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Bucket Spring and Genoveva Spring, have observed temperatures,
respectively of 62° and 75°. Each yields about one-half gallon a
minute, of mildly sulphureted water, and forms a drinking pool. A
fourth spring, also sulphureted but cool, issues at the side of a small
storage reservoir and yields perhaps 5 gallons a minute.
In 1908 the improvements at these springs included a hotel and
annex, about 35 tent cottages, a dancing floor, and bathing facilities.
Electric light was supplied by a small water-power plant.
The following analyses are of the springs at this place:

Analyses of water from Wheelers Hot Springs, Ventura County, Cal.
[Analysts, Wade and Wade (1900). Authority, advertising matter. Constituents are in parts per
million.]
Main. Bucket. Genoveva.
Temperature. ............................. 39° C. (102° F.) 17° C. (62° F.) 24° C. (75° F.)
Properties of reaction:
47 48 20
0 0 30
Tertiary salinity. ..................... 0 0 0
48 45 0
5 7 50
Tertiary alkalinity. ................... 6 6 8
By Reacting By Reacting By Reacting
Constituents. weight. values. weight. values. weight. values.
Sodium (Na). ............................. 333 14.49 328 14.26 48 2.07
4.7 .12 3.5 .09 7.0 .18
6.8 .34 12 .58 144 7.29
4.5 .37 6.8 .56 20 1.61
Trace. Trace.
Sulphate (SO*)... ......................... 16 .34 26 .55 259 5.39
Chloride (Cl). ............................. 245 6.90 243 6.86 6.4 - .18
242 8.08 243 8.09 167 5.58
Silica (SiOs)...... ............ ............ 27 .91 30 .99 27 .91
879 892.3 678.4 ..........
Excess. Present. Present. Present. Present.
The Main and Bucket springs are apparently much alike in com-
position and concentration, though differing in temperature. Both
give soft waters characterized by primary alkalinity and primary
salinity. The Genoveva Spring differs markedly from the others,
giving a hard water in which secondary alkalinity is the dominant
property. The three springs are alike in that alkalinity and salinity
are of about equal value as properties in each. Genoveva Spring is,
however, of secondary alkalinity and salinity, while that of the others
is primary; and the salinity of Genoveva Spring is characterized by
the sulphate radicle^ while that of the other springs is almost free from
sulphate.
Although the analyses of springs in Matilija Canyon do not show
unusually high mineral contents, there are small deposits of salts at a
few places. The most notable deposit of this kind that was observed
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