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unaltered sediments, mainly sandstone, in which there are apparently
beds that contain an unusually large amount of salt.
SALT SPRING IN SALT SPRING VALLEY (GLENN 3).
A spring that is similar in character to the one north of Sites is
situated in Salt Spring Valley about 4 miles north of Stonyford or
27 miles north of west from Sites. The water issues on the slope
above the valley land and flows down through a barren salty patch
perhaps 2 acres in extent. No attempt has been made to collect
the salt in commercial amount, although the spring yields several
gallons a minute of salty water. The crust that forms naturally is,
however, occasionally scraped up and used as stock salt. The salt
of this spring, like that of the spring near Sites, is apparently derived
from salt-bearing layers in the unaltered sedimentary rocks that com-
pose the hills along the western side of Sacramento Valley.

SALT SPRINGS WEST OF ELK CREEK (GLENN 2).
Salt springs issue about 3 miles west of Elk Creek post office, in
western Glenn County, but they are of small flow and have been
used mainly as salt licks by range cattle. As seems probable at the
salt spring farther south, in Salt Spring Valley, those west of Elk Creek
apparently derive their salt from beds in the unaltered sedimentary
rocks that form this portion of the Coast Ranges.

SALT SPRINGS ON NORTH FORK OF ELDER CREEK (TEHAMA 11).
A few seepage springs of salty water issue on North Fork of Elder
Creek, about 32 miles by road south of west from Red Bluff. A
number of years ago a small amount of the water was bottled and
found a local sale for medicinal use. The springs have not been
improved nor used in recent years, though they have been considered
valuable because of their mineral character. The water issues from
dark-colored shales of the Chico formation of Upper Cretaceous age,
which has been described by Diller.1

SALT SPRINGS ON STEWARTS FORK OF TRINITY RIVER (TRINITY 1).
A few small springs of salty water that are similar in character to
those on Elder Creek (Tehama 11) issue along Stewarts Fork of
Trinity River, in northern Trinity County. They are remote from
other than mining settlements, however, and have been little used.
Schists and dark altered shales cover a large part of the area in this
portion of the Coast Ranges, and it is from such material probably
altered sediments that the saline water issues.
i Diller, J. S., Tertiary revolution in the topography of the Pacific coast: IT. S. Geol. Survey Fourteenth
Ann. Rept., pt. 2, pp. 405-406, 1894.