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CARBONATED SPRINGS. 238

formerly known as Scott Springs but are now known as Deer Park
Springs. The place has been conducted as a resort since the
eighties. In 1909 a hotel, a dining hall, and seven cottages provided
accommodations for 150 guests. The buildings are situated in a
little flat on the northwestern side of Bear Creek, and the springs are
on a hillside 150 to 200 yards eastward, across the stream. Small
rustic houses have been erected over the springs, two of which are
beneath one roof. Two of them are known as Soda springs, one as
the Sulphur Spring, and one as the Iron Spring. Their waters have
the distinctive tastes indicated by these designations and differ some-
what though not markedly in composition, as is shown by the follow-
ing analyses of three of them, all secondary alkaline, primary saline
waters.
Analyses of water from Deer Park Springs, Placer County, Cal.
[Analyst, G. E. Colby (1909). Authority, owner of springs. Constituents are in parts per million.]

Soda No. 1. Soda No. 2. Sulphur.
Properties of reaction:
33 19 31
0 0 0
0 0 0
13 13 13
54 68 56
17 7 17
By Reacting By Reacting By Reacting
Constituents.
weight. values. weight. values. weight. values.
} 160 7.99 205 10.29 114 5.69
Sulphate (804). ........................... 174 3.62 84 1.75 111 2.31
Chloride (Cl). . ............................ 45 1.27 39 1.09 32 .89
297 9.90 367 12.23 210 6.99
Silica (SiO2). .. . ........................... 76 2.52 31 1.03 53 1.7&
Total solids. .............................. 990 900 670
Present. Present. Present. Present. Present. Present.
Hydrogen sulphide (H2S) ................. Present. Present.
The springs rise in a small area of granitic rock which probably
forms the core of the mountains to the west. At the springs the rock
is decomposed to gravel and to kaolin-like clay. It is nearly sur-
rounded by andesitic lava, which covers the slopes less than 100
yards east of the springs and the surrounding area for several miles.

CARBONATED SPRING NEAR MOUTH OF POWDERHORN CREEK
(PLACER 11).
A small cool carbonated spring lies near the mouth of Powderhorn
Creek, 5^ miles in a direct line southwest of Deer Park Springs, but
it is unimproved and is known mainly to hunters and fishermen,
Small carbonated springs of similar character probably issue at
other places in this region, but they are of little note and are known
chiefly to the local sportsmen.