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70. Log of city well (467) at Bucklin, in the SW NE sec. 5, T. 29 S., R. 21 W. (Authority, J.E. Devore, city clerk)		Thickness (feet)	Depth (feet)
Kingsdown silt
	Clay, brown	87	87
	Sand	20.5	107.5
Ogallala formation
	Sand and gravel; contains a layer of clay near the top	17.5	125

71. Partial log of oil test drilled on the Elizabeth Everett farm, in the center of NE sec. 22, T. 29 5., R. 21 W. Altitude, 2,418 feet. (Authority, driller's log.)		Thickness (feet)	Depth (feet)
Kingsdown silt
	Surface and clay	46	46
	Clay	64	110
Ogallala formation
	Sand and gravel	10	120
	Sand, water	81	201
	Sand and gravel	59	260
Kiowa shale (?)
	Shale, sticky	80	340

14. Log of test hole 14, 125 feet E. of SW corner sec. 33, T. 29 S., R. 21 W., drilled by the State and Federal Geological Surveys, 1940. Surface altitude, 2,400.5 feet. (Authority, samples studied by Perry McNally and H.A. Waite.)		Thickness (feet)	Depth (feet)
Kingsdown silt
	Top soil, silty, brown	2	2
	Soil, clayey, silty, sticky, brown	9	11
	Silt, brown	5	16
	Silt, limy, yellowish-brown; contains nodules of lime	7	23
	Silt, limy, yellowish-brown	5	28
	Silt, fine, sandy, light brown; fairly hard drilling	4	32
	Silt, fine, sandy, limy, light brown	7	39
	Silt, limy, light gray; contains streaks of lime	9	48
	Silt, fine, sandy, red-brown; drilled fairly hard	2	50
	Silt, fine, sandy, limy, gray and brown, contains nodules of lime; drilled easily	17	67
	Silt, fine, sandy, red-brown	8	75
Ogallala formation
	Sand, fine, to fine gravel; brown; contains some gravel and fragments of lime	3	78
	Silt, fine, sandy, red-brown; contains fragments of lime	2	80
	Silt, fine, sandy; limy silt; and caliche	5	85
	Silt, limy, red-brown; contains fragments of lime	15	100
	Sand, fine to coarse; contains soft white fragments of lime	4	104
	Silt, limy, gray; contains fragments of lime and coarse sand	4	108
	Sand, fine to fine gravel, brown	4	112
	Sand, gravel and caliche in alternating beds; drilled easily except for a few hard layers	19	131
	Gravel, fine to coarse; hard drilling from 135-136 feet	5	136
	Silt, fine, sandy, limy, light brown to gray; contains some fine sand and pebbles	10	146
	Sand, fine, brown, uniform; contains some silt	3	149
	Silt, fine, sandy, limy, light brown to gray; drilled alternately hard and soft	11	160
	Silt, fine, sandy, soft, yellow brown to white to olive-green to gray; contains limy streaks	3	163
Dakota formation
	Shale, clayey, soft, variegated, red to yellow to green to gray; drilled fairly hard	17	180

72. Log of test hole drilled for the Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America, in the NE corner sec. 9, T. 29 S., R. 24 W. (Authority, Layne-Western Co., drillers.)		Thickness (feet)	Depth (feet)
Kingsdown silt
	Soil	4	4
	Clay and "magnesia"	46	50
	Sand, coarse	5	5
	Clay, "magnesia," and sand	35	90
	Sand, coarse	4	94
Ogallala formation
	Clay, sandy	11	105
	Sand, coarse	5	110
	"Magnesia," sandy	47	157
	Sand, very fine	3	160
Dakota formation (?)
	Shale, hard, blue	103	263

73. Log of test hole drilled for the Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America, in the NE corner sec. 17, T. 29 S., R. 24 W. (Authority, Layne-Western Co.)		Thickness (feet)	Depth (feet)
Kingsdown silt
	Soil	4	4
	Clay, sandy, and "magnesia"	101	105
	Sand, coarse	5	110
Ogallala formation
	Clay, sandy	18	128
	Sand, coarse	4	132
	"Magnesia"	8	140

