204 ARTESIAN WELLS ON THE ATLANTIC COAST. [bull. 138. 
The well is located in a rather low, flat region. In portions of the 
county it is probable that this marl would be penetrated and good 
supplies of water reached at a depth not greater than 100 to 200 feet. 
DUPLIN COUNTY. 
No deep wells have been reported from this county, but one is now 
being bored at Warsaw, on the Wilmington and Weld on Railroad. It 
is probable that iu the upper portion of the county, adjoining the county 
of Wayne, water-bearing strata will be reached at a depth of from 100 
to 300 feet, and that in the southern portion similar strata may be 
reached at slightly greater depth. It is not certain that in portions of 
this county flowing wells could be reached, though it is likely that water 
from these deeper strata would rise sufficiently near the surface to be 
within reach of ordinary pumps, and in some of the lower areas the 
water may overflow the surface. 
PENDER COUNTY. 
Several wells have been bored at Burgaw, the county seat, to a depth 
of nearly 100 feet. One of these, bored by Mr. Bruce Williams, pene- 
trated the following strata : 
Feet, 
0-15 surface soil sandy, bluish clay. 
16-40 stiff bluish clay with occasional admixtures of coarse sand. 
41-70 blue mud and clay, alternating strata of each. 
71-75 gravel with round pebbles as large as buckshot. 
76-96 fine sand with an occasional small lump of marshy mud about 
the size of buckshot. 
At this point the boring was stopped. The water does not overflow, 
but comes sufficiently near the surface to be reached with a pump. It 
has a slightly saline taste, but is considered of good quality, both for 
domestic and for boiler purposes. 
At Long Creek, in the western part of the county, a few miles south- 
west of Burgaw, on the land of Mr. W. W. Larkins, a well was bored 
to the depth of 175 feet, but because of quicksand and rock it was 
abandoned without securing a supply of water. The strata penetrated 
in boring this well were as follows : 
Feet. 
0-20 sand and clay. 
20 -120 blue mud. 
120 -126£ hard, dark-colored rock. 
126|-146 quicksand. 
At the base of this quicksand another layer of hard rock was struck, 
and the well has been temporarily abandoned on account of quicksand 
rising in the pipes. The result of these borings at Long Creek and 
Burgaw seems to indicate that no well-marked water-bearing stratum 
in this county occurs within a hundred feet of the surface. The evi- 
dence, however, should not be considered as conclusive for all portions 
