360 REPORT—1890. 
When boring in the mar] water stood in the bore-hole 40 feet from the 
surface, or at the same level as the water standing in the old well, at the 
other end of the works, executed in 1872 by Mr. Chapman, which was 
carried to the base of the Pebble beds, but stopped on reaching the 
Permian marls. When the latter were penetrated by Messrs. Mather 
and Platt the water rose 5 feet in twenty-four hours, and when 666 feet 
was reached it stood at 26 feet from the surface. 
Messrs. Fryers § Co.’s Sugar Works, near Oxford Road. 
Surface-level 120. 
Ft. i 
n. Ft. in. 
70 0 Well with heading and large chambers . > ORO 
114 0 Pebble beds . ; . 44 0 
351 0 Red and varied marls, thin limestones : . 237 0 
396 0 Coarse gravel and pebbles : : , ~ £050) 
420 © Compact red and white sandstone . : £250 
546 0 Redand purple marl with bands of limestone. 126 0 
Messrs. Deakin’s Brewery, Ardwick, Manchester. 
Information from Messrs. Chapman, Broughton. *Surface-level about 
+150 feet Ordnance datum. 
Ft. in. Ft. in. 
Well sandstone 350 
60 6 (Soft red sandstone 25 6) 
61 6 } Fine red clay 1 0O| 131 ft. 6 in 
127 6 | Soft, fine, and loamy red sandstone 66 Hy 
131 6 \Very coarse red gritty sand . 4 0 
167 O Red clay 3D 6 
168 O Loamy red sandstone : To 
183 0 Red clay and conglomerate . as) 0; 
199 0 Very loamy red sandstone 16 0 
204 0 Red clay 5 0 
207 O Red sandstone 3 0 Permian 
227 6 Red clay 20. 6. /- , mars; 
231 6 Red clay 4 0| 167 ft. Gin. 
257 6 Red and white clay mixed ‘ 26 0 
258 6 Conglomerate, with thin band of ironstone ‘ I 0) 
281 6 Red clay - > 23 0 
284 6 Conglomerate with pebbles c 3 0 
299 0 Soft red clay 14 6 
362 6 Very fine loamy red sandstone 63 O 
364 0 Coarse gritty red sandstone . 2 0! Collyhurst 
378 6 Fine bright soft red sandstone 14 6} sandstone, 
383 6 Very coarse red sandstone 5 0 184 ft. 
483 0 Soft and fine red sandstone . es AOD sare 
489 2 Hard red clay with hematite bands in ‘limestone 6 2\ Coal mea- 
489 9 Red and white clay 0 TJ sure, 6{t.9 in 
Abstract of above :— 
Ri “in 
Bunter sandstone . 5 3 ‘ 5 F ae Mls Bh AG} 
Permian marls F : : 5 : , 5 Bee 
Permian sandstone ‘ ; F : : 2 184) 10 
Coal measure A - 5 ; : k he 4S) 
