1907 WR Murray

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WR Murray 1907

William Richard Murray, a surveyor, who had accompanied R.T. Maurice from Fowler's Bay to Cambridge Gulfin 1902

p.[2]: Some regret was felt by the party that the Tanami country, near the Western Australian boundary, could not be reached; but the prolonged drought prohibited any useful work being done in the country between the telegraph line and the Western Australian border, and the original scheme had to be abandoned.
[letter of 1/2/1907]

p.20:
June 4th.—… Mount Peake … Had hoped to have obtained sufficient water somewhere in these parts to keep most of the party whilst the stores at Barrow’s Creek were obtained, and then make for the Tanami country. The country to the west is so hopelessly dry that a team of fat camels would have a hard task.

June 9th.—Team arrived at Barrow’s Creek; … Telegraphed to Hon. Minister recommending that idea of visiting Tanami be at present abandoned, and suggesting somewhere east of the line, where sufficient water for camel purposes was obtainable.

Reference

Murray, W.R. 1907. Record of prospecting operations in country south-west from Barrow's Creek and the Davenport Ranges—1906, pp.19-24 in Journal (with plans) of the Government Prospecting Expedition to the south-western portions of the Northern Territory,… S.A. Parl. Papers No. 50. Adelaide: Government Printer.

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