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where they gradually disappear. or become less pronounced in ele- 
vation above the surrounding country. From Great Bend to 
Wichita, and from Wichita to Arkansas City, the whole area on 
the right bank of the river is covered with an exceedingly sandy 
silt which here and there is blown into a series of sand dunes some- 
what approaching in character the sandhills further to the west, 
but no where equaling them in magnitude. 
The Arkansas river valley has been much deeper at one time 
than it is at the present. ‘The filling in process has been in opera- 
tion for a sufficient length of time to fill the channel of the stream 
to a level with its flood plain, and doubtless raised the general level 
of the flood plain very appreciably. So few wells have been sunk 
in the valley entirely through the river sands that we are almost 
entirely uninformed regarding the character of this earlier river 
channel. At Coolidge the artesian wells which have been drilled 
showed that the river valley was probably less than 50 feet in 
depth. Great effort was made to obtain an accurate record of one 
of the wells, but no such record could be found. It is currently re- 
ported by the citizens of Coolidge that the stratified material is 
generally found in the valley at that place at a depth not exceeding 
35 to 50 feet. Hastward from Coolidge and Syracuse no information 
is obtainable on the subject until Garden City is reached. At this 
place in the summer of 1888 a deep well was bored nearly half a 
mile northwest of town to a depth of 1000 feet or more. No resi- 
dent of the place could be found who had kept an accurate log of the 
well. By an examination of the old files of the “Garden City 
Sentinel,’ however, it was learned that that paper published on 
April 18, 1888, a log of the well to a depth of 550 feet, as follows: 
SOT Ae) a A a Ache I ao Oa RU eH 12 feet. 
(UNCLES ING ae ee aa iin, ESN 19 Oi 
JB EB COLES ASSN OS) Nees ARP eee pre Ue Ria a 1D) 9 
SS UINGIS COIN Ciara areas. Heute ental its ie eee 
WN Gin heM Stem aueiroruon ieee Mal cetn: Oia 
JES TOUS NSEETAVCG Li ReGen UN murat Mier ll tale yaannee 
SO AND SOIC Mean n at raretiacneta ki) Tuna Tats Oy) 
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500 feet. 
