The advance Australia

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N 059.4 ADV
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Melbourne : F. Davison, 1897-
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Vol. 14 No. 07 (12 Jul 1910)
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THE  

ADVANCE AUSTRALIA  

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VOL. XIV., No. 7.  

JULY 12, 1910.  

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ARTESIAN WATER IN VIC-  

TORIA.  

Mr. Frank Madden Proves the Faith  

Within Him.  

The Honourable the Speaker of the  

Victorian Legislative Assembly is firm  

believer in the possibility of obtaining  

underground supplies of potable water  

in the Wimmera and Mallee country of  

Victoria. He is firmly of the opinion  

that there are underground reservoirs  

surpassing in area and capacity anything  

which man can construct by weirs,  

favourably disposed to capture and  

concentrate the rainfall of surface  

catchment areas. He has been for-  

tified in this belief by the recent  

developments in this regard in South  

Australia, where they have obtained  

copious supplies of pure water by  

boring, notably around Pinaroo. He  

has for many years regarded the Mallee  

country as being worth saving, and that  

it could only be permanently inhabited  

by securing for the s.ettlers there water  

for stock and domestic purposes.  

Mr. Madden, in paper which he has  

circulated under the title of “ Unde-  

veloped Victoria, and Why it Has Re-  

mained Undeveloped," refers to the re-  

port of an expert committee in 1897.  

The committee consists of Mr. Robert  

jack (Government Geologist of Queens-  

land), Air. James Stirling (Government  

Geologist, Victoria), and Mr. E. Checchi  

(Assistant Engineer, Victoria Water  

Supply Department). This committee  

was apponted to report.” on boring for  

artesian water in the Mallee.” hey  

said: “ No site, however, can be pointed  

out with confidence, as observation has  

shown that what artesian water is pre-  

sent in the Tertiary rocks does not oc-  

cur in continuous sheets, but in channels  

which may be very difficult to strike. In  

any case, we should expect the supply  

to be very limited, and can express no  

opinion as to its quality. We therefore  

consider large expenditure in further  

experimental boring in the Mallee as un-  

warrantable.”  

This report,. however, did not dismay  

Mr. Madden. He has persevered with  

his belief, and he has, with splendid per-  

tinacity, collected telling data from many  

sources, original research, and careful  

observation to prove his case. “  

found,” he writes, “ from Government  

returns and river gaugings that only one-  

sixteenth of the water which fell in the  

Murray basin passed through the Mur-  

ray mouth, and that, consequently, there  

was water to the extent of 15 Murrays  

somewhere, and set out to find that  

water or some considerable part of it.  

knew that the eeneral contour of Aus-  

tralia lay from north-east to south-west,  

and thought it probable that the miss-  

ing water would travel underground in  

this direction. Naturally, one of the  

first things did was to see what  

could learn from the boring which had  

been done in the Mallee, and here met  

with my first success and my first dis-  

appointment. Taking the line of bores  

from Nhill to Milmead, and marking the  

height at which water was found above  

sea level, as given by the department  

which had put down these bores, found  

that in an almost unbroken line the  

water was struck in the bores, at such  

heights above sea level as indicated  

hydraulic surface sloping from south to  

north, which, if could establish it,  

would be of the greatest benefit to the  

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