74. Log of well (482) at Booster Station No. 3, of the Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America, in the NE SE sec. 17, T. 29 S., R. 24 W. (Authority, Layne-Western Co., drillers.)		Thickness (feet)	Depth (feet)
Kingsdown silt
	Soil and yellow clay	57	57
Ogallala formation
	"Magnesia" and sandy clay	19	76
	Clay and "magnesia" rock	11	87
	"Magnesia" rock and cemented sand	3	90
	Sand and gravel, cemented	3	93
	Sand and gravel	5	98
	"Magnesia" and gravel	6	104
	Sand rock and gravel	8	112
	Sand and gravel, mucky	10	122
	Sand rock	2	124
	Sand and gravel, cemented	7	131
	Sand and gravel	8	139
Dakota formation
	Shale, blue, containing few streaks of sand	131	270

75. Log of well (483) at Booster Station on No. 3, of the Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America, in the NE SE sec. 17, T. 29 S., R. 24 W. (Authority, Layne-Western Co., drillers.)		Thickness (feet)	Depth (feet)
Kingsdown silt
	Soil	2	2
	Clay, yellow	51	53
Ogallala formation
	Clay and "magnesia"	21	74
	"Magnesia" rock and sandy clay	13	87
	"Magnesia" rock	3	90
	Sand and gravel, cemented	3	93
	Sand and gravel	5	98
	Sand rock, hard	6	104
	"Magnesia" rock and gravel	8	112
	Sand and gravel, mushy	10	122
	Sand rock, hard	2	124
	Sand and gravel, cemented	7	131
	Clay and "magnesia"	2	133

76. Log of test hole drilled for the Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America, near the SW corner of the NW SE sec. 17, T. 29 S., R. 24 W. (Authority, Layne-Western Co., drillers.)		Thickness (feet)	Depth (feet)
Kingsdown silt
	Soil	3	3
	Clay, sand and "magnesia"	87	90
	Coarse sand	10	100
Ogallala formation
	"Magnesia"	15	115
	Sand, coarse, and some gravel	22	137
	"Magnesia," sandy	13	150
Dakota formation
	Clay, hard red	15	165
	Shale, hard blue	136	301

77. Log of test hole drilled for the Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America, in the NE corner sec. 21, T. 29 S., R. 24 W. (Authority, Layne-Western Co., drillers.)		Thickness (feet)	Depth (feet)
Kingsdown silt
	Soil	5	5
	Clay, sand, and "magnesia	106	111
Ogallala formation
	Sand, coarse, and some gravel	10	121
	"Magnesia" rock	7	128
	Sand, coarse, and some gravel	12	140
	Sand, hard, cemented	3	143
	Sand, coarse, and some gravel	12	155
	Clay, white	16	171
	Clay, yellow, sandy	12	182
	"Magnesia," sandy	37	219
Dakota formation (?)
	Shale, blue	5	224
	Shale, hard, blue	43	267

