BROADHEAD — WELL AT ST. LOUIS INSANE ASYLUM. 21~J 



them in boxes, which were stored away in the Asylum. He also 

 hied with the County Clerk a section and record of the work. 



Through the kindness of Dr. Hazard, Superintendent of the 

 Asylum, I obtained a complete suit of these specimens, and from 

 an examination of them I have made out the following Section. 

 which differs but little from that of Mr. Atkinson : 



SECTION OF BORING. 



-i: DESCRIPTION OF MATERIAL PASSED THROUGH. 



I Total 

 Depth 

 helow 



surface. 



r 2 



IL i 4 

 I 5 



III. 6 



f 7 

 I § 3 



I 9 9 



IV. \ io 6 



I 13 i 



1 14 S 



\ ■ 15 139 



VI. 16 3 

 ■f 17 l 1 6 



Clay 



Tumbled masses of Limestone 



Red Clay - 



Limestone 



Red Clav 



Coal 



Fire-clay 



Light-colored Limestone. Bottom of well dug 



before commencement of boring 



Blue and drab Clay, slightly calcareous 



Cherty Limestone 



Dark and bluish-gray Shales, slightly calcareous 



Cherty Limestone 



Coal 



VII. i 



Light-blue Clay 



Hard cherty Limestone, blue, drab, and gray; 

 some of it cherty, the upper part fine-grained, 



the lower coarse, to 



Blue Shales 



Drab and gray Limestone, generally hard and' 

 cherty, but a portion of it is free from chert. — It' 



is drab in color to . 



" then dark ash-colored at 



" " " drab " to 



" " grayish and light drab to .. 



" " cherty at 



and is of a dark color to 



Dark-drab Limestone 



The recorded Section reports white Limestone 



alternating with Shales from 43S to 



Hard blue cherty Limestone 



Very hard Chert at 



Coarse bluish-gray Limestone from 628 to 



Buff and drab cherty Limestone at 



Sandstone, very fine-grained, to 



Chert and Limestone at 



Mostly light-gray or drab Limestone to 



Red Limestone from 790 to 



Light-drab and gray Limestone with some Chert 

 from S00 to .' 



44 « 



49 



57 



61 



66 



6S 



So 

 86 

 107 



259 



262 



2S9 

 300 

 362 

 420 

 420 

 43S 



SCO 



536 



628 

 6S2 



709 



721 



73- 



790 



,;: 



