420 
MANFRED DOWNS (Private,).— Lat. 20° 8', Long. 141° 40 . 
No. 1 Bore. 
Clay 
Blue shale 
Water-bearing sandstone ... ... ••• ••• ••• •" 
The water rises six feet above the surface iu a one-inch pipe at the 
60 feet 
570 „ 
48 „ 
rate of 50,000 
gallons per day.* * * § 
No. 2 Bore. 
Blue shale to ... 
Shale and sandstone to 
Hard fine-grained porous sandstone with water at 
Softer and coarser sandstone with water at 
The water flows over the surface at the rate 
665 feet 
!" ... 720 „ 
720 „ 
760 „ 
of 52(5,000 gallons per day, with a 
temperature of 110° r.t t icqi 
In a table attached to the Hydraulic Engineer’ s Annual Eeport, 80th i une, ISai, 
the following additional information is given regarding bores at Manfred Downs 
No. 
Depta in Veet. 
Supply per diem. 
— 
Temperature. 
1 
177 
Gallons. 
22,000 
Overflowing. 
2 
128 
12,000 
)) 
3 
86 
14,000 
J5 
4 
5 
210 
200 
10,000 
20,000 
Not overflowing ; supply pumped. 
• 
6 
98 
16,000 
Overflowing. 
106° 
lin° 
17 
678 
60,000 
>J “* *” 
18 
760 
525,000 
„ ... ••• 
109 ,“ 
9 
707 
200,000 
»» ... ••• 
118° 
10 
733 
250,000 
,, 
RICHMOND DOWNS, Flinders River (Private).— Lat. 20° 4S', Long. 143° 10'. 
There are five bores on this Station. No. 1 Bore is six hundred and ninety-eight 
feet deep. Water flows over the surface at the rate of 1,600,000 gallons per day.§ 
Temp. 96°. II No. 2 Bore is situated on Alexairdra Creek, on the north side of the 
Eliuders. At four hundred feet a supply, estimated at 1,000,000 gallons per day, was 
struck The Newspaper Correspondent, in announcing the discovery, mentions that the 
bore was put down in eight days, and adds that “the water is splendid, and equal to it 
not better than that in the last bore.”1[ Total^ depth, four hundred and eighty feet ; 
yield, 1,200,000 gallons per day; temperature, 92°. II 
No. 4 Bore tapped a supply of water at a depth of six hundred feet, yielding 
2,000,000 gallons per day.** 
No. 5 (?) Bore. Dejjth six hundred feet ; water overflowing at the rate o 
2 000 000 gallons per day. “ The result of the present bore brings the total supply for 
the fire bores at less than 1,000 feet each, to 8,000,000 gallons per day.”tt 
• Letter from Mr. J. Hugh Moor, lat January, 1889. 
t Hid., 12th December, 1889. 
t Nos. 7 and 8 are evidently the bore.s named Nos. 1 and 2 respectively 
§ Townsville Bulletin, 2()th June, 1891. 
II Hydraulic Engineer’s Report, 30th June, 1891. 
if Totonsville Bulletin, 23rd July, 1891. 
** Brisbane Courier, 11th November, 1891. 
t+ Brisbane Telcyraph, 9th November, 1891. 
in Mr. Moor’s letters. 
