124 PROGRESS REPORT, HYDROGRAPHY, 1893 AND 1894. [bull. 131. 
No. 90. — Tubular 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 10 head of stock. Strata passed through: Soil, 3 
feet; yellow clay; some rock; gravel with water. A well on section 2 is 170 feet 
deep. 
No. 91. — Another well on the same section is 156 feet to water. A well 1 mile north 
is 192 feet deep, with 10 feet of water. These are on a high promontory, at the begin- 
ning of the descent to the Republican River. 
No. 92. — This well is on the south bank of a Beaver, about 15 feet above the bed. 
The prairie south is considerably higher. At a distance of one-half mile northeast 
is an outcrop of the magnesia at a higher level, but the breaks all around, both 
higher and lower, are the plains marl. 
No. 93. — Bored well (188) ; 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 stock. Strata passed through: Soil, 2 feet; creamy subsoil; rock; gravel with 
water. 
No. 94. — Dug 146 feet and bored 35 feet; depth of water does not vary ; can not be 
easily lowered; water raised by wind pump with 16-foot wheel; is to be used for 
irrigating 10 acres (185). Strata passed through : Soil, 3^ feet ; creamy subsoil, 40 feet; 
flinty rock, 4 feet; sand, 23 feet; hard clay, 15 feet; sand, 16 feet; sand rock, 6 feet; 
clay and sand, 40 feet to water. 
No. 95. — Bored well; depth of water does not vary; 60 barrels in 4 hours; 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 300 head of stock. Strata 
passed through: Soil, 3 feet; cream-colored clay, 23 feet; white magnesia, 4 feet; 
sand rock, 1 foot; sand, 8 feet; rock, 4 feet; sand and rock, 65 feet; water in clay 
and sand. 
No. 96. — Dug well; depth of water does not vary; can not be easily lowered; 
quality of water, rather soft; water raised by pulley and buckets; is used for domes- 
tic supply and for 12 head of stock. Strata passed through : Soil, 2 feet ; cream soil, 
18 feet; yellow sand and magnesia, 41 feet; gravel with water, 4 feet. A well one- 
half mile north is 58 feet deep. 
No. 97. — Dug well (259) ; depth of water does not vary; can not now be easily low- 
ered. The well has recently been made deeper ; prior to its deepening the water level 
could be lowered. Water raised by wind pump with 8-foot wheel; is used for 
domestic supply, for 50 head of stock, and for irrigating a small area, which is being 
increased. Temperature, 54° F. Strata passed through: Soil, 5 feet; creamy soil, 
30 feet; soapstone (?), 5 feet; sand rock, 36 feet. 
No. 98. — Dug well; depth of water does not vary; can be exhausted in 2 hours 
with a good wind, but refills in 30 minutes ; water raised by wind pump with 10-foot 
wheel; is used for domestic supply, for 50 to 70 head of stock, and for irrigating a 
small area. Strata passed through : Soil, 5 feet; creamy soil, 75 feet ; hard conglom- 
erate, 18 feet; sandstone; sand with water. Spurlock's well, on section 22, on the 
breaks of Lake Creek, 60 feet deep, with 1£ feet of water, irrigates 2 acres during 
winter. 
No. 99. — Dug and bored well; depth of water does not vary; can not be easily 
lowered; quality of water, soft; water raised by wind pump with 10-foot wheel; is 
used for irrigation; tank, 85 by 45 by 5 feet. Strata passed through: Soil, 15 feet; 
clay, 6 feet; sand and gravel to bottom. 
No. 100. — Dug and bored well ; can not be easily lowered ; water raised by wind 
pump with 12-foot wheel ; is used for irrigation. Strata passed through: Soil, 28 
feet; sand and gravel below; stopped at blue clay (shale?). 
No. 101. — Dug and bored well; depth of water does not vary; can not be easily 
lowered; quality of water, medium hard; water raised by wind pump with 12-foot 
wheel; is used for irrigation. Strata passed through: Soil; sandy soil; streaks of 
sand; gravel and sand in water. 
