Bulletin 23. Potash in the Greensands of NJ, 1923 - State of New ...

POTASHINTHE GREE_EA_OF NEW JEBSEY.
favorably situated for commercial enterprise, and to determine the
nature and thickness of the overburden in those areas.
The investigation was begun at the instance of the United States
Geological Survey, but the New Jersey Department of Conservation
and Development cooperated in it, with the understanding that the
cost of the work should be divided as nearly equally as possible
between the State and the Federal Survey. The money actually
expended in field work amounted to $2,884, of which the State paid
$1,550 and the Survey $1,334. The Survey, however, furnished
the time of the field geologist and the numerous chemical analyses
and assumed the other expenses incidental to the preparation and
publication of the report.
_CKNOWLEDG_:EI_TS.
The writer desires to express his thanks to Dr. Henry B. Ktimmel,
State geologist, and his staff for much helpful information and for
the use of unpublished data, including field notes, manuscript maps,
and well records. Several days were spent at his office in the study
of thls material. Dr. Kiimmel accompanied the writer on several
trips to different parts of the marl belt, one of which was made possible
by the kindness of Prof. Gilbert Van Ingen, of Princeton University,
who gave his time and the use of his automobile. Dr. M. W.
Twitchell, assistant State geologist, went over some 500 cardg in
search of analyses that might bear on potash exploration, hunted
out numerous well records, and kindly permitted the use of his
unpublished manuscript on the water resources of the State.
The numerous analyses embodie(t in this report were made in the
laboratories of the Geological Survey, mostly by 1%. K. Bailey,
though some were made by Chase Palmer and E. T. Erickson. George
Steiger, chief chemist, made many helpful suggestions, and W. B.
Hicks, of the laboratory staff, visited parts of the field with the
writer. E. S. Larsen, jr., examined a number of thin sections and
made helpful suggestions. Hoyt S. Gale, geologist in charge of
the potash investigations of the Survey, Mr. Hicks, and _fiss M. 1%.
Nourse have contributed valuable suggestions and criticism.
The writer is indebted to the following persons for permission to
diZdl on their land: Messrs. Louis A. Fogg, T. R. Miller, and Lucius
Hires, of Salem; Mr. Isaac K. Lippincott, of Woodstown; Mr. J. C.
Voorhles, of Woodbury_ secretary of the West Jersey Marl & Transportation
Co. (owner of property at Sewoll) ; Mr. Thomas McMichael,
of Somerdale (Laurel Springs post office); Mr. Alfonso Fusco, of
Elmwood Road; Dr. E. W. Taylor, of Germantown, Pa. (owner of
property near Vincentown); Dr. J. Clifford Haines, of Vincentown;
the Norcross & Edmunds Co., of Birmingham; Mr. W. G. Taylor, of
Pembertun; Mr. Alfred Cox, of Jullnstown; and Miss Rebecca
NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY