530 THE GEOLOGY OF MINNESOTA. 



[Wells. 



till, marly, very hard, ' two to four times as hard to dig as the yellow till," all picked, 23 feet ; 

 water rose fifteen feet in three days, from springs in this till at the bottom. 



Seward. Frank II. Radant; sec. 4: well, 22 feet; soil, 2; yellow till, 15 feet; much harder 

 blue till, 5 feet, and reaching deeper; water seeps, abundant and good. 



Worthington. Peter Tompson ; in the town : well, 52 feet ; soil, 4 ; gray till, 8 feet ; blue 

 till, 40; water rose suddenly from sand at the bottom to a permanent level twenty feet below the 

 surface. Most of the wells here get an abundant supply of good water at 10 to 20 feet. 



Wilson Ager; sec. 30: well, 24 feet; soil, 2; gray till, 18; gray sand, 4 feet; water plentiful, 

 but not rising above the top of the sand. 



Bigelow. E. S. Mills ; sec. 31, near the village : well, dug 30 feet and bored below to 72 in 

 all; soil, 2 feet; yellowish gray till, 10; blue till thence to the bottom. Several pieces of wood, 

 from two or three inches to one foot long, apparently tamarack, were found in this well, at a 

 depth of 26 feet, in the compact blue till; but no shells, nor other fossils, were learned of in this 

 region. 



The railroad well at Bigelow station, 52 feet deep, passing through blue till, is filled with 

 water to twelve feet below the surface. 



Bloom. Levi H. Baxter; sec. 24: well, 15 feet; soil, 2; yellow till, spaded, but very hard, 

 13 feet; water seeps, abundant and of good quality. Wells in this township vary from 10 to 20 

 feet in depth. Fragments of lignite are rarely found. 



Summit Lake. A. Hovey ; sec. 8: well, 20; soil, 2; yellow till, 18; water seeps, usually 

 plentiful, but none in very dry seasons. 



On Samuel Allen's farm, three-fourths of a mile northwest from the last, a well was dug 

 and bored about 100 feet; finding plenty of water at first, but becoming filled with quicksand. 



Dewald. Wells at Rushmore, in the south part of sec. 19, are 12 to 20 feet deep, finding 

 plenty of good water. S. M. Rushmore here has a well 20 feet deep, which was soil, 2 feet, and 

 then yellowish gray till, 18 feet, with water rising from gravel at the bottom and standing about 

 eight feet deep. A boring close by this, at the southeast corner of his store, 60 feet deep, went 

 into blue till at the depth of about 20 feet, and was all blue till below. 



A. Roland; S. E. J of sec. 22 : well, 16 feet; soil, 2; yellow till for all below ; water seeps, 

 scanty. The well at his barn, 24 feet deep, all in yellow till, finds a large supply of water. 



.Ransom. S. G. Ferrin; S. E. J of sec. 20: well, 22 feet; soil, 2; yellow till, picked, 20 feet; 

 at the depth of ten feet this till contained a layer of water-deposited sand, four inches thick at 

 one side of the well, but thinning out to nothing at the other side ; water seeps, and is scanty in 

 a dry season. 



Olney. H. M. Ludlow; sec. 22 : well, 22 feet; soil, 2; yellow till, 20; water seeps from the 

 lower ten feet, and also comes from a spring in the till at the bottom, standing five to ten feet 

 deep. 



In Adrian, at the west side of this township, the Coleman hotel has a well 40 feet deep, the 

 section of which was soil, 2 feet; yellow till, 14 ; blue till, 24 ; water rose twenty-seven feet in 

 twelve hours from gravel at the bottom. This is the deepest well at Adrian ; others find plenty 

 of water at 15 to 25 feet. 



Little Rock. William Wigham ; sec. 18 : well, 32 feet ; soil, 3 feet; yellow till, spaded, but 

 hard, 29; water seeps, mostly from the lower part of the well, abundant and of excellent quality. 



W. W. Mallory; S. TV. t of sec. 34: well, 33 feet; soil, 3; yellow till, spaded, but hard, 15; 

 much harder blue till, 15 feet and extending lower; water seeps, usually about six feet deep. 



Leota. John Loy: sec. 28: well, 26 feet; soil, 2; yellow till, 18 feet; very much harder blue 

 till, 4; sand and gravel, 2 feet, from which water rose six feet. 



Lismore. Michael Brown; N. E. J of sec. 21: well, 33 feet; soil, 2; yellow till, 28 feet; ex- 

 ceedingly hard blue till, 3 feet and extending lower; water rose ten feet in four hours, from sandy 

 streaks at the base of the yellow till. 



George W. Legros; N. W. } of this sec. 21 : well, 23 feet; soil, 2; sandy yellow till, 14 feet; 

 quicksand, 3 feet ; very hard blue till, 4 feet and deeper ; water, three feet deep. Limy concre- 

 tions were found in the yellow till. 



West Side. Thomas Grace; near the center of this township: well, 62 feet; soil, 2; sand, 12; 

 till, mostly yellow, 48 feet ; water seeps, coming in considerable amount at the depth of 54 feet. 

 This is at the top of the west bluff of Kanaranzi creek. 



