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which rendered it unfit for boiler or domestic use. Very small flows
are reported at Oriental from wells 25 to 30 feet in depth. The water
is slightly hard and ferruginous. Several wells 50 to 80 feet in depth
have been driven at Vandemere. The well of the Pamlico Lumber
Company, located in the creek channel where the water is about 10
feet deep, yielded a strong flow at a depth of 50 or 60 feet, the top of
the pipe being 2 feet above the river level. The flow is reported to vary
with the level of the water in the river and to increase with a north-
east wind. Another well at an oyster cannery, driven to a depth of
100 feet, furnished a very hard sulphurous water, and was therefore
abandoned. Two of the strongest flowing wells in the county have been
obtained in the extreme northeast near Hobucken. The water is
strongly sulphnrous.

Assays of waters from this county are given in Table 1, pp. 500, 501,
assays Nos. 146-152. These are discussed on page 490. ;

Artesian Prospects—In all parts of the county water can be obtained
at depths of from 50 to 200 feet or more. Except in the higher area
in the west, the water will rise nearly to the surface, and where the
surface is less than 5 or 6 feet above sea level will overflow. The flows

_ in most cases will be small. At depths exceeding 350 or 400 feet salty

water is apt to be encountered.

 

 

COUNTY.
Yield per minute.
i Ho Geologie horizon
obtained st} Use: tamara. | Remarks.
Flow— | Pump— surface. water-beds, }
gallons. | gallons, |
Sai Ae one YES ip OF oe Te Miocene. Other horizons at 60 and 120 ft.
6 30 flowsand  domesticand Miocene; shell-rock.
t pumped by boiler. ‘
RE, pera cama coon mtay 6 TS Ceca Miocene. {
Ine eet hand pump.| domestic. | Miocene? or Pliocene? Other horizons at 37 and 62 ft.
(tat ereee Jeeesnane ns flows. _ drinking se Roper i Pliocene? |

Sa Shes a ‘ ? or P
cee) pomp, | dba, Mono Font
Doig es Boel ciolaguaress domestic and Miocene? or Pliocene?

 

 

 

 

 

| . _ white sand,
Wad enmee ata ges be pump, domestic. Eocene; rock,
eto becaclateis, oot {4 pump. boilerand Miocene? or Pliocene?
| domestic. san,

 

level. Towards the southeast it gradually becomes lower, until along
ve Albemarle Sound it is only about 5 feet above the sea. _ ;

_ Geology.—Fine sands and sandy loams of the Pamlico formation
_ form the surface materials over the entire county. These conceal beds
of sand, clay, and shell marl, probably for the most part of Pleisto-