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Analysis of water from main spring at Santa Ysabel Springs, San Luis Obispo County,
Cal.
[Analyst and authority, Winslow Anderson (1888). Constituents are in parts per million.]
36° C. (96° F.)
Properties of reaction:
43
0
0
32
25
37
By Reacting
Constituents.
weight. values.
Sodium (Na). ..................................... ................................... 350 15.20
8.1 .21
Trace. Trace.
28 1.42
46 '3.78
Iron (Fe). ........................................................................... 8.1 .29
Aluminum (Al). . ................................................................... 6.6 .73
1.4 .04
Sulphate (SO4).. .................................................................... 173 3.61
CMoride(Cl)........................................................................ 188 5.30
Bromide (Br) and iodide (I) ........................................................ Trace. Trace.
361 12.02
Trace. Trace.
Silica (8iO»). ....................................................................... 29 .96
1, 199. 2
100 4.54
31 1.80
This water is similar in character to that of the Main Sulphur
Spring at Paso Robles Hot Springs. Primary salinity is the domi-
nant property, but primary, secondary, and tertiary alkalinity are
prominent.
About a quarter of a mile farther up the ravine other sulphureted
springs issue, but they are of small flow and are unimportant.
Like the wells and springs of P,aso Robles, Santa Ysabel Springs
may be of artesian origin, but their position, 50 feet above the river
valley, suggests that faulting has h^re taken place and allows the
escape of water from a moderate depth.

CAMETA WARM SPRING (SAN LUIS OBISPO 5).
Cameta Warm Spring is about 30 miles southeast of Paso Robles
and near the road toward Bakersfield. It rises in a board-curbed
pool about 5 feet square, at the lower end of a tule patch in a creek
channel, and yields about 3 gallons a minute, of moderately sulphu-
reted water 74° in temperature. Its flow is conducted a short dis-
tance in a pipe to another pool beneath a shed, where it is used by
the residents for bathing.
The water rises in a region of low gravelly hills and is similar in its
character and occurrence to Santa Ysabel Springs (San Luis Obispo 3),
which are farther west.