Annual report of the State Mineralogist for the year ending ... . a20 At the foot of the bluff, below the vein of pectolite, are several salinesprings, issuing in the bed of the creek and along its banks. Frominalyses made they were found to contain chloride of sodium, magne-sia, potassium, and calcium. It is the intention of the owners to utilizethese waters in the near future, both for their salts and also for medici-nal purposes, they having been found extremely beneficial to severalinvalids who made use of them, the present owner among the rest. On the opposite side of the river from
Annual report of the State Mineralogist for the year ending ... . a20 At the foot of the bluff, below the vein of pectolite, are several salinesprings, issuing in the bed of the creek and along its banks. Frominalyses made they were found to contain chloride of sodium, magne-sia, potassium, and calcium. It is the intention of the owners to utilizethese waters in the near future, both for their salts and also for medici-nal purposes, they having been found extremely beneficial to severalinvalids who made use of them, the present owner among the rest. On the opposite side of the river from the bluffs, east about eightmiles, near the edge of the volcanic flow that caps all the country fromhere north and east, are two small volcanic cones, and not far from theman old crater, from which issues on the inner side numerous medicinalsprings. They are known as TUSCAN SPRINGS. The rim is about three hundred feet higher than the bottom of thecrater in the center, and has been broken away to the southwest, per-mitting the water to escape in that The distance from side to side is about six hundred feet, the^centralpart, whence the springs issue from fissures in the sedimentary forma-tion, not being over seventy-five feet wide. From the center the exposedformations recede on every side, on an angle of about 30 degrees; theformations have been bent up at this point sufficiently to fracture them,and it is through these fractures that the waters escape. In escapingthey deposit lime which gradually fills up these fissures with aragonite,4527 694 REPORT OF THE STATE MINERALOGIST- nice specimens of which can be obtained here. With the waters gescapes, which 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, potassi
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