358 REPORT—1890. 
two shafts agree, but do not correspond with the section disclosed in the 
Six-feet shaft, and point to a fault between it and the Pilot well. The two 
wells are connected by an adit at a depth of 155 to 161 feet; the level 
was 6 feet by 5 feet, and 30 feet in length, ranging N.N.W. from the 
Pilot shaft; no information is given as to whether the fault was noticed 
in driving the heading. The yield of these wells is about one and a half 
millions daily, the chief supply being derived from a sound bed one foot 
in thickness, and the soft beds below it, occurring at 478 feet from the 
surface ; this water supply may be considered as wholly coming from the 
Permian or Collyhurst sandstones. The surface ievel of the ground is 
140 feet above the Ordnance datum, its first rest level was 78-feet above 
Ordnance datum, its present rest level is 72 feet. 
The following are the details of the section in Pilot shaft :— 
Ft. in. Et. in. 
1 6 Black loam 156 
2 9 Grey sand ies) 
5 3 Brown marl 2 6 
Yellow shale . 0 6 
Red shale Le NG 
8 0 Yellow shale . 0 9 
20 0 Red sandstone 12000 
21 0 Yellow sandstone Leith 
50 0 Red sandstone 29° 0 
110 O Red sandstone : : : 60 O 
140 0 Close-grained red sandstone . . . . 30 0 
163 0 Red sandstone with thin bands of yellow and 
grey sandstone 23 0 
164 0 Yellow sandstone , : 120 
171 O Red sandstone (bottom of well) 0 
174 0 Red sandstone, thin band of grey . 3 70 
179 O Close-grained red sandstone 5 0 
179 6 Red marl. 0 6 
187 6 Red sandstone 8 0 
196 6 Yellow sandstone 9) 20 
197 0 Red marl : : : 0 6 
261 0 Close-grained red sandstone . 64 O 
264 6 Red marl 3 ‘ F 3 6 
273 0 Close-grained red sandstone . 9 6 
277 0 Red sand with thin yellow and grey 4 0 
296 0 Grey sandstone : : 3 : ema 
297 0 Red marl ; : : : ‘ : eid WPA) 
306 0 Grey sandstone : 3 , : of SOONG 
321 0 Redsandstone, grey bands . ; ; rae are 8 10) 
323 0 Clay and marl with small pebbles. . . 2 O ; 
326 O Red sand. : E : ‘ A ; + fom 
337 O Red marl : ; : : : : <p LOO 
346 0 Red sandstone “ P ; : : -) Semen 
363 0 Grey sandstone with veins of red ; LOR 
383 0 Red sandstone. 3 E ; ; : + UO 
421 0 Grey sandstone : ; ; ° - +88. 0 
The dip of the rocks is said to be 1 in 9, which would have 
carried the above beds to about 3 feet lower level in the six-feet well ; 
instead of that being the case there is considerable variation, but chiefly 
in the lower portion. The upper 199 feet are doubtfully referable to the 
Bunter Pebble beds; the lower portion is certainly Permian, and the 
water obtained like that afforded by the Winwick borings of the War- 
rington Waterworks derived from that formation. 
The following table of analyses of Permian marls and sandstone, 
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