428 
&,m aware, this well may be pronounced the best in Australia, as far as regards volume* 
although the pressure is not so great as at Cuunamulla, whore it is fully 183 lb. per 
square inch.f When the valve is fully opened, and a ‘ director’ with an orifice of 
one and a-hal£ inches is fitted thereon, the water shoots to a height over one hundred 
feet from the surface. The cost was £2,388 14s. 5d., including supervision of the work, 
and £86 8s. 5d. for caretaking to 30th Juno last” [18S9].J 
In the 1890 Eeport, Mr. Henderson gives the following analysis of the water by 
Mr. E. Mar: — “Total fixed salts 70'70, chlorine 12'95, hardness 3°; and a note is 
appended that the water is “ unfit for irrigation — may be used for other purposes.” 
In an article by Mr. Ludwig Brack on “ The Mineral Springs of Australia ”§ is 
the following note on an analysis (furnished by the Department of Mines) of water 
from “ Charleville district,” which I presume to refer to the Charleville Artesian 
Well 
“ This water is of a strong saline character, and contains 604‘78 grains of mineral 
matters per gallon, viz. : — Chloride of sodium, 347 ’42 gr. ; chloride of lime, 100'59 gr.; 
chloride of magnesium, 63'89 gr. ; sulphate of soda, 79'27 gr.; and 13’61 gr. carbonate of 
lime. This spring contains so much chloride of lime as to make it unfit for drinking 
purposes ; however, used as baths it would no doubt be found useful in scrofula, enlarge- 
ment of the liver, and derangement of the spleen ; at a tepid temperature (say from 85° 
to 94° B.) it should be useful in cutaneous diseases, and taken as hot baths (from 98° to 
112° B.) in rheumatic and similar affections. I cannot say whether this water is identical 
■with the water struck at the same place in a bore 1,350 feet deep, the temperature of 
which is over 112° B.” 
MURWEH BORE (Private).— Eat. 26" 58', Long. 146" 20'. 
Depth, 1,230 feet ; overflow, 140,000 gallons per day ; temperature, 98°. 
MUCKADILLA BORE (Government).— Lat. 26“ 40', Long. 148“ 20'. 
This bore is near Muckadilla Station, on the W estern Eailway, six miles east of 
Dalby. It is 3,262 feet deep, being the deepest in the Colony, or indeed in the Australian 
Colonies. The following section has been supplied to me by Mr. Henderson ; — 
Jeet. 
Depth 
Yellow clay 
50 
Black shale 
370 
Sandstone 
24 
Black shale 
234 
678 
Grey pipeclay ... 
116 
794 
Grey sandstone 
195 
989 
Sand drift, white and lignite ; tapped water 
21 
1,010 
Shale, brown and grey 
61 
1,071 
Sandstone conglomerate, grey 
26 
1,097 
Shale, brown and grey 
54 
1,151 
Sand drift, white and brown; water increased ... 
127 
1,278 
Shale, brown 
15 
1,293 
Sand drift, grey 
32 
1,325 
Shale, grey, siliceous 
123 
1,448 
Sandstone, brownish grey 
85 
1,533 
Sand drift, white and grey 
148 
1,681 
Shale, blackish 
150 
1,831 
* See Noorama and Burranbilla Bores. 
t An Artesian Well in Dakota has a reported pressure of 200 lb. per square inch- the greatest I 
have any kno'wledge of. 
J Annual Repiorts of the Hydraulic Engineer, 30th June, 1889 and 1890. 
^Australasian Medical Gazette for January, 1891. 
