Annual report of the State Mineralogist for the year ending ... . h used to be collected and utilized in heating the battbut is allowed to escape at present. The springs and the mud thexudes around them, are used medicinally, and have quite a reputaticfor the cure of rheumatism, kidney and liver disorders, and skin dieases. The waters contain borax, iodine, lithia, magnesia, potassiuisodium, and sulphur; the latter is found in and around the springsred and yellow sulphur. Experts claim that the prospects for strikira large body of gas here are extremely favorable; also, oil somewhatthe east of
Annual report of the State Mineralogist for the year ending ... . h used to be collected and utilized in heating the battbut is allowed to escape at present. The springs and the mud thexudes around them, are used medicinally, and have quite a reputaticfor the cure of rheumatism, kidney and liver disorders, and skin dieases. The waters contain borax, iodine, lithia, magnesia, potassiuisodium, and sulphur; the latter is found in and around the springsred and yellow sulphur. Experts claim that the prospects for strikira large body of gas here are extremely favorable; also, oil somewhatthe east of this place, as the formation is stated to be in range with, acvery similar to the formations in Trinity and Humboldt Counties, wheioil is found. These springs are about five hundred feet higher than of Red Bluff. North of the chrome mines a good quality of coal is said to have beefound. The exact locality of which, however, was withheld. Quartwith gold, was also reported as having been found northwest of thchrome mines. ;w»c/a f *k II —A /%-„ :1 H. ^. l() I - i I ^ £ iH - - - 7 *£ PHYSICS TRINITY COUNTY. 695 TRINITY COUNTY. By Wm. P. Miller, Assistant in the Field. Trinity County in its mineral wealth was first discovered by MajorRedding, who visited the section for purposes of hunting and trapping early as 1845. Trinity River was so named by him at that early date m his opinion that it emptied into Trinidad Bay, as marked on old anish maps. Marshall, having discovered gold in the millrace at Coloma in January,x848, again started Major Redding into the northwest. Crossing themountains at the head of Cottonwood Creek, he came upon the TrinityRiver at a point where the creek now named Reddings empties into theTrinity (T. 32 N., R. 10 W.). Quoting from the Major: I prospected for two days and found the bars rich in gold; returned to my home onCottonwood, and in ten days fitted out an expedition for mining purposes; crossed themountain where the travel passed two ye
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