[1 May, 1898. QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL, 415 
It will be a most regrettable circumstance if this bore has to be abandoned, 
as it should prove one of the most interesting experiments in deep boring in 
the colony. 
The total number of feet bored in search of artesian water in Queens- 
land was, up to the date of Mr. Henderson’s last report (June, 1897), 
607,447 feet = 115-05 miles. The total number of bores catalogued by the 
Water Supply Department to that date was 541. Of these, 42 were sunk by 
the Water Supply Department, 5 by the Railway Department, 10 by local 
governing authorities, and 434 by private owners. 
The average depth per bore is 1,122°8 feet. 
The total annual flow of artesian water flowing from 349 bores in Queens- 
land is about 140,000,090 gallons daily. This gives 52,135,000,000 gallons 
annually. But to give a better idea of this enormous quantity, let us explain 
that it would cover some 294 square miles to a depth of 1 foot, or 100 square 
miles to a depth of nearly 3 feet. . 
__ The power of some of the bores is used for reticulating towns, electric 
lighting, driving centrifugal machines for wool-scouring and other purposes. 
The Bando Bore, about 50 miles from Cunnamulla, is a case in point. A 
system of watercourses has been laid out by which water will be conveyed 
through a number of farms where there is good land but no permanent water. 
This bore is 2,090 feet deep, and yields 2,100,440 gallons of water per day. 
So that it will be seen that although Queensland is not blessed with running 
rivers like some other more favoured countries in that respect, yet we have an 
inexhaustible supply of underground water which on being tapped rises to the 
‘surface (and beyond it) of its own accord, and flows away for miles through | 
the waterless plains, by means of once dry watercourses, but which now are 
broad running streams, supplying the thirsty flocks and herds of the squatter, 
who before the advent of the priceless boon of well-boring machinery, either 
had to look on helplessly and hopelessly whilst his stock was destroyed by thirst, 
or drive them many weary miles in the hope of finding some wretched lagoon 
or river hole where he could prolong the lives of a remnant of them. 
