298 University Geological Survey of Kansas. 
Topeka Mineral Well. 
This well, which is in the rear of 316 Harrison street, was 
bored through thirty feet of soil and twenty-five feet of rock. 
The well above the rock is three feet in diameter and the pump 
is cemented to the opening in the rock. 
IMPROVEMENTS. 
Improvements are a commodious bath hotel with a pumping 
plant, tanks, arrangements for heating the water, cooling rooms, 
etc. Special attention has been paid to giving steam and 
Russian baths. The water is all used commercially. 
TOPEKA MINERAL WELL. 
Grams 
IONS. per liter. 
Sodium (NA) sky octane . 2803 
JENNI, 5 60000000000000 0000 .0070 
Calciumy(Ca) eee eee eee eee .0953 ‘ 
Magnesium (Mg)................ .1008 
Trong( Re) es ener eee .1514 
AN heron (4U)) 5.50000 0000s000064 .0036 
Ghloring(Cl)esayrse be eee one rOolide 
Sulfuric acid ion (SO4).......... .4385 
Silicic acid ion (SiOs)........... .2280 
Phosphoric acid ion (PQOs4)........ trace 
Nitric acid ion (NOs)............ 0244 
Hypothetically combined as follows: 
Grams Grains 
per liter. per gallon. 
Sodium sulfate (NaeaSO4)................. .3296 If), 
Sodium nitrate (NaNOs) ...........:....- .0332 1.94 
Sodium bicarbonate (NaHCOs)........... .6109 35.68 
Ammonium sulfate (NH4)oSOu4)............ .0256 1.50 
Calcium bicarbonate (CaHo(COs)2)........ . 3803 22R oi 
Magnesium chlorid (MgCle).............. .2016 11.78 
Magnesium sulfate (MgSOj).............. 2465 14.40 
Iron bicarbonate (FeH2(COs)2)............ A811 28.10 
AN KOHAMNTNES (EYEOR)o0n 02000 600000 0000000008 Pee 0068 .40 
Srlicar(SiOs) oi epee eee See eee . 1765 10.30 
Organic mattery seca ee ee .0302 1.76 
IPhosphoriclacidn(HskO)) pene eeeere trace trace 
Totals helene cee Cee 2.5273 147.62 
Temperature.......... 15° C. (59° F.) 
Analysis by Barnes and Sim. 
80. Mineral Waters of the United States, Crook, pp. 246, 247. 
