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SULPHITE SPRINGS. 281
SULPHUR SPRING NORTH OF CHATSWORTH (LOS ANGELES 4).
A sulphur spring whose water is noticeably above a normal tempera-
ture issues about 1J miles north of Chatsworth and 200 or 300 yards
east of the southern mouth of the Southern Pacific railroad tunnel.
Its water has not been used except for drinking, but its flow is per-
haps 8 .gallons a minute. It issues from the thick-bedded sandstone
of this portion of the mountains.
SULPHUR SPRING AT MOUTH OF BELL CANYON (LOS ANGELES 5).
At Bell's ranch, at the mouth of Bell Canyon, which enters San
Fernando Valley from, the west, there is a sulphur spring of con-
siderable flow. The spring is inclosed by a stone-walled reservoir
about 8 by 12 feet across and 6 feet deep and yields strongly sul-
phureted water that is rendered milky by sulphur in suspension.
The water is piped to a summer bathhouse near by. It is very soft
and good for bathing and laundry use. A similar spring that has not
been improved issues some distance westward up the canyon. Both
springs apparently emerge from a calcareous bed near the contact
between beds of lower Miocene sandstone and middle Miocene shale.
SULPHUR SPRING SOUTH OF BELL CANYON (LOS ANGELES 6).
A small spring whose water is noticeably sulphureted is situated
about 2| miles south of the one. at the mouth of Bell Canyon. It
yields a soft water but has been used only for watering cattle.

SULPHUR SPRING NEAR CARBERRY STORE (LOS ANGELES 7).
In a ravine near the Carberry store, which is beside the county road
along the southern border of San Fernando Valley, there is a small
spring whose water is strongly sulphureted and noticeably above a
normal temperture. The spring has not been developed and has
been used only as a watering place by cattle.
SULPHUR SPRING ON TUCKER RANCH (LOS ANGELES 9).
A spring on the Tucker ranch, beside the wagon road between Cala-
basas and Santa Monica, yields water that is rather strongly sulphur-
eted but is soft and otherwise of good quality, and as water is
scarce in this part of the Santa Monica Mountains the spring has
been used for a number of years as a domestic supply. This spring
and the sulphur springs south of Bell Canyon and near the Carberry
Store (Los Angeles 6 and 7) issue from middle Miocene shale that
dips northeastward toward San Fernando Valley. The sulphur con-
tents of the spring waters are evidently derived from this shale, as
it contains noticeable amounts of sulphur compounds.