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294 SPEINGS OF CALIFOENIA.
No. 2 is less strongly mineralized than that of the others and is char-
acterized chiefly by secondary alkalinity.
Analyses of tvater from Alhambra Springs, Contra Costa County, Cal.
[Authority, advertising matter. Constituents are in parts per million.]

1 2 J
14° (X (57° F.) 9° C. (48° F.)
Properties of reaction: .
73 38 63
26 0 36
0 0 0
0 0 0
1 62 1
3 4
By Reacting By Reacting By Reacting
Constituents.
weight. values. weight. values. weight. values.
3,416 148. 52 100 4.34 2,727 118. 57
68 1.74 13 .32 7.6 10
Lithium (Li). ............................. .8 .01
1.3 .07
0 .00
Calcium (Ca)... ........................... 972 48.49 82 4.07 1,278 63.78
106 8.72 42 3.43 81 6.77
Iron (Fe) .................................. 9.5 .34 .02
5.8 .64 2.2 .24 / ' 6
1.1 .04
Sulphate (804)............................ 60 1.24 180 3.75 35 .73
Nitrate (NOS) and nitrite (NO2) .......... Trace. Trace.
Chloride (Cl).............................. 7,205 203. 19 32 .91 6,695 185.98
Bromide (Br)........................ 21 .26
Iodide (I). ................................ 13 .10
Sulphide (S).............................. 59 3.68
Carbonate (COS). .......................... 10 .34 225 7.50 51 i.TO
Metaborate (B O2) ......................... 26 .61
0 .00
Phosphate (PO4)......... >................ Trace. Trace.
Silica (SiO2). . ............................. 21 .69 13 .43 20 .66
11,932.3 689.2 10,858.4
Carbon dioxide (CO2) ..................... 5.5 .25
63 3.68 0 .00
1. Spring No. 1. Analyst, Thomas Price & Son.
2. Spring No. 2. Analyst, Thomas Price & Son.
3. Alhambra Spring. Analyst, Curtis and Tompkins.
The waters have been on the market sines about 1898, and have
been bottled, both carbonated and still (natural). A ' 'tonic water,"
consisting of 25 per cent of No. 1 and 75 per cent of No. 2, has also
been marketed.
The rocks near Alhambra Springs are of the same character as
those at Ferndale Springs (Contra Costa 1, p. 208) half a mile to the
northwest, which have been described among the carbonated springs.
They 'consist of soft shales and sandstones that are apparently tilted
about 30° W.
VERONICA SPRINGS (SANTA BARBARA 3).
The southern locality of saline or sulphated springs whose waters
are bottled is in the hills near the coast, 2 or 3 miles west of Santa
Barbara. The most important of these Veronica Springs are