newell] WELL RECORDS, KANSAS. 119 
No. 32.— Dug 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 20 head of stock. Strata passed through : Soil; yellow clay; sand. This well is 
on the Hackberry and South Fork Republican divide. 
No. 33. — Dug well; water rose l-£ feet from second sheet to first sheet; depth of 
water varied at first, but does not do so now; 250 barrels per day; can be easily 
lowered to second sheet, but no farther; water raised by wind pump with 10-foot 
wheel; is used for domestic supply, for 100 head of stock, and for irrigating 3 to 5 
acres. Strata passed through : Soil, 7 feet; yellow sandy clay, 60 feet; reddish clay, 
20 feet; sand with rock, 30 feet; rock, magnesia, and sand, 9 feet; gravel with 
water, 4 feet. At 87 feet and 97 feet bones were found. 
No. 34. — Dug and drilled well (144); 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 30 head of stock. Strata passed through : 
Soil; gravel. 
No. 35. — Drilled well (145) ; depth of water does not vary; can not be easily low- 
ered; quality of water, medium soft; water raised by wind pump with 10-foofc 
wheel; used for domestic supply and for 25 head of stock. Strata passed through: 
Soil, 2 feet ; ashy white clay ; gravel ; magnesia ; gravel with water. 
No. 36. — Drilled well (146) ; depth of water does not vary; can not be easily low- 
ered; quality of water, rather hard; water raised by wind pump; is used by all the 
neighborhood. Strata passed through : Soil; yellow soil; magnesia; gravel. 
No. 37. — Drilled well; depth of water does not vary; can not be easily lowered; 
water raised by wind pump ; is used for domestic supply and for stock. Another 
well, one-half mile south and one-half mile west of No. 37, is 175 feet deep and has 13 
feet of water. 
No. 38. — Drilled well (147) ; depth of water does not vary; can not be easily low- 
ered; quality of water, not very hard; water raised by wind pump with 10-foot 
wheel; is used for domestic supply, for 60 head of stock, and for irrigating a small 
area. Strata passed through: Soil, 1 foot; yellow clay (plains marl), 40 feet; mag- 
nesia and red clay, 120 feet; sand, 40 feet; gravel, 10 feet. 
No. 39. — Tubular well (148) ; water was fouud at bottom, and rose 100 feet, 
remaining at that level; depth of water does not vary; 75 to 100 barrels per day; 
can not be easily lowered; quality of water, medium soft; water raised by wind 
pump with 12-foot wheel; is used for domestic supply and for 100 head of stock. 
Strata passed through: Soil, 2 feet; yellow clay, 60 feet; rock and reddish mag- 
nesia; coarse gravel with water. There were two smaller sheets of water above the 
main supply, which seemed to rise to the level of the highest. 
No. 40. — Drilled well (178) ; depth of water does not vary; can not be easily low- 
ered; quality of water, soft; water raised by wind pump; is used for domestic 
supply and for 75 head of stock. Strata passed through: Soil, 8 feet; yellow clay; 
magnesia; water in gravel. Pearson's well, 1 mile north and 1 mile cast, is 240 feet 
deep. 
No. 41. — Tubular well (149) ; depth of water does not vary ; 70 barrels per day ; can 
not be easily lowered ; quality of water, medium 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; yellow clay; gravel. Another well on the same section gave 
the following record: Soil, 6 feet; yellow sand, 8 feet; rock magnesia, 5 feet; 
white magnesia, 15 feet; yellow sand and pink rock, 165 feet; coarse gravel and 
sand with water, 1 foot. Other wells give water at same horizon. 
No. 42. — Drilled well; depth of water does not vary; can not be easily lowered; 
water used for domestic supply. Strata passed through: Soil, etc., 75 feet; soap- 
stone, 75 feet ; blue shale, 296 feet. 
No. 43. — Bored well; depth of water does not vary; 10 barrels per hour; can not 
be easily lowered; quality of water hard; water raised hy wind pump; is used for 
