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KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 



TOTAL DEPTH OF WELL. 



Cretaceous 345. 



Upper Carboniferous 632.01 



Total No. of feet 977.01 



RISE AND FALL OF WATER. 



The rise in the temperature of the water first noticed at 100 feet. 



The measurements and analysis of the rocks, etc. in the above tables are 

 accurate, having taken the measurements myself as the work continued on the 

 well. The only difference in opinion seems to arise in the geological distribu- 

 tion, in which Prof. O. St. John takes friendly exceptions with me. In a former 

 report I classed the Benton group down to the Red Sandstone of the Dakota. 

 Prof. St. John is under the impression that the Benton ends just above the fifteen 

 foot stratum of gray sand-rock impregnated with iron pyrites. 



In Western Kansas, and very prominent in Russell county, on Salt creek, 

 four miles north of Russell, and in many places along the Saline river, the hori- 

 zon rock of the Dakota group is a light blue argillaceous friable sand-rock. This 

 appears to be a permanent feature so far as I have had leisure to examine them. 

 The artesian well here is on the uniform high prairie, and I have found no indica- 

 tions of faults, or of intrusive rocks, and hence I am of the honest conviction that 

 this light blue argillaceous friable sand-rock stratum is the true horizon rock of the 

 Dakota, which I refer to above, and I have changed the report in this respect, 

 believing this to be correct, and should any other errors appear, I will be glad to 

 correct any and all, only desiring to learn the true facts. 



My reasons for classing the quartzose rock with the upper carboniferous 

 are, from what examination I have given this rock, it appears to be of a granu. 

 lated structure, or metamorphic, though I am far from being satisfied, having 



