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Section of Rhode nbaugW s well. 
Feet. 
Waterworn gravel 12 
Black clay, breaking up in flakes 4 
Stiff, tenacious blue clay 20 
Paleozoic sandstone at the bottom. 
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A well is reported to have been dug at Bernard Fiste's place, near 
the middle of the north side of sec. 13, about three-fourths of a mile 
east of Rhodenbaugh's pottery. In this well a pottery clay bed was 
struck at a depth of 45 feet. The bed is said to be 15 feet thick here 
and of dark color. The clay, which has been tested, retains its dark 
color after burning. Its occurrence at this place throws much light 
on the distribution of the pottery clays about Benton. 
WOOSLEY CLAY BANK. 
The Woosley clay bank is in the NE. \ sec. 1, on both sides of "the 
old military road" leading northeastward from Benton. The clay is 
5 or 6 feet thick, but it thins out at the margins of the bed, which 
covers about 1^ acres. About 400 feet east of Mr. Woosley's house 
the following section is exposed in an abandoned clay pit: 
Section at Woosley's clay pit. 
Feet. 
Brown pebbly, iron-stained clay 4 
Red sandy clay 6 
Blue clay with red patches 2 
Pottery clay 5 
Grayish sand 4 
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The following section is reported by Mr. Kennedy: 
Section of pit at Woosley's pottery sheds. 
Feet. 
Hard grayish sandy clay 4 
Pottery clay 5 
Light-grayish sand 6 
Bluish joint clay at base. 
Mr. Woosley has opened another clay pit on the west side of the 
SW.J NW. J sec. 1. The beds exposed are as follows: 
Section in SW. \ NW. \ sec. 1, T. 2 S., R. 15 W. 
Feet. 
Red sandy clay 4 
Pottery clay 4 
The well section at Woosley's pottery, reported by Call, is interest- 
ing as showing the relations of the potter's clay of his pit to the 
underlying blue joint clays of Eocene age. The section should be 
considered in connection with that at Womack's pit, in the village of 
Benton. 
