DAKTON.j NORTH CAROLINA. 197 
DARK COUNTY. 
No deep wells have been reported from this county, but the success 
attending the boring- of deep wells in the adjoining county of Hyde is 
sufficient to encourage the belief that wells bored to depths of from 
100 to 1,000 feet in Dare might yield flowing supplies of water. The 
existing wells in this county have generally a depth of from 3 to 10 feet. 
HYDE COUNTY. 
Two or three years ago a number of deep wells were bored in Hyde 
County, mainly in the more thickly settled region around Mattamnskeet 
Lake. They range in depth from 50 to 340 feet, and at some of them 
the water overflows, while at others it rises within reach of ordinary 
pumps. The following are the more important of these wells concern- 
ing which reports have been received : 
Lake Landing well, about 1 mile southwest of Lake Landing post- 
office and 1 mile from the shore of Mattamuskeet Lake, was bored 
for Mr. W. B. Lavender, of Lake Landing. The strata penetrated in 
boring the well were as follows : 
Feet. 
0-8 black clayey soil. 
8-38 g ra y sand, alternating with blue clay, mixed with shells. 
38-85 pure sand, in the lower part of which is a water-bearing stratum. 
85-190 shell marl and black sand alternating; occasionally layers of 
yellow clay and shell rock. 
190-191 shell rock 8 inches thick. 
191-204 sand and shell marl. 
204-205 shell rock 15 inches thick, where an excellent supply of drink- 
ing water of the best quality was struck, but it was interfered 
with by quicksand. 
Just below the shell rock, at 205 feet, an abundant supply of water 
was reached. It is the water from this stratum which now yields, with 
an ordinary pump, 15 gallons per minute. The two main water-bearing- 
strata penetrated in this well are those at about 85 and 205 feet below 
the surface. The water obtained at the first of these levels was soft 
and without disagreeable taste or odor; but this supply, at this partic- 
ular well, was stopped on account of the quicksand coming into the 
pipe. The water from the 205-foot stratum is light, soft, cool, and quite 
clear. It has, however, when first drawn a slightly unpleasant taste 
and odor, due to the sulphur which it contains. 
Lake Comfort well, at Lake Comfort, on the south shore of Matta- 
muskeet Lake, was bored to a depth of 115 feet. This well overflows 
in a 1^-inch stream under about 6 inches head. When the pump is 
applied the supply of water is equal to the capacity of the pipe, and 
immediately upon the stopping of the pump the water continues to flow 
rapidly. The water obtained at this point is also clear, but has a 
strong sulphurous taste and smell. The strata penetrated in boring 
this well were, on the whole, quite similar to those penetrated in boring 
the Lake Landing well described above. 
