National Park Notes 



III 



this year, owing to the fact that it has been the first time in the history 

 of these springs that it has been practicable for tourists to make trips to 

 this part and have fine service, such as is given them by the Sierra Club 

 in connection with its camp located near the Soda Springs. There were 

 registered at this camp this season 2236 visitors.* This was partially due 

 to the Tioga Road, which has recently been opened and affords the tour- 

 ist a convenient way of reaching that point by automobile. The Lambert 

 Soda Springs have this year for the first time received any large extent 

 of recognition, and it would be well for the Government to take the nec- 

 essary steps to advertise these springs. 



The following is an excerpt from the report of Mr. Gerald A. War- 

 ing, found on page 237 of Water-Supply Paper 338, of pamphlet entitled 

 "Springs of California," edition of 1915, prepared by the United States 

 Geological Survey : 



"The springs rise at the northern edge of Tuolumne Meadows, about 

 125 yards north of the river's edge, at the upper border of a grassy 

 slope. There is only one spring of appreciable flow, but water bubbles 

 from numerous vents near by. The spring rises in a funnel-shaped pool 

 about 14 inches in diameter in a little log cabin that protects it. In Aug- 

 ust, 1909, it yielded about one gallon a minute, but its discharge is said 

 to vary somewhat. The water is clear, strongly carbonated, and effer- 

 vescing, but considerable iron is deposited in the pool. Within the cabin 

 are also two small vents of inappreciable discharge, marked by bubbling. 

 Six other similar pools, a few inches in diameter, lie on a low mound of 

 iron-stained lime carbonate beside the cabin, and another group of eight 

 small pools is located 15 to 25 yards northeast of the cabin. The water 

 in all of the pools is carbonated and small amounts of iron and lime car- 

 bonate are deposited at nearly all of them. Efflorescent soda salts also 

 appear in the adjoining grassy land. The following analysis shows the 

 water to be primary and secondary alkaline in character : 



Analysis of the Lambert Soda Springs 

 [Analyst and authority, F. M. Eaton (1909). Constituents 

 are in parts per million.] 



Temperature 8" C. (47° F.) 



Properties of reaction: 



Primary salinity 11 



Secondary salinity 



Tertiary salinity 



Primary alkalinity 36 



Secondary alkalinity 53 



Tertiary alkalinity 7 



* The above was the registration at the ranger's station, not at the Sierra Club 

 Camp. 



