Date range: 1982 – 1992 Inventories and Inventory accounts 8012A/37 Date range: 1963 - 1993 Inventories; General stocks, Grain stocks; First Livestock Purchases, 1963 – 1965; Miscellaneous; Cropping; Paddock recoding booklet MN 2844 Page 3 of 9 Copyright SLWA ©2011 8012A/38 Date range: 1980 – 1999 Cropping; Cereal income; Budget; Harvest results – grain and seed; Summit; Crop areas 8012A/39 Date range: 1976 – 1999 Fertilizer; Superphosphate; BP fertilizer pasture and crop; Summit Fertilizers and CSBP; One set of minutes of Annual General meeting for the Stud Merino Breeders Association of Western Australia 8012A/40 Date range: 1994 - 2003 Profarmer Advisory Services; Television installation; Timber share farming, Pineshare – biodiversity and fencing plans; Trees – CALM Pineshare; ELD Timber Sharefarming Agreement, 1994; Timber Sharefarming Agreement; Howick Hill bore hole site; Extensions and renovations Wittenoom Hills Station; Angus Stud sale; Cattle – relates to Woolworths, Woolworths weights dispute, Australian Hereford Society, Elders, pregnancy testing, Semini feedlot; General correspondence; Managers meetings; Company sale – Esperance Rural Properties, 2000; Agroforestry – Forrest Products Commission, Integrated Tree Company, Oil Mallee Association 8012A/41 Date range: 1996 - 2001 Annual budgets/reports; Esperance Rural Properties business plans; reports; meetings; Bore Mt Howick; Reforecasts - Wittenoom Hills, Lort River, Karranga, Bedford Harbour, Administration; Bedford Harbour business plan; Budgets - Bedford Harbour, Mt Howick 8012A/42 Date range: 1977 - 2003 Budgets – Lort River, Karranga, Wittenoom Hills; Capital; Crop; Wool; Financials; Cattle;