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water obtained after having been put to the expense of boring. 

 Similar cases of improvement have been noted with respect 

 to bores in the Eucla Basin and the Adelaide Plains Basin. 



The analyses of the samples taken by Captain White 

 has shown that there is an area favoured by very good water 

 in the Dalhousie Springs district; but it is not known whether 

 all the water between Dalhousie Springs and the Anacoora 

 Bore in the Northern Territory (containing 61'40 grains of 

 solids per gallon) is equally good. 



With regard to the economic application of the waters 

 of the springs and bores in the Great Australian Basin, it 

 may be said that the principal use is for the watering of 

 stock. Almost every bore has given water sufficiently good 

 for this purpose. Individual cases have been reported of the 

 successful application of these mineralized waters to medicinal 

 uses. They are, on the whole, unsuitable for irrigation, 

 although the amount of solid matter in solution is in a few 

 places — as, for example, at Dalhousie Springs — less than that 

 which will permit the growth of hardy vegetation. The date 

 palms at the Coward Bore, the water from which contains 245'5 

 grains of solids per gallon, and therefore but little more than 

 the average proportion of saline matter, have not made very 

 successful growth. 



It is not possible to establish comparisons between the 

 South Australian waters and those of New South Wales 

 which have been applied to irrigation, for the reason that the 

 latter contain so much less mineral matter in solution. 



L. Keith Ward, Government Geologist. 



September 25, 1914. 



