JULY, 1902. LAWSOX — FOREST BEDS OF THE LOWER FOX. 171 
That the remains of forest growth are not flood wood is evi- 
denced by the stumps still standing with their roots in the soil 
where they grew. All these stumps bear evidence in their ragged 
heads of the trees having been violently wrenched off. The most 
notable stump field is that at Lewis Hankey's brick yard in the 
Town of Neenah on the west shore of Lake Little Butte des Morts. 
Here the removal of twelve feet of red clay in brick making has 
uncovered several acres of stumps still standing and about twelve 
inches high. The bed of vegetable mould and leaves is here sev- 
eral inches thick and rests on a thin layer of blue clay over the 
river bottom formation. In 1897 we published an article in the 
Oshkosh Northwestern on this forest bed in which we described a 
stump eighteen inches in diameter, fourteen inches high, discov- 
ered on Augustine's farm, one mile east of Menasha, under 26 feet 
of red clay, which had! been artificially severed. The forest is 
found in well diggings along the borders of the slough wdiich en- 
ters the south end of Lake Little Butte des Morts. It extends six 
miles along the western border of the lake at the about the level 
of the water and is found at Allison's place and Alward's Foundry 
at a depth of twenty-six feet in well diggings. At one place a log 
twenty-four inches in diameter w^as penetrated. But for three 
miles along the eastern shore of Little Lake Butte des Morts there 
are exceptional opportunities to study the bed, as at low water it 
is exposed just above the level of the water, and the ragged stumps 
rising up through the red clay beach are used by the fishermen to 
fasten their boats, and wagon loads of its ancient woods can be ob- 
tained in a few hours. Along the lands bordering this shore it is 
found in digging wells at depths varying from six to nineteen feet. 
At the Pulley Factory in Menasha at sixteen feet, the bed contains 
a mass of trees from four to twelve inches in diameter, mostly 
cedar and pine, with two feet of the brown moss and leaf mould. 
At Round's farm three miles down the lake it is found at sixteen 
feet ; at Tyckman's half-way house, one mile east, at seventy feet. 
It was traced in Manasha for a distance of over a thousand feet 
at a depth of thirteen feet wdien Sixth Street sewer was laid. Two 
miles further east it was found at Bayer's farm at thirty feet. 
Near Hunt's farm it was found at two places at ten feet. Further 
east of Menasha, in the Town of Harrison, north of Lake Winne^ 
bago, it was found at Geo. Schwalbach's place at sixty feet in 
depth. At Mix's place, three miles east, large trees were drilled at 
eighty feet. At Loux's place it was penetrated at forty feet; at 
John Roy's place at nineteen feet ; at the base of the Niagara bluffs 
at Clifton on Nugent's place at fifteen feet ; near Sherwood in Calu- 
met County at eight feet on top of blue clay ; at Forest Junction 
