YELLOW MEDICINE, LYON AND LINCOLN COUNTIES. gQ9 



Wells.] 







deep. They generally find the yellow till 8 to 12 feet deep. Then the majority of these wells go 

 through a black, mucky clay, free from gravel, 3 inches to 2 feet in thickness, almost always con- 

 taining small gasteropod and bivalve shells, described as " like those of the present lakes," and 

 frequently pieces of wood thought to be willow, and also, occasionally, small concretions of iron 

 pyrites. Below this, there is commonly found a foot or two of gravel and sand; next to which, 

 or, where this bed is wanting, directly beneath the fossiliferous mud, is dark bluish till, more 

 gravelly, but containing fewer large boulders than the upper till. This bluish till, not harder than 

 the yellow till above, but very tenacious, extends 5 to 50 feet before coming to a water-bearing 

 vein or layer of gravel and sand, from which the water usually rises considerably. 



C. H. Whitney; sec. 4: well, 42 feet; soil, 2; yellow till, 15; dry sand, 2 inches; blue till, 23; 

 water was found in sand and very coarse gravel, holding rounded boulders up to a hundred pounds 

 in weight, at the bottom, dug into 1J feet, yielding for the first two months a depth of about two 

 feet of water of excellent quality; but one morning this well was found filled to a depth of 

 twenty feet with water too disagreeable in smell and taste to be used, and having an oily scum 

 lloating on its top. During the process of digging, a current of water had been heard at one side 

 of the well, running in the ground about twenty feet below the surface, and it is supposed that 

 this had broken through. 



Grandview. A. A. Farmer; sec. 20: well, 4-5 feet; soil. 2; yellow till, spaded, 8; blue till, 

 easier to bore, 35; water, of good quality, rose from gravel and sand at the bottom thirty-five feet 

 in five minutes. 



Lynd. O. C. Gregg; sec. 30: well, 33 feet; soil, 2; yellow till, 23; blue till, harder to excavate 

 because it is so tenacious, but not harder to drive a spade or pick into, becoming very hard and 

 compact in drying, 8 feet; abundance of good water seeps from the till, from the depth of 20 feet 

 to the bottom of the well. 



A flowing well, about 20 feet deep, was dug in the northwest part of Lynd, situated on land 

 nearly as high above neighboring depressions as the depth of the well. After digging here in till 

 about 20 feet, this well was left for the night with the tools in it that had been used; and the next 

 morning water, which had broken into the well and filled it, was found running over the top. 



7t. O. Titus; S. W. I of sec. 26: well, 40 feet; soil, 4; yellow till, hard, but spaded, 36 feet and 

 extending below, in its lower part showing some intermixture of blue till; water came from a thin 

 vein or crevice in the till at the depth of 16 feet. Another well, twenty rods farther north and on 

 land some eight feet lower, is 11 feet deep, finding soil and yellow till to the depth of 10 feet, the 

 last foot being in blue till; water comes at 9 feet in the yellow till. 



Lyons. J. M. Millard; sec. 14: well, 23 feet; soil, 2; yellow till, 17; sand, 1 foot; blue till, 3 

 feet and extending lower; water from the sand soon rose and usually fills the well sixteen feet 

 deep. 



Balaton, in the N. W. \ of sec. 23, Bock Lake. Moore & Weberg's well, 30 feet deep; soil, 

 H; all below is caring gravel, with occasional layers of sand up to one foot in thickness. 



Eidsvold. Most of the wells in this township are 10 to 30 feet deep, in yellow and blue till. 

 The thickness of the yellow color of the till is 10 to 20 feet on the swells, but only 5 to 10 feet in 

 hollows. The yellow till is usually easily dug with a spade; the lower, bluish till is more com- 

 pact, harder to drive a spade into, more moist and sticky, and less stony. 



Minneota. In this village, situated in the southeast part of Eidsvold, the shallow wells are 

 10 to 16 feet deep; in soil, 2; dark till, 5; and sand and gravel, 5 to 10; finding good water, in 

 sufficient supply for ordinary use. Deeper wells go below this 10 to 15 feet in blue till; at 25 or 

 30 feet these strike water in bluish quicksand, from which it rises to about ten feet below the 

 surface. The water is good at first, but most of the deep wells are bored and curbed with pine, 

 and these become offensive when not abundantly used. The shallow wells are not curbed. 



Shelburne. E. F. Dickson; sec. 24: well, 21 feet; soil, 2; yellow till, hard, mostly picked, 

 16; harder blue till, 3 feet and reaching lower; water seeps. 



Wells in Lincoln county. 



Marshjield. G. W. Cutler; sec. 29: well, 30 feet, in yellow and blue till; water seeps. 



Tyler, in sec. 3, Hope. Railroad well at the station, 94 feet deep; soil, 2; yellow till, 10; 

 blue till, f-'O; fine white sand, 2, from which water rose thirty-six feet in one night; it is not re- 

 garded, however, as a sufficient supply for a tank to be used from by engines. At the section- 

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