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282 SPRINGS OF CALIFORNIA.

SANTA FE SPRINGS (LOS ANGELES 14).
Three wells that were put down in the coastal plain 15 miles south-
east of Los Angeles by Dr. J. E. Fulton, during the seventies, obtained
sulphur water, and as the locality was favorable a hotel was built, a
swimming plunge was constructed, and the property was early made
a resort, under the name of Santa Fe Springs, or Fulton Wells. The
hotel burned a number of years ago, and the plunge has been filled
up, but when visited in 1908 the place was still conducted in a small
way as a resort, there being three small cottages and a bathhouse on
the property. Windmills over two of the wells 100 yards or more
from the cottages pumped the water into a tank, whence it was piped
to a heating boiler and to the baths. The third and innermost well,
which is near the cottages, was equipped with a hand pump. Water
from this well was formerly bottled for table and medicinal use.
The following analysis shows it to be a secondary alkaline and pri-
mary and secondary saline water that contains a large proportion
of iron:

Analyses of water from east well, Santa Fe Springs, Los Angeles County, Gal.
[Constituents are in parts per million.]
1 55

Properties of reaction:
20 24
30 31
0 0
0 0
50
45
High. High.
By Reacting By Reacting
Constituents.
weight. values. weight. values.
Sodium (Na)................................................... 84 3.63 90 3.89
Calcium (Ca).. ................................................. 205 10.21 167 8.31
Magnesium (Mg). . ............................................. 50 4.08 47 3.86.
Iron (Fe).. .................................................... 97 3.47 107 3.84
Sulphate (SO*)................................................. 294 6.12 »278 5.78
Chloride (01)................................................... 100 2.81 108 3.05
Sulphide (S).... ...:........................................... 6.3 .39
Carbonate (CO3). .............................................. 374 12.46 320 10.68
Silica (SiO2).... ................................................ 42 1.39
1,246 1,123.3
Carbon dioxide (CO2) ..........................................
a Reported as "sulphur;" recalculated from CaSO* by comparison with the other analysis.
1. Analyst and authority, Winslow Anderson (1888).
2. Analyst, Price and Hewston. Authority, TJ. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 32.
A number of other wells in this coastal plain area of southern Cal-
ifornia yield water that is noticeably sulphureted but not so strongly
mineralized as is.the water of Santa Fe Springs. Seepages of sulphu-
reted water also issue from shales at a few places along the coast.
One strongly sulphureted spring of this character issues from the