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ARTESIAN SPRINGS. 319
Analysis of water from main springs, Willow Springs, Kern County, Cal.
[Analyst, Walton Van Winkle (1909). Authority, U. S. Geol. Survey Water-Supply Paper 278. Constit-
uents are in parts per million.]
Properties of reaction:
Primary salinity ................................................................ 44
6
0
Primary alkalinity . ............................................................. 0
Secondary alkalinity. ................................................... i ....... 50
( ?)
By Reacting
Constituents.
weight. values.
Sodium (Na)... .....................................................................
Potassium (K)...................................................................... > « £>> OO
Calcium (Ca). ....................................................................... 44 2.20
9.1 .75
X 2 .01
Aluminum ( Al). .................................................................... / - 2
Sulphate (SOt)... ................................................................... 101 2.10
Chloride (Cl)........ ................................................................ 19 .54
76 2.54
Silica (S102)..... .................................................................... 25 .83
328.3
Carbon dioxide (CO2).... ...........................................................
The water issues along a terrace-like bank whose position indicates
that it may be a small fault. The springs may therefore be supplied by
alluvial artesian water that here escapes upward along the faulted
zone.1
BESTING SPRINGS (INYO 34).
Resting Springs rise at the southern end of a mountain range, about
5 miles east of the Tonopah & Tidewater Railroad, in southeastern
Inyo County. Fremont camped at them in 1844, when returning
eastward from his exploring expedition, and they early became a
stopping place on the road between Salt Lake City and San Bernar-
dino. They are still well known to desert travelers, and Mr. Philander
Lee, who has lived there since 1882, has made a real oasis of the place.
About 25 acres of alfalfa, corn, and garden vegetables are irrigated
by the main spring, which is said to yield 29 miner's inches (260 gal-
lons a minute).2 The springs are situated in a small marshy area at
the base of a terrace-like bank, 25 yards south of the steep slope of
Resting Springs Mountain. The water rises in this marshy area
mainly at four points around the edge of a natural basin about 8 yards
in diameter, which is sunk several feet below the normal surface.
The temperature of the water (80°) and its constant flow indicate that
it is essentially of deep-seated or artesian character, but the mountain
slope at whose base it issues is composed of quartzite that dips
1 For discussion of these springs, with diagrams, see Johnson, H. R., Water resources of Antelope Valley,
California: U. S. Geol. Survey Water-Supply Paper 278, pp. 49-51,1911.
The old California miner's inch is approximately equivalent to a flow of 9 gallons a minute.