564 THE GLACIAL LAKE AGASSIZ. 



Ou the Stephen Farm, owned by Charles M. Eamsey, another saline artesian 

 well, unused, is 220 feet deep. 



Parler. — J. Q. Cronkhite, section 25: Flowing well, 95 feet deep, quite salty 

 water, rising about 10 feet above the surface. 



Auf/sburff. — Wheeler & Culbertson, section 32: Boring about 300 feet deep; no 

 supply of water. 



Sinnott. — John Hughes, northeast quarter of section 28: Well, 42 feet; soil, 2 

 feet; soft, stratified alluvial clay, yellowish above, but dark bluish for the greater 

 part of its thickness, 38 feet; very hard, yellowish gray till, dug into only 2 feet, 

 containing sandy veins or layers, from which water seeping into the well filled it 7 

 feet in a half day. Within two weeks in the dry season, when it was tlug, the water 

 rose to a depth of 30 feet. It is of good quality, hard, but with no saline taste. 



KITTSON COUNTY. 



Donaldson. — E. N. Davis, in the northwest quarter of section 29, Davis, close 

 east of Donaldson station, has a flowing well 45 feet deep, which was bored in 1880 in 

 a quarter of a day with an ordinary 2-inch auger. Its flow ever since that time has 

 been nearly constant, at the rate of about 8 gallons a minute, or more than 300 

 barrels daily. The section was soil, li feet; yellowish gray alluvial clay, 10 feet; 

 dark bluish alluvial clay, 28 feet; hard dark gray till, 5 feet; and a very hard ferru- 

 ginous layer, one-half foot, from beneath which the water rose quickly to the surface, 

 bringing up sand and gravel. The temperature of the water is 42° F. Though salty 

 to the taste, farm stock thrive with this as their only supply of water, which they 

 drink very freely; and it has been used by people, with no apparent injury, as the 

 only water for drinking and cooking through several weeks of drought. The height 

 to which it will rise is known to be more than 23 feet, at which height the flow seemed 

 to be undiminished. On stopping the pipe of this well the water issued as a spring 

 several rods distant. 



Kennedy, — A boring by the Kennedy Land and Town Comi)any went to the depth 

 of 225 feet, obtaining no artesian water. Below the alluvial clay of the surface the 

 section was chiefly till. Bowlders were observed at the depth of 45 feet, and bowl- 

 ders and gravel in the till were encountered thence to the bottom. Water from layers 

 or veins of sand and gravel rose nearly to the surface, bvat was too saline to be used. 



Skane. — The Fort Donaldson Farm, i-n section 20, has an artesian well 95 feet deep, 

 with water likewise so salty that it can not be used. But some other deep wells in 

 this township obtain fresh water of good quality, as Lars Lundgren's well, in the south- 

 east quarter of section 7, which is 119 feet deep, with water rising just to the surface, 

 not overflowing. 



Halloclc. — Eklund elevator: Well, 125 feet deep; alluvial clay above, succeeded 

 by till below for nearly all the depth ; very saline water rises from gravel and sand at 

 the bottom to a permanent level 4 or 5 feet below the surface. 



