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304 SPEINGS OF CALIFORNIA.

KANE SPUING (IMPERIAL 6).
Kane Spring issues from a low knoll in a patch of cane and salt
grass, 2 or 3 miles south of the channel of Carrizo Creek, on the
southwest side of Salton Sink. Its water is strongly charged with
soda salts. The spring is below sea level and rises in lake sediments
whose content of alkaline salts has been concentrated at the spring
by the great evaporation that takes place in this region.
YTTHA SPUING (IMPERIAL 8).
Yuha Spring is about 20 miles west of El Centre and 2 miles south
of the road between Imperial Valley and the settlements of eastern
San Diego County. The water rises in a wash and has little if any
flow, but in 1905 a pump and a trough furnished means for watering
horses. The water is notably saline and alkaline, but it is drinkable.
CASTALIAN MINERAL WATER (INYO 15).
A few saline waters that are obtained from wells and lakes have
become known as mineral-spring waters and therefore may be men-
tioned among the saline springs.
Analyses of Castalian Mineral Water and water from Owens Lake, Inyo County, Cal.
[Constituents are in parts per million.]
1 2 3 1
Properties of reaction:
56 57 55 54
Secondary salinity ..... 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
Primary alkalinity. .... 44 43 45 46
Secondary alkalinity . . . Trace. Trace. Trace. Trace.
Tertiary alkalinity ..... ( ?) ( ?) (?) f? )
React- React-
By Reacting By Reacting By By
Constituents. ing ing
weight. values. weight. values. weight. weight.
values. values.
29,300 1,273.5 21,660 941.7 26,840 1, 167. 0 81.180 3,530.0
1,188 30.4 2,750 70.4 1,548 39.6 3,448 88.2
Lithium (Li)........ ....... Trace. Trace. 57 8.2
Rubidium (Rb) and cee-
0 .0 Traces.
Trace
Calcium(Ca)........ ....... Trace. Trace. Trace. 13 .7 34 1.7
Trace. Trace. Trace. Trace. 4.7 .4 15 1.2
Iron(Fe).................. Trace. Trace. 9.2 .3
Trace. Trace. 12 1.3 »48 5.3
Sulphate (SO4)..... ....... 7,530 156.9 9,360 194.8 7,065 147.2 21, 170 440.7
Nitrate (NOs)..... ......... Trace. Trace. 948 15.3
Chloride (01).... ........... 20,200 569.7 13,440 378.9 18,220 514.0 52,900 1,492.0
Bromide (Br) and iodide
(I)....................... Tr8iC6s Tr3iC6S
Sulphide (S). .............. 325 20.3
Carbonate (CO3) ........... 16, 710 557.0 13, 152 438.4 16,500 549.9 648,880 1,667.0
Metaborate ( BOa) .......... Trace. Trace. 190 4.4 329 7.8
Arsenate ( AsO4). ........... 156 3.4
Phosphate (PO4). .......... Trace. 238 7.5
Silica (SiO2)................ 245 8.1 164 5.4 207 6.9 297 9.7
75,498 60,526 70,608.9 209,700
Iron and aluminum oxides expressed as aluminum. b Calculated.
1. Castalian Mineral Water. Analyst, Thomas Price (1880). Authority, U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 32.
2. Owens Lake. Analyst, Oscar Loew (1876). Authority, Wheeler report.
3. Owens Lake. Analyst, T. M. Chatard (1886). Authority, U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 60.
4. Owens Lake. Analysts, C. H. Stone and F. M. Eaton. Authority, Am. Chem. Soc. Jour., p. 1169,
1906.