Twelfth Annual Report of the Bureau of Science— 1913.] 



Fig. 1. Showing the apparatus for transferring brine from evaporating reservoirs to 

 crystallizing vats which are on a higher level. 



Fig. 2. The lower end of a bamboo trough from the Salinas salt springs, showing the wel 

 from which the brine is carried to the evaporating pans. 



PLATE XLVII. 



