THE ARTESIAN WATER SUPPLY OF EASTERN FLORIDA.

Feet.
Surface material sand ................................... 0 o -45
B lue clay ................................................ 45 90
Black material looking like gunpowder or pepper............9o -09
B lue clay .................................................lO9 -I19
Shell and sand ...........................................1i9 124
Blue hard rock ..................................... ... 124 _124 2
Cavity 6-inch, sand and shell. Water rises to within 1.4
feet of surface..................................I242-125
Blue hard rock, more water, with same head; drilling stopped
in second cavity ..................................... 125 -128
DINNER ISLAND.
A record of one well has been obtained at Dinner Island. This is a three-inch well drilled by Mr. H. Mervin for Padgett and Con. pany. It has a total depth of 2oo feet and does not flow although the water is reported to rise to within two, feet of the surface.
ELKTON.
Flowing wells are obtained at Elkton. A five-inch well drilled
by N. H. Monk in 1908 on the Middleton farm reached a total depth of 26o feet. The well is cased too feet and the principal supply of water comes from a depth of 2oo feet. The water is reported to rise five feet above the surface.
iSPANOLA.
A few wells occur in or near Espanola. The wells immediately in the town do not flow. Flowing wells are obtained, however, from one to five miles south, along Haw Creek.
FLt:,)ERA L POINT.
Federal Point lies within the flowing area bordering the St. Johns River. A consi(lerable number of wells have been drilled in the vicinity of this place. The material encountered here to the depth of about 125 feet consists largely of clays. Water is obtained at a depth of from 200 to 2-o feet, the wells terminating in
limestone.
The following is a partial log of the well of Messrs. Hubbard and Hart, one-fourth mile northwest of Federal Point. This is a six-inch well drilled by Lloyd Crarv in j:889. The well has a total (lepth of 225 feet and is cased 6o feet. The water is reported to rise twenty feet above the surface or about thirty feet above sea

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