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CORRESPONDENCE.
We are always glad to receive com-
munications from- correspondents,
but do not hold ourselves responsible
for opinions expressed under
this heading Ed.
katherinjs;alice springs
READ. !
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(TO THE EDITOR.) S'
SIR
Having been travelling on the over-
land telegraph line, between Katherine and
Alice Springs, for the last six years, I think
it is<nearly times the public were made acquainted
with the state of the road during
be dry season. For instance, after leaving
North Newcastle there is a 44 mile' dry
stage. Between there and No. 2 well certainly
there is a well, but it is nearly useless
to anyone with more than 12 horses
As I came there' with 15 I could not give
them a drink ; luckily I watered them- 3
miles this side of Daly Waters or it would
have had' to do the 141 miles without a
drink-;. Now, Sir, it seems strange that' between
Attack Creek and Alice Springs there
are 11 wells, and. I believe that they are
kept in repair by. the Telegraph Department.
From Attack Creek North there are
three wells, one at Powell's Creek and two
between Daly Waters and the Elsey Station,
viz., No. 3 and No. 2. At present No. 3
well has fallen instinct that it matters much
as it is very little good at any time. Last
year two travellers came to it and could not
get a drink at all, on account of dead ani-
mals being in the water. Not long before
that the-line party teams- came to No. 2
well and found windlass, buckets, and
chain at the bottom. Had' this occurred to
a man by himself things would' have been
very awkward as he could not possibly have
got any water. Now, Sir, I consider the
best and cheapest way to give permanent
water is to deepen No. 3 well and put in
drives so as to give storage room for water,
and also case it with iron casing in place of
timber, and to have the fittings irons Their
25 miles South of No. 3 well towards Daly
Waters sink another well and treat it in the
same manner. If any steps are taken in
the matter they should be taken at once,,
before the surface water dries up:
Yours, etc.,
C. E. Campbell, T
Carrier.
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