FILLMORE COUNTY. 



Wells.J 



315 



many wells which penetrate in the rock to a depth, sometimes, of two or 

 three hundred feet before reaching water. 



WELLS IN FILLMORE COUNTY. 



The loess loam. The greater portion of the county is covered with 

 this loain. It contains no gravel nor boulders, or with very rare exceptions, 

 but consists almost entirely of fine siliceous material which becomes in 

 some places quite clayey, making a very slippery mud when wet. This in 

 outward appearance is of a light yellow or rusty color, and differs in that 

 respect from the loam seen on the drift-covered portion of the county, 



'There are but few wells in ( 'hatfleld because of the necessity of drilling from twenty to a hundred and fifty feet in 

 the limestone. 