16. Log of test hole 16, in the NE corner sec. 1, T. 29 S., R. 25 W., drilled by the State and Federal Geological Surveys, 1940. Surface altitude, 2,578.8 feet. (Authority, samples studied by Perry McNally and H.A. Waite.)		Thickness (feet)	Depth (feet)
Kingsdown silt
	Top soil, silty, brown	5	5
	Silt, light brown; contains nodules of lime	35	40
	Silt, fine, sandy, brown	6	46
	Silt, limy, light brown	18	64
	Silt, limy, gritty, gray to brown	6	70
	Silt, fine, sandy, brown	6	76
	Silt, limy, light brown to gray; contains nodules of lime	6	82
	Silt, limy, light brown; contains nodules of lime; hard drilling from 103 to 104 feet	22	104
	Silt, fine, sandy, olive green to brown; contains some soft white lime; streaked with yellow fine sand and some gravel	10	114
Ogallala formation
	Gravel, medium to coarse; composed mainly of quartz, granite, and feldspar; contains some sand and a few pebbles	8	122
	Sand, medium to coarse, light gray; contains some pebbles and some white fragments of lime	6	128
	Silt, fine, sandy, brown; contains fragments of lime	12	140
	Silt, fine, sandy, brown; contains some limy silt	6	146
	Gravel, fine to coarse; contains some silt and fragments of caliche	1	147
	Silt, fine, sandy, limy, brown and gray	11	158
	Gravel, medium to coarse; and brown; silt, poorly sorted	4	162
	Sand, fine, brown; and silt	4	166
	Gravel, medium to coarse, dirty; and some silt	5	171
	Silt, fine, sandy, reddish-brown; contains sand and gravel and some fragments of caliche	19	190
	Sand, fine, brown; and silt, limy, gray	10	200
	Silt, fine sandy, gray to reddish-brown, limy; contains a hard cemented bed of caliche from 211 to 211.5 feet	20	220
	Silt, fine, sandy, gray to yellowish-brown; fairly hard	8	228
	Silt, fine, sandy, limy, greenish-gray to buff	3	231
	Silt, fine, sandy, brown; and caliche	19	250
Dakota formation
	Shale, clayey, yellowish-brown to red; contains many fragments of hard, maroon-red sandstone; drilled very hard	5	255
	Shale, soft, variegated; gray to green to red to brown to yellow; drilled hard	5	260

17. Log of test hole 17, in the SE corner sec. 36, T. 29 S., R. 25 W., drilled by the State and Federal Geological Surveys, 1939. Surface altitude, 2,566.3 feet. (Authority, samples studied by Perry McNally and H.A. Waite.)		Thickness (feet)	Depth (feet)
Kingsdown silt
	Top soil, sandy clay, brown	7	7
	Silt, soft, light brown; contains nodules of lime	12	19
	Silt, cream to light brown; contains a few nodules of lime	7	26
	Silt, brown to gray	9	35
	Silt, fine, sandy, brown; contains gravel and some nodules of lime	3	38
	Silt, fine, sandy, reddish-brown; contains a few pebbles and fragments of lime near the base	35	73
Ogallala formation
	Gravel, poorly sorted; contains quartz, granite and feldspar; some pebbles 1/2 inch in diameter	12	85
	Silt, brown; contains some fine to coarse sand	2	87
	Silt, limy, gray, reddish-brown; and silt	13	100
	Silt, fine, sandy, brown; contains a few grains of sand	7	107
	Sand, hard, lime-cemented; silty sand; limy silt; and a few fragments of chert; drilled fairly hard	4	111
	Silt, limy, soft, light gray	14	125
	Silt, limy, light gray; contains beds of cemented caliche	8	133
Dakota formation
	Shale, sandy, varicolored-ranging from yellow to gray to brick-red and blue-gray; contains some scattered fragments of Greenhorn limestone; drilled hard	7	140
	Shale, clayey, hard, yellow and gray	10	150

