Show REDWOOD TIMBER 0 an interesting commentary on the lasting quality of redwood is given in the overland guidebook of tile the government geological survey in an article dealing with wells in in the west one of the first deep wells drilled was put down near huxley nevada by the central pacific railway in 1881 in a search for good water the boring reached a d depth e ath of 2750 feet but the water obtained was of very unsatisfactory quality at 1700 00 feet the drill encountered a bed of petrified claims and the record states that at 1900 feet well preserved redwood timber was f found |