WATER SUPPLY AND IRRIGATION. 185 
charcoal in pieces about the size of a pea are brought up by the 
ter. A somewhat similar well is found on Kallara, S.W. of 
Bourke ; it is very much deeper, has abundance of water, which 
rises from the sandy drift to 26 feet above the surface, but the 
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distance from the river, and in all of them the water rises to the 
same heights, proving that the water is from a common supply. 
bout 50 miles S.W. of Gunnedah, at Bomera head station, is a 
South of the river at Condobolin a number of wells have n 
put down (about 50 feet) into what is by all considered a perfectly 
mexhaustible supply of good water, sufficient for irrigation and 
* stream of water has been seen going down these 
naturally asks, where to? Com with the area : 
lony we have only a well here and there, and if out of 7 ese & 
few Tun over with a supply practically unlimited, and again 
