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MINERAL SPRINGS OF THE UNITED STATES. 
Analyses of mineral springs in Alabama— Continued. 
[bull. 32. 
Constituents. 
Taylor's Springs 
Spring No. 1. 
Spring No. 2. 
Spring No. 3. 
Orains 
per gaUon.* 
0.42 
0.68 
1.03 
0.26 
0.03 
0.02 
Trace 
0.12 
0.12 
0.14 
Trace 
Orains 
perga¥Lon* 
0.49 
0.64 
1.30 
0.23 
0.03 
0.03 
Trace 
0.08 
0.06 
0.07 
Orains 
pergaUon." 
0.43 
0.55 
1.09 
0.25 
0. OJ 
0. 03 
Trace 
0. 07 
o. 11 
07 
Trace 
Silica 
0. 29 0. 32 
0. 20 
0.81 
1.01 
0.04 
1. 54 
Total 
3.82 
4.30 
4.43 
» J. Lawrence Smith, analyst. 
MISSISSIPPI. 
The mineral springs of Mississippi are numerous, and, like those of 
the neighboring States, are largely chalybeate. In certain localities 
the greater portion of the wells and springs are highly mineralized. 
Waile's report on the geology of Mississippi states that, along the 
whole extent of the Yazoo and Tallahatchee Valleys and the whole 
front below, on the Mississippi Elver, copious springs issue from the 
bluffs, the water flowing from beds of ocherous earth and pyritous 
clays. The water is highly charged with sulphate of iron and its 
habitual use is very pernicious. Many of the artesian wells of the 
State are also mineralized. Prof. E. W. Hilgard, in his geological re- 
port for 1860, says: "Few neighborhoods in the State are without a 
mineral spring or well of some kind, good, bad, or indifferent." Many 
of these springs have extensive local reputations and appear to be 
used somewhat indiscriminately by the residents for medicinal pur- 
poses. Only a few of the springs have any commercial importance. 
Ocean Springs and Iuka Springs are the best known resorts. Cooper's 
Well was well known before the war and, with others, is being revived 
as a pleasure resort. 
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