Joseph Cook (6th Prime Minister of Australia, 1913–1914), after having visited Wyalong while Minister for Mines and Agriculture (Reid government, pre-federation), concluded:

Other efforts are to be made in connection with the improvement of the water supply, now derived from a well at Pine Ridge, and they are going to prospect that shaft further, in the hope of getting a good pumping supply, and I have given orders to proceed at once with that work. Even should this fail to provide a permanent supply, it will still be open to make better provision for the catchment and storage of the rainfall than exists at present.

The Daily Telegraph, Sydney NSW, Wednesday 12 July 1899.