126 PROGRESS REPORT, HYDROGRAPHY, 1893 AND 1894. [bull. 131. 
No. 111.— Dug well; depth of water does not vary; can not be easily lowered; 
quality of water, medium bard; water raised by wind pump witb 16-foot wheel; is 
used for town supply and is very abundant. Strata passed through: Soil, 5 feet; 
yellow creamy soil, 25 feet; sand and gravel, 5 feet. This well is in the valley of 
Eagletail Creek, within the city limits of Sharon Springs. Wells in the higher part 
of the town have little or no water. 
No. 112. — Dug well (258). Strata passed through: Soil, 2 feet; cream-colored clay, 
28 feet; shale; no water. Mr. Garsuck has made several wells, but always with the 
same result, reaching the shale without the water-bearing gravel at 25 to 30 feet. 
No. 113. — Driven well; depth of water does not vary; can not easily be lowered; 
quality of water, medium hard ; is used for domestic supply and for stock. Strata 
passed through: Soil, with streaks of clay and sand, 6 feet; sand and gravel to bot- 
tom; quicksand at bottom. This well is in the South Smoky Hill bottom. Mr. 
Allman has two other wells near, watering 60 head of stock, and there are four 
others on the bottom between here and Yost's (No. 98), all having an abundance of 
water. Mr. Allman irrigates from a stream. 
No. 114. — Dug well; depth of water does not vary; can not be easily lowered; 
quality of water, rather soft; water raised by hand pump; is used for domestic 
supply. Strata passed through: Sandy alluvia, shale at bottom. It is on the sec- 
ond bottom of the South Fork of the Smoky Hill River, which has pools connected 
by running streams which disappear in the sands farther east. There are also 
springs on the banks running off the shale, which crops in ravines, under the Ter- 
tiary beds. 
No. 115.— Bored well; depth of water does not vary; can not be easily lowered; 
quality of water, soft; water raised by wind pump with 8-foot wheel; is used for 
domestic supply, for 15 head of stock, and for irrigating one-quarter of an acre. 
Strata passed through : Soil, 5 feet; creamy soil, 15 feet; magnesia, rock, and sand; 
gravel with water, 18 feet. Two wells on Weskan town site are 148 feet deep. A 
well on section 28, 157 feet deep, has 15 feet of water, and has rock at about the 
same level as No. 115. 
No. 116. — Dug well; depth of water does not vary ; can be lowered slightly ; qual- 
ity of water, soft; water raised by steam pump; is used for railway purposes. This 
well is on rather lower ground than No. 115, from which it is distant about 1 mile. 
No. 117. — Dug well; depth of water does not vary; can not be easily lowered; 
quality of water, rather hard; water raised by hand pump; is used for domestic 
supply. Strata passed through: Soil; cream-colored subsoil; water in gravel and 
sand. 
No. 118. — Bored well; depth of water does not varjr; can not be easily lowered; 
quality of water, medium hard ; water raised by pulley and bucket ; is used for a 
schoolhouse. Strata passed through : Soil, 3 feet ; creamy clay, 23 feet ; magnesia, 4 
feet; running gravel, 16 feet; rock and sand to bottom. This well is on nearly the 
highest land in Kansas. 
No. 119. — This well is in a bed of a branch of Goose Creek. 
No. 120. — Bored well. The water was reached at 68 feet, and rose 15 feet. It has 
slightly affected the water of No. 97, which is on the same section. Strata passed 
through: Soil, 6 feet; creamy soil, 20 feet ; sand, 15 feet; soapstone ( ?), 3 feet; hard 
clay (magnesia red clay?), 24 feet. 
