MURRAY AND NOBLES COUNTIES. 529 



Wells. 1 



yellow till, 7 feet; bine till, 85 feet: and gravel, 2 feet, from which water rose to a depth of fifty 

 feet. Most of the wells in this town and its vicinity are only 15 to 20 feet deep, in till like the 

 foregoing, and ha.ve a plenty of good water through the whole year. 



Bondin. The Fulda town-well, at the center of the village, has a depth of 147 feet. Its 

 section was soil, 3 feet; yellow till, spaded. 32; much harder bine till, picked, 97 feet, containing 

 more stones and gravel than the upper till; then again yellow till at 132 feet and thence 15 feet to 

 the bottom, not apparently distinguishable in composition, color and degree of compactness from 

 the ordinary yellow till of the surface, while its proportion of gravel and pebbles, the largest of 

 which are three or four inches in diameter, appears to be greater; it vas underlain by gravel, 

 which yields a very large supply of water, as if from a running stream, as it rises only seven feet. 

 A small piece of wood, seven inches long, resembling red cedar, was found in the blue till at a 

 depth of 67 feet; and a few pieces of lignite, up to two inches in length, occurred at the top of the 

 lower yellow till; but no other fossil remains were found. 



The railroad-well at Fulda, about thirty rods southeast from the foregoing, is described by 

 the station-agent to be 115 feet deep, in till, its last 3 feet being a very hard layer, below which 

 the auger dropped nearly a foot; and from this vein water rose seventy feet. This well, however, 

 became so frequently filled with quicksand that it was abandoned ; and water is at present 

 pumped for the railroad tank from the north one of the Seven Mile lakes. 



Lake Sarah. T. J. Ward; S. E. } of sec. 12: well, 33 feet; soil, 2; yellow till, about 25; blue 

 till, moister and very tenacious, 6 feet; the well was bored, and at this depth was stopped by a 

 boulder; but it is supplied with water which seeps from the yellow till. 



Mason. J. M. Denison; N. W. } of sec. 8: well, 20 feet; soil, 2; yellow till, 18 feet, enclos- 

 ing occasional layers of sand and gravel up to six or eight inches in thickness; water seeps in 

 moderate amount. This is on the south part of a nearly level plateau, much higher than the 

 surrounding country. 



lona. T. Evenson; sec. 14: well, 25 feet; soil, 2; yellowish gray till, 23 feet, spaded; water 

 seeps, usually three to five feet deep. 



Lowville. John H. Low; sec. 8 : well, 16 feet; soil, 2; yellow till, spaded, with occasional 

 streaks of sand, 14 feet, to very hard blue till below; water seeps, plentiful and good. 



Leeds. L. Lukkason; Had ley: well, 40 feet; soil, and yellow till, 15 feet; blue till, 25: both 

 were picked; the only sand found was a thin layer, four to six inches thick, at the depth of 28 

 feet; water seeps slowly from this, and fills the well to that hight, twelve feet. 



T. 105, B. 42. Darms & Fenton; N. W. J of sec. 30: well, 14 feet; soil, 2 feet, containing 

 scarcely any gravel; yellow till, picked, quite pebbly, 8 feet; stratified gravel and sand, caving in, 

 4 feet; the water, of excellent quality, is usually four feet deep, but sometimes fails. 



A well dug for the Southern Minnesota railroad on sec. 4 of this township is reported to 

 have gone through till about 220 feet, finding no water ; but another well dug near by for this 

 railroad on sec. 5, found at the depth of 15 feet a very large supply of water, enough to fill the 

 railroad tank by rapid pumping without lowering the well. 



Cameron. E. Conner; N. W. } of sec. 22: well, 24 feet; soil, 2; yellow till, spaded, 12; blue 

 till, picked, 10; water rose four feet from sand at the bottom. This is at the northeast border of 

 the western moraine. 



MouHon. N. M. AVilliams; sec. 28: well, 16; soil, 2; yellow till, 8; blue till, 6; water seeps, 

 being usually three to six feet deep, of excellent quality, as are all the wells of this region. 

 Fragments of lignite are rarely found. 



Wells in Nobles county. 



Ornham Lakes. Nils Dahl; De Forest, in the west part of sec. 11 : well, 25 feet; soil, 2; 

 yellow till, spaded, 18; much harder blue till, picked, 4 feet; water seeps. 



J. H. Anscomb; sec. 14: well, 16 feet; soil, 2; yellow till, 14, spaded through its first ten feet, 

 but much harder and picked below; water rose four feet from a gravelly vein at the bottom. 



Indian Lake. Charles L. Peterson; 8. E. } of sec. 4 : well, 22 feet, all till, finding a good 

 supply of water. 



Prank Peterson; S. E. } of sec. 16 : well, 14 feet; soil, 2; a sandy layer, 1 foot ; yellow till, 

 spaded, 11 feet; water seeps, mainly from the sandy layer at the top. 



Isaac Horton; sec. 34: well, 35 feet deep; soil, 4 feet; yellow till, spaded, 8 feet; darker, gray 

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