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324 SPRINGS OF CALIFORNIA.
Canyon Creek (Modoc 7), to the northwest and to the southwest,
which have been mentioned among the thermal springs. (See p. 120.)
CABIN SPRINGS (LASSEN 18).
Cabin Springs form a small roadside watering place on the border
of Honey Lake Valley, about 4J miles east of Amedee. There are
five shallow depressions at the locality, 10 or 15 yards apart, and a
quarter of a mile south of the lava slope that borders the valley. The
western two are the largest, and when visited they contained small
amounts of water of good quality, but there was no overflow. This
water is thought to be essentially alluvial artesian in character. A
number of years ago a small well three-quarters of a mile westward
obtained flowing water, and three other wells which were sunk during
the nineties about 3 miles westward also obtained small flows.
In 1909 these four well's were still flowing, and each yielded from 1
to 3 gallons a minute of water 71° to 78° in temperature.
SELLICKS SPRINGS (LASSEN 9).
Besides those springs in the lava-covered northeastern section of
the State that have been mentioned as probably of alluvial artesian
origin, there are a number of others which are thought to be in struc-
tural artesian basins.1 Several large springs of constant flow rise on
the borders of Secret Valley, in eastern Lassen County. Sellicks
Springs, which form one of tjie largest groups, rise in a strip of meadow-
land on the northern edge of the valley, about \\ miles northwest of
Karlo railroad station. A careful float measurement of the stream
flowing into the valley indicates that the discharge is about 1,050
gallons a minute. The water is of good quality and has a tempera-
ture of 72°. The original belt of meadowland formed by it in the
open valley south of the springs has been greatly increased by dis-
tributing the water through ditches, so that nearly 300 acres of
meadowland have been produced. A pipe also leads from the
springs to a railroad watering tank at the station.

TIPTONS SPRINGS (LASSEN 10).
Tiptons Springs, at Secret post office, issue from the basaltic lava
slope at the northern edge of the valley, 3J miles east of- Sellicks
Springs. The water rises mainly in a marshy strip 150 or 200 yards
long and flows at a rate measured at 925 gallons a minute (103
miner's inches). The water flows southward and irrigates meadow-
land, from which quantities of hay are cut.
1 A structural artesian basin is formed where bedded rocks that make a series of alternating relatively
pervious and impervious layers are folded into a trough-shaped or saucer-shaped valley. Water collects in
the lower portions of the more pervious beds under pressure of the water in the higher portions of the
same beds around the borders of the valley.