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Western Mail, Thursday, 29 August 1929, p. 2.
The Cross Transformed.
It is fitting that Southern Cross should celebrate the centenary of this State, in the prosperity aud progress of which the goldfields town has been a corner-stone. "The Cross" in the early 'nineties was the hub of the universe to thousands of people in this State. From there they made their first venture into the unknown. No mean producer of the precious metal herself, the township was the base from which prospectors made the world ring with the richness of their discoveries. When the lihe went through she was temporarily, eclipsed; to boom in all her glory again in 1911 when the Bullfinch was opened up. Last week the local branch of the R.S.L. helped, to revive the old town's, former glories for a brief spell. A sports meeting, children's entertainment and ball were held, and for four days Southern Cross was on fete. Many Perth residents revisited the scenes of their former activities. The township nowadays is the centre of a thriving wheat industry. The earth, once tickled for yellow metal, is being tickled, under less romantic circumstances perhaps, for the golden grain. And the A.I.F. digger is largely responsible for the transformation to the more permanent prosperity the district now enjoys. And I think that remark applies to most other primary industries in this State.
The West Australian, Tuesday, 20 August 1929, p. 16.
At Bullfinch on Saturday, the Premier (Mr. P. Collier) opened the Lake Brown-Bullfinch railway, thus completing the loop line from Southern Cross to Wyalkatchem
Southern Cross is a town in Western Australia, 371 kilometres east of Perth on the Great Eastern Highway. It was founded by gold prospectors in 1888, and gazetted in 1890. It is the major town and administrative centre of the Shire of Yilgarn. At the 2011 census, Southern Cross had a population of 762.