Field notes, undated, 2 volumes
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Washed gravel & sand Co. Building & roadway. 185 ft top of ridge at edge of same pit 76 ft coarse sands at top, clay zone way up, medium, with a thin glacial alternating for the gravels or sands and gravels 57-62 muck till + some gravel. 52-57 very coarse rounded sand 50-52 - fine sand. 40-50 gravel + till in layers. 40 ft, pit railroad 22-25 ft, the clay glacial. 22 ft natural. O Cancel. Bonne Brick Co. Gravel pit at B'water St., course pebbles. Common inj gen 20-25 ft; some only 2 ft long. Many 1 foot long. Gravel connected to one glacialate at S end. 55 ft height of gravel pit.