Page 125 - 1915, Springs of CA.

HOT SPRINGS. 117
In general character the springs seem to be similar to the large group
on Pit River, but their waters are not so hot and their discharges
not nearly so large.

BASSETT HOT SPRING (LASSEN 1).
About 2^ miles north of east from Bieber, in Big Valley, is a hot
spring that has been improved and for a number of years has been
used for bathing, and as the place was formerly owned by a Mr. Bas-
sett, it is locally known as Bassett Hot Spring. The water rises with
a temperature of 173° from a fissure in tuffaceous sandstone that is
exposed in a small depression 6 or 8 feet below the normal valley
level. A pool about 20 by 40 yards across is formed here, and from
it the water flows into another somewhat smaller pool. It is further
cooled before reaching bathtubs in a building a few yards beyond,
by flowing in open wooden troughs. The total flow is approximately
175 gallons a minute. The water is used for irrigating a vegetable
garden near by, and boxes of earth that contain tomato and other
tender plants are kept on the low tuffaceous ridge at the spring and
are thus prevented from freezing. The water has no distinct odor
nor taste, and the following analysis shows it to be a moderately
mineralized primary saline water of the sulphate type:

Analysis of water from Bassett Hot Spring, Lassen County, Cal.
[Analyst and authority, F. M. Eaton (1909). Constituents are in parts per million.]
78° C. (173° F.)
Properties of reaction:
85
9
0
0
6
(?)
By Reacting
Constituents. weight. values.
| 224 9.74
34 1.68
Traoe. Trace.
Sulphate (SO4). ..................................................................... 377 7.85
Chloride (Cl). ....................................................................... 101 2.85
Carbonate (CO3).... ................................................................ 21 .70
757
Carbon dioxide (C02) ............................................................... 0 .00

STONEBREAKER HOT SPRINGS (LASSEN 2).
About 3^ miles southeast of Bassett Hot Spring a number of
hot pools and springs rise near the southeast edge of Big Valley,
in meadow land that formerly belonged to a Mr. Stonebreaker.
Six pools and springs were counted in a belt extending for 275 yards