568 THE GLACIAL LAKE AGASSIZ. 



Mapleton. — Wells in this village are 60 to 80 feet deep, in alluvial and lacustrine 

 clayey silt, obtaining slightly alkaline water from sandy beds at the bottom, whence 

 it rises to be 30 to 40 feet deep. 



Dalryniple. — Oass & Cheeney Elevator Company: Well, CO feet; water seeps, 

 scanty, alkaline. 



Casseltou. — The city artesian well is 327 feet deep, its section being yellowish 

 alluvial clay, 25 feet; darker bluish clay and sand, alluvial and lacustrine, 45 feet; 

 till, 180 feet, inclosing thin seams and veins of sand and gravel; and very fine-grained 

 sandstone, probably the Dakota sandstone, in some portions containing fragments of 

 lignite, 77 feet, iu which the boring ceased. The same section, to the depth of 317 

 feet, was also found by the well at Capt. 0. May's flouring mill. Both these wells 

 obtain slightly brackish water, which rises 40 feet above the surface. 



Smith Stemmel, 3 miles west of Oasselton, has a similar flowing well about 350 

 feet deej). 



jSTortherii Pacific Elevator Company: Well, 100 feet; water, somewhat saline, 

 rises from a layer of sand to 6 feet below the surface. 



The comm(m wells of Casselton and its vicinity vary in depth from 20 to 70 feet, 

 the deepest obtaining good water at the top of the till, whence it usually rises to fill 

 the lower half of the well. 



Wheatland. — Slightly alkaline water is supplied by most of the wells in the 

 village, which are 20 to 30 feet deep in till; but water of excellent quality is obtained 

 on the Campbell beach, in the east edge of the village, by wells 15 to 20 feet deep iu 

 the beach gravel and sand. 



Toicer City. — The city artesian well has been described on page 535. 



Beed.—(J. H. Welton, southeast quarter of section 17: Flowing well, 15;! feet 

 deep, in alluvial and lacustrine deposits for its upper part, with much till below. 

 Water, fresh, aud soft enough for washing with soap, rises 4 feet above the smface. 



B. P. Reynolds, northeast quarter of section 20, about 40 rods southeast from 

 the last: Well, similarly flowing, only 130 feet deep. Probably these two wells are 

 supplied by separate water bearing layers. 



Raymond.— }i. Porrett, southwest quarter of section 0: Well, SO feet, in alluvial 

 clay and till, the latter containing fragments of lignite; the water, somewhat alkaline, 

 rises to 1 foot below the surface. 



H. G. Roberts, in the northeast (piarter of section 2'3, close north of the ]Maple 

 River, has a flowing well 100 feet deep. 



ir«r«'oo(/.— Minneapolis and Xorthtrn Elevator Company: Flowing well, 117 feet 

 deep; water rises from sand and gravel to 10 feet above the surface; it is fresh, good 

 for drinking, aud called "soft" for washing. 



Argusville.—The Minneapolis and Northern Elevator Company has three arte- 

 sian wells, one 158 feet deep; another, 20 feet distant, 157 feet; and a third, about 35 



