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and bored, 47 feet, and extending lower; the only water found was in the lower part of the grave 

 and sand. 



Fountain Prairie. T. P. Woodle; S. W. J of sec. 12 : well, 18 feet; soil, 2; yellow till, 14; 

 harder blue till, 2; water seeps. Another well, on the same quarter-section and same farm, after 

 going only 7 feet, which was yellow till, found a spring (with no sand) from which water rose 

 four feet in three hours. 



Grange. Alfred Johnson; sec. 33: well, 22 feet deep; soil, 2; yellow till, spaded, 18; con- 

 taining at 14 feet below the top of the well a layer of dry sand and gravel, three inches thick; 

 harder blue till, 2 feet and extending lower; water comes in large amount between the yellow and 

 blue till, rising six to eight feet. 



Gray. Dr. William Taylor; N. W. J sec. 18 (one mile S. E. from Pipestone City) : well, 55 

 feet; till, mostly yellowish, with some darker layers, 52 feet, containing pebbles sparingly in its 

 upper part, mostly limestone and small, ateo a white, soft, chalk-like powder, sometimes in part, 

 or wholly, a hard and compact stone, in lumps up to three inches long, evidently of similar origin 

 as the drift-pebbles, and below containing many pebbles and boulders of granite, syenite, and 

 crystalline schists, up to six or eight inches in diameter; under this till is sand and gravel, 3 feet; 

 water, only becoming three feet deep, is found in this stratified drift at the bottom. 



Elmer. F. A. Bishop; sec. 30: well, 24 feet; soil, 2; yellow till, 22; water seeps, standing 

 ten feet deep. 



Sweet. Wells at Pipestone City are 20 to 45 feet deep, all till, yellowish above and dark 

 bluish below; in the east part of Pipestone City, they strike quartzyte. 



Eden. William F. Lange; sec. 6: well, 16 feet; soil, 3; yellow till, spaded, 13; water seeps, 

 plentiful and of excellent quality. 



Wells in Bock county. 



Battle Plain. F. M. Snow; sec. 2: well, 34 feet deep; soil, 2 feet; yellow till, picked, 32 

 feet; water seeps, coming mostly at 20 feet and below. Frequent chalk-like concretions (or, more 

 probably, pebbles of rotted limestone, as in Dr. Taylor's well) were found from two to ten feet 

 below the surface, in till as gravelly and stony as any below. 



John Boyes; sec. 12: well, 25 feet; soil, 2 feet; yellow till, all picked, 23; water seeps, of 

 excellent quality, coming mostly about 13 feet below the surface, filling the well nine feet deep. 



Vienna. William Maynes; sec. 26: well, 30 feet; soil, 2; yellow till, spaded, 28 feet; water 

 seeps, excellent in quality, filling the well ten feet deep. 



John P. Landin ; sec. 28 : well, 30 feet ; soil 2 ; clayey sand, not caving in, containing no 

 pebbles, 8 feet; yellow till, 20; water five feet deep. 



Magnolia. A well on sec. 16, 24 feet deep, was, for all below the black soil, common yel- 

 lowish joint-clay with gravel mixed (till); this well stopped at the top of the blue till, which was 

 very hard and dry. "There was one well drilled here [sec. 16], 410 feet deep; soil, 3 feet; yellow- 

 ish joint-clay [till], about 15 feet; then a grayish clay, about 10 feet; then it runs off into a mixed 

 yellowish and bluish clay, the lower part being the bluer, 3 or 4 feet; then comes the regular 

 blue or black clay, as it is commonly called; at 165 feet they struck quicksand of a light color, 4 or 

 5 feet thick; then it went off into the old black clay again. They struck some rock; I cannot tell 

 whether bed-rock or boulders; as near as I can learn, they were of a darkish color and of a sandy 

 nature, not so hard as our red Mound stone. I did not dig or drill this well; it was only a six- 

 inch hole Bight by the side of this deep boring, I sunk a well four feet in 



diameter, 30 feet deep, and prospected down 100 feet from the bottom of the four foot hole 

 (size of prospect hole three inches), finding nothing but blue clay [till]." 



On section 19 a well 18 feet deep was soil, 4 feet; sand and gravel, 4 feet; the yellowish 

 "joint-clay" (till), 10 feet; then black clay (dark bluish till). The foregoing wells in Magnolia, 

 reported by Mr. Baer, appear to be all on the lands of the Bock County Farming Company. 



The well at the western and larger farm-house of this company, in sec. 7, is 47J feet deep; 

 soil, 4 feet; yellowish or reddish till ("clay with a little sand and gravel mixed"), 3 or 4 feet; then 

 gray or ash-colored clay (probably till), hard and dry, full of seams or joints, about 18 feet; yel- 

 lowish or reddish clay and sand and gravel mixed (the sand and gravel in the clay being in pock- 

 ets or irregular layers, and of a very red or rusty appearance and cemented together), 6 feet; 

 then the same gray or ash-colored clay (doubtless till) as above, except that it contains a little 



