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thrown out of employment owing to the failure of the water supply. Water
was struck at 30 feet, which rose seven feet in the shaft in ten
minutes. The sinking was continued to 40 feet, the water rising to
within ten feet of the surface. When one considers the well was six feet
square, the supply can be imagined.

Unknown to the man who was pumping the water to the mill, I later
visited the site and enquired if the water could be reduced in the
shaft. He replied:--"I have kept the pump going night and day, but
cannot lessen the supply." I then asked him if I might lift the slabs
which were covering the well. I did so with his permission, and saw the
water flowing in a steady stream across it. This satisfied me as to the
supply.

At Avon Downs Station, near Clermont, a large well had been sunk near a
creek, with a diminishing supply of water. On investigation, I found the
well had been sunk on the edge of an underground stream. I advised a
drive to be put in towards the centre of the stream (which I marked).
Mr. Sutherland (the Inspector for the Australian Estates at that time)
informed me later that my advice had been carried out, and they had
obtained very satisfactory results.

At Gindie State Farm, I was accompanied by Mr. Hamlyn (the Public
Service Improvement Engineer) to mark sites for the Department of
Agriculture. Mr. Jarrott, the manager, took us to a dry well sunk to a
depth of 80 feet. I could not feel any indication of water there, but a
few hundred yards away, on rising ground, I located two streams crossing
each other, and by the assistance of pegs, marked a site in the centre
of the two streams. Some months afterwards I met the manager in Emerald,
who said:--"Mr. Corfield, when you were marking that site at Gindie
State Farm, where the two streams crossed each other, the engineer and
myself were laughingly criticising your action, but never more will I
doubt your ability to find water." The Secretary of Agriculture later
informed me by letter that the top stream only yielded a small supply,
but the second stream, struck at 165 feet, augmented the supply that it
could not be lowered by the pump more than 35 feet, and that the
estimated yield of both streams was 10,000 gallons per day.

In 1907, I marked several sites in the vicinity of Winton, and between
then and 1911, I travelled by coach and train, but principally by buggy,
an approximate distance of 20,000 miles, marking sites at different
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