WATER RESOURCES. 379

Deep wells have been drilled at a number of places in the county.

Mr. H. H. Carr, driller, of Goldsboro, N. C., has furnished the follow-
ing table of records of wells drilled at Beaufort, N. C.:

RECORD OF WELLS DRILLED AT BEAUFORT, N. Cc.
By H. H. Carr.

 

 

 

 

 

 

No, Owner, Depth. Diameter. | How Obtained, "
1 D. Dawson Son Company _______. 280 2 inches Flows.
2} Town. of, Béaufortoc 2 oo | 280 | 2 inches Flows.
ol Bown of Keantorg. 202 2 ak 300 | 2 inches Flows.
4: | Tow. of Beaufort 02082 | 280 2 inches Flows.
5.-|. Town. of Beaufort. . 22.2.2 2. 280 2 inches Flows,
6 | C..A. Clawson... 2.2 PRAT sere a 280 2 inches Flows.

 

In the vicinity of Stella, shell-rock probably of Eocene age is reported
to underlie the surface at depths ranging from 3 to 20 feet. Water
obtained below this rock is hard. Mr. J. C. Barker drilled to a depth
of 78 feet at this place, and after the drill had passed through several
strata of shell-rock, hard water rising to within 25 feet of the surface
was obtained.

_ For detailed information regarding other deep wells in the county
the reader is referred to the table of well data below.
_ Assays of waters from this county are given in Table 1, pp, 492-495,
assays Nos. 29-35. These are discussed on pp. 485, 486.

_. Artesian Prospects—In the west the sandy and more porous layers
in the Eocene limestone and farther east the sandy strata of the Mio-
cene and Pliocene beds are water-bearing. These horizons are reached
at depths of from 30 to 300 feet. It would appear from the data con-
tained in the accompanying tables that the principal water horizon at

_ Beaufort lies between 270 and 300 feet below the surface, and at More-

head City between 225 and 230 feet below the surface.