Page 380 - 1915, Springs of CA.

360 SPEINGS OF CALIFORNIA.
ing range stock. There are two springs at the locality, but their
yield is small. Coyote Spring is about 12 miles south of Moon
Springs and, like them it yields a small amount of water and is used
by range stock. Tadpole Spring is on the southwestern slopes of
Lassen Peak beside the stage road, 3 miles east of Paynes Creek
post office. It yields a slight flow that is piped to a roadside watering
trough, 100 yards to the northeast, and to a house near by for domestic
use. The water issues from the tuffaceous material known as the
Tuscan tuff, the supply probably being derived from water that col-
lects in a porous layer of the material. Springs are not plentiful in the
lower slopes of the lava area that surrounds Lassen Peak, so those
which exist are of local importance. On the higher slopes, however,
water is more plentiful and the presence of small springs of fresh
water is of less importance.
In Plumas County, on the stage road between Quincy and Green-
ville, there are a number of springs that supply roadside watering
troughs. Their waters issue from slate and shale along the canyons
of Spanish and Indian creeks, and they yield flows of about 1 to 10
gallons a minute. Eight springs of cold nonmineral water that supply
drinking pools or horse troughs were counted at the roadside along the
canyons of these creeks. A number of cold springs issue in meadow-
land in Grizzly Valley, about 12 miles northwest of Beckwith, and
furnish a considerable part of the flow of Big Grizzly Creek.
The lower portions of the western slopes of the Sierra contain
relatively few perennial springs. Some of these surface springs
were early made use of, however, by miners who were working gold
placer gravels and ledges, and small settlements were formed near
them. Forest Spring, which is 3 miles south of Nevada City, and
Indian Springs, which are 8 miles southwest of the same town, lent
their names to mining settlements. There are also several perennial
springs in Eldorado County at places where mining camps were built
up in the early days, but the springs are not now of great importance.
Among these are Shingle, Mud, and Diamond springs, near the rail-
road between Sacramento and Placerville. Several other springs
afford watering places on a road between Placerville and Silver Lake,
which is a small water body in the northeastern corner of Amador
County. Among them are Caple, Camp, Leek, and Tragedy springs,
which are respectively about 26, 30, 40, and 47 miles by road eastward
from Placerville. All yield cold water of good quality but are of
small flow. A few springs near the boundary between Eldorado and
Amador counties are also of some importance as watering places.
Among these are Marble, Antelope, and Mud springs, which are,
in direct lines, respectively 22, 28, and 35 miles east of Latrobe station
on the railroad to Placerville.