ANALYSES OF WELL, SPRING, MINERAL AND ARTESIAN WATERS. 123 
INDEX TO WELLS—continued. 
Number 
of Well. 
59 
60 
61 
62 
63 
64 to 78 
79 
Quality. 
Fresh 
Good stock. if 
Fresh 
Good and fresh 
| 
Good... 
| 
Saline 
80 to 88 | Fresh 
89 
Fresh 
90 Salt 
91 Pe 
92 ” 
93 Fresh 
94 ” 
95 wa 
96 . 
97 
98 Salt ... 
99 = 
106 Fresh Aas 
101 Brackish 
102 | Salt ... 
103 Fresh 
104 
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Nature of surrounding Strata. 
country. 
...| Cottonbush, mulga |Pipeclay, cement, and 
rises, and sandstone | layers of drift. 
hills : 
...| Undulating, red, vol- 
eanic hills and mulga 
..| Sandy pine ridges, then|Sand. 
open box flats. 
-.|Buthar and pine timbers| White loose sand 
small clear patches of 
salt-bush. 
-..| Open, red and black /Sand 
soil. 
Salt, unfitfor stock) Very level, loamy soil 
Sand 
..| Belar and _ salt-bush 
plains, loamy and 
sandy soil. 
... (Sandy basins, box, cool- 
abar, &c. 
i Pine serub and box flats 
..|Same. 
.../Sandy soil, pine scrub, 
and salt-bush. 
..|Red soil, N.W. 
plains ;|Drift sand. 
S.E. pine ridges. 
...|Red soil, ridges, pine 
and coolabar. 
Granite ... Ags 
qi 
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Slate 
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Remarks, 
This well has never been used for 
stock purposes, owing to a 10,000 
yard tank full of water in the 
vicinity. 
Not required to be used. 
This well was cleared out in the 
dry time, and it watered the 
whole of the stock on the place 
in the summer of 1881 and 1882. 
This well isa simple sand-pocket, 
surrounded by clay, and catches 
the drainage of the adjacent 
hard ground; the supply is al- 
ways limited, and if sunk too 
far salt water is struck. 
Fifteen bores by machinery on 
various portions of this station 
struck water in each of the first 
sand-drifts met with; further 
attempts at finding fresh water 
abandoned. 
The only fresh-water wells here 
are small sand wells, no springs 
being tapped; would do for 
household purposes, or (say) 
1,000 sheep. 
..|Chere are nine sandy wells, with 
only a limited supply of splendid 
clear fresh water ; not sufficient 
to water any large number of 
stock ; might be made available 
by having a receiving tank kept 
full for use in troughing; they 
are soon pumped dry, and take 
a considerable time to fill again; 
they are allin sand hollows, and 
fresh water is indicated by gum- 
trees growing in vicinity; if 
sunk too deep a clay botiom is 
struck, and continued through 
that for any distance salt water 
would be struck. 
There is a vein of country running 
from the Moonie River down to 
the lower Narran Lake, between 
the Narran and Barwon Rivers; 
it consists of sandy basins and 
low pine ridges, where water 
can be obtained at various depths 
from 20’ to 40’, in some places 
salt, in others fresh ; on a por- 
tion of Llanillo Run there are 
two wells 30’ apart, one fresh 
wholesome water, the other 
barely fit for consumption ; the 
supply is influenced by rainfall. 
... (Pumped with an Althouse wind- 
mill; waters 20,000 sheep. 
..|Pumped 1,500 gallons per hour ; 
mill and pump never without 
water. 
...|Boring being continued, a Wright 
and Edwards’ machine being 
used. 
Rises 26’ above surface in tube. 
