Page 190 - 1915, Springs of CA.

174 SPRINGS OF CALIFORNIA.
a collecting tank and a bathhouse containing two compartments
have furnished means for bathing. The water issues from dark shale
that is here exposed beside the creek and deposits considerable lime
carbonate. The two principal drinking springs are at the camp
grounds, which are a quarter of a mile southward up the ravine, and
issue from seams in coarse-textured sandstone, one of them at the
creek edge, the other about 25 yards farther upstream and 3 or 4
yards from the creek. Both are carbonated and deposit considerable
iron. On the slopes within 100 yards of these springs there is a small
area of mica schist and pyroxene rock associated with outcrops, of
cherty material, which is worthy of note in connection with the
deposits of iron in the basins of the springs. A seeping carbonated
spring issues in a branch gully about 150 yards above the principal
drinking springs, and 50 yards farther up the main ravine the fifth
spring issues from a bank of sandstone. Like the two principal
springs, this spring deposits considerable iron, and, like the lowest
one, it deposits also small amounts of lime carbonate. The water of
all of the springs is cool, and the flows are only a quarter of a gallon
to 2 gallons a minute.
SALMON CREEK MINERAL SPRINGS (MENDOCHSTO 18).
A small camping resort has been built up at Salmon Creek Mineral
Springs about 12 miles east of Willits. Two small mineralized
springs on the property are known, respectively, as Black Sulphur
and Soda and Iron, and are used during the camping season as drink-
ing springs. They are similar in mode of occurrence to Baker Mineral
Springs, a few miles northward, but the sulphureted nature of one of
the springs makes it similar in general character to springs farther
west on a branch of Deep Creek, which are described with the sulphur
springs (p. 258).

CARBONATED SPRINGS AT TRAVELERS HOME (MENDOCDSTO 13).
At Travelers Home (Hearst post office), which is a small mountain,
resort 14 miles by road northeast of Willits, there are about a dozen
small carbonated springs. Several of them are used for drinking, but
they have not been otherwise developed. The locality, like that of
the other carbonated springs in the mountains eastward from Willits
Valley, is one of disturbed sedimentary rocks.

KENSNER SODA SPRING (MENDOCINO 14).
Kinsner Soda Spring rises in a ravine 150 yards south of the wagon
road and a mile west of Travelers Home. The water, which rises in
a small basin excavated in soft sandstone, is strongly carbonated
and probably contains considerable calcium, for lime carbonate and
cemented gravel line portions of the bed of the ravine. At the road-