darton.] NEW JERSEY. 91 
Excepting No. 1, they all draw from the same water stratum, reached 
at the same level, the differences in depths being due to differences in 
altitude of the wells. The record is as follows: 
Feet. 
0-5 sand. 
5-13 marsh mud. 
13-16 white clay. 
16-25 red clay. 
25-45 white sand. 
45-64 white clay. 
64-78 white sand, water horizon of well No. 1. 
78-94 yellow clay. 
94-121 coarse sand and gravel, water horizon of wells Nos. 2-7. 
The total yield from the seven wells averages about 875 gallons per 
minute. The water is excellent, pure, and soft. 1 The deeper wells 
appear to draw from basal Earitan beds, and the shallower ones from 
the mid-Earitan horizon. 
Straight Creek, Cumberland County. — The well in tide meadows 
near False Egg Island Point is about 100 feet deep. It is a flowing 
well of good water. 2 The horizon is probably in the lower portion 
of the Chesapeake series, but no definite correlation is now practi- 
cable. 
Trenton. — Two large wells have been sunk at the wire works of 
Eoebling's Sons' Company. One near the corner of South Clinton 
and Mott streets was dug through 60 feet of gravel and sand to the 
clay. It is 20 feet in diameter and yields a large supply of water. 
A boring in its bottom passed through 68 feet of clay, then through 
gravelly clay and seams of clay to the bedrock at 160 feet below the 
surface. 3 
Vineland, Cumberland County. 4 — A well 4 inches in diameter has been 
bored at this locality to a depth of 205 feet, which supplies 20 gallons 
per minute. A portion of the borings were obtained by Mr. Lewis 
Woolman, who reports on them as follows : 
Feet. 
52 or 57 blacK clay. 
116-126 white and blue clay in layers and containing considerable wood. 
197 greenish clay from the base of the bed. 
197-205 brownish and reddish-brown sand in which the water was found. 
The water rises to within 17 J feet of the surface. This well is thought 
not to have reached the Chesapeake formation, 4 but I am inclined to 
believe that it has, and I have so represented it on section 4, PI. III. 
Waretoicn, Ocean County. — In 1891 a 4-inch well was bored at this 
place which yields a flow of about 20 gallons of water a minute from a 
1 New Jersey report 1892, pp. 309-310. 
2 New Jersey report for 1891, p. 222. 
3 New Jersey report for 1890, p. 264. 
4 New Jersey report for 1892, p. 294. 
