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eye wash and as a snuff for catarrh. Southward, across the canyon
from the springs, there are abandoned quicksilver prospects. The
Garretson springs are sometimes referred to as Cinnabar Springs, a
name that is derived from these prospects, but this name is misleading.

KELLER SODA SPRING (SISEIYOU 2).
Keller Soda Spring, 4J miles below Garretson Soda Springs, is on
the north side of West Fork of Beaver Creek, 100 yards from and 100
feet above the stream. It is near the home of Mr. Alex. Keller, who
has had a cabin and a small garden beside the creek since about 1902.
A rock-walled basin makes a small drinking pool in which the water
is cool and strongly carbonated. The discharge flows down an iron-
stained channel and over a conspicuous deposit of lime carbonate 10
or 12 yards in diameter. A small amount of carbonated water also
seeps from crevices in the rock at the creek edge, 150 yards down-
stream. The rock at this locality is a coarse-textured quartzitic
material with some gneissic and hornblendic phases.
CARBONATED SPRINGS AT SODA BAR (SISEIYOU 3).
On the western side of the main fork of Beaver Creek, at Soda Bar,
within 3 miles of the Oregon line, are two small cool carbonated
springs that have not been improved but are occasionally visited by
hunters.
CARBONATED SPRING AT EDGE OF BEAVER CREEK (SISEIYOU 4).
A small carbonated spring rises at the eastern edge of Beaver Creek,
opposite the Curtis ranch, which is 2 miles above its mouth. A small
basin has been made by drill and hammer in the gneiss from which
the spring issues, and a spring house protects it. When it is not
flooded by surface water, the spring water is moderately carbonated.
The rock is iron stained along the overflow channel, but the water is
apparently not highly mineralized. There is another small and
unimproved carbonated spring on the same side of the channel a
mile farther upstream.

CARBONATED SPRINGS NEAR LITTLE BOGUS CREEK (SISEIYOU 5).
. In the western portion of the lava-covered region in northern Cali-
fornia there are two areas of considerable extent in which there are
a number of carbonated springs. The northern area is in the north-
ern part of Siskiyou County; the southern is near the Siskiyou-
Shasta county line. (See p. 220.)
The northernmost group in the first area is on the east side of Little
Bogus Creek about 4| miles northeast of Ager. The main springs
here issue from basins in low carbonate mounds on a larger deposit of
lime carbonate at the base of a hillside, near the county road between