UNDERGROUND WATERS. 71 
At the Acme Plaster Company's plant, in the southeastern part of 
Laramie, there is an artesian well yielding a 25-gallon flow of soft 
water, from a depth of 945 feet. The bore is 4^ inches in diameter, 
cased to 627 feet; the total depth is 952 feet. Some water was found 
at 600 feet. The following record was supplied by J. J. McCutcheon, 
the driller: 
Record of Acme Plaster Company's well, Laramie. 
Thickness. Depth. 
Red shale 
Red sandstone 
Limestone 
Soft red sandstone, with gypsum 
(?) 
First flow in red sandstone 
(?) 210 1 900 
G ray sandstone, with water 52 952 
The head is sufficient to raise the water 74 feet above the surface. 
The first well at the plaster works was about 300 feet deep. It did 
not flow and the water was of bad quality, owing, it is stated, to 
faulty casing. 
On the ranch of Charles George, in sec. 3, T. 15 N., R. 73 W., in the 
eastern portion of Laramie, there are six deep wells within a radius of 
a quarter of a mile. One passed through 90 feet of limestone and 
found water m.sand rock. This well is 5f inches in diameter and the 
water now stands 18 inches below the top of the casing. On and 
near the fair grounds, on the south side of the ranch, Mr. George sank 
two wells in 1888. The one in the grounds is 120 feet deep, entirely 
in red beds, and, although it yielded a feeble flow at first, the water 
level is now 6 inches below the top. The water is strongly sul- 
phurous. In another well with 5f-inch casing, just outside of the 
fair grounds, the water rises 8^ inches above the pipe. Two other 
wells are about 175 yards from Mr. George's house. In one, which is 
less than 200 feet deep and all in red beds, the water level is about 
2 feet below the top; in the other, 30 yards distant, 8 feet higher, and 
312 feet deep to limestone, the water level is 6 feet below the top. In 
the spring the lower of these two wells flows. When the large flow ing 
well is closed the others will flow. The sixth well is in the northeast 
corner of the stock barn near the house. In this well the water 
stands 3 feet below the surface, but originally it flowed. 
In the southern portion of Laramie there is a group of three flowing 
wells. One is in the SW. I NW. 1 sec, 4, T. 15 N., R. 7:5 W., easl 
of the road. It is 5 inches in diameter and flows approximately 2 
gallons a minute of good water with a temperature of 1 1 '°. Its depth 
could not be ascertained. Another just west of this one, on the 
Simpson place, in the SK. j \ K. \ sec, 5, (lows less than half a gallon 
a minute, with a temperature of 45°. Its depth is 112 feet ; the water 
