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near Fish Springs/ Four groups of springs lie east of the range. 

 Hot Springs, Big Springs, and the Fish Springs are on a curving 

 Hne close to the mountains. They have a steady flow of somewhat 

 mineralized water, and their temperatures are between 78° and 

 104° F. Cane Spring lies 7 miles south of the Fish Springs group, 

 at the base of the alluvial slope. It consists of a number of seeps 

 of highly mineralized water. Up the slope to the west is the 

 Devil's Hole, a pool of water about 10 or 15 feet below the 

 surface. The form of the pool is similar to those of the Fish 

 Springs group. ^ 



Hot Springs, Big Spring, and the Fish Springs are too close to 

 the mountain front to receive much water from the alluvium. 

 Their steady flow and mineralized water imply a deep-seated 

 source, and the recent fault with which they are associated is quite 

 certainly the channel along which they rise. The Cane Spring 

 has the situation of ordinary border springs, but the character of 

 its mineralization and its large volume suggests that part of the 

 water is derived from the now buried southern extension of the 

 same fault. The Devil's Hole may be the last survivor of a group 

 of fault springs whose water has been diverted into the alluvium 

 and rises along the edge of the flat in Cane Spring. 



On the other hand, there are fissure springs for whose origin 

 there is no structural evidence. They are believed to have a deep 

 origin because they are not associated with any surface structure 

 that would warrant so strong a flow of water and because of their 

 heated or mineralized condition. Of 98 groups of hot springs in 

 California, 36 occur in granitic rocks.'' Some of these are fault 

 springs, but others are not directly associated with known faults 

 and can be accounted for only on the supposition that they rise 

 along open fractures or fissures that extend into and draw water 

 from the deeper parts of the earth's crust. 



' G. K. Gilbert, "Lake Bonneville," U.S. Geol. Survey, Monograph I (1890), 

 P- 353- 



* O. E. Meinzer, "Ground Water in Juab, Millard, and Iron Counties, Utah," 

 U.S. Geol. Survey, Water-Supply Paper 277 (1911), pp. 43-45, 124-26. 



3 G. A. Waring, " Springs of California," U.S. Geol. Survey, Water-Supply Paper 

 338 (1915), P- 154- 



