ANALYSES OF WELL, SPRING, MINERAL AND ARTESIAN WATERS. 121 
INDEX TO WELLS—continued. 
Number 
of Well. 
39 
40 
41 
44 
45 
46 
52 
53 
54 
55 
56 
57 
58 
Good stock... 
Brackish 
Quality. 
Salt and poisonous 
Fair stock ... 
Good. stock— 
slightly sweet... 
Good stock... 
Very brackish. 
Good stock... 
23 
Good stock... 
Good and fresh 
Good stock... 
.| Open salt-bush plains, |Clay throughout 
Nature of surrounding Strata. Remarks, 
country. 
Sandhills and oak ridges|Pipeclay and drift _...!A good many trial shafts have 
like decomposed lime- 
stone. 
.| Open salt and cotton |Alluvial 82’, fine drift 18’ 
bush plains, with oak 
clumps, &c. 
with oak ridges, &c. 
99 a9 06 Alluvial 20’, fine drift 58’ 
Sandstone ridges ; red |Alluvial gravel, cement 
clay flats; mulga pine;} and sandstone rock. 
beefwood. 
.| Pine sandhill; mulga |Gravel and cement 100’, 
and belar ridges. sandstone 60’ cement 
and blue clay 40’. 
..| Loamy flats, rocky |Loam, clay, and cement 
ridge, and mallee | 167’, drift 8’ 
sandhills. 
..|Box flats and pine sand-|Alluvial 100’, sandstone 
hills... flags 70’, water in blue 
clay 
.| Red clay flats and pine Cement and sandstone. 
sandhills. 
... (Open mulga, with ridges|Hard sandstone 69’, 
of malee. chalk 1’, hard sand- 
stone 70’. 
.| Ironstone rises; box |Alluvial pipeclay, ce- 
flats; mulga; &c. an and sandstone 
rock, 
..|Red flats and pine sand-|Pipeclay and cement, 
hills. hard sandstone. 
...| Undulating barren and|Cement and hard sand- 
box flatsandironstone| stone, water in sand- 
rises. st 
been sunk on this run, salt water 
being struck in drift under 100/ 
in all of them. 
Have sunk fifty trial shafts on 
different parts of run, from 80/ 
to 100’; salt water struck in all; 
unfit for use. 
-.[50,000 gallons per day have been 
obtained, but the supply seems 
practically inexhaustible ; 
slightly brackish. 
Cool, cloudy weather seems to 
increase the supply. 
There is a 30/ drive in this well. 
99 99 29 
Eight miles from this well a trial 
shaft was sunk 188/; no water 
struck; half-a-mile from the 
above well a shaft 6’ x 3’ was 
sunk to a depth of 96’, thena 
-- bore 130=226’, no water being 
struck; boring still going on. ~ 
The sandstone rock in this well 
required to be blasted ; it is in- 
tended to put a drive in this 
well to increase the supply. 
.|Undulating ... ...{Blue slate... sea ...|This well was sunk before present 
owners bought station. There 
are two long drives at bottom, 
not required for use. 
one. 
...|Undulating ridges ; vol-|Red clay 3’, red sandy|This well is not yet finished. 
Good stock... 
Very salt 
Fresh 
canic hills. drift 4’, coarse red 
drift 6, red clay 7’, 
white sandy rock 10’, 
' pipeclay 3’, white san- 
dy rock 12’, fireclay 4’, 
white sandy rock,with 
occasional thin strata 
of fire and pipeclay 51’. 
we Be Hard sandstone, rock, 
cement, quartz, and 
gravel. 
vee as dee Quartz, gravel, and hard|A shaft put down here would make 
sandstone. 6,000 gallons per day. 
ace 500 Hard slate, quartz, and 
hard rock, &c. 
eco oes Pipeclay and cement ...This well is in the bed of Tilta- 
goona Creek. 
Government well condemned as 
being unfit for stock. A well 
half-a-mile to the N.W. good 
water, supposed to be soakage. 
