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Show BOKING I'OJt WATER. AHTB8IAN WBLL9 THAT YIELD MILLIONS OP GALLONS. Th meat (lejor si Chanherltln, a. II , That Slanda at the lln, or ths I.M In ThU Caoalry lla Wonderful I'Mfolinsnt. (Special Utter.) wtTTt.r5n ANY region yet r-7vys r,m''' whero you fJtSll and things, only luluprVi) here' no water rrmflfTwi wa ,n,re- he for KK'fJX WT tuns remain unae- In l 7 quired Yet stib- W7 f K ,. terrnnean water I tXL '-Ll M Ptetont every- JJSSjfeSg where; It only re- The tapping Is done by machinery, whlth bores a hole, toy, tlx Inchea In diameter and a half a mile deep, mora or lest That hole Is lined as It proceeds pro-ceeds with tteel pipe strewed Into each other Now, If these nrtctlan boret don't exactly lurn a bowling wll- Idernee Into a smiling garden, they nt lean render habitable Immcnte tract of country. Thlt ha been tho Gate more particularly In Australia. In Queensland many of the tquatter count their sheep by the hundred thousand; thou-sand; and In the old day the mortality mortal-ity among the flock In lime of drouth we (Imply appalling. The doomed animal would crowd In on tho rapidly dlmlnlihlng water hole, or storage place, and convert the frontage Into a dssert, tilt at length they were too weak to travel back to the abundant pasturage whlrh no longer availed them. The spouting bore changed all that One photograph here reproduced reproduc-ed shows a flock of sheep drinking at an artesian it ream Tht I "Oara- I bridge Down (No 1) Uore," situated 1 on a sheep-run In the northern division divi-sion of (Jusennlanil Thl . l It MS i feet deep, and yields TOP1" Jton n day Arttr a good (low Is struck by botlng the water ha to be led In the required I direction; In other word, an artificial stream la formed, which flow for mile across the country. It erwrtej being msrked In due time by n riband ot rushes. To make the channel, in enormous en-ormous plow I ueed. Till plow I formed of log, arranged In the shape ot the letter V, the apex being thod with Iron, The whole concern It dragged drag-ged I'y iierhape twenty bullocks. Australia Aus-tralia may be aald to bavo found salvation sal-vation In bores There are now In western Queensland alone tome. 431 of them, and their total depth exceed 100 mile. Of Iheto lore, 317 overflow, over-flow, with in aggregate output or 193.-137,: 193.-137,: 10 gallons dally Thlt tame colony col-ony will toon powott the deepest bore In the world. At the beginning or thl year the Blmernh bore was nlmndoned, VilsjatMtt JW ( but boring wis teeomtnenWd wtitn w!w wSa eirucr at Warbreccan, at about the loot depth. It waa decided to continue the Illmernh bore down to 6 000 lett, to that when completed It will be the cottllest and deepen hole In the world. The height to which the water It onto thrown It extraordinary In lloHt City, Ida , one or the five bore throwt III stream U feet Into the air Which reminds one that townt as well at wild pasture lands often derlre their water supply from bores Tht bore of America Am-erica are protected by law; thote ot Australia soon will be Now and then bona ire failures. Their water may turn out brachial) or aallne. or may not put In an appearance at all The mc-'end mc-'end New Wales bore Is Yotingerrlna bore, and I on the llourke-llenger-ford road, Irrara county. It 1 ISC feet Ideep, and yields 176,000 gallons a day This bore water alt the year round MO horses, 00,000 cattle, and llB.OOO tbeep, whleh It good evidence of Its utility. All bore do not throw up their water at teen In theto picture. Sometlmet the water only rite to within 100 rati . wn s OIIUAT SI'OUTINO UOItK AT Cll M- llKULAlN. 8. D of the surface, lu which oat It hs to be pumped up. As might be tupiaod tho quality of water varies greatly Occasionally It ponssias medicinal propcrtlea. so that the local people and their cattle are obliged to tako It In homeopathic dotes until they grow accustomed ac-customed to It Around the Kulkyoe government bore, In New Booth Wales, were found strewn the carcasses of kangaroos, who had died from effects produced by the bod and poisonous water. Another Queensland bore Is here depleted the "TBurUaeent, No 11." whleb eject a terrific volume of water from the bowel of the earth through a tlx Inch easlnK. The depth ot the bore I 1,710 test, and Ha dally flow 3,000,000 gallons. The temperature tempera-ture of the water Is US degree r" A tpltndld spouting artesian well It uted for power In operating the electric light plant at Chamberlain. 8. D The canal and reservoir tyitemi of Irrlga tlon are very cottly both to those who ceutmet then tad to the farmer who nets their water. The bore, however, hat the great merit at being Infinitely Infinite-ly cheaper, and at the stmt time yielding- very copious stipply, Hero ar-teslto ar-teslto wells are obtained by drilling with machine similar to those used In linking oil or no well. The depth to which It It nee weary to go In order to strike water rarle from 400 feet to 1 TOO feet. The photograph reproduced repro-duced shows the greatest artesian bore In America, with the poeslble exception excep-tion of the lMneh well nt HI Augustine Augus-tine Kla The Illustration abowa a solid clibt-lnch stream of water being thrown to a height or 1JV4 feet abovo tbt top ot tho well eating. Obtcrvo the man with a bucket over hi head by wty of a protected "hclmeL" During Dur-ing the tests of this well the stream wss reduced to about two Inches, when tht great pressure that waa exerted forced the water to a height of 1C2 feet. , This bore Is 092 fot deep and the prcs-turs prcs-turs Is 101 pounds to tho square Inch. The flow Is GtOI.OOO gsllons per day. The tremendous forro of tho flow may be Judged from ths rcproductlon,ihow-Ini rcproductlon,ihow-Ini a het ot heavy boiler Iron, with a considerable hole worn through It In lee than three daya owing to tho water striking It continuously. The tarn smaller hole on each side contained con-tained bolt when thl piece ot Iron was braced lo the front of the well to divert It. and tho boll head wero com- -f S-lisV-'tnCn' ' CAVinitlDOK NO. 1. pletrly cut off by the force ot tht wsttr. |