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CARBONATED SPRINGS. 165
Analyses of onyx marbles from Kessler Springs and Tolenas Springs, Cal.a
[R. L. Packard, analyst.]

Kessler Tolenas
Springs. Springs.

nar. columnar.
3.50 3.25
2.72 2.70
Analysis as reported:
93.68 95.48
1.43 2.20
3.93
.06
1.59
0.11
.25
. Water (H2O)............................... ............................. 0.37
99.35 99.75
Recalculated form:
1.897
.029
Calcium (Ca).. . ......................................................... 37. 612 38. 192
.412 .634
.077
.943
59.290 59.534
Phosphate (PO^.. .............. ........................................ .110
Water (H2O).. .......................................................... .370
99.350 99.750
o Merrill, G. P., The onyx marbles: Their origin, composition, and uses, both ancient and modern:
IT. S. Nat. Mus. Kept, for 1893, table facing p. 559.
LYTTON SPRINGS (SONOMA 9).
Lytton Springs are one-half mile west of Lytton station, in the
hills that border the valley of Russian River, in Sonoma County.
A number of years ago there was a resort at the springs, and the
place was known as Geyser Spa. In 1910, however, the property
was conducted as the Golden Gate Orphanage, under the auspices
of the Salvation Army. The principal spring rises in the bed of a
small stream at. the northern side of the grounds. The water was
formerly bottled in a house directly over the spring, and in 1910 it
was still marketed, but the bottling house was not in repair and the
water was piped a few yards below to a small shelter, where it formed
a drinking fountain. The water tastes moderately carbonated and
distinctly saline. Analysis 1 in the following table probably repre-
sents water from this spring and indicates that it is primary alkaline
saline in character. Two other smaller carbonated springs that rise
on the hillside half a mile northwestward have been unused for
several years and when visited were of little importance. Analysis 2
in the table, which probably represents water from one of these
springs, indicates that it is much less strongly mineralized than the
main spring and that primary salinity, primary alkalinity, and
secondary alkalinity are about equally prominent as properties.