NOTES OF ARTESIAN AND COMMON WELLS. 571 



Alexander Smart, .southeast quarter of section 12: Boring 417 feet deep, obtain- 

 ing no artesian water; the alluvial and lacustrine beds of the surface have au 

 undetermined thickness, probably less than 60 feet; next below, till extends about 

 250 feet, inclosing occasional thin beds of sand and gravel, to the base of the diitt 

 at .'510 feet. Thence the boring went 107 feet in a very finegrained white sandstone, 

 in part very hard, but in other parts less so than the till. The drillings from this 

 formation, believed to be the Dakota sandstone, are mostly similar to flour in their 

 fineness, but usually they also contain many small, rounded quartz grains, from a 

 hundredth to a fiftieth of an inch in diameter. 



Bolmsacl;. — R. M. Cunningham, southeast quarter of section 5, township 144, 

 range 52 : Well, 140 feet deep, wholly in till ; water rises from sand and gravel at the 

 bottom to 30 feet below the surface. 



Haf/ue. — On Farm No. 1 of the Grandin and Dalrymple Farming Company, at 

 Hague post-office, northwest quarter of section 25, township 145, range 49, are two 

 artesian wells, 160 feet and 210 feet deep; water, slightly saline, rises from each to a 

 height of 10 feet or more above the surface. The well on Farm No. 3, in the northeast 

 quarter of section 9, township 144, range 49 (Elm liiver), is 160 feet deep, with water 

 rising just to the surface. From another artesian well, on Farm No. 6, in the south- 

 east quarter of section 33, township 145, range 49, also 100 feet deep, the water 

 rises 6 feet. 



Hillsboro. — In the city of Hillsboro and within a distance of 5 miles there are 

 probal)ly thirty or more artesian wells, mostly between 100 and 200 feet deep, all 

 obtaining somewhat saline and alkaline water. Notes of several in Hillsboro are as 

 follows : 



W. H. York, in the northeast part of the city: 105 feet deep; flow about 200 

 barrels daily; water slightly brackish, softer than the water of the deeper wells. 



City well, at the intersection of the two principal streets: 185 feet deep; flow 

 about 75 barrels daily, through 6-iuch pipe; strongly brackish, used only for watering 

 horses and cattle. 



S. C. Sherwood, in the north part of the city: About 190 feet deep; flow esti- 

 mated at 400 barrels daily, through 2-iuch pipe. The water of this well, with largest 

 flow in the town, though salty, is employed for all uses of the house anil stable, 

 including drinking and cooking. But in general throughout the city the principal 

 supply for domestic uses is talceu from the Goose River. 



Minneapolis and Northern Elevator Company : 105 feet deep. 



J. R. Nunn's livery stable: 198 fee*^ deep. 



Florence Mill Company: 195 feet deep; flow, 250 barrels daily. 



At the North Dakota RoUer Mill, in the soutli part of the city, several borings 

 have been made, in all of which combustible gas has been found at the depth of 105 

 to 120 feet. The deepest of these borings went 630 feet, obtaining no artesian water. 



