Page 224 - 1915, Springs of CA.

206 SPRINGS OF CALIFORNIA.
gentle slope at the eastern base of a brushy mountain and are about
10 miles by road westward from Stonyford, across a mountain
divide. In 1910 about 30 cottages, a dozen tents and a building
containing an office and a dining hall, furnished accommodations
for 150 guests.
There are four principal springs on the property. Champagne
Spring, which is the one most used for drinking, rises in a pool beneath
the floor of a spring house near a small creek and about 175 yards
southwest of the dining hall. It yields a small flow of pleasantly
carbonated water that is much appreciated for drinking. The
analysis shows it to be a moderately mineralized water, secondary
alkaline in character, markedly different from the waters of the other
two springs that have been analyzed. In the creek bed, about 20
yards south of the spring, carbonated water issues with much bub-
bling, but in 1910 these springs had not been improved nor used.
The three other springs, or groups of springs, are in a ravine one-
half to three-fourths mile northwest of the resort grounds. Redeye
Spring receives its name from the rusty-red stain of iron along its
overflow channel. The water issues from seams in the rock on the
north bank of the creek, where two small basins yield about one-half
gallon and 5 gallons a minute of carbonated saline water that has a
temperature of 75°. This water was formerly bottled and marketed
and is still used for drinking, but, as is shown by the analysis, it
is too salty to be pleasant to the taste. Many bubbles that rise in
the creek near Redeye Spring show that gas and probably also carbon-
ated water issue from other seams in the rock at this place.
The Bath or New Life Spring is about 175 yards westward, upstream,
from Redeye Spring and on the same side of the creek. The main
flow comes from a pool 2 feet in diameter, which yields about 8
gallons a minute, and a small pool 3 yards away yields perhaps
one-half gallon a minute more. The water has a temperature of
75° and tastes moderately carbonated and salty, like that of Redeye
Spring, which analysis shows it to closely resemble, both being
primary saline and secondary alkaline in character, but it has built
up a terrace of gravel and lime carbonate about 5 yards wide and 20
yards long at the side of the creek. The water is conducted in
a trough eastward to a bathhouse a short distance below Redeye
Spring and heated for bathing. It deposits much calcium carbonate
in the trough, though the following analyses show that it contains
the least calcium of the three spring waters. Noteworthy features
of the waters shown by the analyses are the amounts of iodine,
ammonium, and nitrate.