52 ARTESIAN WELLS ON THE ATLANTIC COAST. [Bmx.138. 
as that at 383 feet at Asbury Park, 480 feet at Ocean Beach, and 465 
feet at Spring Lake. 
Bayside, Cumberland County. — The American Oil and Refinery Com- 
pany has bored a well at this place. At 100 feet below the surface a 
salt spring was penetrated from which the water flowed to 18 inches 
above the level of the surrounding marsh, and it was not affected by the 
rise or fall of the tide. At 140 feet other water was found which was 
very salt, but cold and clear. The first 33 feet was mud, underlain by 
about 18 inches of hard clay. At a depth of 160 feet a hard clay was 
encountered, and the work was stopped by the breaking of the pipe. 1 
In the report for 1894 2 it is further stated by Mr. Woolman that all 
the beds below 33 feet to a depth of 190 feet were hard clays of the 
great diatomaceous clay bed in the Chesapeake formation. 
Beach Raven, Ocean County. — The first two wells were bored to a 
depth of 430 feet. They yielded about 10 gallons a minute. Another 
well was sunk in 1893 to a depth of 575 feet. It has a diameter of 8 
inches, and yields a supply of 125 gallons per minute. The record is 
as follows : 
Feet. 
0-17 beach sands. 
17-18 inud, with roots. 
18-55 g ra y sands, with shells and recent marine diatoms. 
55-65 gray sand. 
65-90 white clay and gravel. 
90-95 fine white clay. 
95-115 white sand, a few fossiliferons pebbles. 
115-135 fine white sands. 
135-150 alternations of sand and clay, both yellow. 
150-160 coarse gray sand. 
160-165 black clay. 
165-170 fine white sand. 
170-180 fine yellow sand. 
180-200 medium fine, white sand. 
200-205 medium coarse, yellow sand. 
205-215 white sand. 
215-250 yellow sand. 
250-280 gray sand. 
280-290 greenish sand and clay mixed. 
290-365 greenish, marly clay, containing diatoms. 
365-419. -♦-. -dark marly clay, containing diatoms. 
410-429 fine sand, with water. 
429-450 coarse sand, with water. 
450-476 tough diatomaceous clay. 
476-543 alternations of sandy clays and clayey sands, all diatomaceous, 
543-575 gray sharp sand, with water. 
The equivalent of the diatom bed from 18 to 55 feet was found at 
depths of 9 to 18 feet in wells at Atlantic City and on the mainland 
at Absecon, and it is the same, in all probability, as the bed exposed at 
'New Jersey report for 1889, p. 87. 
2 Pages 191-192. 
