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52 SPRINGS OF CALIFORNIA.

this place. One spring, having a temperature of 115° and a flow of
about 20 gallons a minute, furnished the supply for bathing. About
400 yards downstream from this spring, and near the hotel, a reservoir
has been constructed around other warm springs. At a third place
another small spring forms a drinking pool. The waters of these
springs are sulphureted, but they do not seem to carry notable
amounts of other mineral matter.
With reference to the fault origin of these springs it was learned
that although the earthquake of April 18; 1906, was not severely felt
here, the main spring ceased flowing at that time. It was reopened
a few months later by making a cut into the slope about 8 feet below
the former point of issuance of the spring.

WILLIAMS HOT SPRINGS (KERN 17).
At the north edge of Walker Basin, about 10 miles southeast of
the canyon of lower Kern River, on the Williams ranch, is a group
of small thermal springs. One spring, 97° in temperature, yields
about 8 gallons a minute of water that supplies a private bathhouse,
and another, 150 yards eastward, with a temperature of 75°, fur-
nishes a domestic supply. There are several cool springs of small
flow in the same locality, and half a mile westward other seepages
form a meadow of several acres. The waters are distinctly sulphu-
reted, but they are not otherwise noticeably of mineral character.
The rock at the springs and to the north and west is granitic and is
cut by occasional quartz ledges. One-fourth mile south of the springs
there is a belt of granitic gneiss whose planes of schistosity, where
noted, are nearly vertical and strike eastward. These springs are
near the southern end of a fault that is mapped as extending down the
canyon of North Fork of Kern River. (See PI. Ill, in pocket.) A
probable explanation of their origin is thus offered by the fracturing
that has taken place along this zone of displacement.

PARADISE SPRINGS (SAN BERNARDINO 9).
In the desert of western San Bernardino County there is an isolated
group of thermal springs that may properly be described here. They
are 25 miles by road north of Daggett and on the eastern slope of a
granitic mountain. Two warm springs and a few seepages issue in
a belt 250 yards long, on the side of a wide drainage slope that opens
southeastward to the desert. The highest temperature observed was
102° and the total flow is perhaps 25 gallons a minute.
In the early emigrant days these springs were a favorite camping
place for travelers, and the area of green in this stretch of desert
earned them-the name of Paradise Springs. The locality is still used
as a camping place by prospectors, and in 1908 a 1^-inch pipe line