BROWN AND REDWOOD COUNTIES. 585 



Wells.l 



D. H. Semans' well in sec. 31, close north of the Little Cottonwood river, found in its lower 

 part, about 30 feet below the surface, f raiments of Baculites and a cast of an Inoceramus, resem- 

 bling /. umbonatus. M. & II.; a piece of wood, perhaps red cedar, some nine inches long and three 

 inches wide, at 25 feet; and several pieces of lignite. These were probably in glacial drift, a large 

 part of which was derived from Cretaceous beds. 



Wells in Redwood county. 



Sherman. J. M. Little; sec. 6: well, 33; soil, 2; yellow till, spaded, 28; gravel, 3 feet, and 

 extending lower; water rose seven feet in a half day. 



Delhi. Thomas II. King; sec. 31: well, 20; soil, 2; yellow till, picked, 6; blue till, somewhat 

 easier to dig, 12; water burst up from sand at the bottom, rising twelve feet in fifteen minutes. 



Redwood F"lls. Town well, 70 feet deep: soil, 2; yellow till, 18; blue till, harder to bore, 50 

 feet, and extending lower; the only water found in this well seeps from the yellow till. 



Swede's Forest. Nels Hanson; sec. 35: well, 55 feet; soil, 2; yellow till, spaded, 28 feet; harder 

 blue till, picked, 25 feet, and below; no sand found, and no water. 



Vail. Chauncy Bundy; sec. 6: well, 36 feet; soil, 2; yellow till, spaded, 16: sand and gravel, 

 i inch, with some water; softer blue till, 16 feet, yielding several small pieces of lignite, and a 

 piece of wood (peihaps willow) about a foot long, the last being in the lowest foot of this till; an 

 interglacial bed of vegetable mould, 1} inches thick, containing many willow leaves and the leaves 

 and stems of rushes, "looking like a lake-shore drift," extending over the whole area of the well, 

 six feet in diameter; bluish, clayey quicksand, 2 feet and below; water rose eight feet in a half 

 day. 



David Weaver; N. E. | of sec. 28: well, 28 feet deep; soil, 3 feet; yellow till, spaded, 12 feet; 

 blue till, also spaded, 12 feel; very hard, compacted gravel, 1 foot and deeper; water rose from the 

 gravel eight feet in one day. 



Waterbury. Hans Hanson; N. E. J of sec. 34: well, 18; soil, 2; yellow till, picked, 10; harder 

 blue till, 5; gravel, 1 foot and deeper; water rose four feet in a half day, a large supply, of excel- 

 lent quality. Several pieces of lignite, up to six inches in diameter, and nodules of pyrite, were 

 found in this well. 



Lamberton. Praxel & Schandera; Lamberton village: well, 50 feet; soil, 2; yellow till, 3; 

 blue till, with occasional layers of dry sand up to six inches thick, 45 ; water rose six feet in a 

 half day. A few pieces of lignite were found. 



Arnold C. Ells; sec. 10: well, 40 feet deep; soil, 2; yellow till, picked, 23; harder blue till, 

 15; water rose from gravel and sand at the bottom twenty-two feet in two days, rising the first 

 ten feet in three hours. Pieces of lignite and Cretaceous shells were found in this till. 



T. Ill, E. 38. Absalom Ames; sec. 8: well, 24 feet; soil, 2; yellow till 12; yellowish, and 

 darker, bluish till, interbedded, 6; blue clay, soft and moist, considerably filled with fragments 

 of Cretaceous shells, 4; water came in a small and narrow vein of fine gravel, about six inches in 

 diameter, enclosed in this blue fossiliferous clay, and rose six feet in one day. 



Walnut Grove, in North Hero township. Most of the wells here are from 12 to 30 feet deep, 

 their material being yellow and blue till, containing occasionally small pieces of lignite, and 

 rarely of wood. W, J. Masters in 1878 bored with a hope of finding coal (lignite), to a depth of 

 76 feet in the southwest part of this corporation, the section being soil, 2 feet; yellow till, 14; 

 harder blue till, containing few pebbles, 60; no coal; water rose to the surface. A second boring 

 for coal, near the foregoing, went only 27 feet, because of rinding a large amount of water in quick- 

 sand. Its order of materials was soil, 2 feet; yellow till, 5; blue till, 20; with quicksand below, 

 from which water rises to the top and eight feet above the surface. This fountain has been run- 

 ning since 1878, and is the only such flow of water found in this region. 



The railroad well here is about 80 feet deep, finding the yellow and blue till, of ordinary 

 character, to a depth of 60 feet; below which was a very hard and compact clay or shale, free 

 from gravel, adapted for making pottery, probably of Cretaceous age, bored into about 20 feet, 

 but found so hard that the work was stopped in this deposit, without obtaining water. 



Underwood. Malcolm McNiven; sec. 6: well, 34 feet; soil, 2; yellow till, 15; blue till, much 

 harder, 17; water rose suddenly eight feet from gravel at the bottom. Fragments of lignite were 

 found. 



