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CARBONATED SPRINGS. 207

Analyses of water from Fonts Springs, Colusa County, Col.
[Analyst, U. S. Bureau of Chemistry (1906?). Authority, owner of springs. Constituents are in parts
per million.]
Champagne Bath or New Life Redeye Spring.
Spring. Spring.
Properties of reaction:
8 67 60
0 0 0
0 0 0
8 23 26
84 10 14
(?) (?) (?)
By Reacting By Reacting By Reacting
Constituents.
weight. values. weight. values. weight. values.
Sodium (Na).. . ........................... 68 2.97 4,859 211. 26 4,879 212. 13
5.8 .15 34 .86 62 1.59
Trace. Trace. 38 2.12 8.6 .48
139 6.93 132 6.59 162 8.11
118 9.67 204 16.74 308 25.38
1.4 .05 2.4 .09 3.5 .13
5.5 .12 13 .27 5.2 .11
Nitrate (NO3). ............................ 15 .24 44 .71 88 1.43
Chloride (Cl) .............................. 40 1.13 5,591 157. 67 5,221 147. 24
0 .00 Trace. Trace. Trace. Trace.
Iodide (I) ................................. 0 .00 23 .18 41 .32
467 15.58 2,188 72.95 2.780 92.67
Metaborate (BO2). . ....................... 0 .00 Trace. Trace. Trace. Trace.
Nitrite (NO2) ............................. 0 .00 0 .00 0 .00
Phosphate (PO4).. ........................ 0 .00 0 .00 0 .00
66 2.19 113 3.75 116 3.85
925.7 13,241.4 13, 674. 3
Present. Present. Present. Present. Present. Present.
Sulphur Spring, which yields about 2 gallons a minute of pleasant-
tasting, mildly sulphureted water, 60° in temperature, issues on the
south side of the creek beneath an irrigating flume and 225 yards
west of the Bath Spring. Like that of Redeye Spring, its water
is used to some extent for drinking, but the spring is too far from the
main grounds to be fully appreciated.
The carbonated springs the Champagne, Redeye, and Bath
springs issue from serpentine, which at Redeye and Bath springs
is weathered to a light-colored but hard material. The bowlders in
the creek bed consist of altered sandstone veined with quartz and
calcite, and the Sulphur Spring issues from a steep slope of crushed
rock of this character. It is worthy of mention here that two other
sulphur springs in this locality, one (Colusa 2, p. 267) south west, and
the other (Colusa 1, p. 267) west of Fouts Springs, also issue from the
altered sediments. As elsewhere in the Coast Ranges, the serpentine
is probably intrusive in the altered sediments, and the carbonated
springs are apparently closely related to the presence of the serpen-
tine. The salty character of the water of Redeye Spring and Bath
Spring seems to be accounted for by the presence of the altered sedi-
ments.