202 MINERAL SPRINGS OF TEE UNITED STATES. 
Analyses of mineral springs in Nevada. 
[llCLL. 3: 
Larger Soda Lake, near Ragtown. 
Ward's 
Hot Springs, 
Granite 
Mountain. 
Hot Springs 
at 
Hot Spring 
Station. 
Hot watoi 
Constituents. 
Surface 
water. 
30i inches 
below 
surface. 
Unspeci- 
fied. 
from 
OpbirMine. 
Giams 
per liter.* 
26.410 
0.940 
Grams 
per liter* 
24.840 
0.940 
Parts in 
l,000. b 
29.25 
0.06 
Grams per Grama per Grains per 
liter.* liter.* rfallon.' 
Magnesium carbonate 
4. 10 
Sodium sulphate 
19. 170 
19.450 
13.76 
0. 4267 
0. 0179 
0. 40.39 
0. 0050 
2. 67 
0. 1247 
10.01 
0. 0063 
3.65 
64.94 
0.65 
Sodium chloride 
71. 470 
4.820 
0.404 
68. 930 
5.110 
0.417 
0. 3665 1. 4946 
0. 0363 0. 1278 
0.60 
0.24 
0. 1942 0. 1480 
Silica 
0.304 
0.310 
0.21 
2.21 
0. 0180 0. 2060 
0.47 
2.12 
cess. 
Loss 
1.612 
5.153 
0. 0059 
0.27 
Total 
125. 130 
125. 150 
114. 70 
1. 1902 
2. 4953 26. SS 
• T. M. Chatard, analyst (1884). b O. D Allen, analyst (1877). c George Atwood, analyst. 
CALIFORNIA. 
The States of the Pacific coast are remarkable for the number of their 
mineral springs, especially of hot and warm springs, and California 
stands at the head of the list, having probably more localities than any 
other State, east or west. Our table does not give the total number of 
individual springs, since complete reports have been received from com- 
paratively few of the localities included. The springs are classified as 
sulphureted, carbonated, alkaline, saline, chalybeate, and acid. Nat- 
urally many of the springs are thermal, for the volcanic rocks with 
which such springs are usually associated are found in many portions 
of the State. A large number of the California springs are improved 
and utilized as places of resort, being visited by thousands of people 
annually. Many, however, are comparatively inaccessible, and are 
therefore little known. The best known springs are probably the Gey- 
ser Springs of Sonoma County, which are really a collection of fuma- 
roles, solfataras, and boiling springs. There are nearly a dozen localities 
at which the waters are put up for sale and shipment. 
The list of springs given here has been compiled from various sources. 
The report of Dr. F. W. Hatch, in the Sixth Report of the State Board 
of Health, for 1880, and various hand-books (among them Truman's 
Illustrated Guide and U. H. Chittenden's Health and Pleasure Re- 
sorts of the Pacific Coast) have been drawn upon in its preparation. 
Besides these, the reports of the State mineralogist, Henry G. Hanks, 
(330) 
