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Stockton Cala.
Jerome Hawes esq

For many years devoted to bring artesian wells in the valley for water, oil, gas etc. and has probably done far more of this work than any other man in the state.
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In boring in the valley away from the vicinity of the foothills the strata every where show great uniformity. They consist of clays and sands the beds of clay getting relatively thicker as they descend the beds of sand usually 6 - 8 feet thick remaining unchanged while the clay will sometimes obtain more than 100 feet without a break. The layers are perfectly horizontal, or at right angles to the axis of the bore. Gravel is rare. At about 200 feet in Stockton there is a layer of which the pebbles reach the size of cobblestones. This