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FLORIDA STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 
lakeland. 
The public water supply of Lakeland is taken from a six- 
inch well, 489 feet deep, drilled by C. E. Reed in 1904. The 
well is cased about 350 feet, and the water stands 79 feet from 
the surface. The well of the Lakeland Refrigerator and Ice 
Company is reported to be 336 feet deep. The water in this well 
stands about 100 feet from the surface. 
MULBERRY. 
The city water supply at Mulberry is taken from an eight-inch 
well, 385 feet deep. The water stands in this well 21 feet from 
the surface. The many wells in this locality, used as a source of 
water supply in phosphate mining, range in depth, as previously 
stated, from 500 to 800 feet. In size they vary from eight to 
fourteen inches. The water stands twenty to forty feet from the 
surface. 
OSCEOLA COUNTY. 
LOCATION AND SURFACE FEATURES. 
Osceola County includes an area of 1827 square miles. 
Kissimmee River and the chain of lakes from which it takes its 
origin forms most of the western boundary of this county. The 
surface elevation of Kissimmee, at the head of Lake Tohopekaliga, 
according to levels made by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, is 
63 feet above sea. Campbell, a few miles west of this lake, is 
75 feet above sea. St. Cloud, on East Lake Tohopekaliga, is 
63 feet above sea. Narcoossee, also on East Lake Tohopekaliga, 
is 72 feet above sea. 
WATER-BEARING FORMATIONS. 
Pleistocene shell deposits are found in the valley of the 
Kissimmee River, this formation having been recognized at a 
depth of 100 feet in the well of Captain H. Clay Johnson, at Kis¬ 
simmee. The formations beneath the Pleistocene have not been 
determined from well samples, but it is probable that the deep 
