94 ARTESIAN WELLS ON THE ATLANTIC COAST. [bull. 138. 
The water-bearing stratum is regarded by Mr. Woolman as the same 
as that at Weymouth and Mays Landing, and at 525 feet in the 
Atlantic City wells. 1 
Wildwood, Cape May County. — The first well at this place was bored 
to a depth of 215 feet, but the water was unsatisfactory. Another 
well was bored in 1894 to a depth of 1,244 feet, which obtains a satis- 
factory water supply at a depth of 887 to 931 feet. Mr. Woolman has 
made an extended report 2 on the geology and paleontology of the well, 
and the following statements are condensed from that report. 
Small flows of water, some fresh and others salt, were found at vari- 
ous depths, but the principal water-bearing sand extends from 887 to 
931 feet. The water from this bed flows over the surface and will rise 
above it 7 feet. A strong overflow of salty water was met with at 1,185 
feet. The great Chesapeake diatom bed was found to extend from 370 
to 793 feet, and a series of glauconitic sands extends from 1,104 to 1,244 
feet, which is regarded as probably Pamunkey (Eocene) in age. The 
following section is given : 
Feet. 
0-3 black mud. 
3-29 beach sand. 
29-46 bluish, muddy, sandy clay. 
46-78 beach sand, fine on top, coarser below ; water at 75 feet. 
78-102 bluish clay. 
102-106 sand, with salt water. 
106-135 blue clay. 
135-145 gray sand. 
145-179 bluish, clayey sand. 
179-181 black mud. 
181-215 white sand and gravel, with salt water. 
215-294 whitish sand. 
294-309 bluish clay. 
309-328 coarse sand and fine gravel, mixed. 
328-389 dark-bluish clay, with seams of fine sand; shell 370 to 389 
feet; diatoms from 370 to 389 feet. 
389-655 dark-blue, diatomaceous clay, with four thin rock strata, 
some shells, thin sand streaks, and small flow of water just 
above 625 feet. 
655-705 dark- brown clay. 
705-713 gray sand. 
713-744 dark-brown clay, with shells. 
744-750 gray sand, with small flow of water. 
750-793 dark-bluish clay; base of great diatomaceous bed. 
793-799 rock stratum. 
799-887 dark, sandy clay, with sand and gravel 820-832 feet and rock 
from 832-837 feet ; small flow of water at 843; shells plenty. 
887-931 gray sand, water bearing. 
931-1,030 dark-colored, sticky clay, with two thin rock strata near 
bottom. 
1,030-1,098 dark-colored, tough clay, with lower Chesapeake diatoms 
1,040-1,060 feet. 
1, 098-1, 104 rock stratum. 
1, 104-1, 244 dark olive-green, clayey sand, containing much glauconite, 
a few feet of sand at about 1,185 feet yielded a strong flow 
of salt water; age Pamunkey (?). 
J New Jersey report for 1892, p. 295. 2 New Jersey report for 1894, pp. 159-180, PL V. 
