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Well No. 18. One-eighth mile southeast of No. 17, at Geo. Myers’. 
Surface elevation, $25 feet. Depth to stone, 25 feet, in seemingly -the 
residual limestone soil. 
Well No. 19. One-fourth mile southeast of No. 18, on high, rounded 
hill, at Amos Barker’s residence. Surface elevation, 860 feet. This well 
encountered Chester sandstone at a shallow depth. 
Well No. 20. One-fourth mile northeast of No. 19. Surface eleva- 
tion, 825 feet. This well penetrates almost pure sand to a considerable 
depth. 
Well No. 21. Middle of southeast + Section 3, T. 9 N., R. 3 W., at A. 
KHvans’. Surface elevation, TSO feet. Depth, 42 feet. 
OOM seed oy sires Bl akatolishinys adey ore eve eisai See rel eer ee ena 1S feet. 
RedGish Sal Cin COUUCKSHEG) in. tenetsieseciere 24 feet. 
Well No. 22. One-fourth mile south of No. 21, at C. R. Ellis’s. Sur- 
face elevation, 775 feet. Depth to stone, 51 feet. 
Wihitentouyellowesolllepcjercrs cyecttecters are asters 18 feet. 
Water-worn gravel and sand............. 6 feet. 
OUMLCKSAN Gy Atociecc tie sea ria eee 27 feet. 
Fea TV OS Bhat vat oes, Md eter as Deleon 92 feet. 
Well No, 23. Middle of northern one-half Section 10, one-half mile 
south of No. 22, at the County Farm. Surface elevation, 765 feet. This 
well penetrates soil and sand nearly fifty feet. 
Well No. 24. Center of Section 23, T. 9 N., R. 2 W., at A. O. Collins’. 
Surface elevation, 690 feet. Depth to stone, SS feet. 
Red esandirang: Claiv cnt. 0s eee ierie ae fiescres 55 feet. 
BIT CLEViwcte: sisters: sus ate ever Gl ie oseieke tic nerene ieee ORCC Ue 
]EalrerY¥eSj (0) 1s See pee Ee Stas ruck ee ein ole tho Bic PAC 1 foot. 
This completes the number of wells from which data was secured. 
The reader can see at once that the greater number of them reveal the 
fact that Flatwoods was in former times a basin much deeper than it is 
now. It seems that the basin was rather deep at the northern part of 
Section 6, as indicated by well No. 3. This deep portion extended north- 
west, entering Section 36, and thence northward, but went northward for 
only a short distance, along the present channel of McCormicks Creek, 
until it turned westward as indicated by the shallow bed-rock in well No. 
7. Wells No. 8 and No. 9 indicate that a tributary channel passed near 
the southwest corner of Section 80. This channel probably entered the 
