Local Population Figures
12 December 1905 The Tumut Advocate and Farmers and Settlers' Adviser
The following are the populations officially given for the municipalities on the southern and south-western lines:-
Cootamundra started off scratch about 30 years ago (says the "Herald"), and since then it has outstripped Cowra, Grenfell, Gundagai, Murrumburrah, Narandera, Tumut and Yass, older towns, and has almost reached Young in population.
During the past ten years the population of the Municipal District of Gundagai has increased fifty per cent.
In 1895 Tumut had a population of 300 in excess of Gundagai, in 1900 Gundagai led Tumut by a narrow margin, now the positions have been reversed, the figures being slightly in favor of Tumut.