IN. DEX TO WELLS—continued. 
ANALYSES OF WELL, SPRING, MINERAL AND ARTESIAN WATERS. 119 
SAN] Quality 
1 Brackish 
2 3? 
3 9 
4. = Ce oe 
5 Slightly brackish... 
Fresh and hard 
7 Hard... 
8 Good stock... 
9 Salt... 
10 Good and fresh 
11 Fresh oe Eee 
12 Slightly brackish... 
13 
14 =| Slightly brackish... 
15 ( 
16 
17, 18,19 | 
20 
21, 22 Salt aralal 4 
23 to 27 
28 to 34 
85 to 87 
le 
88 Good stock... 
Nature of surrounding 
country. 
all log 
S., and W., ridges 
and plain. 
.| Forest, plain, ridges, 
chiefly white gum 
timber. 
.| N., barren ridges; E. 
and W. do; S. forest 
and ridge. 
Black soil plains. ard 
open forest country. 
...| Undulating, ridges 
running into rocky 
mountains 
...| Low ranges,with creeks 
running to river. 
.. (Salt-bush plains, lignum 
S side. 
.| Salt and cotton bush, 
dark clayey soil. 
Broken’ plai Shee 
..{S., mallee and porcupine 
grass; W.,.N.,and H., 
black oak. 
Pine ridges, mallee, 
porcupine grass, and 
salt-bush. 
Red sandy soil or clay) 
on salt-bush plains. | 
Red sandy soilin belar | 
or oak scrub. 
Red sandhills in mallee 
Red clayey soil in box ; 
flats. | 
White clay flats, with | 
box timber. B) 
..| Salt and cotton bush, 
light scrub, and un- 
dulating. 
granite ridges; EK. 
Etrata. 
Black soii, granite, rot- 
ten slaty bottom. 
Black soil, rotten gran 
ite and pipeclay. 
Top brown soil, then 
basalt to bottom. 
Black soil 15’, basalt 6/. 
Black alluvial soil, pipe- 
clay, and slate rock. 
Soft slaty rock ... 
Gypsum, sandstone, and 
clay. 
\ 
Alluvial 
Alluvial. 
..|Alluvial, 120’ pipeclay 
and drift 30’. 
Loamy soil 15’, drift 
sand 55’. 
Hard clay, with gravel 
100’, alluvial 80’, pipe- 
clay and mica 30’, soft 
sandstone rock and 
clay 70’. 
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Remarks, 
This well is only used in time of 
drought. 
-Water stands 5’ from top in wet 
seasons. 
In a wet season overflows. 
The well is believed to be down to 
the level of river water. The 
water is hard, but used for 
household purposes. 
.. (Sunk on alow ridge, believed to 
be down to level of river water; 
used for household purposes. 
Salt at 80’; got much better as we 
went deeper; last spring struck 
almost fresh, 100’ open shaft, 
89: bore, 34” diameter. 
Salt at 50’; improved slightly 
when bored; open shaft 100’, 
bore 62’. 
..|Selection of site for well a matter 
of chance in some parts of Ri- 
verina. Good stock water is 
obtained at a depth of 100’ to 
130’; in other parts two wells 
within one mile of each other 
salt water was obtained; mid- 
way between another shaft was 
put down and good water ob- 
tained. 
This well isin a sandy box swamp 
and gives one of the best sup- 
pliesin the district; othershafts 
have been tried in the Mulga 
country and failed to strike 
water; two of them sunk 220’, 
This well is covered by the Mur- 
ray water when in flood. 
One well on Gall Gall, C, we pum- 
ped fora considerable time in 
the summer, hoping the water 
would improve, but it did not 
do so. Have several soakage 
wells, with good stock water, all 
at shallow depths of not more 
than 20’, all sunk in the beds of 
dry creeks where the flood 
waters back up, and all within 
five miles of the river; the sup- 
ply is not good, and are only 
made useful by making large 
chambers and drives at bottom 
of shaft. 
Open shaft 200’, bore 80’. This 
well is to be sunk to full depth 
of bore, when the supply is ex- 
pected to increase. A Tiffen 
borer was used. 
