Interlayer oxidized zone and argillite-sisandstone-argillite sequence occur in red clastic rock formation with ideal artesian and circulating system of ground water.
We already possess, in the artesian well, the means of converting unfertile wastes into rich corn fields;and what unknown forces may not yet be hidden in the interior of the earth?
In this western Pennsylvania region salt manufacture had been a thriving business for many years; the salt was obtained from salt water by means of artesian wells.
Then there was the pumping plant for the artesian well, and the big cement tank where Judge Miller's boys took their morning plunge and kept cool in the hot afternoon.