26 MINERAL SPRINGS OF THE UNITED STATES. 
Analyses of mineral springs in Connecticut. 
[BULL. 32. 
Constituents. 
Oxford Spring. 
Stark Mineral 
Spring. 
Sodium bicarbonate 
Potassium bicarbonate 
Magnesium bicarbonate 
Calcium bicarbonate 
Iron carbonate 
Iron bicarbonate 
Sodium sulphate 
Potassium sulphate 
Lithium sulphate , 
Magnesium sulphate 
Calcium sulphate 
Sodium chloride 
Silicic acid , 
Silica and insoluble matter 
Organic matter 
Loss 
Gr8. per gall. ■ Ors. per gall. b 
0.29 
0.10 
' 0.33 
1.23 
0.91 
0.49 
Trace 
Trace 
0.62 
1.16 
0.34 
1.33 
1.27 
0.10 
Total. 
6.22 
0.06 
0.18 
0.33 
0.85 
3.37 
• George F. Barker, analyst (1873). 
b S. W. Johnson, analyst (1880). 
NEW YORK. 
New York is distinguished among her sister States for the number 
of her mineral springs. On the list she is credited with a greater num- 
ber of localities than any other State, which may be due to the fact 
that attention has been more drawn to the subject of mineral springs in 
New York than in most other States, probably on account of the com- 
mercial success of the Saratoga Springs. It is due also, in part, to the 
fact that the springs have been pretty thoroughly studied and so many 
of them subjected to chemical examination. The list given by Professor 
Beck in Vol. Ill of the New York Geological Reports was very complete 
for the State at the time it was published (1842). Since then many 
springs have been discovered. Some considered unimportant at that 
time have since been developed, while others used as resorts have been 
abandoned. The springs are of great variety. The majority of them 
are sulphureted. As to the solid mineral contents, saline and chalybeate 
springs predominate. The Mghest temperature reached by any of the 
springs is at Lebanon, where the thermal spring attains 75° F. Several 
of the springs at Saratoga and Baltston have temperatures that exceed 
the mean annual temperatures of those places, and are, therefore, in a 
strict seuse, thermal spriugs. 
Another point of interest in relation to the New York mineral springs 
is the occurrence of springs containing free sulphuric acid, as springs of 
this class are somewhat rare. The most celebrated spring of this class 
in New York is probably the Oak Orchard spring. 
The Saratoga Springs are the most widely known of American springs 
and have many namesakes in all parts of the United States, being in 
all probability the first mineral springs of the country to be improved 
as a place of resort, the first hotel for the accommodation of visitors 
having been opened there in 1774. 
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