BUKKAl* COUNTY. 173 



4. Stone quality not given 3 feet. 



5. Clay, called hard-pan in record 114 



6. Quicksand 13 " 



7. Hard-pan and stone 10 " 



* ray sandstone, bottom hard 58 " 



9. Soapstone, bluish-buff color 12 " 



10. Thin uiud vein, about 1 " 



11. Sandstone .12 " 



12. Hard rock, which cut tools 14 " 



13. Soapstone, of light color ? " 



The bed of soapstone at the bottom had been penetrated to a con- 

 siderable depth, and the work had then been suspended. Contrary to 

 general expectation, this well penetrated no coal-seam. The boring is 

 to be resumed for the purpose of trying to obtain a supply of water for 

 the city. 



Section f Artesian WeO at TukHtca. 



1. Earth and soil 6 feet. 



2. Hard sandstone 40 " 



3. Brown clay 25 " 



4. Vein of sulphur J " 



5. Light colored slate 2 " 



6. Black slate 1J " 



7. White limestone 4 " 



8. Clayey soapstone 4 " 



9. Hard flinty rock 4 " 



10. White and black slate 1 " 



11. Soapstone 8 " 



li Limestone 6 " 



13. Sandstone 7 " 



14. Alternating soapstone, sandstone, slate, and clay ..40 " 



15. Flinty vein J " 



16. Alternating sandstone and greasy clay..' 6 " 



17. Black slate and flinty vein 3$ " 



la Fine white clay -. 2J " 



19. Coal IJ " 



20. Fire clay 1 " 



21. Clayey soapstone 5J " 



22. Light-colored limestone 6 " 



23. Hard clay and sulphuret of iron 5 " 



24. Yellow soapstone 6 " 



25. Shale, color not kept 3 " 



26. Alternating shale, slate, etc 16 " 



'.ay seam 1 " 



28. Strata of flint. ? i " 



29. Clay soapstone. etc 2i " 



30. Hard clayey sandstone 12 " 



31. Softer sandstone deposit 13 " 



32. Brown stone 4 " 



33. White soft sandstone* ! " 



This well was bored for oil, at a time when the oil fever was at its 

 hight. Some indications of oil in a spring near by caused the enter- 

 prise to be undertaken. Of course, the hoped-for petroleum was never 

 struck. The general similarity between this and the Princeton section 

 will at once be seen, after the rock formations are reached. The heavy. 

 hard sandstone, where the similarity commenced, is, however, struck 



