-------------------------------+-----------+-------------------------------- Date | Miles. | Increase in Each Year. -------------------------------+-----------+-------------------------------- Up to the end of October, 1894 | 82.75 | " " " 1895 | 92.21 | 9.46 miles in twelve months " " September, 1896 | 102.43 | 10.22 miles in eleven months " " June, 1897 | 111.02 | 8.59 miles in nine months " " " 1898 | [h]135.85 | [h]24.83 miles in twelve months " " " 1899 | 159.61 | 23.76 miles in twelve months " " " 1900 | [i]184.98 | [i]25.37 miles in twelve months " " " 1901 | 202.01 | 17.03 miles in twelve months " " " 1902 | 215.04 | 13.03 miles in twelve months " " " 1903 | 221.87 | 6.83 miles in twelve months " " " 1904 | 225.04 | 3.17 miles in twelve months " " " 1905 | 229.53 | 4.49 miles in twelve months " " " 1906 | 236.41 | 6.88 miles in twelve months " " " 1907 | [j]273.66 | [j]37.25 miles in twelve months " " December, 1907 | [k]276.50 | [k] 2.84 miles in six months " " " 1908 | [k]283.84 | [k] 7.34 miles in twelve months -------------------------------+-----------+-------------------------------- [Footnote h: This includes a considerable number of old bores discovered and added to the 1898 year's list.] [Footnote i: This includes thirty-four sub-artesian wells and bores in the Dalby district, representing an aggregate of 3,500 ft.] [Footnote j: Data collected by Police Department at the beginning of 1907, which include a number of old bores not previously heard of.] [Footnote k: Only a small part of data to hand, which was chiefly compiled from newspaper reports. It is a fact well known to this Department that never before was there in any year so much boring done as during the years 1907 and 1908.] FLOWING ARTESIAN BORES--1908. Number of artesian flows of various magnitudes to end of 1908:-- Under 10,000 gallons per day 49 From 10,001 to 150,000 gallons per day 151 " 150,001 to 750,000 " " " 296 " 750,001 to 1,500,000 " " " 129 " 1,500,001 to 2,500,000 " " " 57 Exceptional flows of over 2,500,000 gallons per day 34 ---- Total flowing bores 716 The continuous yield of water is estimated at 479,268,000 gallons per diem, equal to 1,763.22 acre feet, or 2.755 square miles of water 1 ft. deep, in the same time.