112 PROGRESS REPORT, HYDROGRAPHY, 1893 AND 1894. [bull.131. 
No. 45. — Bored well; depth of water does not vary; 50 barrels per day; can not be 
lowered; quality of water, not very hard; water raised by wind pump with 10-foot 
wheel ; is used for domestic supply and for 140 head of stock. Strata passed through : 
Soil, 5 or 6 feet ; clay, 50 feet ; gravel and sand. 
No. 46. — Dug and drilled well ; depth of water does not vary ; temperature, 54° F. ; 
can not be lowered, although mill has run several clays without stopping ; quality of 
water, nearly soft ; water raised by wind pump; is used for domestic supply and 
for 100 head of stock. Strata passed through : Soil, 8 feet; clay and magnesia, with 
streaks of conglomerate ; water in gravel. 
No. 47. — Bored well; depth of water does not vary; can not be easily lowered; 
quality of water, soft; water raised by wind pump; is used for domestic supply 
and for 10 head of stock. Strata passed through: Soil, 4 feet; sand; some hard 
rock; water in gravel. This is a roaring well, the air rushing out of it before and 
during a storm. Another well to the southwest was used for irrigating a garden 
and a potato patch. 
No. 48. — Drilled well; water was reached at 110 feet, when it rose 25 feet; depth 
of water does not vary; can not be lowered with pump running a day and a night; 
quality of water, soft; water raised by wind pump; is used for domestic supply, for 
13 head of stock, and for irrigating one-third of an acre. Strata passed through : 
Soil; a few feet of white magnesia; a hard ledge at 90 feet; water in gravel and 
sand. Some wells near here are only 85 feet deep and are easily pumped dry. 
No. 49. — Depth of water does not vary ; water raised by windlass and buckets ; is 
used for domestic supply and for stock. Strata passed through: Soil, 5 feet; mag- 
nesia ; sand and gravel. 
No. 50. — Bored well; depth of water does not vary; can uot be easily lowered ; 
quality of water, soft. Strata passed through: Soil, 1 foot; magnesia; gravel, etc., 
as usual on this Platte-Frenchman plateau. 
No. 51. — Bored well; depth of water does not vary; can not be easily lowered ; 
quality of water, medium hard; water raised by wind pump with 10-foot wheel; is 
used for domestic supply and for 50 head of stock; temperature, 54° F. Strata 
passed through: Soil, 4 feet; yellow clay (plains marl), 20 feet; sand and gravel, 
40 feet; gravel, 56 feet; rock (with the water), 23 feet. 
No. 52. — Bored well; depth of water does not vary; 20 barrels per day; can not 
be easily lowered ; quality of water, not very soft ; water raised by wind pump ; not 
a very good well; water used for domestic supply and for 30 head of stock. Strata 
passed through : Soil, 3 feet ; sand and gravel all the way down. 
No. 53. — Drilled well ; water rose a little when first reached ; depth of water does 
not vary; water in abundance obtained from the well; can not be easily lowered; 
quality of water, soft; is used for domestic supply. Strata passed through: Mag- 
nesia all the way. This is close to the river, to which the outcrop of magnesia 
reaches very nearly, and the water is about the same as the underflow of the river 
bed, which is usually dry. 
No. 54. — This is an inclosed spring which gives 4 gallons per minute steadily; 
quality of water, soft; water raised by hand pump and overflow pipe, which sup- 
plies a tank and reservoir and irrigates a small area; water used for domestic 
supply and for 375 head of cattle, which number might be more than doubled. 
No. 55. — Bored well ; depth of water does not vary ; can not be easily lowered ; 
quality of water, not very hard; water raised by wind pump; is used for domestic 
supply and for 1,200 head of sheep. Strata passed through : Soil; gravel. There is 
another well within 200 feet. This well is within 30 rods of the river (south side). 
A well one-half mile west, on the bank of the river, gets water at 29 feet, and the 
river bank is nearly 20 feet high. 
No. 56. — Bored well ; depth of water does not vary ; can not be easily lowered. 
No. 57. — Depth of water does not vary; can not be easily lowered; quality of 
water, soft; water raised by wind pump with 12-foot wheel; it is used for domestic 
