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322 SPRINGS or CALIFORNIA.

FISH SPRINGS (INYO 3).
Fish Springs are at the west edge of Owens Valley, about 3^ miles
south of Big Pine or 27 miles north of Independence. They form a
large pond at the northern side of a lava ridge that extends for some
distance into the valley. The water has not been efficiently used,
but it irrigates a small amount of meadow along its course eastward
to Owens River.
DEEP SPRINGS (INYO 2).
At the southern end of Deep Spring Valley, in the northeastern
part of Inyo County, are several large artesian springs that have been
used for a number of years for irrigation, and their supply is said to
be sufficient to water 600 acres. The springs are about 18 miles by
road northeast of Alvord railroad station and form a stopping place
on the road to Nevada. The largest group of springs is sometimes
known as Buckhorn Springs. Water issues at numerous places, how-
ever, for a distance of a mile along the upper border of a meadow
area.
ARTESIAN SPRINGS AT OASIS (MONO 20).
Oasis is a small settlement lying northward from Deep Spring
Valley, on the road from Owens Valley to Nevada. Springs of con-
siderable size, whose yield is augmented by wells, furnish water
for irrigating a number of acres. As at the springs in the valley a
few miles southward, the artesian water of Oasis apparently rises from
alluvium that deeply buries the bedrock and is probably supplied
from layers of gravel that act as storage reservoirs for the run-off
from the surrounding mountains.

BERTRAND RANCH SPRINGS (MONO 10).
Tepid springs that rise on the Bertrand ranch in Spring Valley,
about 6 miles north of Benton, are used to irrigate a considerable
area of meadowland. The water apparently rises under artesian
pressure at the base of alluvial slopes, which are remarkably well
developed along the flanks of the mountains that border the valley.

RIVER SPRING (MONO 9).
River Spring, about 10 miles in a direct line west of north from
Benton, yields a considerable flow of water that is probably of
alluvial artesian origin, and is otherwise similar in character to that
of the springs a few miles to the southeast on the Bertrand ranch.
It furnishes part of the supply of a small narrow lake around whose
borders is a little meadowland.