CARVER AND SCOTT COUNTIES, 1888. WARREN UPAHM. 



gorges, in places, are seen the Cretaceous strata, which would not be true if the 

 gorges were excavated since the Cretaceous. These gorges extend below the present 

 river level from 100 to 200 feet. They are thus partly filled with drift, and largely 

 by gravel and sand, as revealed by deep wells at Belle Plaine, Mendota, St. Paul and 

 elsewhere. 



These counties are embraced within the wooded tract long known as " big 

 woods," their only prairies being some of the terraces of the Minnesota valley. They 

 are essentially agricultural counties based on the soils of the drift. The roughness 

 of the moraine interferes with farming only in some parts of New Market, Cedar 

 Lake and Credit River in Scott county, although, in general, the morainic belt as 

 much more stony and gravelly than the non-morainic. Large quantities of light- 

 yellow brick are made at Chaska, Carver and Jordan. N. H. w. 



