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face, seeping into the well from the lower part of the yellow till, or furnished by springs from 

 thin seams of sand or gravel next below this or within fifteen or twenty feet in the blue till. 



Jamestown. Volk & Co.; Volksville, on the shore of Lake Washington, sec. 20: well, 120 

 feet deep; yellow till, 25 feet; blue till, 30; gravel and yellow sand, 15; ash-colored fetid clay, 

 stratified, 10; sand, 40; no water. Another well, twenty rods from this, is 5D feet deep, being 

 yellow till, 25; blue till, 33; a dark, cemented gravel, mainly composed of waterworn pebbles up 

 to four inches in diameter, 6 inches; and common gravel, 6 inches, with water rising from it four 

 feet. 



William H. Bapley; sec. 30: well, 100 feet deep; yellow till, 45 feet, containing veins of 

 gravel from six inches to two feet wide and from four to twelve inches thick; yellow sand, 55 

 feet; no water. 



Le Bay. At Eagle Lake the wells are 16 to 25 feet deep, the deeper going through the yel- 

 low* till and far enough into the blue till for a reservoir. 



Mr. A. W. Kedner, of Eagle Lake, a well-maker, states from an experience of about fifty 

 wells in this and adjoining townships, that the yellow till is usually more filled with rock-frag- 

 ments than the blue till, and is harder to bore or to dig with a spade. The blue till is more sticky. 

 Lignite is frequently found, in pieces up to four inches long, mostly shaly and only half an inch 

 or less in thickness. 



Charles & William Macbeth; sec. 20: well, 55 feet deep; yellow till, 20; blue till, 30; quick- 

 sand, 1 foot; gravel, 1 foot; blue clay, containing small gasteropod shells, 3 feet. 



McPherson. Charles Dittman; S. W. J, sec. 5, one mile north of Winnebago Agency (Hilton): 

 well, 75 feet deep; yellow till, 15; at its base a gravel vein, nearly round and about a foot in 

 diameter, was found running across the well; blue till, 55; quicksand, 5 feet and extending below; 

 a small amount of water came in the gravel at fifteen feet, but this was lost in the quicksand at 

 the bottom. 



Mankato. Michael Bienbold; sec. 30 : well, 30 feet; soil, 2; yellow till, all below; water 

 seeps, being six feet deep in dry seasons. 



Mrs. Mary Stuck; also sec. 30: well, 80 feet; yellow till, about 35; sand, 2 feet; blue till, 

 softer than the yellow, 43; water rose forty feet from sand at the bottom. 



Decoria. Henry Lortz; sec. 20: well, 33; yellow till, 14; sand, 1J feet: yellow till again, 17; 

 water rose three feet from sand at the bottom. 



Adam Lortz; sec. 21: well, 90; yellow till, about 20; blue till, about 25; light-colored sticky 

 clay, 10 feet; with probably stratified sand and gravel below. This well has only surface water; 

 none in a dry season. 



Kapidan. Fred Griffith; sec. 22: well, 24 feet; soil, 2 ; yellow till, spaded, 15; blue till, 

 harder, but yet spaded, 7 feet; water seeps at the top of the blue till. 



Lyra. Graham House; Good Thunder: well, 48 feet; soil, 2; yellow till, 16; soft blue till, 26; 

 gravel and sand, 4 feet, witli water issuing in this stratum but not rising above it. 



B. L. Potter; sec. 33: well, 70; soil, 2; yellow till, 15; blue till, 53; water rises from gravel 

 at the bottom to a hight six feet below the surface. This is the deepest well of its vicinity; it is 

 at the general level of the country, about fifty feet above the Maple river. Nine rods farther 

 east, a well 14 feet deep found a good supply of water, rising four feet from the bottom. 



Sterling. W. Wells; sec. 4: well, 16 feet deep, being all yellow till; water rose ten feet in 

 four hours from sandy streaks at the bottom. 



Garden City. At Lake Ciystal, in the north edge of this township, the common wells are 

 15 to 30 feet deep. The well for the railroad and elevator here has a depth of 110 feet, of which 

 the last 50 feet were bored. Its section is soil, 2 feet; yellow till, spaded, 15; softer and moister 

 blue till, becoming more gravelly in the last 6 or 8 feet, 90; gravel, 3 feet; water rose from the bot- 

 tom only twenty-five feet, but the well, when not pumped from, becomes filled with surface water. 



Vernon Center. C. C. Washburn; N. W. i sec. 26, close east of Edgewood station: well 22 

 feet; soil, 2; yellow till, spaded, 20 feet; water seeps. At his barn, twelve rods to the south', is 

 another well, 34 feet deep, having soil, 2 feet; yellow till, 18; harder blue till, 10; sand and gravel, 

 4 feet, from which water rose twenty-four feet in a half day, and stands permanently at this hight! 

 The wells of this region average 20 to 30, and are occasionally 40 to 50 feet in depth. Lignite, 

 in fragments up to four inches long, is found sparingly in the till in nearly all these wells. 