18. Log of test hole 18, in the NW corner sec. 1, T. 29 S., R. 26 W., drilled by the State and Federal Geological Surveys, 1939. Surface altitude, 2,635.3 feet. (Authority, samples studied by Perry McNally and H.A. Waite.)		Thickness (feet)	Depth (feet)
Kingsdown silt
	Top soil, sandy, light brown	1.5	1.5
	Silt, dark tan, soft; contains fragments of lime	31.5	33
	Silt, light tan; contains nodules of lime	32	65
	Sand, fine, and sandy silt, reddish-brown; contains fragments of lime that increase in number with depth	15	80
	Silt, sandy, light grayish-brown; contains a little coarse sand and gravel	10	90
	Silt, sandy, gray to brown; contains a little sand and gravel	14	104
Ogallala formation
	Gravel, medium to coarse, brown; fairly well sorted; predominantly quartz but contains some granite	15	119
	Sand, fine, and limy silt; yellowish-brown; contains a few pebbles	6	125
	Gravel, coarse, brown; contains considerable sand and a few dark pebbles	15	140
	Silt, sandy, light brown, lime-cemented	11	151
	Silt, limy, cream to light gray; drilled hard	9	160
	Sand, silty, white, lime-cemented; contains some fine gravel	14	174
	Silt, sandy, soft, yellowish; and limy silt; contains some sand, fine to medium brown	12	186
Greenhorn limestone (lower part)
	Shale, clay, dark gray to black, soft calcareous; drilled alternately hard and soft	4	190
	Shale, clay, dark gray; contains fragments of limestone, drilled very hard	1	191

78. Log of well (507) of Joseph Lutz, in the NE SW sec. 15, T. 29 S., R. 26 W. Surface altitude, 2,556.2 feet. (Authority, Lee and McCauley, drillers.)		Thickness (feet)	Depth (feet)
Kingsdown silt
	Soil	3	3
	Clay	25	28
	Sand, medium to coarse, dry	15	43
Ogallala formation (?)
	Sandstone, hard	7	50
	Sand, coarse, water-bearing	70	120
	Gravel, fine, and coarse sand; becomes coarser with depth to coarse gravel	29	149
Dakota formation (?)
	Sandstone, hard, white	25	174

79. Log of well (510) of George Lutz, in the SW NW sec. 24, T. 29 S., R. 26 W. Surface altitude, 2540.4 feet. (Authority, Lee and McCauley, drillers.)		Thickness (feet)	Depth (feet)
Kingsdown silt
	Clay	108	108
Ogallala formation
	Gravel, fine, water-bearing	15	123
	Clay	50	173
	Gravel, coarse, water-bearing	37	210
Dakota formation (?)
	Hard layer at	-	210

19. Log of test hole 19, in the SW corner sec. 27, T. 29 S., R. 26 W., drilled by the State and Federal Geological Surveys, 1939. Surface altitude, 2,514.0 feet. (Authority, samples studied by Perry McNally and H.A. Waite.)		Thickness (feet)	Depth (feet)
Kingsdown silt
	Top soil, sandy	2	2
	Silt and clay, brown	12	14
	Clay balls, silty, gray; containing yellow streaks	14	28
	Clay balls, silty, very light gray; containing yellow streaks	7	35
	Clay, silty, brown to greenish-gray; contains grains of sand and lime	4	39
	Gravel, fine; and sand, coarse, brown	2	41
	Gravel, fine to coarse, brown; predominantly coarse	4	45
	Gravel, coarse; contains balls of gray clay	4	49
	Clay balls silty, gray and brown	8	57
	Clay balls, silty, blue-gray	61	118
Ogallala formation
	Silt, limy, hard, light gray; contains fragments of caliche	3	121
	Sand, fine; and caliche, reddish-brown	4	125
	Silt, limy, and fine sand, cemented; gray to brown; contains fragments of lime	7	132
	Sand, coarse and gravel, fine; brown; contains red sand	13	145
	Gravel, fine to medium, poorly sorted; contains fragments of granite and feldspar	5	150
	Gravel, medium, brown; some fine gravel contains pebbles of quartz and red granite	5	155
	Gravel, coarse, brown; contains pebbles of quartz and pink granite	9	164
	Sand, fine, silty, limy, light gray	3	167
	Caliche and limy silt	3	170
	Sand, silty, lime-cemented, light gray to tan	20	190
	Sand, silty, cemented, medium to coarse	7	197
	Sand, fine to medium quartz, cemented	9	206
	Silt, soft, limy; and cemented fine sand	4	210
Dakota formation
	Clay, soft, silty, yellow; having white streaks; contains dark gray partings of shale	6	216
	Sandstone, fine-grained, soft, brown to purple; drilled easily	7	223
	Sandstone, hard, maroon to purple; sample return very poor in this interval-no recovery on an attempted coring	7	230
	Shale, soft, clay, red to brown to gray, mottled; upper 4 feet drilled easier than lower part	9	239
	Gravel, coarse, fairly uniform	11	250
	Shale, soft, clayey, variegated red to maroon to yellow to gray	8	258
	Shale, sandy, soft, variegated, mostly gray	8	266
Kiowa shale
	Shale, sandy, soft, blue-gray	7	273
	Shale, soft, blue-gray, somewhat platy, contains some partings of maroon to red shale	17	290
	Shale, soft, blue-gray; somewhat harder than bed above; contains some fragments of red silty clay, and thin bed of limestone 1/2-foot thick at base	13.5	303.5
	Shale, silty and sandy, blue-gray; interbedded with variegated clay shale and coarse sand	6.5	310
Cheyenne sandstone (?)
	Shale, silty, blue-gray; contains some lenses of sandstone throughout, some fragments of reddish-yellow soft clay-shale in the lower 10 feet of this interval, and thin layers of hard sandstone from 348 to 350 feet	40	350
	Shale, silty, blue-gray, interbedded with thin layers of sandstone	30	380

