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CARBONATED SPRINGS. 223

WARMCASTLE SODA SPRINGS (SISKEYOU 28):
Six miles in a direct line east of Shasta Springs is another group
of carbonated springs, known as Warmcastle Soda Springs. The
place is If miles south of McCloud lumber mills and was formerly
conducted as a resort, but it has been deserted since about 1903.
In 1909 a 20-room frame hotel still stood on the grounds.
The principal spring, which is about 125 yards east of the hotel,
rises in a concrete, dome-covered basin beneath a spring-house roof,
and from a pipe at one side discharges about 10 gallons a minute of
cool, strongly carbonated water. A small bubbling pool makes a
marshy patch near this spring, and toward the hotel, Jbeside a wagon
road, another carbonated spring rises in a box-curbed basin. Its
yield is perhaps one-half gallon a minute. Five hundred yards north-
ward, beside a stream that rises from marshy land near by, a fourth
carbonated spring issues through a joint of tile pipe and yields perhaps
4 gallons a minute of moderately carbonated water. All four of the
carbonated springs deposit small amounts of iron, but they do not
seem to be otherwise strongly mineralized. The main spring is much
used by travelers along the road, and is also a favorite drinking place
for the children from a schoolhouse 200 yards eastward.
The springs rise on the forested plateau surface near the southern
base of Mount Shasta. The rock is lava, probably basaltic, which
has weathered sufficiently to form red soil over most of the surface,
but it is exposed at numerous places along stream channels and road
cuts.
There are said to be other carbonated springs that are undeveloped
on Bear Creek, which is a number of miles northward from the
Warmcastle springs.

UPPER SODA SPRING (SISEIYOTT 26).
Upper Soda Spring is three-fourths of a mile northward across
Sacramento River from Dunsmuir, at the base of low lava hills, 150
or 200 yards from the river, which here makes a short eastward bend
in its southerly course. The spring has been known for perhaps
half a century by several names, of which Campbells Soda Spring
and Freys Soda Spring are most common. The place has been con-
ducted as a resort for a number of years, and the bottled water has
a local market. The water rises in a cement basin in a small house
and is thence piped to a bottling house near by, outside of which a
faucet has been placed for public use. The water is cool, moderately
carbonated, and is apparently not notably mineralized.