NOTES OF ARTESIAN AND COMMON WELLS. 551 



Tintah.— Several shallow wells in this towuship have ample flows of good water 

 from the drift. The well at the railway tank is iS feet deep, with water rising only 

 to the surface. J. E. Henry has three or more artesian wells at his extensive farm 

 buildings near Tintah railway station. The well at the farmhouse is 45 feet deep, 

 with water rising nearly to the surface, but not overflowing. At the barns, about 

 50 rods southeast, a well 67 feet deep flows 6 inches above the sui-face. Another well, 

 about halfway between these two, is 45 feet deep, with water rising 6 feet above the 

 surface. 



Taylor.— In the north edge of this township, and near the Bois des vSioux River, 

 Mr. Bruce has au artesian well 106 feet deep, flowing 3 gallons per minute. 



C. M. Harmon, northwest quarter of section 3: Well, 73 feet deep; till extends 

 to the depth of 70 feet, being yellowish for its first 15 feet, and dark bluish below, 

 yielding much alkaline water at 18 feet, also some seeping water from lower gravelly 

 streaks. At the bottom, water of excellent quality was found in a bed of gravel and 

 sand, and rose within a few minutes to a level 6 feet below the surface. This water- 

 bearing bed is only 3 or 4 feet thick, as was shown by boring deeper, when the pipe 

 shut off the water, and was therefore lifted back. 



David Warriner, section 31 : A boring at the farmhouse went 165 feet in till, find- 

 ing no supply of water. About 15 rods distant to the north, on land 6 feet lower, 

 another well went 50 feet in till, to gravel and sand yielding a large supply of good 

 water, which quickly rose to a permanent level 14 feet below the surface. 



A large uixmber of other wells in this county are described in Geology 

 of Minnesota, Vol. II, pp. 530, 531. 



WILKIN COUNTY. 



Champion.— Thin township has probably as many as thirty artesian wells, ranging 

 from 50 to 110 feet in depth, in the drift. One of the earUest bored and most copious 

 in flow is on the Fountain Valley Farm, section 3, owned by Col. C. H. Brush & Co. 

 This well is 66 feet deep, being till, 56 feet, and sand, 10 feet, and continuing deeper, 

 from which the artesian flow is obtained. The diameter of the pipe is 1 foot, reduced 

 below to 7 inches. A large stream of very clear, cold water constantly flows from this 

 well, its estimated volume being 7 or 8 barrels per minute, or about 250 gallons. The 

 water is of excellent quality for house and farm use, but is hard and slightly irony, 

 and deposits a rusty sediment in the channel of the stream. Its temperature is 46° F. 



In section 11, nearly 2 miles southeast from the foregoing, a well was bored to 

 the depth of about 50 feet, and was left dry by the workmen when they stopped at 

 night; but in the morning it was found overflowing and flooding the surrounding 

 laud. In 1887 this well had been thus running six years, baffling all efforts to shut it 

 off, and spoiling or damaging a tract ecpal to half a section by its inundation. 



