Jn Old Platte Channel. — Condra. 367 
Benton which has been reached at a lower level seven miles 
northwest. A few miles south of E. J. Harmon's place, on T. 
16, R. 8, Sec. 36, I. S. Crawford put down a well 323 feet and 
gives the following report: "Soil, 4 feet; loess, 20 feet; clay 
of different colors with occasional harder beds, 136 feet; sand 
with some water, 8 feet ; ocher, varying in color, usually red to 
yellow, 115 feet; hard sandstone, hard above, softer and coarse 
below, 40 feet. Supply of water unlimited. Another well one 
mile south is the same except depth. The description is the same 
for all wells in this highland region. Water rises 160 feet." 
According to this record, Benton beds do not occur here The 
ocher beds, it is believed belong to the Dakota. E. G. Adell 
gives similar reports for wells put down by his men, but finds 
twenty to fifty feet of loess. Neither of these gentlemen has 
encountered bowlders of any size while sinking wells here. 
In the cut banks southwest of Fremont, the following gen- 
eralized section shows in whole or in part at a number of places : 
Bluish' clay mingling above with till and passing under the 
river below, depth not known ; till containing clay, pebbles and 
a few bowlders, thickness variable, usually a few feet ; reddish 
clay containing pebbles and sometimes small bowlders, 
thickness at places twenty feet ; light colored clays blotched 
with red, containing many concretions and pebbles, thickness 
2 to 10 feet; red clay, 10 to 15 feet; loess 25 to 50 feet. 
Near the southern end of the wagon bridge south of Fre- 
mont and a few feet above the river, an irregular bed of fri- 
able sandstone colored by iron, is overlain by till. Other thin 
beds with limited extent occur at places. Professor Todd in 
Bull. 158, U. S. G. S.. 1899, p. 79, published the following 
typical section from this vicinitv. 
Ft. In. 
Loess, the dark line three feet above its base appearing 
only as thin wavy streaks 30 
Red clay passing into drab and rusty below 11 o 
Whitish clay with many chalky concretions and numer- 
ous pebbles, some of them scratched. This deposit 
ends abruptly at one end and at the other tapers out 2 
Similar reddish and drab clay with pebbles, but with 
few if any bowlders 22 
Light greenish clay, blotched with white, extending 
horizontally at least a rod. Its ends are hidden., i 2 
