WELLS OF HANCOCK COUNTY, ILLINOIS. 



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At Hamilton, on the brow of the Mississippi bluffs, in the west part of 

 the county, the best wells are obtained in the rock, which is entered at 20 

 or 30 feet. Many weak wells, however, are obtained from the drift. An 

 artesian well lias been sunk at Ringland's Sanitarium, in the north part of 

 the village. It has a depth of 680'feet and obtains a flow from the Lockport 

 (Niagara) limestone, which is penetrated about 25 feet. The head is 

 reported to be 63 feet above the surface, or about 660 feet above tide. 



At Warsaw several artesian wells have been sunk, one by the village 

 and others by corporations and private individuals. The village well is 

 mainly for fire protection. Gen. Oliver Edwards, of Warsaw, has furnished 

 the Survey a carefully prepared body of statistics concerning the wells, 

 and these statistics are presented in the discussion of artesian wells in 

 Illinois appearing in the Seventeenth Annual Report of this Survey. The 

 wells all terminate in the Galena or Trenton limestone and have depths 

 ranging from 750 to 860 feet, The original head at each of the wells was 

 about 680 feet above tide, but at present it scarcely exceeds 600 feet. The 

 water is sulphurous, but otherwise not of unpleasant quality. 



At Plymouth, in the eastern part of the county, it is proposed to obtain 

 a public water supply from an artesian well. 1 



At Augusta, in the southeast corner of the county, wells are usually 

 obtained in sand contained in the drift, at depths ranging from 20 to 60 

 feet. A few have been drilled into the underlying Coal Measures to depths 

 ranging from 120 to 265 feet. 



The following table embraces the deepest wells, not reported in the 

 above discussion, of which records were collected. They are confined 

 mainly to the southern half of the county : 



Wells in Hancock County. 



'Manual of American Waterworks, 1897 



