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The dangers outlined above in all surface water supplies may perhaps cause some to think that after all, the fine, sweet waters of the shallow wells dug in our grandfather's day or the deep driven wells of more recent times, may afford a pure and wholesome supply.

The dangers outlined above in all surface water supplies may perhaps cause some to think that after all, the fine, sweet waters of the shallow wells dug in our grandfather's day or the deep driven wells of more recent times, may afford a pure and wholesome supply.

What are the geological condition in and about Wooster bearing on this point? By a reference to the report of the State Geologist we find that the [[City Of Wooster|city of Wooster]] is located upon the uppermost layers of what is known as the Waverley series of rocks the formation immediately under much of the city consisting of coarse, earthy and loosely stratified sandstones.

What are the geological condition in and about Wooster bearing on this point? By a reference to the report of the State Geologist we find that the [[City Of Wooster|city of Wooster]] is located upon the uppermost layers of what is known as the Waverley series of rocks the formation immediately under much of the city consisting of coarse, earthy and loosely stratified sandstones. These rocks are within a few feet of the surface over the region north of Bowman street, where they are so soft and the stratification so broken that they can be moved with an ordinary pickax.

 

As excavations are carried deeper, the rock becomes harder and less calcareous and is found in heavier layers, until at a depth of 20 or 30 feet, excellent quarry stone is reached. The character of this formation, with its loose joints and numerous wide vertical cleavage cracks and tissues is well illustrated by the photograph, facing this page which shows the old quarry north of town at the intersection of Market and Bever streets. It will be observed that the rock beds are in nearly horizontal layers, and that therefore the hills and valleys which give to Wayne county her wealth of beautiful scenery, have been formed not by the ridging up or folding of the underlying rocks, but the valleys have been ploughed out by the restless sweep of the ice ____ of the glacial age, and smoothed, _____ up or cut out deeper by the torrents of melted ice water following the retreat of the ice fields to the north.

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