WASECA COUNTY. 411 



Drift. Well..] 



horizontally stratified. About three miles northwest from New Richland, 

 a well 110 feet deep on S. W. Franklin's dairy-farm, went 10 feet into this 

 rock, after penetrating 100 feet of drift, obtaining water in the rock which 

 rose to ten feet below the surface. At Owatonna on the northeast, and at 

 Wells, in Faribault county, on the southwest, similar formations of sand- 

 stone, with associated layers of shale and limestone, encountered by deep 

 wells, appear to be of Cretaceous age; and very probably these beds and 

 the sandstone of New Richland belong to the same horizon. The evidence 

 pointing to these conclusions is set forth in the report of Faribault county, 

 to which the reader is referred. 



Drift. Under the description of the surface features of this county, its 

 glacial drift and terminal moraine have been already described in a general 

 manner. The thickness of the drift varies from one hundred to two hun- 

 dred feet over this county and a large adjoining region. This formation is 

 principally the unstratified gravelly and stony clay called till, boulder-clay, 

 or hardpan, with which are associated beds of modified drift, which were 

 gathered from the melting ice, assorted and deposited by water. The fol- 

 lowing notes of wells exhibit in detail the character and order of the drift 

 deposits. 



Wells in Waseca county. 



Blooming Orove. William Habine ; sec. 3: a well 100 feet deep in till found no water; while 

 another well only 16 feet deep, six rods farther east, on land of about the same hight, found plenty 

 of water. 



I. D. Beeman; sec. 10: well, 24 feet; soil, 2 feet; yellow till, 21 feet; blue till, soft and sticky, 

 1 foot and extending deeper; the water seeps. 



P. Healy; sec. 15: well, 20; soil, 2; yellow till, 10 feet, containing veins of gravel, two to four 

 inches thick; harder blue till, 8 feet; the only water obtained is from sandy and gravelly veins in 

 the upper till. 



Waseca, in Woodville. William Everett: well, 68 feet; soil, 3 feet; till, yellowish in its 

 upper portion and bluish below, 47 feet; vein of sand, 6 inches; blue till, 15 feet; sand and gravel, 

 3 feet and reaching lower; from this bed, water rose to the vein of sand at 50 feet, there run- 

 ning off. 



At McCutchins' elevator, on the Winona & St. Peter railroad, a well 140 feet deep is reported 

 to have been all drift, but no particulars were learned. Water rises from the bottom to stand ten 

 feet below the surface. No thick beds of sand are found here enclosed in the till, and no bed-rock 

 is reached. Most of the wells of this town are only 15 to 20 feet in depth, and find water hi the 

 lower part of the yellow till. 



Otisco. J. A. Canfield; sec. 3: well, 22 feet; soil, 2 feet; yellow till, 14 feet, shoveled, con- 

 taining streaks of sand; blue till, harder and more gravelly, picked, 6 feet; water is found only in 

 the yellow till. 



Knut II. Esping; sec. 13: well, 24 feet; soil, 2; yellow till, shoveled, 12; sand, 3 feet; blue till, 

 picked, much harder than the upper till, 7 feet; to sand at the bottom, from which water rose 

 seven feet, ilowing off in the upper sand. 



