darton] NEW JERSEY. 93 
Water is good and in large supply. The water flow rises nearly to 
I the top of the well. The bore is 3 inches. The horizon can not be 
i definitely correlated, but is probably a bed above the great Chesa- 
| peake diatom bed. 
Weymouth, Atlantic County. — The first well was bored in 1877 and 
was altogether successful. It is 4 inches in diameter and 42 feet deep. 
It flows at the surface and yields 70 gallons per minute. 
A second well, at the old mill, was 5 inches in diameter and has a 
uniform flow of 52 gallons per minute. The water has sufficient pres- 
sure to rise 8 or 10 feet above the surface. The record is as follows: 
Feet. 
0-2 old cinders. 
2-5 yellow sand . 
5-8 coarse quicksand with a stony crust at its base. 
8-16 coarse sand and a little gravel. 
16-18 clay. 
18-30 sand. 
30-36 clay. 
36-45 sand lying on clay. 
The water-bearing horizon is thought to be the same as at Mays 
Landing, and the difference in depth is due to the dip to the southeast. 
The rate indicated is 16 feet per mile on the assumption that the Wey- 
mouth well is 25 feet above tide. 1 
At Horner's cranberry bog, 4 miles north of Weymouth, at an eleva- 
tion of 50 feet, two wells were bored to 96 and 106 feet, respectively 
The records were as follows: 
Feet. 
0-4 white sand. 
4-6 yellow hardpan. 
6-12 white clay. 
12-77 quicksand and gravel. 
77-95 blue clay and pebbles. 
95-106 white gravel. 
The water rose to within about 2 feet of the surface. It is thought by 
Mr. Woolmau that this well was in the great Chesapeake diatom bed, 
and that the water was in the horizon which occurs in the lower part 
of this bed — "a horizon not recognized at Atlantic City, but probably 
the one passed in a boring at Ocean City at a depth of 685 feet" and 
the same as the one at the Pleasant Mills wells. 2 
At the Atlantic Company's cranberry bogs, 2 miles north of Wey- 
mouth, two wells were bored at an elevation of 40 feet, but as they 
did not overflow so as to afford a supply for flooding the bogs they were 
abandoned. The record was as follows : 
Feet, 
0-6 white clay. 
6-14 iron crust. 
14-45 diatomaceous sandy clay. 
1 New Jersey report for 1884, pp. 131-132. 
» New Jersey report for 1892, pp, 295-296. 
