WATER SUPPLY OP PASTERN AND SOUTHERN PEORIDA. 28 & 
Depth from which the 
Character of rock. sample was taken. 
Feet. 
Oolitic limestone with she'll fragments. In color the oolitic 
grains vary from light to pinkish. The sample contains 
little or no quartz sand.... 30 
Soft limestone powdered very fine, not so conspicuously 
oolitic as last sample . 50 
Oolite, light and pinkish oolite grains. 70 
Light colored oolitic limestone with fragments of shells. 80 
Oolitic limestone with fragments of shell. Oolite grains vary 
in color, from light to pinkish . 100 
From 100 to 210 feet no fine material was brought up by the 
drill. A salty sulphur water was reached at this depth, 
and the fine material carried away apparently in the water. 
The coarse pieces brought up in this distance were as 
follows: 
Piece of coral and limestone, consisting of fragments of shells 
and other organisms, also pieces of dark-colored lime¬ 
stones . 135 
Pieces of hard crystallized limestone and fragment of coral.. 150 
Rough white limestone pieces with shell fragments, also pieces 
of limestone made up of a mass of shell fragments; also 
oolitic limestone . 175 
Oolitic limestone with shells and shell fragments, also rough 
white limestone and partially crystallized limestone. 200 
Rough white limestone with shell fragments, partially crys¬ 
tallized . 210 
Rough white limestone with shell fragments. 260 
Oolite grains light and pinkish in color; also pieces of rough 
limestone . 270 
Mass of calcium crystals, stained brownish yellow. 325 
Rough light-colored limestone pieces with fragments of shells 
and of corals . 340 
Rough light-colored limestone pieces with fragments of shells, 
corals, worm tubes, and light and pinkish oolite with 
admixture of greenish-gray calcarous material. 350 
Greenish-gray calcareous sand, with occasional oolite grains 
imbedded, but no fossils and no siliceous sand. 370 
Light-colored limestone with fossils and pieces of typical 
oolite . 380 
