Page 386 - 1915, Springs of CA.

366 SPEINGS OF CALIFORNIA.

the head of Rattlesnake Canyon. Saddlerock Spring forms a small
'watering hole for cattle in a canyon about 7J miles in a direct ^ne
east of Viscera Spring and twice as far southeast of Old Woman
Springs. Burns Spring yields a small amount of good drinking
water beside the road in the canyon of the same name 5 miles south-
west of Saddlerock Spring; it seeps from gray decomposed granite
along the creek side, from small holes dug in the bank for a distance
of about 15 yards. Springs in the canyon of Pipes Creek, 3 miles
south of Burns Spring, yield a small flow, which is piped some distance
down the canyon to the ranch house known as The Pipes and also
a quarter of a mile farther east to a small reservoir that serves as
a cattle-watering place. Chaparrosa Springs are in a ravine about
3 miles south of The Pipes. Two springs, 100 yards apart-, in this
ravine furnish seeping flows from basins dug in the bank of the
drainage channel and have been used by cattle as watering places.
There are also a few minor springs in the southeastern extension
of San Bernardino Mountains. Stubby Springs, which are on the
western slope of the range, 18 miles north of Indio, are locally known.
Lost Horse Spring is about 8 miles farther eastward, near the eastern
base of the range. At one time it supplied a 2-stamp mill near by.
McCoy Spring forms a watering place on the west side of Ironwood
Mountains, on a road between the Colorado Desert.and Ehrenberg,
Ariz. The spring yields only about 4 barrels a day (less than one
pint a minute), but the water is of good quality.
Two groups of springs in the Palo Verde Mountains, in the southeast
corner of Riverside County, are of local value as watering places.
One group is at the base of a westward extension of the mountains,
beside a wagon road between the Colorado Desert and Ehrenberg,
and is 5 or 6 miles west of Mule Springs (Riverside 23, p. 348); the
other is at the northeast side of the Palo Verde Mountains and forms
a watering place for cattle.
A few springs form minor watering places in the mountains on the
west side of the Colorado Desert. Among these are Dos Palmas
Spring, 14 miles in a direct line southwest of Indio; Asbestos and
Potrero springs, which are respectively 3 miles west and 5 miles
northwest of Dos Palmas Spring; and Cactus, Virgin, and Agua Alta
springs, which are between 5 and 10 miles to the south. Most of
these springs have been used as sources of water by prospectors in
the region. Seventeen Palms Springs are on a road from the mining
settlement of Julian northeastward to the desert and are 12 miles
byroad eastward from Borego Spring (San Diego 6, p. 349). The
water is of fair quality when the springs are kept^cleaned out, but as
the road is seldom traveled the springs are usually choked by sand
and weeds and the water is alkaline. Zacaton Spring is on the south
side of the same road, about 5 miles farther east. Mountain Palm