Page 381 - 1915, Springs of CA.

MINOR PERENNIAL SPRINGS. 361
Mountain Springs, 6 miles west of Jackson in Amador County, and
Valley Springs, at the terminus of the railroad 10 miles west of
San Andreas in Calaveras County, are at small settlements. There
are also saline springs near the latter place, which have already been
described. Cottage Spring, 5 miles northeast of Valley Springs,
has been locally used as a water supply. Another Cottage Spring
and Black Spring and Hermit Spring are near the road that runs
northward from the north grove of the Calaveras big trees, in north-
eastern Calaveras County.
Coif ax Spring, which is on the south edge of Tuolumne County, 25
miles in a direct line southeast of Sonora, has given its name to a small
settlement. Gold Spring, 7 miles north of Sonora, arid Cold Spring,
30 miles northeast of the same town, are locally known.
FrSmont Spring, which is on the southeast slope of Bullion Moun-
tains, 30 miles in a direct line northeast of Merced, is known to the
miners of the locality. In the higher Sierra east of Merced there are
a few small perennial springs, among the principal ones being Cold
Springs, between Mariposa and the Mariposa Grove of big trees. A
few larger ones in the Sierra have been previously described.
Numerous cool springs of perennial flow issue along the north-
western border of Mono Valley, in the eastern part of the State.
Several of them afford watering places for range cattle and horses,
and a few irrigate small meadows, but they have not been efficiently
developed. One that rises on the southern side of Mono Lake a short
distance from the water's edge was formerly known as Blairs Spring.
The water is noticeably calcic, but it has long been used as a drinking
spring. Other small springs rise in the lake and several of them issue
from domes or crags of calcareous tufa that are built up from the lake
bottom. These springs have been mentioned in the description of
Mono Basin Warm Springs (Mono 8, p. 145), and an analysis of water
from one of them is tabulated with that of water from the warm
springs.
In the higher portions of the southern Sierra a few small springs
form drinking places beside mountain trails. Among them are Windy
Springs, which are on a tributary of South Fork of Kern River, about
13 miles in a direct line southwest of former Haiwee stage station
(Inyo 26, p. 339); Boulder Spring, which is 18 miles by trail southeast
of Onyx post office; and Bird Spring, which is 20 miles by trail
southeast of Weldon post office and 6 miles in a direct line west of
Boulder Spring.
Along the arid southeastern portion of the Sierra, southward from
Haiwee to Mohave, there are very few perennial springs, though
seepage or underflow in Red Rock Canyon and farther south, at Water
Station (Kern 21, ,p. 341), yields a fairly dependable supply. South of
Mohave, in the mountains bordering Antelope Valley, in whose basin