206 RECORD OF DEEP-WELL DRILLING FOR 1905. 
Record of well in the SW. \, sec 6, T 7, R. 11. 
Feet, jj 
Soil and subsoil 0- 28 
Yellow sand; fresh water 28- 30 
" Soapstone " and conglomerate 30- 50 
Sandstone; fresh water in very large quantity 50- 60 
Shales with small breaks of limestone 60- 450 
Coal ". 450- 455 
Shale and slate, light and dark, in alternating strata 455- 500 
Sandstone 500- 510 
Coal 510- 517 
Slate and shale - 517- 650 
Soft sand; salt water 650- 780 
Shale 780- 85C 
Salt sand; water 850-1 , 00C 
Shale 1 , 000- 1 , 060 
Sandstone; white sulphur water 1 , 060-1 , IK 
Dark shale . 1, 110-1, .206(1 
Sandstone; about 2 feet of limestone at 1 ,400 feet; small show of oil 1, 200-1, 53( l| 
Red shale 1 , 530-1, 53; | 
Dark shale . 1, 535-1, 541 1 
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Rig used, cable. Casing used, 32 feet of 10-inch; 800 feet of 6^-inch; 1,100 feet of 4| 
inch. Water-bearing strata from surface to 28 feet, at 60 feet, and from 650 to 1,110 feel 
Well flows 20 gallons per minute of salt water. 
301. Well near Warsaw, Hancock County. 
[Well bogun in October, 1904; completed in March, 1905. Authority, D. W. llaggerty, contractor. £ ■ 
samples. Geologic correlations checked by G. H. Ashley.] 
This well pe etrates limestones and cherts of Mississippian age which underlie the recei ■:» 
soil and glacia. (Pleistocene) clays. They are Keokuk formation, Montrose chert, ar 1 
Burlington limestone. 
Record of well in the SW. \, sec. 13, T. 4, R- 9. 
Recent and Pleistocene: Feet 
Black soil 1- .* 
Yellow clay 3- < : 
Blue clay 50- | 
Keokuk : 
Blue limestone 98-1 I 
Blue shale 140-1 
White limestone 155-S | ; 
Montrose chert: 
Flint and rock 200-' ; 
Burlington :(?) 
Blue shale 235-1 
Black limestone 240-i (j 
Magnesian limestone 304- | 
Flint and limestone 320- | 
Magnesian limestone 325- 4 
Blue lime 330- if 
Sandstone. „ 334- » 
White limestone 337- I 
Rig used, cable. Diameter of well, 6 inches. Length of casing, 112 feet. Water f 
325 to 340 feet. Well yields 10 gallons per minute by pumping. 
