NOTES OF ARTESIAN AND COMMON WELLS. 565 



L. N. Ekkmd, a sixtb oC ;i mile east of the depot and elevator : Well, !•<> feet deep; 

 also very salty water, rising to 5 feet below the surface. Another well, only ii rods 

 distant, obtained saline water at 80 feet, which rose immediately just to the surface, 

 not overtlowiug-. 



L. B. Kiddell, close west of Hallock village: Well, 71 feet deep; saline water, 

 not used, rises to 4 feet below the surface. 



GranmUe. — W. J. Eoss, in section 7, has a flowing well of fresh water, only .30 feet 

 deep. John Jenkins, jr., in section 18, a mile south of the last, also has a flowing well 

 of similar depth and good quality of water. 



Northcote. — Peter Daly, in this village, bored 7.5 feet, obtaining no water. The 

 North Branch of Two Elvers supplies the water used here, which is healthful, but 

 very hard. A mile west of Northcote a salt spring issues in the bed of this stream. 

 Salt springs also occur in the channel of the South Branch of Two Rivers, about 5 

 miles west of Hallock. 



Humboldt. — The section of the deep artesian well on the farm of I). II. Valentine, 

 at this station, has been given on page 7.5, and an analysis of its water on page 537. 

 This water has never been utilized. 



St. Vincent. — A well l(i5 feet deej) was bored l)y the railway company about three- 

 fourths of a mile east of St. Vincent in the winter of 1878-79. It yielded very saline 

 water, not used, which rose 10 feet above the surface. The section was alluvial clay 

 and till to the depth of lliO feet, and gravel and sand thence to the bottom, -io feet. 



The common wells of this county are 10 to 30 feet deep, generally obtaining water 

 which is slightly alkaline, but may be used for all farm and domestic purposes, if the 

 wells are di'awn fi'om plentifully so as to insure new inflow every day. 



WELLS ON THK AREA OF LAKE AGASSIZ IN NORTH DAKOTA. 



RICHLAND COUNTY. 



Wah2)cton. — No artesian water was found in a boring 120 feet deej) at the Eich- 

 land County court-house, the sec^tion being till, which incloses tliin layers of sand and 

 gravel. A deeper boring passed through the drift to Cretaceous shahi, ])robably the 

 Fort Benton formation, at 19.") feet. 



The city is furnished with water by a system of waterworks, which pumps its 

 supply from the Eed River, above Bi-eckenridge, at the upi)er end of a long ox-bow or 

 liorseshoe-like circuit of the rivei-. 



Fifteen or more flowing wells are reported in the flerman settlement along the 

 Wild Eice Eiver, within 10 miles southwest of Wahpeton, ranging in dei)th from 70 

 feet to .305 feet. 



Fannington. — A. D. Ellsworth, 1 mile southwest of Fai'inington station: Flowing 

 well, 93 feet deep, almost wholly in till; water of good quality, called "soft," rises 7 



