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Lumber Company have a well which is reported to be 300 feet 
in depth. It is two inches in diameter and is cased 300 feet. The 
water, which is a hard sulphur water, rises five or more feet above 
the surface. The principal supply of water is said to have been 
encountered at a depth of about 200 feet. 
LEON COUNTY. 
LOCATION AND SURFACE FEATURES. 
Leon county extends to the Georgia state line; east to Jeffer¬ 
son county, south to Wakulla county and west to the Ocklocknee 
River, which separates it from the counties of Gadsden and Liberty. 
The total area of the county is approximately 730 square miles or 
467,200 acres. 
This county, like the adjoining counties on the east and west, 
includes two topographically distinct divisions, a northern upland 
section and a southern area of lesser elevation. The dividing line 
between these two sections crosses the county in a zig-zag course 
from east to west, passing two and one half miles south of Talla¬ 
hassee. That part of the county north of this line is prevailingly 
a rolling, well-drained, and more or less hilly country. South of 
this line, the country, although including some low sand hills, and 
gentle swells, is prevailingly level pine land. The surface ele¬ 
vation in the northern half of the county ranges from 100 to 250 
or more feet above the sea. The southern part of the county ranges 
probably from 50 to 100 feet above sea. From the last of the hills 
in the upland section one may look across the southern part of Leon 
and across Wakulla county to or nearty to the Gulf of Mexico. 
The formation found in the northern part of the county is a 
deposit of clayey sands, the sand as a rule predominating and 
giving a gritty character to the material. On the other hand, clay 
partings are found in the formation and local clay lenses occur. 
Calcareous and phosphatic nodules are numerous. This formation 
is universally distributed over the northern part of Leon and ad¬ 
joining counties and is seen in all public roads and railroad cuts. 
The formation is somewhat indefinitely stratified, and frequently 
is cross bedded, giving evidence of having been accumulated in con¬ 
flicting currents. The clay intermixed with the sand is in a finely 
divided condition and acts to some extent as a cementing sub¬ 
stance, giving a feeble coherence to the sand. 
Upon being affected by the processes of decay the formation 
undergoes well marked and characteristic changes. The clay pro- 
