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and 5-gallon bottles are filled for the trade, and it has been on the local
market since about 1900. The following analysis shows that it is a
primary saline and secondary alkaline water:
Analysis of water from Rose Spring, Los Angeles County, Cal.
[Analyst, not given. Authority, advertising matter. Constituents are in parts per million.]
Properties of reaction:
42
0
0
0
58
12
Constituents. By Reacting
weight. values.
88 3.81
Potassium (K). . .................................................................... 3.9 .10
66 3.30
27 2.21
Iron (Fe).. .......................................................................... } * .03
62 1.29
Chloride (Cl).... .................................................................... 93 2.62
165 5.51
Silica (Si O2). ........................................................................ 34 1.13
539.7
KENTUCKY SPRINGS (LOS ANGELES 2).
Small springs of perennial flow issue at a few places in the more arid
parts of the southern Coast Ranges and are important watering places
for cattle. Some of these springs also furnish good sites for apiaries,
as the bees may there easily obtain water. Kentucky Springs have
been used for both of these purposes. They are situated about 4 miles
south of Vincent railroad station, in the hills that border the south-
western side of Mohave Desert. Three seeping flows here issue in a
small ravine, and the water from the principal one has been piped to
a watering trough. A flow of approximately 10 gallons a minute was
observable in July, 1909, and this yield could be considerably increased
by cleaning the springs out to solid rock. The region is granitic, and
the slopes are covered with a mantle of rock debris in which the supply
of the springs is stored by the winter rains.
There are other springs similar in character to Kentucky Springs
at points 3 miles south, 3 miles southeast, and 2 or 3 miles northward.
GRAVES SPRING (KERN 23).
Near the border of the valley land westward from Rosamond -rail-
road station on the western side of Mohave Desert are small springs
whose waters have been utilized. The western one, which is known
as Graves Spring from the name of the owner, is 3 miles from Rosa-
mond. A basin 3 or 4 feet square has been excavated at the spring,
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