128 
ARTESIAN WELLS ON THE ATLANTIC COAST. 
List of deep wells in Maryland — Continued. 
[bull. 138. 
Locality. 
Depth. 
Leonardtown 
Marlboro 
Miles River Neck 
"Anchorage." 
Miles River Neck, 
Long Point. 
Miles River (see 
Tunis Mills). 
Nanjemoy (Land- 
ing). 
Oakley, 3 wells . - - 
Ocean City 
Patuxent River at 
B. & O. R. R. 
Piney Point 
Rousby on Patux- 
ent. 
"Jtock Point, diaries 
County. 
St. George Island, 
25 wells. 
St.Inigoes,10wells. 
"Jutland" 
Salisbury 
Feet. 
300 
222 
265 
195 
Salisbury, 15 wells 
Solomons Island, 
2 wells. 
Do 
Do 
Sotterly 
Tilgbman Island, 4 
wells. 
Tunis Mills, on 
M iles River Neck . 
175 
305 
270 
240 
254 
270 
300 
365 
101 
18-75 
252 
Diame- 
ter. 
Inches. 
1* 
Capacity 
per minute. 
Height 
to which 
water 
rises. a 
Gallons. 
Flows 2 
n 
258 
256 
Horizon. 
400 
430 
Flows 1 
Flows 7 
Flows 130 
5? 
Many. 
Flows 3 
2-5 each. 
2 each. 
1 
Flows 350 
200 in all. 
150 each. 
60 each. 
10 
Feet. 
+20 
+ 13 
To sur- 
face. 
To sur- 
face. 
+24 
+ 6 
Basal Chesapeake 
Magothy? 
InPamunkey. 
+ 12 
+ 3 
+24 
+12 
+ 12 
H 
Flows. 
— 2 
+ 4 
+ 2 
Basal Chesapeake 
Basal Pamunkey . 
Low in Pamunkey 
High in Chesa- 
peake. 
Basal Potomac ? . - . 
Basal Chesapeake . 
do 
Remarks. 
Water also at 170 
feet. 
Water at 215 feet. 
Many. 
Flows 6 and 
pumps 100 
..do 
do 
....do 
....do 
High in Chesa- 
peake. 
Basal Chesapeake. 
....do .. 
do .. 
do .. 
Magothy 
+ 2 
.do 
Under rod clay. 
Fine water. 
Alkaline water. 
Water unsatis 
factory. 
City supply. 
Strongly alkaline 
a +, feet above surface; — , feet below surface. 
DESCRIPTIVE NOTES ON WELLS. 
Crisfield, Somerset County.— This place is in the southern corner I 
the Eastern Shore. Two deep wells have been sunk to 1,018 and 1,03; 
feet, and a third is now in progress, which had reached a depth of 1,09( 
feet on June 15, 1895. The principal water supply now utilized is a 
1,018-1,033 feet, from which the flow was 130 gallons a minute and th< 
water pressure 20 pounds to the square inch. The wells throw mos 
important light on the geology and water prospects of the region, an< 
fortunately, through the kindness of J. H. Buxton, former president o 
the water company at Crisfield, 1 was supplied with samples of boi 
ings at frequent intervals down to the depth of 950 feet. Some deepe 
