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north side of the road on the west side of Soda Spring Creek. lie 

 says : 



They are very numerous and half hidden by tufts of grass. * * * They are some 

 of them deep and of various sizes, sometimes several yards in diameter, and kept in 

 constant motion by columns of escaping gas. By analysis, one quart of the water 

 contains as follows : 



Grains. 



Sulphate of magnesia 12.10 



Sulphate of lime 2. 12 



Carbonate of lime 3.8(5 



Carbonate of magnesia 3.23 



Chloride of calcium 1.33 



Chloride of magnesium 1.12 



Chloride of sodium 2.24 



Vegetable extractive matter, &c 0.85 



28.84 

 The carbonic acid originally contained in the water had mainly escaped before it 

 was subjected to analysis, and it was not, therefore, taken into consideration. 



I am unable to identify his large Beer Spring in which the tempera- 

 tures obtained by him were 65° and 50°. North of the road, however, 

 there is a red mound in which the springs are extinct, but I think this is 

 too far from the river to be the locality of the springs mentioned by 

 him. 



River Springs. — This name I have given to a couple of springs near 

 the river, between Basin Creek and Soda Spring Creek. They are about 

 25 yards above Cold Spring, and gave the following temperatures with 

 the air at 80° P. : Spring No. 1, 71° F. ; spring No. 2, 59° F. These I be- 

 lieve to be the springs put down on the map made in 1871* with tem- 

 peratures of 65° and 66$°, as they are surrounded with extinct basins or 

 holes and occupy the same relative position. In the river opposite 

 these springs there are many points of ebullition, showing the presence 

 of spriugs in its bed, which has a layer of tufa at the bottom. 



Iron Springs. — Two of the most agreeable tasting springs are situated 

 near the mouth of Soda Spring Creek, on the east side, near the west 

 village. 



Spring 'No. 1 has a slight ebullition of carbonic-acid gas 5 its tempera- 

 ature was 54° F., with the air at 78° F. 



Spring No. 2 is quiet, but the water is very pungent; the basin is 

 bright red in color; the temperature was 60° F., air 78° F. 



The town of Soda Springs is on Soda Spring Creek, about a mile and 

 a half from the west village, which formerly was called Morristown. 

 Near it there are several important springs. One of these is called the 

 Pavilion Spring. 



Pavilion Spring. — It has been walled up and a pavilion erected; it is 

 close to the creek and is rather agreeable in taste; considerable gas 

 escapes, and the basin is hned with iron oxide ; the temperature was 

 52° F., with the air at 82° F. In the creek opposite the spring there 

 are several points from which gas escapes through the water, and above 

 the Pavilion there are several small springs. What will attract notice 

 first here, however, are the cone-like mounds west of the town. These, 

 in 1871, were called Pyramid Springs and Bluff Springs, and I shall 

 retain the names in the description. 



Pyramid Springs. — The mound on which these springs are located has 

 been built layer by layer from the sediment left by the evaporation of 

 the water as it has poured over the sides from the springs. There is a 

 spring on the summit from which water is run into a tank to supply 



* Report U. S. Geol. Survey for 1872, 1873, p. 173. 



