Page 293 - 1915, Springs of CA.

SULPHUR SPRINGS. 273
A strongly sulphureted spring is situated on the northern bank of
Bodfish Creek, about 7 miles west of Gilroy and 75 yards above the
point where the wagon road crosses the stream and both road and
stream make a sharp bend from an easterly to a northerly direction.
The water issues in a pool about 1 by 3 feet across that has been dug
in the bank 5 yards from the stream. The pool is usually covered
with a scum of sulphur and there is a strong odor of hydrogen sul-
phide near it. The water is used to a slight extent for drinking by
campers and teamsters.

BLODGETT MAGIC SPRING (SANTA CLARA 12).
About a quarter of a mile below the sulphur spring on Bodfish
Creek (Santa Clara 11, p. 272) there is a spring that has been known
as Blodgett Magic Spring and visited by campers during many sum-
mers. The water issues in a board-curbed and inclosed pool near camp
grounds, at the base of the canyon side 25 yards east of the stream.
It is not strongly mineralized, but tastes slightly saline and is mildly
sulphureted and carbonated. The second of the two analyses on
page 274 is thought to represent water from this spring. The analysis
shows a primary and secondary alkaline water with notable tertiary
alkalinity and primary salinity. In former years it was bottled and
sold locally to small extent. The water issues from soft white
sandstones.
Other noticeably sulphureted and carbonated seepages issue along
the course of the stream at short distances above and below this
spring, and there is said to be a more distinctly carbonated spring
several miles southeastward.

BLODGETT MINERAL SPRING (SANTA CLARA 10).
A spring that is known as the Blodgett Mineral Spring or Magnesia
Spring is situated on the hillside above a branch of Bodfish Creek and
several miles north of Blodgett Magic Spring. It issues from ser-
pentine and its water is piped from a small covered and rock-walled
basin 1 mile eastward to a tank near a farm house. The following
analysis of the water shows that besides containing a large proportion
of magnesia, the water of Mineral Spring is primary and secondary
saline in character.
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