570 THE GLACIAL LAKE AGASslZ. 



Grandin Hotel, P. C. Weisbecker, 158 feet, water rising 15 feet; the Minneapolis and 

 Northern Elevator Company, 187 feet, water rising- IL' feet; and J. TV. Thorn, at his 

 store, 248 feet, water rising only 2 feet. All these wells are slightly saline, bnt are 

 called good for drinking and cooking, except in making tea. It is remarkable that 

 they obtain water at four distinct levels, showing that at least the upper water- 

 bearing deposits of gravel and sand are narrow veins, as of stream coiu-ses; or, if 

 they form broad sheets, those above are pinched out in places, so that the deposits of 

 overlying and underlying till come together. (Bee pages 525, 520.) 



TKAILL COUNTY. 



Ulm River. — Eobert Young, about a mile west of (Juiucy, has an artesian well 

 213 feet deep; water copious, slightly saline. 



Alexander Armstrong's well, a half mile south of Mr. Young's, is 110 feet deep, 

 with very strong tiow, ha^^ng• scarcely any percejitible saline taste. 



Kelso. — St. Anthony and Dakota Elevator Comiiany: Well, 110 feet; mostly in 

 till, below a considerable thickness of alluvial and lacustrine clay; water at first 

 overflowed, but now stands a few feet below the surface; it is capable of supplying 

 200 barrels in twelve hours, the diameter of the pipe being 2 inches. 



Minneapolis and Northern Elevator Company: Well, 109 feet; water overflows 

 slightly; ample supply for i)umping. The water of both these wells is slightly salty, 

 but is not harmful for drinking: it rapidly rusts through the plate of engine boUers 

 in which it is used. 



James Johnson, section 3: Artesian well, 175 feet deep; the water flows from 

 the pipe, which is 2 inches in diameter, at the rate of about 2 barrels per minute, 

 forming a considerable brook; when confined in the pipe, it rose 20 feet above the 

 surface, and flowed with little apparent diminution. The water is saline, but both 

 cattle and people prefer it rather than the water of the adjoining creek, the North 

 Branch of the Ehn Kiver. This well was bored only about 150 feet deep, the section 

 having been nearly all till; then, within fifteen or twenty minutes, the pipe sank 

 about 20 feet in quicksand, and it settled more during the following night. When 

 the sand filling the lower part of the pipe was cleared out, the water rose with such 

 force as to bring up gravel stones from 1 to li inches in diameter in the 2-inch pipe, 

 showing that it had sunk to a bed of gravel. In this well a feeble artesian flow was 

 noted at about 110 feet, as in the wells of Kelso village, IJ miles distant. There are 

 several other flowing wells Mithin 1 or 2 miles around Mr. Johnson's, some being 

 about 110 feet deep, and others having nearly the same depth as his well. 



S. A. Dalrymple, southeast corner of section 1: Artesian well, 180 feet deep; 

 2-iuch pipe, flowing a stream a half inch in diameter at 3 feet above the surface; 

 water slightly brackish. 



