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Title: Artesian and underflow investigation. Final report.
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: United States. Office of Irrigation Inquiry Hinton, Richard J. (Richard Josiah), 1830-1901 Nettleton, Edwin S Hay, Robert, 1835-1895 Gregory, J. W. (John Walter), 1864-1932 Coffin, Frederick Frentress Bedggood, 1833-
Subjects: Irrigation United States Artesian wells United States Groundwater United States
Publisher: Washington, Govt. Print. Off.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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on theast. They both carry consider-able water prior to entering Montana. The Big Muddy is, however, dry at its mouthmost of the year; the Poplar River, on the contrary, always carries considerablewater, and in spring is liable to overflows. In Montana the whole of this sectionpertains to the lignite formation, the dip of strata being, I should judge, slightly eastof south. In places, however, on the Missouri, the strata have been so disturbed byfires burning the lignite veins that it is hard to judge. The center of the section iscomparatively flat, and at points marked A on map forms sandy depressed plains.Generally speaking, the surface soil is an adobe, the bluffs north of the Missouri Val-ley carrying considerable alkali in various places. The general character of thestrata, however, is lignite of either the close of the Cretaceous period or beginning ofthe Tertiary period, and is identical with those of northwestern Dakota. I wouldconsider points A A as probable artesian centers.
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s2a£ r-^-ti-»-if U I () s r U WE S, T m tr\\ .10 !■! GeoiogicalMap urportion o, MONTANA pwing possiiitity of fmbibitioK o. Available for Ahtesiah purposes \„ -By- ; O.C Mortson !,_ ii- — _ _ —._-__ _ _ ;_ _ i THE HYDRO-GEOLOGY OF UPPER MISSOURI. 79 Section No. 2.—The Milk River Valley. This section may properly be divided into two parts, as a portion of the Milk RiverValley lies, in Canadian territory. Taking the western part of this section the fol-lowing remarks are applicable. It would be an easy matter to divert the waters ofSt. Marys River into Milk River for irrigation purposes, but the Canadian settlerswould derive the benefits therefrom first and before the American settlers living eastof 111° west longitude. In this western part of the section the strata for the most-part are soft white and gray sandstones, apparently of either Upper Cretaceous orLower Tertiary. It consists of a very high ridge separating the waters of Milk audMarias rivers. The dip of strata, ex

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