Box 15, Folder 1: Geolog - Notes 1868

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Mineral Point

Bracken + Allens Mine.

Yellow Limestone 75 feet

} Galena

Upper Opening (Lead) 3 to 8 "

Glass Rock 9 to 12 "

Middle Opening (Lead) 3 " 8 " Blue

Soft Spungy Limestone 13 " 18 " } +

Lower Opening (Lead) 4 " 8 " Buff

White Soft Limestone 1 " 2 "

Upper Sandstone (Red) - -

Whitney Met. Wealth p. 409.

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Section at a Quarry behind the mill near the rail road Station. Whitny Wis Rep. p 160

Gray fossiliferous limestone 10 to 12 ft

} Blue

Yellowish " 3 2/12 "

Buff Limesln [Limestone] 14 2/12

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Galena Limestone 40 to 80 ft

Blue 20 - 30

Buff 20 25

Sandstone 100

Whilney [Whitney] p 354

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Depot at Mineral Point 400 ft above L.Mich

R. Road 5 m s. of Mineral Point 275

" " Fort Gratiot 225

" " State line (Sec 34 T 1 R 4) 475

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Milwaukee + Prairie du Chien Rail Road.

At Edgerton 241 1/2 above L. Mich

Stoughton 278 1/2

McFarland 289 over 3 Lake 267

Madison 274 1/2

Middleton 347 Cross Plains 280

Black Earth 232

Mezomania 195 (Pond 200)

Arena 154. 1/2 on Bridge 138 1/2 River 124

Spring Green 144

Lone Rock 126

on Bridge 119 1/2 River 108

Avoca 117

Muscoda 109

Boscobel 89 - River 54 Kickapoo river 49

Wauzeka 60

Prairie du Chien 41.

Wisconsin river at Arena 124.? or [illegible]?

Janesville 240

Hanover 209

Oxford 312 1/2

Broadhead 221

Sugar River 199

Juda 353

Monroe 472

Fourth Lake, Madison 256

Fifth Lake (Ses7#T7R8) 324

Mud Lake (Ses10- 7 - 8) 328

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Mounds

West Blue Mound 1151

East Blue Mound (about) 1000

Platte mounds (both nearly the same) 703

Sinsinawa Mound 604

Scales Mound Illinois 582

Whitney, Wis Rep. p. 113

Rock River at

Beloit 138

Bass Creek ([Slater?] 10)) 153 {At Spring Cr 164 Bass Cr 167 1/2

Janesville 175

Cat fish (s. line 18 - 4 - 12 179

Lake Koshkonong 183

Fort Atkinson 184

Catfish Creek At Stoughton 260

Below dam at Fulton (s.line 18-4-12) 179

Evansville Sec 27 - T 4 R 10 E 300

Summit 24 5 9 455

SW 1/4 19 3 10 400

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Lower Magnesian

30 ft above Creek on Legate Branch, near Mineral poit [point]

Whitny p 150 -

100 ft above the river at Ellenboro -same p 150

35 to 40 ft above river at Moscow, 16 m. East from Mineral point - Same

At Argyle on Doughty Branch 20 ft

South of Wyota

Primrose on Sugar r.

At north end of L. Michigan only 50 ft in thickness - F +W. 2 p 134

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Upper Sandslone [Sandstone]

At Prairie du Ch 82 ft u = 324 A

On Grant River at crossing of road from Pr. du Chien to Lancaster 72 feet

At Mineral Point, about 100 feet -

Two miles above Beloit - also at Janesville &c

At Pigeon Diggings 60 feet exposed.