20. Log of test hole 20, in the NW corner sec. 32, T. 29 S., R. 26 W., drilled by the State and Federal Geological Surveys, 1939. Surface altitude, 2,545.5 feet. (Authority, samples studied by Perry McNally and H.A. Waite.)		Thickness (feet)	Depth (feet)
Kingsdown silt
	Top soil, sandy, clay, brown	4	4
	Silt, limy, light-brown	17	21
	Silt, limy, gray; contains nodules of lime	10	31
	Silt, sandy, brown to olive-green	15	46
	Sand, fine to medium, brown; interbedded with olive-green limy silt and small fragments of lime	4	50
	Silt, fine, sandy, brown to gray	15	65
	Silt, limy, light gray to brown	11	76
	Silt, limy, brown and gray; contains some coarse sand	8	84
	Silt, sandy, brown; contains some fine to coarse gravel	6	90
Ogallala formation
	Gravel, medium to coarse; very poorly sorted; contains some water-worn fragments of limestone; gravel contains pebbles of quartz and granite	18	108
	Sand, medium to fine gravel, and sandy silt, brown; contains considerable lime throughout; drilled alternately hard and soft	12	120
	Sand, fine, uniform, brown	10	130
	Gravel, medium to coarse; contains some sand	30	160
	Sand, medium, brown, to coarse gravel	13	173
	Silt, limy, brown; contains some medium sand and a few pebbles	3	176
	Sand, medium, brown, to coarse gravel	6	182
	Silt, sandy, limy, brown; contains some medium to coarse sand	8	190
	Silt, fine; sandy, brown; contains some pebbles	15	205
Dakota formation
	Shale, silty, clayey, soft, bluish-gray, contains a few yellow streaks; somewhat harder drilling from 220 to 260 feet	55	260

80. Log of well (522) of William Long, in the SE NE sec. 35, T, 29 S., R. 26 W. Surface altitude, 2,530.3 feet. (Authority, Lee and McCauley, drillers.)		Thickness (feet)	Depth (feet)
Kingsdown silt
	Soil	3	3
	Clay	42	45
	Sand, medium to coarse, clean	10	55
Ogallala formation
	Sand, medium to coarse; contains some clay and caliche	10	65
	Sand, medium to coarse, clean	10	75
	Clay, chiefly blue, sand red, some sandy	41	116
	Gravel, fine, and coarse sand	9	125
	Sand, medium to coarse, reddish, becoming coarser with depth	43	168
	Sand, bluish, becoming coarser with depth to fine and medium gravel	7	175
	Gravel, fine to coarse; contains a few large pebbles and boulders	13	188
Dakota formation (?)
	Shale or clay, red and blue	1	189

