578 THE GLxVCIAL LAKE AGASSIZ. 



This is said to be the deepest of about twenty flowing wells in this Menuonite 

 Eeserve, their range of depth being from 40 to 107 feet. 



Dominion City. — James Spence, Victoria Flour Mills: Flowing well, 170 feet deep, 

 in alluvial clay and till, the latter very hard below the depth of 120 feet; bed-rock not 

 reached; water brackish, flowing feebly, not used. 



The common wells of this village, 12 to 16 feet deep, have good water which seeps 

 from the alluvial clay. 



The Eoseau River has much softer water than the wells and most of the short 

 streams of this region, so that the railway tank at Dominion City, taking water 

 from the Eoseau, is preferred by the locomotive engineers above any other source of 

 water on this branch line. 



Emerson. — Wells in Emerson range from 10 to 25 feet in depth, in alluvial clay, 

 and obtain water tolerably good for drinking and cooking, but it is very hard and 

 unsuited for laundry use. 



West Lynne. — Hudson Bay Company's steam flouring mill: Well, 108 feet deep, 

 dug 68 feet in alluvial and lacustrine clay, and bored 40 feet lower, apparently in the 

 same deposit. The only water found, not enough to supply the engine, is that which 

 seeps from the clay, coming almost wholly within the first 20 feet below the surface. 

 The ordinary wells in this village, 14 to 18 feet deep, obtain good water, seeping in 

 sufficient amount for domestic use. 



Artesian wells near Letellier and on the Low Farm. — An artesian well on the French 

 Eeserve at the center of township 2, range 1 east, near Letellier, 12 miles northwest 

 from Emerson and West Lynne, is 250 feet deej), not reaching the bed-rock. It 

 supplies brackish water, which is drunk by cattle. Another artesian well of similar 

 depth is on the Low Farm, about 12 miles west of Morris, the water of which is strongly 

 saline. 



West Selkirk. — The well at the Lisgar House, 100 feet deep, reached the bed-rock, 

 which is limestone, at 65 feet. 



Stoneu-aU. — J. B. Rutherford's flouring mill : Well, 82 feet deep, consisting of beach 

 gravel and sand, 10 feet; till, 2 feet; and limestone, including red shalybeds, 70 feet, 

 to the bottom, where the drill fell 1 foot and water rose immediately to 22 feet below 

 the surface. Several other wells in Stonewall have had a similar experience, obtain- 

 ing water which rises from hollows in the limestone. 



Township 15, range 2 east. — William Andrew, southeast quarter of section 7 : Well, 

 94 feet deep; till at the surface and to a depth of 11 feet; and limestone, 83 feet, 

 mostly hard and of light buff color, but inclosing some 25 feet of reddish shaly beds 

 between the depths of 45 and 70 feet. There are several such wells in the same 

 vicinity. 



Between Pleasant Home and Gimli. — Mr. Andrew states that about 25 miles north- 

 east from the last a well between Pleasant Home and Gimli has been sunk 120 feet, 

 wholly in the glacial drift, not reaching the bed-rock. 



