114 
PROGRESS REPORT, HYDROGRAPHY, 1893 AND 1894. [bull. 131. 
No. 69. — Drilled well; depth of water does not vary; 50 to 60 barrels per day; can 
not be easily lowered; quality of water, not very hard; water raised by wind pump 
with 14-foot wheel ; is used for domestic supply and for 50 head of stock. Strata 
passed through : Soil, 4 feet ; magnesia ; gravel ; loam ; gravel. 
No. 70. — Bored well; depth of water does not vary; 60 barrels per day; can not 
be easily lowered; quality of water, not very hard; water raised by aermotor with 
8-foot wheel ; supplies 70 head of stock and irrigates 1 acre. Strata passed through : 
Soil, 1^ feet ; magnesia, 10 feet ; gravel, 12 feet ; clay and gravel, 25 feet ; gravel, 18 
feet; magnesia, 102 feet; gravel, 8 feet. 
No. 71. — Bored well; depth of water does not vary; can not be easily lowered; 
water raised by wind pump ; is used for domestic supply, for 50 head of stock, and 
for irrigating a garden. Strata passed through: Soil, 2 feet; yellow clay and sand; 
rock; gravel; water in rock. 
No. 72. — This, with the following wells, is on the Republican (North Fork; 
Arickaree divide. Jordan's well, 1 mile farther west, is 130 feet deep; another 
well, 7 miles from Burrel's, is 175 feejfc deep ; and yet another, at Galilean, 9 miles 
from Burrel's, is 190 feet deep. Beyond this the wells have not so great a depth. 
No. 73. — Drilled well; rose slightly; depth of water does not vary; can not be 
easily lowered ; water raised by wind pump ; is used for domestic supply, for stock, 
and for irrigation. Strata passed through: Sandy soil, 1 foot; sand 10 feet; quick- 
sand, 25 feet ; clay, 2 feet ; gravel with water, 6 feet ; gravel and streaks of clay, 
dividing the water into layers, 36 feet. This well is in the sand hills. 
No. 74. — Depth of water does not vary; can not be easily lowered; water raised 
by wind pump; is used for domestic supply and for stock. Strata passed through: 
Clay, magnesia, gravel, etc. This well is on the bluffs south of Wray. The wells 
in the valley at Wray are from 15 to 25 feet in depth, and the water in some of them 
rises to a height of 10 feet. 
Data relating to wells in Kansas. 
CHEYENNE COUNTY. 
No. 
1 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
7 
8 
9 
10 
11 
12 
13 
14 
15 
16 
17 
18 
19 
20 
21 
22 
23 
24 
25 
26 
27 
28 
29 
Post-office. 
Owner of well. 
Location of 
well. 
a . 
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H 
e 
1 
s 

»£ 
ft 
O 
a> p 
P 
Cost of— 
T. 
E. 
S. 
"Well. 
Ma- 
chinery. 
Benkehnan,Nebr 
1893 
In. 
12 
Feet. 
85 
200 
200 
24 
19 
240 
85 
30 
•80 
98 
17 
215 
190 
190 
222 
210 
210 
23 
65 
35 
25 
18 
175 
19 
40 
203 
225 
140 
190 
Feet. 
35 
3 
9 
5 
1 
$34. 00 
Old town of Gurney 
3 
42 
26 
do 
1890 
1889 
1894 
3 
a 30 
36 
185. 00 
$65. 00 
Haigler, Nebr . . 
do 
Isaac M. Clark 
Harry Clark 
C. M. Corbett 
S. E. Gulliams 
F. H. Eose 
1 
2 
3 
1 
1 
1 
5 
4 
42 
42 
42 
41 
41 
41 
42 
42 
3 
1 
4 
31 
23 
24 
28 
33 
5.00 
do 
do 
do 
do 
1887 
1890 
1888 
1890 
1894 
42 
36 
42 
6 
8 
5 
5 
10 
18 
10 
10 
20 
5 
7 
14 
15 

5 
5 
3 
3 

9 
5 
3 
20 
3 
16 
20.00 
10.00 
25. 00 
40.00 
10.00 
75.00 
100. 00 
100. 00 
50.00 
7.50 
Cbarlee Zonge 
W.J. Baker 
E.M.Collins 
Jaqua, Kans 
do 
Lawnridge 
do 
Frank Vanschowm . 
4 
5 
3 
40 
29 
42 
27 
19 
8 
do 
1893 
1893 
1887 
1891 
1889 
1886 
1888 
1890 
1888 
2 
12 
6 
6 
36 
66 
6 
36 
36 
125.00 
90.00 
150. 00 
Lansing, Col 
Lawnridge 
St. Francis 
do 
do 
do 
100. 00 
200. 00 
C. H. TromWe . . . 
H. H. Griffiths 
5 
40 
19 
12.00 
20.00 
16.00 
4 
3 
3 
3 
2 
4 
3 
3 
40 
40 
40 
40 
41 
40 
40 
41 
4 
9 
22 
22 
7 
5 
32 
33 
25.00 
125. 00 
PatMcCloskey 
O. C. Blackburn .... 
B. F. Campbell 
J. W. Tucker 
J. S. Patton 
do 
do 
do 
15.00 
do 
do 
do 
1893 
1893 
1893 
1887 
1888 
1892 
n 
2 
6i 
36 
36 
6 
15.00 
40.00 
83.00 
40.00 
35.00 
75.00 
W. H. Wellmeyer.. 
do 
do 
J. J. Finnegan 
John Bridges 
5 
3 
40 
41 
26 
28 
75.00 
171. 00 
112. 00 
151. 00 
do 
aTnches, square. 
