98 G. M. DAWSON ON BORINGS IN 
VIII.—Borine AT CASSILL'S (8TH SIDING) 
This station on the Canadian Pacific Railway is thirty-eight miles west of Langevin, at 
an elevation of 2,493 feet, or only 22 feet above Langevin, and here, as at that place, two 
holes were bored. Mr. R. G. McConnell obtained a section of the first to a depth of 700 
feet in 1883. The second, put down under the superintendence of Mr. W. E. Swan, was 
carried to a depth of 1,000 feet. No specimens from either were examined, and as the 
names used to denote the strata, as obtained from the workmen, are very perplexing, and, 
moreover, as this section agrees very poorly with that furnished by Mr. Swan, I have 
adopted the latter, which is as follows (the boring was begun one foot below the level of 
the railway grade) :— 
FEET. 
1. Dark clay lon." "" elec FOOD Rosa do opoboliqo se 2 
V5 NEM ER cons con pooh voter s2000 0douat dos 000 050808 RADE, OSC 10 
DAPI CLA ibesosodaoco Dodo 0000000 0000a0bT oeuvre 40 
ABlue-shalel-stenheteenelneiNese dent come TE I Ne Te 110 
Bb: Grey:shales #2 sic cove cr ereenerendeesmnee Meme esce 38 
Chabot Se Gono: Hood cd dooccoe do cod dendbonponc a 
7 Blueshales eee tenant me nine enininen eee e 85 
SABTOWILISNAlIE SEE es cnemeeetesees sertie elec temps ess 6 
Qi COA EE Sr en rnoussslams se moele e else selle veseti eee ces diese 2 
NOS Corey EMI oo out ondudobondidionoo lv Soo Ndad Doooc ob 134 
11-#Brown'sandirocks re -cieeremcecsars ceeenurecccerriteehtetes 
ALD. BLACK: SHALE cernes semer he cree cc 257 
13: (Greyishales ts creer pement eee cvesdetocqonan 155 
14 #Broywn sandiroeke-"-cerssceste ceherrene ee eee echec 5 
1E#Blue SH alates arcrayscisss feielorcseyeistece'« epeversinie rec eee Rec 85 
16: ‘(Grey tsamdy shale ie.orec-rfovcisielol ete reiereis cerveau 40 
17 Greyashale:- creer A OO Er 0 lo one 45 
DOTA tereicistertroroheresersialeretal ere meet nceCi REC 1,000 
Feeling that some uncertainty may attach to the above section, I do not propose to 
discuss it in detail. It may be sufficient to state that the first three beds are supposed to 
represent the drift deposits with a total thickness of 52 feet. Layers 4 to 8 inclusive, with 
a thickness of 142 feet, appear to represent the lower part of the Pierre, and correspond 
very well with its known character on the adjacent portion of the Bow River. The coal 
(No. 9) stated to be 2 feet in thickness, is given as 3 feet in the first-mentioned section and 
placed about 50 feet nearer the surface. It represents, with little doubt, the Grassy Island 
seam which. fourteen miles distant on the Bow River, is 4 feet 6 inches in thickness. The 
underlying beds, with a thickness of 706 feet, are supposed to represent the Belly River 
series though the great development of “black shale” represented by No. 12 is anomalous. 
In layer 6, a small supply of water was met with, and in layer 14 a rather copious 
flow of combustible gas, which has since continued without perceptible diminution. 
IX.—BORING AT GLEICHEN STATION (14TH SIDING). 
This station is fifty-two miles west of the last, at an elevation of 2,926 feet above sea- 
level. It is known to be in the centre of a large area of Laramie rocks, which has a 
