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the bottom, being in tlie highest part of the town. It appears that the sand-bill 
region has here encroached upon the river bottom. 
No. 58. — Dug 26 feet, drilled 15 feet; depth of water does not vary; 4 barrels per 
hour can not be easily lowered; quality of water, medium hard: water raised by 
wind pamp with 8-foot wheel ; is used for domestic supply and for 5 head of stock. 
Strata passed through : Sand; gravel; sand. This well is in the town. There are 
about 50 wells iu the town of Benkelman. 
No. 59. — Bored well; depth of water does not vary; water can be obtained from 
the well for whole days and nights in succession ; can not be easily lowered ; quality 
of water, medium soft; water raised by wind pump with 8-foot wheel; is used for 
domestic supply and for irrigating a garden and an orchard. There is no record of 
the strata. The well is in the town, but on the slope above the bottom. 
No. 60. — Driven well ; depth of water does not vary ; can not be easily lowered ; 
quality of water, hard; water raised by hand pump ; is used for the customers of a 
large general store. River alluvia (sand). 
No. 6/.-— Driven well; depth of water does not vary; can not be easily lowered; 
quality of water, not very hard; water raised by wind pump with 10-foot wheel ; is 
used for livery barn and for 400 head of stock. Strata passed through: Probably 
all river alluvia, being in the lower part of the town, on Republican bottom. There 
are several wells near at this level, but none farther out on the bottom. 
No. 62. — Bored well ; first water was struck at 15 feet, and rose 1 foot ; depth of 
water does not vary; cannot be easily lowered; quality of water, medium soft; 
water raised by wind pump with 10-foot wheel; is used for domestic supply and for 
480 head of cattle; tank kept full all the time. Strata passed, through: Sand, 16 
feet; quicksand, 8 feet; magnesia, 13 feet. 
No. 63. — Bored well ; depth of water does not vary ; 16 gallons per minute ; can 
not be easily lowered; quality of water, rather soft; water raised by wind pump 
with 8-foot geared wheel; is used for 80 head of stock and for irrigating half an 
acre. Strata passed through : Soil and sand, 9 feet; coarse gravel, 11 feet. There 
are several wells on the river bottom of similar depth and material, confined to a 
strip of the North Fork Republican Valley one-half mile wide. A similar strip on 
each side of the valley slope has wells about 60 feet deep, as at Haigler. 
No. 64. — Dug and drilled well ; depth of water does not vary; can not be easily 
lowered; quality of water, hard and alkaline; water raised by wind pump with 
9-foot wheel; is used for domestic supply, for 10 head of stock, and for irrigating 
a small area. Strata: Soil; yellow sandy loam; clay and gravel. 
No. 65. — Dug well; depth of water does not vary; water raised by means of rope 
and buckets; is used for domestic supply. Strata passed through: Soil; sand and 
clay ; gravel with water. This well is on Republican bottom. 
A^. 66. — Bored well; depth of water does not vary; can be easily lowered at 
times, owing to a defect in tubing; quality of water, medium soft; water raised by 
means of pulley and buckets; is used for domestic supply and for 15 head of stock. 
Strata passed through : Soil, 3 feet ; yellow clay, with streak of sand in middle, 29 
feet; coarse sand, with water, to bottom. This well is on the second slope of the 
North Fork Republican, 3 miles east of Haigler. 
No. 67. — Drilled well; depth of water does not vary; 10,000 gallons per day; can 
not be easily lowered; quality of water, hard ; water raised by wind pump with 
10-foot wheel ; is used for domestic supply, and has irrigated one-eighth of an acre. 
Strata passed through: Soil, H feet; yellow clay, 30 feet; sticky yellow clay, with 
water, 20 feet; quicksand, 3 feet; sandy clay, 7 feet. A well three blocks west is 78 
feet deep. After passing through the same formations, gravel was reached at 75 feet, 
water being struck at the same level as in No. 67, the well referred to having 48 
feet of water. 
No. 68. — Dug and bored well; depth of water does not vary; can not be easily 
lowered. There are two sheets of water, the upper being hard and the lower 
