NOTES OF AETESIAX AND COMMON WELLS. 553 



gravel, 31 feet, and sandy clay, 12 feet, contlniiing lower. This well obtains artesian 

 water, just tiowiiig to the surface; but it is found to be inexhaustible, and can be 

 lowered only a few feet by pumping. 



In section 22 a boring for Charles Mullen went 272 feet, obtaining no water. A 

 mile to the southwest, at Mr. Maeehler's farmhouse, in the northwest quarter of 

 section 27, a well 88 feet deep has water which rises to 18 inches below the surface 

 and can not be lowered by pumping. 



Bradford. — Charles Covell, southeast quarter of section 10: Artesian well, 50 

 feet deep; water rises 15 feet above the surface. 



W. H. Fish, southeast quarter of section 12, on land 20 feet above the foregoing: 

 Well, 49 feet, wholly iu till ; water, slightly alkaline, rose from gravel and sand at the 

 bottom to a permanent level 3 feet below the surface. This well was dug with a 

 diameter of 5 feet, and was thus tilled almost to overflowing within ten minutes after 

 the water was reached. 



Henry Poor, northeast quarter of section 11 : Artesian well, -48 feet deep, bored 

 2 inches in diameter; very copious flow, not irnder control, rising iu a bowl-like spring 

 about 6 feet across, and running away in shallow depressions of the adjoining prairie. 



Edward H. Boustead, southwest quarter of section 18: Artesian well, 85 feet 

 deep ; water of good quality, pleasant in taste, and found to be healthful, but peculiar 

 in containing gas. Immediately after the water reaches the surface the gas collects 

 into very minute bubbles, so that the water for about a minute seems to be filled with 

 light gray dust particles, after which it quickly becomes clear, as it also was on first 

 flowing from the jiipe. 



C. W. Keyes, in the southwest quarter of section 31, about a mile northeast ot 

 Campbell, has a flowing well of good water, 61 feet deep. Previous to this boring, a 

 well dug Gl feet in till, supplied mainly with surface water of inferior quality from 

 a thin bed of gravel and sand at 21 feet, had been used several years. 



BrecJcenridge. — Borings for artesian wells in this town have been unsuccessful. 

 The drift-sheet, chiefly till, inclosing only few and thin layers of sand and gravel, is 

 found to have a thickness of 202 feet, underlain by dark Cretaceous shale, probably 

 the Fort Benton formation. The shallow wells are mostly alkaline, and the water of 

 the Red River, which is better, has been generally used. 



Andrea. — The drift in this township is commonly till to the depth of 40 or 50 feet 

 or more, its lowest 1 or 5 feet being very 'hard; then quicksand, 5 to 10 feet -or more, 

 into which the boring must go a few feet, as in the following examples of artesian 

 wells, to get a good supply of water. 



L. Manske, northeast quarter of section 10: Flowing well, 50 feet deep. 



P. H. Fuukley, southeast quarter of section 2G: Well, 00 feet; large flow; rising 

 10 feet above the surface. 



R. Mcintosh, southeast quarter of section 27: Flowing well, 8(! feet deei). 



