403 
No water was obtained in the well. The following analysis of some of the 
coal fragments from the spoil-heap was made on my return to TownsTille 
Carbon 
Volatile 
Ash ... 
30-32 
49-34 
20-34 
100-00 
Another well was sunk by the Government, just behind the Court House m 
"Winton but owing to the recent sudden death of the contractor I could get no intorma- 
tion as to the strata passed through. I found (2nd January, 1882) that the greater 
part of the shaft was slabbed up, but I was informed that a coal-seam fiitecn 
inches in thickness was cut at seventy feet, and another at about one hundred teet. A 
the bottom of the shaft (one hundred and fifty feet), where it was still unslabbed,! saw 
horizontally bedded sandy shales. The coal-seams were fifteen and twenty-four inches 
in thickness respectively. That is, I came to that conclusion, for the accounts 1 got 
differed considerably. Opinions would naturally differ as to how much was c<ml jmd 
how much shale. From the fragments I picked up in the spoil-heap, I should say that the 
coal occurred in thin layers among dark carbonaceous shales. Specimens I analysed at 
Townsville gave — 
Carbon 
Volatile 
Ash ... 
... B2-49 
... 42-93 
... 4-58 
100-00 
Two species of the genus Unio from this well were presented to the Geological 
Survey Museum by Mr. .fulius von Berger.* , 
On Vindex Station, near Winton, a well was sunk about 1880. As the station 
had changed hands between that time and the date of my visit (3rd January, 1882), 1 
could get little information, but I learned that a nine-inch coal-seam was cut at seventy- 
five feet, and other two seams (the upper one sixteen inches thick) between seventy-five 
and one hundred feet. At one hundred and ten feet a sufficient supply of water (which 
rose twenty-five feet) was struck, and the sinking was stopped. The rubbish round the 
well consisted of soft grey shales and flags, with chips of coal, and a few lumps o lar 
huff-coloured sandstone. <■ -rr- j a 
A second well was sunk on Crawford’s Creek, nine miles east ot V index, and 
water was obtained at one hundred and fifty feet. The strata passed through were very 
much the same as in the well at the station. I heard that coal had been passed through, 
but could get no reliable information. t. + 
A twelve-inch bore was being sunk by Mr. If. de Kock on Vindex Eun, abou 
seven miles N. 15° E. of the station. I had previously seen, in Mr. von Berg^ s 
hands in Winton, samples of some of the strata labelled according to their depths. Mr. 
de Kock supplied me with the latest particulars of the boring . ^ ^ 
Surface ... ... ... •.■ •.. •■- ••• ■" " 
Fine-grained, soft, friable, buff-coloured sandstone 
Loose ground ' - ' , ' „ 
Yellowish sandstone, hard and fine-grained, with silicified wood below. . . 
Loose ground 
* A deposit of XInio has been met with by Prof. R. Tate in the Lake Byre Basin, South Australia. The 
specimens have been examined by my Colleague. 
