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362 SPRINGS OF CALIFORNIA.
lie the towns of Lancaster and Rosamond, there are a few permanent
springs. Antelope, Lovejoy, and Moody springs are three which issue
near buttes that rise in the valley proper and have been described as
probably due to underflow water that is forced to the surface by the
outcropping bedrock.1 Several other springs that issue from the
slopes above the valley have been used for domestic supply and for
cattle, and one group has even been developed and piped to the
settlement of Neenach, in the west end of the valley for a town supply.2
In the ranges of the desert eastern and southeastern portions of the
State there are many springs of slight flow that are used as watering
places by prospectors, but most of them are less important than those
which are indicated on Plate I (in pocket) and which have been
separately described. A number are here mentioned, however,
because they are really more important than many larger springs in
other parts of the State.3
On the slopes of the White Mountains and Inyo Mountains, along
the east side of Owens Valley, a number of small springs that would
receive little notice in a better-watered region are of importance to
prospectors and others who have occasion to cross these ranges.
Among them are Cedar, Coldwater, Black Canyon, and Goat springs,
beside or near roads leading eastward from the town of Bishop into
Nevada, and Graham and McMurray springs on the slopes a few miles
east of Alvord.
Santa Anita, Willow, and Coyote springs are on the slopes-of the
Inyo Mountains, eastward from Independence, and are respectively
4 miles northwest, 5 miles south, and 9 miles south from Barrel
Springs (Inyo 9, p. 338). Like the latter they furnish small supplies
of water to prospectors in the region.
In the Coso Range, which lies southeast of Owens Lake, there
are a number of small springs that are away from the traveled roads
and are known mainly to prospectors. Among these are Willow
Springs, about 4 miles northeast of Darwin post office, and a spring
in the pass between the Coso and the Argus ranges, about 12 miles
southward from Darwin. A third spring, which is on the eastern
slope of the mountains, about 10 miles farther south in the same
pass, also yields a small amount of water of good quality. All three
of these springs have long been used and are marked by camp litter.
In the Panamint Range there are a number of springs of less im-
portance than those in this range which have already been described.
Rest Spring and Burro Spring are situated about 1J miles apart, on
1 Johnson, H. R., Water resources of the Antelope Valley, California: U. S. Geol. Survey Water-Supply
Paper 278, pp. 52-53, 1911.
2 Idem, pp. 54, 55.
3 Most of the springs in the southeastern part of the State that are mentioned are described more fully
by W. C. Mendenhall in Some desert watering places in southeastern Californi^ind southwestern Nevada:
IT. S. Geol. Survey Water-Supply Paper 224.