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layer at the well in the Courthouse yard is about 58 feet thick and also at the Hawes gas well, but laterally from a line drawn between these two it diminishes in thickness and runs out to a few feet at the distance of a few blocks from this axis. From this to about 1400 feet there are merely alternating layers of clay and coarse sand. About 1400 feet (Hawes gas well) there is more gravel with rounded pebbles usually rather small not exceeding 2 1/2 inches in diameter, mostly quartz or clay porphyry; usually with a thin block coating of iron oxide but occasionally without it. The greatest depth yet bores is about 2100 feet but no rock was yet encountered at that depth. At 1100 feet the water begins to be somewhat saline. contains magnesia, salt and some borax beside bubbles of