154 
Feet. In. 
Light brown gypsum 5 8 
White ditto mixed with red sandstone and 
limestone 6 10 
Blue rock, blue clay, red sandstone, and white stone 11 6 
Rock salt, with occasional small portions of rock 
like limestone 106 4 
Total depth 1312 4 
Bore hole at Vale Dye Works, Bradford, in the lower part 
of the Yorkshire Coal Field, made for Messrs. Oates, Ingham, 
and Sons ; commenced July 28th, 1862. 
Well, 55 feet deep. , 
Feet. In. 
Soil 5 0 
Clay 2 6 
Gravel 12 6 
Gravel and clay 3 6 
River bed 11 6 
Black shale 20 0 
Bottom of sinking 55 0 
Bore hole. 
Black shale 21 0 
Hard rag stone 3 0 
Stone shale 12 0 
Close shale 13 0 
Dark shale 27 0 
Coal 0 3 
Soft white stone 8 0 
Hard grey stone 22 0 
Hard white do 5 0 
Coal band 0 3 
Hard white stone 8 0 
Hard dark rag 24 0 
Fine grain slatv rock 15 0 
Coal 1 8 
Fireclay 5 0 
