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conveyed by tramway to a warehouse a short distance down the ravinCj
where they were labeled and boxed, and thence taken by team to the
railroad at Ukiah.
The following analysis shows the water to be highly concentrated
and primary and secondary alkaline in character. The relatively
large proportion of magnesium is of interest.1

Analysis of water from main spring at Witter Medical Springs, Lake County, Cal.
[Analysts, Curtis and Tompkins (1902). Authority, advertising matter. Constituents are in parts per
million.]
Properties of reaction:
Primary salinity. ............................................................... 8
0
0
53
39
24
By, Reacting
Constituents.
weight. values.
Sodium (Na). ....................................................................... 3,095 134.53
84 2.14
.04 .01
Ammonium (WRi)... , Trace. Trace.
Traces.
Calcium (Ca). ....................................................................... 148 7.4*
Magnesium- (Mg). . ............ i ..................................................... 950 78.12
Iron (Fe)..... ......................................................................
| 4.9 .21
1.5 .0&
Sulphate (SO4) ...................................................................... 8.6 .18
Nitrate (NO3). ...................................................................... Trace. Trace.
Chloride (Cl).... .................................................................... 651 18. 3S
6,032 201.07
Me taborate ( B O2) ................................................................... 1.4 .03
Phosphate (PO*). ......................................... .......................... .2 .01
84 2.77
11,060.64
1,166 53.00
About 25 yards upstream from Deadshot Spring another spring,
which is known as the Magnesia Spring but has been used only to a
small extent for drinking, forms a shallow pool a foot in diameter
at the base of a small bank and yields perhaps one-eighth of a gallon
a minute of distinctly alkaline water. About 100 yards farther
upstream the small Iron Tonic Spring issues at the edge of the creek.
A concrete basin has been constructed around it and it has been used
for drinking. Considerable iron is deposited on the gravel near this
basin. Two miles westward, near the headwaters of the same
drainage channel, there is a small sulphur spring, which has been
used only to supply a cattle watering trough, but the plan of piping
its water to the hotel grounds for drinking purposes has been con-
sidered. A fifth spring, called Hummingbird Spring, near the
1 Anderson (Mineral springs and health resorts of California, p. 266) gives an analysis of water from this
spring which shows a solid content of only about 1,290 parts per million. The differences between his
analysis and that more recently made, however, indicate that his analysis represents water from another
spring.