21. Log of test hole 21, in the NW corner sec. 36, T. 29 S., R. 26 W., drilled by the State and Federal Geological Surveys, 1939. Surface altitude, 2,535.0 feet. (Authority, samples studied by Perry McNally and H.A. Waite.)		Thickness (feet)	Depth (feet)
Kingsdown silt
	Top soil, sandy, light brown	2.5	2.5
	Silt, sandy, light brown	3.5	6
	Silt, soft, light brown; a few coarse grains of sand; somewhat sandier from 20 to 59 feet	53	59
	Sand, fine to medium, brown	7	66
	Silt, gray	9	75
	Silt and fine sand, blue-gray to brown	5	80
	Silt, fine sandy, light gray to brown	9	89
Ogallala formation
	Sand, coarse, gray-tan; contains a few nodules of lime	6	95
	Silt, sandy, gray-tan; contains lime nodules	5	100
	Sand, fine to coarse, gray-tan	8	108
	Silt, fine sandy, dark gray to buff	24	132
	Sand, coarse, and fine gravel, dark gray; contains balls of clay, and a few broken pebbles and fragments of limestone	3	135
	Sand, coarse, and fine gravel, dark gray; contains many balls of clay	3	138
	Silt and fine sand, gray-brown; contains pebbles of caliche	13	151
	Sand, coarse, and gravel, fine; gray; intermixed with gray to brown silt	6	157
	Silt, sandy, and fine sand, light gray	7	164
	Sand, coarse to medium gravel, brownish-gray	6	170
	Sand, coarse to coarse gravel, tan; intermixed with sandy silt	5	175
	Gravel, fine to coarse; contains some well-rounded pebbles intermixed with silt	5	180
	Gravel, fine to coarse, brown, poorly sorted, contains water-worn fragments of lime	12	192
Dakota formation
	Sandstone, fine to medium-grained, reddish-purple	3	195
	Sandstone, limonitic, yellow to gray; interbedded with clay shale	5	200

15. Log of test hole 15, in the NE corner sec. 1, T. 30 S., R. 23 W., drilled by the State and Federal Geological Surveys, 1940. Surface altitude, 2,473.5 feet. (Authority, samples studied by Perry McNally and H.A. Waite.)		Thickness (feet)	Depth (feet)
Kingsdown silt
	Top soil, silty loam, dark brown	2	2
	Silt, brown	6	8
	Silt, fine, sandy, brown; contains nodules of lime	12	20
	Silt, fine, sandy, limy, light brown to gray; contains a few nodules of lime	70	90
	Silt, fine, sandy, limy; contains limonitic streaks, fragments of lime, sand, and gravel	12	102
	Silt, fine, sandy, gray to brown	6	108
Ogallala formation
	Gravel, fine to coarse; contains pebbles of quartz, granite feldspar, and caliche	19	127
	Silt, fine, sandy; and fine sand, orange-brown and gray	2	129
	Sand, fine, gray; contains some coarse gravel, and a soft layer of white sand from 132 to 132.5 feet	12	141
	Sand, fine, brown; and silt, greenish-gray	6	147
	Sand, fine, reddish-brown; and greenish-gray silty fine sand and limy silt	9	156
	Silt, fine, sandy, reddish-brown to green; contains fragments of lime	17	173
	Sand, fine to fine gravel; contains small amount of caliche	7	180
	Sand, fine to coarse gravel, brown; contains water-worn fragments of caliche; poorly sorted	30	210
	Silt, gritty, soft, yellow, contains sand and gravel; contains a hard bed of caliche from 212 to 212.5 feet	10	220
Kiowa shale
	Shale, clayey, bluish-gray; contains reworked brown to gray to black to yellow shale-like material and considerable amounts of sand, gravel, and broken fragments of Cretaceous rocks; drilled fairly hard	10	230

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