WATER SUPPLY OF WEST FLORIDA. 
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in 1904. The water, which stands from two to three feet below 
the surface, is slightly hard. 
sirmans. 
Sirmans is in the southern part of the county. The shallow 
wells are mostly in use at this locality. However, deeper wells have 
recently been sunk. A record has been obtained of three of the 
deeper wells which range from 87-| to 125 feet in depth. They are 
all two inches in diameter. The water in the wells near the town 
rises to within about 14 feet of the surface. In the well of Mr. E. 
P. Henry, two miles east of town, the water stands about 30 feet 
below the surface. In all cases it is the characteristic hard water 
of the artesian wells of the county. 
TAYLOE COUNTY. 
LOCATION AND SURFACE FEATURES. 
Taylor county joins Madison county on the north and Lafayette 
county on the east. The Steinhatchee Eiver forms a part of the 
eastern boundary line. The Aucilla Eiver forms the western 
boundary. On the south the county extends to the Gulf of Mexico. 
The total area is 1100 square miles or 704,000 acres. 
This county has in general a level surface. Over much of the 
southern part of the county limestones lie near the surface and are 
exposed along the streams. The calcareous hammock lands found 
in this limestone section where not cleared support a dense growth 
of hardwood trees. Aside from the hammocks by far the greatest 
part of the county is covered by a growth of long leaf pine. 
ELEVATIONS. 
According to levels made by the Live Oak, Perry and Gulf Eail- 
road the elevation at Perry in Taylor county is 30 feet above sea. 
No other elevations in this county have been obtained. 
DRAINAGE. 
The county is intersected by a great many streams the principal 
of which are the Aucilla,, Econfina, Fenholloway, Spring Warrior 
and Steinhatchee rivers. These rivers together with tributar}^ 
branches form the drainage system of the county. Several large- 
