NOTES OF ARTESIAN AND COMMON WELLS. 575" 



It is (|uite brackiisb, but some persons have drunk it freely and almost solely during 

 several years, tliiuking it favorable for their health. 



Brooks Bros.' elevator: Well, I'JC feet deep, with similar strong flow as the 

 foregoing. 



The common wells are 15 to 20 feet deep, in yellow alluvial clay, to blue clay 

 which is not dug into; water seeping, slightly alkaline. 



Grafton.— The deep artesian well of the city, passing through Lower Silurian 

 strata below the drift, and obtaining a powerful flow of brackish water, has been 

 described on iiages 77, 78. 



The Minneapolis and Northern Elevator Company and the Brooks Bros.' elevator 

 had artesian wells, each ir.6 feet deep, but their water was so saline and scanty that 

 they are disused. 



The water of the common weUs here, 12 to 25 feet deep, is slightly alkaline, but 

 is considered healthful. 



About 5 miles northeast of Grafton a well is reported to have found in the 

 alluvial clay, at the depth of 35 feet, a log about a foot in diameter, which was chopped 

 off at both sides of the well. 



Conway.— The depths of the common wells range from 20 to 60 feet, in till. 



Parle Biver.— Wells 15 to 40 feet deep, in till, obtaining a plentiful supply of 

 good water. 



PEMBINA COUNTY. 



St. r/iowirt.s.— Minneapolis and Northern Elevator Company: Artesian well, 175 

 feet deep, mostly in till; water saline, but used in the engine boiler. The Brooks 

 Bros.' elevator is supplied by a well only 18 feet deep. 



The common wells are 15 to 20 feet deep, in alluvial clay; water slightly alkaline. 



Glasston. — The Minneapolis and Northern Elevator Company has a flowing well 

 about 200 feet deep, with water rising only 2 feet above the surftice, but yielding an 

 inexhaustible supply when pumped. It is brackish, but is drunk freely by stock and 

 by some people, who soon like it, and no injurious effects attend its use. 



Common wells, mostly 14 to 20 feet deep, have somewhat alkaline water. Several 

 other wells within a few miles east of the railway between St. Thomas and Glasston, 

 and about the latter station, go 90 to 150 feet through till to gravel and sand, from 

 which water, slightly brackish, rises immediately to a permanent level 10 to 20 feet 

 below the surface. 



ifrt»i(7to«.— Minneapolis and Northern Elevator Company: Artesian well, 179 

 feet ; water brackish. 



Rand & Norton's livery stable: Artesian well, 175 feet; also brackish, bat agree- 

 ing with horses and cattle. 



The common wells of Hamilton are 12 to 20 feet deep, usually having good 

 water. Many other wells have been bored in this vicinity 75 to 150 feet deep, only 



