NOTES OF ARTE8IAX AND COMMON WELLS. 555 



Michael Starrs, southeast quarter of section 20: "Well, 45 feet deep, in till, to 

 gravel at the bottom, from which water rises to 4 feet below the surface, and flows 

 away by a ditch to the Deerhorn Creek, only about 50 feet distant. 



Charles Fuukhaudel, in the northeast quarter of section 35, has a well only 11 

 feet deep, which yields a copious artesian flow. 



Descriptions of many other wells in this county are given iu Geology 

 of Minnesota, Vol. 11, pages 527-530. 



CLAY COUNTY. 



Barnesville. — This city has no artesian wells, and the common wells are 12 to 40 

 feet deep, mostly in till which incloses beds of gravel and sand. A boring by John 

 Marth to the depth of 150 feet, on the west side of the main street, found no artesian 

 water. 



Mr. Marth has a shallow well, 13 feet deep, which is remarkable for its interglacial 

 forest bed. The section was soil (the blackened surface of the till), 2 feet; yellowish 

 till, 10 feet; then quicksand, 1 foot, containing several branches and trunks of trees, 

 thought to be tamarack, up to 8 inches iu diameter, lying across the well, which, 

 together with the inflow of water, prevented further digging. 



Rudolph Sieber, in the southwest quarter of section 12, Barnesville Township, 

 close north of a small creek, has an artesian well 35 feet deep, from which'water rises 

 with a strong flow to a height of IG feet or more above the surface. 



Sabin. — Angus Murray: Well, about 80 feet in till, to gravel, from which water 

 of excellent quality rose to a level only 3 or 4 feet below the surface. The Minneapolis 

 and Northern Elevator Company has a similar water supply in a well 90 feet deep. 

 Other wells about 20 feet deep iu this village, dug mostly in beach sand, have good 

 water. 



A. E. Henderson, on the Pleasant Eidge Farm, 1 mile north of Sabin, has a well 

 72 feet deep, with water rising almost to the surface. 



Glyndon. — In the southern part of this township, 3 to 5 miles northeast of Sabin, 

 there are several artesian wells 50 to 75 feet deep. 



Two borings at the elevator of G. S. Barnes & Co., in Glyndon Village, failed to 

 obtain water, and the augers were broken in the till, called "hardpan," at the bottom. 

 In the deeper one of these borings a depth of 125 feet was reached, the section being- 

 reported as soil, 3 feet; quicksand, 22 feet; dark clay, free from stones, 75 feet; very 

 hard yellowish till, 15 feet; and softer till, 10 feet. The till in these borings is said 

 to have been so hard that only a tenth as fast progress could be made in it as in the 

 dark alluvial clay above. A log of wood, which was called "cedar," about a foot in 

 diameter, was encountered by one of these borings in the dark alluvium, 35 feet below 

 the surface; and the other boring, about 12 feet distant, found "rotten chips" of wood 



