118 PROGRESS REPORT, HYDROGRAPHY, 1893 AND 1894. [bull. 131. 
Soil; sandy loam to bottom; but the last 5 feet bad shale diagonally across the well. 
Every house in the town has a well, eight of these being supplied with wind pumps. 
E. S. Flanney sunk a well 36 feet, 10 feet being in shale, and got no water. A few 
feet away he got the usual abundant supply at 26 feet, without shale. 
No. 22. — Dug well; depth of water does not vary; the supply is inexhaustible; 
can not be lowered; quality of water, soft; water raised by hand pump; is used for 
stock of all kinds. Strata passed through : Sandy alluvia, with a streak of black 
soil 6 inches thick .about 12 feet down; gravel below with water. 
No. 23. — No water. Strata passed through: Yellow clay, 135 feet; shale, 40 feet. 
This weil was sunk near the head of Hackberry Creek, in the vicinity of head of 
draws to Arickaree. The shale was also reached, without water, at Joel Taylor's, on 
the SW. i of sec, 30, T. 1 S., R. 41, 4 miles north of Tucker's, and at a few other 
places in this region. 
No. 24. — Driven well ; depth of water does not vary ; 7£ barrels per hour ; can not 
be easily lowered ; water raised by wind pump with 9-foot wheel ; is used for domestic 
supply, for 25 head of stock, and for irrigating one-fourth of an acre. Strata passed 
through: Sand and gravel. This well is in a ravine where Mr. Wellmeyer (of No. 
25) has impounded springs, which come from under the magnesia, for irrigation, 
having a reservoir 16 by 100 by 2\ feet. 
No. 25. — Tubular well (170); 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 10 head of stock. Strata passed through: Soil, 1 
foot ; magnesia ; sand rock, 35 feet ; shale, 4 feet. 
No. 26. — Drilled well ( 169) ; depth of water does not vary ; can not be easily lowered ; 
quality of water, rather hard; water raised by wind pump with 8-foot wheel; is 
used for domestic supply and for 30 or 40 head of stock. Strata passed through: 
Soil, 5 feet; yellow clay; magnesia; hard gravel; gravel rock, 35 feet, with water. 
A well on high ground, southwest, is 235 feet deep. 
No. 27. — Dug well (168a) ; depth of water does not vary; 100 barrels in a day; can 
not be easily lowered; quality of water, medium soft; is used for domestic supply. 
Strata passed through: Soil; marl, 90 feet; sand, 4 feet; rock, 3 feet; sand, 1 foot; 
rock, about 70 feet, etc. 
No. 28. — Dug well (179); depth of water does not vary; can not be easily low- 
ered; quality of water, soft; water raised by wind pump with 12-foot wheel; is 
used for domestic supply and for 40 head of stock. Strata passed through: Soil, 4 
feet; yellow creamy clay; rock; gravel. This well is on the north slope of Beaver 
Creek, south of Lawnridge. 
No. 29. — Drilled well (154); depth of water does not vary; with pump running 
constantly, can not be easily lowered; quality of water, medium soft; water raised 
by wind pump, 8-foot aermotor; is used for 40 head of stock, for domestic supply, 
and for irrigating a small garden. Strata passed through: Soil, 3 feet; yellow soil, 
47 feet; rock (magnesia and sandstone) ; hard sand rock with water. 
No. 30. — Bored well (152); depth of water does not vary; can not be easily low- 
ered; quality of water, soft; water raised by wind pump with 12-foot wheel ; is used 
for domestic supply and for 65 head of stock. Strata j)assed through: Soil, 1 foot; 
yellow clay, 50 feet; sand; gravel with water. A mile west is a well 120 feet deep, 
and a mile north of that is one 135 feet in depth. 
No. 31. — Drilled well; depth of water does not vary; 150 barrels per day; can not 
be easily lowered; has decreased slightly by inflow of sand, but will be cleaned 
out; quality of water, hard; water raised by wind pump with 8-foot " Gem" wheel; 
is used for domestic supply and for 25 head of stock. Strata passed through : Soil, 
4 feet; yellow packed sand, 4 feet; coarse sand, 5 feet; rock and sand, 27 feet; mag- 
nesia, 28 feet; honeycomb rock With water, 1 foot. This well is on a ridge between 
canyons. A well in a canyon in section 9 has water at 20 feet, and in southeast of 
section 5 the water is at the surface in the canyon. 
