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MARATHON, No. 1 BORE. 
■WTator overflowing at tlie rate of 2,300,000 gallons per day ; depth not stated.* * * § 
MAOKINBAY BORE, on the Mackinlay River (Government).— Lat. 21“ 25', Bong. 141 20'. 
When at the depth of eight hundred and thirty-seven feet, water rose over the 
surface at the rate of 160,000 gallons per day. Total depth, 1,002 feet ; overflow, 
350,000 gallons per day. The bore pierced the following straU:- .Alju^al layer; 
yellow clays ; blue and grey shales, irregularly mterstratified with thin beds of grey 
and brown sandstone, now and then of a slightly greenish tint ; and calcareous seams. 
Occasionally mundic was brought up in the sand pump. The water was tapped in 
coarse open sandstone.”t 
TOORAK, No. 2 BORE, Mackinlay River (Private). 
Depth, 1,550 feet; water overflowing at the rate of about 1,000,000 gallons 
per day.J 
STRATHEIEBD STATION, Mackinlay River, Burke District (Private . 
Depth, eight hundred and thirty feet ; water flowing at the rate of 500,000 
gallons per day.§ 
WERNA.— Bat. 2T 50', Bong. 143°. 
Water was struck in a well on the boundary of Werna and Ayrshire Downs Euns 
at one hundred and forty feet, and again at one hundred and eighty feet. 1 he water 
rose seventy feet in the well ; at least it stood at one hundred and thirty-four feet from 
the surface in December, 1881, when I visited the place after a protracted drought. 
The section met with in this well has already been described (p 402). 
•SHEPPARD’S WEBB, Winton,— Bat. 22“ 22', Bong. 143“ 3'. 
No water was met with in this well, which was sunk to the depth of one 
hundred and thirty-live and a-half feet. The strata met with have already been 
described (p. 402). 
GOVERNMENT WEBB, Winton (behind Court House). 
No water at one hundred and fifty feet. The strata have already been described 
(p. 403). 
WINTON BORE (Government). 
Depth, at 30th June, 1891, 1,800 feet. 
Strata; — “ An alluvial layer ; sandy shale, soft and indurated fine-grained grey 
shales, occasionally of a slightly greenish tint, and bluish-coloured sandstones, regularly 
* interstratified. One or two thin beds of what appeared to be carbonaceous shales, and 
some dark material, evidently coal, were passed through. Several small samples ot 
gypsum were brought up by the sand pump.” At 1,260 feet, a small stream of water 
Was struck, which rose to within about fifty feet from the surface.! 
VINDEX, near Winton.— Bat. 22’ 28', Long. 143“ 19'. 
In a well at the Station, water was struck, about 1880, at one hundred and 
ten feet, and rose twenty-five feet. The strata have already been described fp. dUdJ. 
* Rockhampton Bulletin, December, 1891. 
t Hydraulic Engineer’s Report, 30th June, 1891. 
J Brishane Courier, 16th March, 1892. 
§ Ibid., 27th October, 1891. 
