. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California. abeler, and a belt conveyor from labeler to packing table. Waterfrom the Bath Spring is run in a small flume about 500 feet down thecreek to the bathhouse near the bottling works. There is considerablejaspery quartz float on the north side of the creek (South Fork ofStony) opposite the works. This has been prospected for gold by ashort tunnel at one point. Bibl.: R. XIII, p. 509; U. S. G. S., Water Sup. Pap. 338, pp. 205-207. Jones Hot Sulphur Springs. Tilden Jones and Mrs. J
. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California. abeler, and a belt conveyor from labeler to packing table. Waterfrom the Bath Spring is run in a small flume about 500 feet down thecreek to the bathhouse near the bottling works. There is considerablejaspery quartz float on the north side of the creek (South Fork ofStony) opposite the works. This has been prospected for gold by ashort tunnel at one point. Bibl.: R. XIII, p. 509; U. S. G. S., Water Sup. Pap. 338, pp. 205-207. Jones Hot Sulphur Springs. Tilden Jones and Mrs. J. A. Ryan,owners; post office, Sulphur Creek. The springs are in the canyon ofSulphur Creek, a mile above Wilbur Springs, 21 miles northeast of COLUSA COUNTY. 185 Lower Lake and 26 miles southwest from Williams, with which it isconnected by automobile stage. The resort is open throughout theyear. Elevation 1475 feet (bar.). There are several springs, both hot and cold, and two drilled wells,called The Geyser and Nottingham Spring. The former (seephoto 104A) is intermittent, spouting every twenty to thirty Photo No. 104A. Geyser at Jones Hot Sulphur Springs, Colusa County, Cali-fornia. A drilled well—spouts every twenty to thirty minutes. It is 196 feet deep and has a 3-inch casing in the upper part downthrough the softer surface material, the balance being in rock. A tem-perature of 156° F. was obtained. It is probably actually higher thanthat, as it was difficult to hold the thermometer in the stream whilespouting. Tlie odor of both ammonia and sulphuretted hydrogen arenoticeable, probably being in the form of ammonia sulphide with anexcess of H^S. The vapor coming off just ahead of the water is inflam- 186 MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES. mable. This may be due to the presence of finely divided sublimed sul-phur, as there is an abundant deposit of flour sulphur about the water is caught by the concrete curb and piped to the ^Nottingham, tempera
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