Identifier: appendixtojourna19177cali (find matches)
Title: Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: California. Legislature
Subjects: Legislative journals
Publisher: Sacramento : State Printing
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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ms were hauling the product to Williams. Bibl.: R. VIII, p. 159; XIII, p. 509; U. S. G. S. Bull 32, p. 204;Water Sup. Pap. 338, p. 204; Anderson (op. cit.) p. 120. At Fenders Ranch, about a mile west of Lodoga, the well which isused for domestic purposes yields a mild sulphuretted water from adepth of 65 feet. Elgin Mine (see also under Quicksilver). New Elgin QuicksilverMining Company; owner, W. S. Norman, Spokane, Wash. The Elgin COLUSA COUNTY. 183 is at the head of Sulphur Creek, about 3 miles northwest of the postoffice of the same name. From the lower tunnel, which is 500 feetabove the bottom of the canyon, a stream of hot salino-sulphur waterflows over 40,000 gallons per twenty-four hours. Its temperature is138° F., and the odors of both sulphuretted hydrogen and ammoniaare noticeable. It is strongly saline and is said to carry about 2000grains of mineral matter per gallon. There is a considerable deposit offlour sulphur along the edges of the stream (see photo No. 105). Higher
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Photo No. 105. Hot salino-sulphur water flowing from tunnel of ElginQuicksilver Mine at head of Sulphur Creek, Colusa County, California. up near the top of the ridge there is another similar spring, temperature152° F., which also has a strong flow. A peculiar feature of these hotsprings is the presence in considerable numbers of a small fly around theedges of the streams and pools, even occasionally alighting on the sur-face of the hot water. Though the property, as far as quicksilver mining is concerned, hasbeen idle for some years, this water is utilized occasionally locally. 184 MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES. Some rather unusual curative effects ascribed to it (and also to thesimilar waters of both Jones and Wilbur springs) by reliable witnesses,it would seem to the writer, can only be explained by the possession ofradioactivity. As suggested in the introduction to Mineral Waterunder Lake County, it is hoped that some day before long these andother similar waters in California will

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