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town. Strata passed through: Soil, 2 feet; creamy clay, 15 feet; sand and assorted 
gravel; water in gravel. There is only one well between this and the Kansas line 
at Chemung. 
No. 16. — Dug well ; depth of water does not vary ; can not be easily lowered ; 
quality of water, rather soft ; water raised by wind pump with 12-foot wheel ; is 
used for a school and for 100 head of stock. Strata passed through: Soil, 20 feet; 
sand, 60 feet; clay, 3 feet; sand, with a streak of rock and gravel occasionally; 
coarse gravel, 3 feet at water, and sugar sand below. 
No. 17. — Dug and driven well; water at 15 feet, and sand point driven 5 feet into 
it; depth of water does not vary; can not be easily lowered; water raised by wind 
pump with 10- foot wheel; is used for domestic supply and some stock. Strata 
passed through : Soil and sand. This is on the narrow bottom of Smoky Hill River 
(South Fork), just west of Old Cheyenne Wells, and 10 feet above the river bed. 
No. 18. — Bored well; depth of water does not vary; can not be easily lowered; 
quality of water, soft; water raised by wind pump with 8-foot wheel; is used for 
domestic supply. Strata passed through : Black alluvia to water; water in gravel. 
Another well close by supplied 400 head of stock in summer. There are 8 wells in 
two sections on the North Fork Smoky River bottom, but a boring 58 feet deep on 
higher land obtained little water. 
No. 19. — Bored well ; water rose slightly when struck ; depth of water does not 
vary, except that there seems to be slightly more water when the wind is from the 
northwest; water obtained from the well fills 50,000-gallon tank in 48 hours; water 
raised by steam pump; is used by a railway division station. Some gas still comes 
from the old Government boring with which this well was connected. Prof. O. St. 
John, in an article on artesian wells in the Fourth Biennial Report of the Kansas 
State Board of Agriculture, has preserved the record of the Government test boring 
made in 1882, and it is here appended : 
Section of the artesian boring at Cheyenne well*. 
Formations, (a) 
Plains marl. 
Tertiary grit. 
Laramie (?) 
Montana group. 
Colorado group S 
Strata. 
Surface clays 
Chalky rook 
Gravelly clay 
White sandy" clay 
Soft white sand 
"White sandy clay 
Soft sand, alternating with clay 
Soft white clay , 
Soft, black shale 
Soft white arenaceous shales, with gas veins at (110 
and 640 feet 
Chalk rock; slight inflow of brackish water near base. 
Fine sand 
Soft black shale 
Soft white calcareous ( i) rock 
Black shale 
Feet. 
30 
30 
50 
20 
15 
40 
80 
20 
319 
726 
70 
30 
KK) 
50 
L90 
Total 1,770 | 
a The names in the first column indicate Prof. Robert Hay's opinion as to the geological age of the 
strata indicated. 
No. 20- — Drilled well; depth of water does not vary; can not be easily lowered; 
water raised by wind pump with 8-foot wheel; is used for domestic supply. Strata 
passed through : Soil, 3 feet; creamy clay, magnesia. This well is on the top of the 
bluffs overlooking canyons to Republican River. It is in a draw leading to Sand 
Creek. 
No. 21. — Drilled well; depth of water does not vary; can not be easily lowered; 
quality of water, soft; water raised by wind pump with 12-foot wheel; is used for 
domestic supply and for 50 head of stock. Strata passed through: Soil, 3 feet; 
yellow clay, 77 feet; sand, 3 feet; magnesia lime, 97 feet; hard stone, 10 feet; sand 
