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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1870
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306 FREEMAN—Boulders could not be brought from any great distance. A few miles south of any anticlinal axis one will find a large amount of drift shorn off from the elevation. They decrease in size as you go southward. When the stone is a large mass, you can often^ determine its age from the fossils. Loda and its neighborhood are sandy. The sand came from the region just north. The quick-sand bed at Champaign is probably the same thing that is at the surface at Loda. MAHAN—Has the upheaval been made since the top soils were deposited? FBEEMAN—No, sir. As to the conditions here, the blue clay seems to reach here from the north. MAHAN—Eelow No. 6 here, we pass through gravel mixed with blue clay. In the east part of the town water is soft. On the fair ground we find yellow clay, and the water is hard. HONTON—There is lime in all the wells I have examined here. FREEMAN—The general character of water in the basin is saline. It is the cause of fever in the region. Mr. Pullen's well is chalybeate and slightly saline. Mr. COOPER, of the Gentralia Sentinel, after deprecating the apparent tendency of some to undervalue the Centralia soils, read the following table of borings, made by the Illinois Central railway, between April 11, 1855, and November 27, 1856, at this place: Blue clay, with yellow sand Sandstone Blue slate, light color Blue slate, dark color Bituminous shade Hard blue clay mixed with gravel Blue slate Soapstone Limestone Bituminous coal Soapstone Lime rock Soapstone Bituminous shale Coal Limestone Soapstone Sandstone Thickness of vein. . . . . . 20 6 1 10 10 .....55 8 8 3 6 25 6 91 4 1 6 /.... 12 6 93 6 2 3 20 151 25 Total depth. 20 6 22 4 32 4 88 88 8 92 2 107 8 209 216 222 234 240 333 6 335 6 338 6 358 6 509 6 534 6
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