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has been used only for domestic purposes. The spring rises in a
stone basin, and its yield, which is about 4 gallons a minute, is piped
to a storage tank 100 yards away, near the house. The following
analysis indicates that the water is essentially primary alkaline and
carbonated:
Analysis of water from El Toro Spring, Marin County, Cal.
[Analyst, W. T. Wenzel. Authority, llth Cal. Constituents are in part per million.]

Properties of reaction:
28
0
0
54
Secondary alkalinity .................. ................................ 18
367
React-
By
Constituents. ing
weight.
values.
67 2.92
11 .29
4.4 .22
5.7 .47
Iron (Fe).. .......................................................................... 1.4 .05
.4 04
Sulphate (SO «) ...................................................................... 8.6 .18
Chloride (Cl). . ...................................................................... 32 .91
84 2.81
214.5
Carbon dioxide (CO2) ............................................................... 315 14.31
O'DONNELL'S SPRINGS (SONOMA 17).
Two sulphur springs of relatively small flow that issue in a ravine
on the west side of Sonoma Valley have been used for drinking for a
number of years, and of late a small sanitarium has been established
at the place. The water is not strongly mineralized, however, and
the occurrence of the springs is not of unusual interest.
TAYLOB, SULPHUR SPRING (SONOMA 13).
A small sulphur spring, that is known as Taylor Sulphur Spring,
lies at the base of the hills 2 miles southeast of Santa Rosa. A
hotel was built on the property in 1870 and the place was opened as
a resort, but the building burned within a few years. It was later
rebuilt, with accommodations for sixty people, and was conducted
intermittently as a resort until the time of the earthquake of April
18, 1906. It was again reopened as a resort in the summer of 1910,
as Kawana Sulphur Springs but is probably best known by its
original name. The water rises in a cement basin beneath a small
spring house and yields perhaps 1 gallon a minute of faintly sul-
phureted water. The hillside back of the spring is soil covered, but
it apparently consists of lava, such as is exposed in the hills farther to