202 ARTESIAN WELLS ON THE ATLANTIC COAST. [bill. 138. 
feet of blue mud (Miocene), with some gravel at its base. Below this 
the material is mainly micaceous sand, with occasional fragments of 
rock. No other deep wells are reported as having been bored in his 
county. It is probable that in the upper portion of the county, at a 
depth of from 200 to 300 feet, water-bearing strata should be found 
corresponding to those to be met with at Tarboro, in Edgecombe 
County; and in the eastern and southern portions of the county it is 
probable that these water-bearing strata could be tapped at a depth 
not much greater than this. 
WILSON COUNTY. 
Two or three deep wells have been bored, but without success so far 
as water supply is concerned. One at Wilson Cotton Mills was bored 
to a depth of 125 feet, the first 28 feet being through laminated sand 
and clays (Lafayette), and the remainder of the distance to 125 feet 
being in the blue clay (Miocene). At the base of the sands and clays 
28 feet below the surface a limited amount of water was obtained, and 
it is to about this depth that the open wells of the town are usually 
driven. Again, at the depth of 07 to 70 feet below the surface a layer 
of small gravel and shell was found in the blue clay and proved to be 
water-bearing to a limited extent; but the water obtained from this 
depth was so highly impregnated with lime and other mineral matter 
as to be unfit for use as domestic or boiler water. 
No other deep wells have been bored in the county. It is probable 
that in other portions of the county supplies of deep-well water may 
be obtained below the marl and on top of the crystalline rocks, which 
would probably be reached in the eastern half of the county at depths 
varying from 100 to 200 feet below the surface. Should such a water- 
bearing stratum be reached below the marl and between it and the 
crystalline rocks, it is probable that the water would be of good quality 
and that it would come near the surface, so as to be available by pump- 
ing, even if it did not overflow. 
WAYNE COUNTY. 
Two deep wells are reported from Wayne County, one bored to a 
depth of 2GG feet by the Goldsboro Ice Company, in the town of Golds- 
boro, and the other bored at the Eastern State Hospital, 1 to 2 miles 
west of Goldsboro, which is still unfinished. Neither is a flowing well, 
but the one bored by the ice company yields a considerable supply of 
good water by pumping. 
The strata penetrated in the ice company's well are as follows: 
Feet. 
0-7 reddish sandy clay. 
7-15 coarse white sands, water bearing. 
15-40 blackish sandy clay, with fragments of vegetable remains, 
pyrite, and shell-marl. 
40-45 bluish-gray sand. 
