CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS. 53 
ANALYSIS OF MAGNESIA WATER FOUND NEAR MADISON, KAN. 
BY F. W. BUSHONG, COLLEGE OF EMPORIA, EMPORIA, 
Read before the Academy December 29, 1899. 
The following is an analysis of well-water from the farm of Mr. Arnold Girard, 
Madison, Kan., section 2, township 22 south, range 12 east; depth of well about 
thirty feet: 
Corresponding to the following salts, 
Substances (estimated ) per liter. calculated in 1,000,000 parts: 
S17) eae 0.0128, gramsy | Silica: (eiOs) is <.0:.2<.<.e's. <3 13 parts. 
FesO3 and AleOs........ 0.0118 ‘ Clay bases(Fe2Oz3and AloOs), 12 ‘ 
NO Orman arses Saisie ae Obie Magnesiumsulph.(MgS0O,),1,903  ‘* 
IEA OY stn Geto oR Un ea O:6403> 6 Calcium sulphate (CaSO;), 830 ‘ 
NASON: fe <s4s.- as Lt teaser OF042 ws Calcium carbonate(CaCOs), 396 ‘ 
Inia CO 4 Seabee pemntaee 0.0636 ‘* Sodium sulphate (Na2SO4), 1,380 ‘* 
SO acca ees aa DAAGn Ss Sodium carbonate(Na2COs), 63 ‘ 
(Cll nd att Re Oe ee 0.0698 ‘* Sodium chlorate (NaCl)... 115 ‘ 
THE MUSCOTAH ARTESIAN WELLS. 
BY E. B. KNERR, MIDLAND COLLEGE, ATCHISON. 
Read at Topeka December 28, 1900. 
Along the base of the east bluffs of the Grasshopper valley, about one and a 
half miles south of Muscotah, there are a series of interesting low, marshy 
“mounds. The mounded area on the farm of Mr. H. M. Rice is about a hundred 
rods long by fifteen rods wide, and the mounds are five to eight feet high. 
About a quarter of a mile farther south, on S. H. Hubbard’s farm, is another 
mound, about fifteen yards wide, sixty yards long, and eight or ten feet high. 
Two miles farther south, on James Miller’s place, there are similar mounds. A 
swamp is usually low ground, but here the swampy ground is the highest. Early 
in September, 1900, Mr. Rice concluded that if he were to sink a pipe near one of 
these mounds he would get an artesian flow of water. He bored a test hole with 
a two-inch auger, and at a depth of thirty-four feet struck a flow of water so 
strong as to force up pebbles the size of hickory-nuts. A two-inch pipe was 
forced into the hole, and the water rose to overflow this when it stood fifteen 
feet above ground. The flow from this two-inch pipe is fifty gallons every fifty- 
five seconds. The water is as clear as crystal, very palatable and cold, register- 
ing a temperature of fifty-six degrees F. The water deposits a slight iron coating 
over the barrel into which it flows. Calcareous deposits are also found in places 
about the mounds, indicating mineral properties for the water. 
The formation of the mounds is explained by the water pressure carrying up 
sand and soil and depositing it at the surface. The mounds are covered by bul- 
rushes, cattails, and other usual swamp growth, which holds the soil, preventing 
its being washed down. The water springs from over the whole surface of the 
mounds, and away in small streams. Thus, the peculiar circumstance arises 
that the swamp is high ground, and the firm soil is lower. The date of the above 
observations was Saturday, September 22, 1900. 
