COTTON WOOD AND JACKSON COUNTIES. 51 1 



Wells.] 



Dale. J. Q. Picket ; sec. 2 : well, 20 feet; soil, 2 ; yellow till, spaded, 18 ; water rose five 

 feet in one day. The majority of the wells in Dale have excellent water; but some, because of 

 wooden curbing, become too offensive to be used. 



Windom. R. R. Jenness; well, 70 feet; soil, 2 feet; coarse gravel with many large boulders, 

 5 feet; till, yellow at top for a few feet, blue below, very hard, 62 feet; white sand, 1 foot, and ex- 

 tending deeper, from which water rose forty feet in a quarter of an hour. 



S. S. Johnson; well, 60 feet; soil, 2; gravel, 4; till, as in Mr. Jenness' well, 54 feet; water 

 rose from sand at the bottom fifty-seven feet in two hours, but afterward fell away by soaking 

 into the ground, and now usually stands ten feet below the surface. At the top of the sand from 

 which the water came, were branches of wood and gasteropocl shells, probably interglacial, in a 

 thin layer of muck. The water at first was very dark and disagreeable to the taste, like that of 

 a peat swamp (perhaps because of the decay of wooden curbing); but since the first two years it 

 has been of good quality. Within fifteen rods from this well are others that get a large supply 

 of water in gravel at 12 or 15 feet. 



Highwater. G. II. Beng; N. W. J of sec. 23 : well, 40 ; soil, 2; yellow till, becoming dark 

 below, mostly picked, 38; water rose seven feet in a half day, from gravel and sand. This is on 

 a rounded swell, twenty or thirty feet above the country all around for several miles. 



R. Hogenson ; sec. 30 : well, 21 feet ; soil, 2 ; yellow till, spaded, 9 ; much harder blue till, 

 picked, 10 feet; the only water found seeps into the well at the base of the yellow till. This gla- 

 cial drift at the depth of eighteen feet contained a piece of lignite, three feet long and nine inches 

 thick, weighing about a hundred pounds. Another lump of lignite, nearly equal in size, has been 

 found within about a mile to the southwest, in the bed of Dutch Charley's creek in section 36, Ann. 



C. Peterson; sec. 30: well, 35 feet; soil, 3; yellow till, picked, 17; dark, bluish and brownish 

 till, with irony seams and small pieces of lignite, 15 feet; water rose eight feet in one day from 

 sand and gravel at the bottom, not dug through but found to be at least two feet thick. 



Storden. Charles Swenson; sec. 22 : well, 20; soil, 2; yellow till, 15; blue till, very hard, 3 

 feet; water rose five feet from gravel and sand at the bottom. 



Charles H. Ripke; N. E. i of sec. 26: well, 16 feet; all yellow till, partly hard and picked; 

 to a layer of gravel, about one foot thick, from which water rose six feet in a half day. All the 

 wells upon this highland, underlain by the red quartzyte, have excellent water. 



Ann. Ilogen Anderson; S. E. J of sec. 24: well, 18 feet; soil, 2; yellow till, picked, 16 feet; 

 the water seeps. 



Hose Hill. Jacob Tabert; sec. 20: well, 42 feet; soil, 2; yellow till, spaded, 32; gravel and 

 sand, 1 foot; blue till, harder than that above, 7 feet, and extending below ; water comes spar- 

 ingly from the gravel and sand, failing in very dry seasons. 



Jacob Wall; S. W. i of sec. 28: well, 20; soil, 2; yellow till, 18; water rose eight feet in two 

 hours from sand at the bottom. 



Wells in Jackson county. 



Wisconsin. John M. Utter; N. W. } of sec. 21: well, 72 feet, the deepest in this township; 

 soil, 2 feet; yellow till, 15 feet; blue till, not harder than the yellow till, but worse to dig, because 

 of its tenacity, 55 feet; water comes slowly from sandy streaks, a half inch to two inches thick, 

 in the blue till, especially in the last twenty feet. 



JJes Moines. Joseph Thomas; S. E. } of sec. 24, about a mile east of Jackson: well, 33 feet; 

 soil, 2; yellow till, spaded, 10; harder blue till, picked, 21; water rose to ten feet below the top in 

 one day. Wells in this vicinity, on the upland above the Des Moines valley, are 15 to 30, and 

 rarely 50 feet deep, all in till. 



Jackson. G. C. Chamberlin: well, 130 feet deep, situated about 30 feet above the Des Moines 

 river, below which it thus goes 100 feet, this, added to the depth of this valley, being about 200 

 feet below the original surface of the drift-sheet ; this well, below its 2 feet of soil, was all till, 

 yellowish above, but mainly bluish, enclosing dark sandy streaks, but no considerable layers of 

 sand or gravel and no water, and having throughout some intermixture of stones and gravel, one 

 boulder weighing about fifty pounds being found at the depth of a hundred feet. Sticks of 

 wood and small gasteropod shells were obtained at about the same depth. This well became 

 filled with surface water, but was not used, and has been filled up. At a point twenty feet from 

 the foregoing, another well has been dug 26 feet deep, in till, mostly yellow but blue below, yield- 

 ing a plenty of water. 



