CLXXVIII. ECONOMIC ASPECT OF ARTESIAN BORING IN N.S.W. 
fear regarding the suitability of the great majority of the 
waters from our bores for irrigation, provided the conditions 
laid down by Professor Hilgard are observed. 
The evidence that is afforded by the reports and by ocular 
demonstration is so strongly corroborative of this expression 
of opinion that we take it for granted that the suitability 
of the waters may generally be conceded, subject of course, 
to such limitations as may be imposed by the revelations of 
their analyses and those of the soils. Thus we shall find 
that the majority of the bore waters may be used. That 
being so, it is discouraging to find so little has been at- 
tempted, a position no doubt due to a want of knowledge 
and an appreciation of the subject, and perhaps to the 
generally accepted idea that it will not pay. It therefore 
seemed to me that there was distinctly room for some 
explanation of the subject such as I have endeavoured to 
give in the preceding pages. Hnough has, I think, been 
said to make a good case for the use of artesian water for 
irrigation, from the point of view as to the suitability of 
the water. 
The number of Government Bores that have been com- 
pleted to date is as follows:—Flowing bores 74, the depth 
is 132,577 feet, and the total flow received from the bores 
is 54,239,393 gallons per diem. There are 23 pumping bores 
and 13 have proved failures, The number of private flowing 
bores is 109, the depth 195,040 feet, and the flow reaches 
84,995,000 gallons per diem. There are 20 pumping bores 
and 16 have proved failures. 
