460 THE COASTAL PLAIN OF NORTH CAROLINA.

inexhaustible with a small Worthington steam pump. A 19-hour test
was made on the seven wells with a steam pump having a capacity of
25 gallons per minute. The level of the water was not perceptibly
lowered. They are now being pumped at the rate of about 20 gallons
per minute. The water gives a slight red scale in boilers.
At Grimesland several wells have been sunk to depths of from 40 to

240 feet, the water rising to within 15 feet of the surface.
The A. G. Cox Manufacturin

 

The water is ferruginous, but is reported to scale but little. This well
is pumped 10 hours a day at the rate of 514 gallons per minute.
On the farm of G. W. Cox, 6 miles east of Ayden, on land the eleva-
_ tion of which is between 20 and 30 feet above sea level, a well driven
toa depth of 16 feet yielded a flow of about 2 gallons per minute.

Tn the town of Grifton deep wells 80 to 195 feet deep and from 114
to 5 inches in diameter are used. There are about fifteen deep wells in

, of which the town owns eight. The water rises to within a few fe

the surface. The first well was drilled about 1896. The wa