PAULDING COUNTY. 



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In Caryall township there is a strip of land a little higher than the 

 river bank, running about a mile north of the Maumee, the surface of 

 which is more gravelly or sandy, in which wells obtain water at about 

 six or eight feet in compact gravel. They pass through fine, impervious 

 clay, the bottom of which is more gravelly. The water is good. This 

 strip is known and spoken of as a ridge. 



At Paulding Mr. Jehiel Seger, a practical well-digger, gives the follow- 

 ing as the general section of the Drift at that place : 



No. 1. 



General Section of the Drift at Paulding. 



Soil and brown clay 10 ft. 



Blue clay 10 " 



Sand 12-18 in. 



Blue clay 10 ft. 



" Rock '' (cemented gravel probably — N. H. W.) 18 in. 



Sand and gravel, with water. 



It is a current belief at Paulding that wells that go through the "hard- 

 pan," or the layer of cemented gravel near the bottom of the Drift, are 

 " through the rock." The rock at Paulding is about thirty feet below 

 the surface. Mr. Emery's well there reached the Waterlime at twenty- 

 six feet; at least drillings brought up were of that limestone. 



MATEEIAL EESOUECES. 



Stone and Brick. — But very little has been done in Paulding county 

 toward developing its natural resources ; indeed, it is yet but very sparsely 

 settled. The county will never be noted for its mineral products. The 

 limestones that underlie the county are not known to contain anything 

 of marked economical value. They are very little exposed, so far as now 

 known, and the people in some parts of the county are greatly incon- 



