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same name, 10 miles northwest of Thompson Spring, yields a larger
supply than most springs of the region, as it forms a stream of perhaps
10 to 15 gallons a minute. Its water is of good quality, but as the
spring is not on a road it has been used mainly by cattle. A small
spring on the San Juan ranch, about 10 miles west of Thompson
Spring, yields water that is noticeably sulphureted, but the spring is
not distinctive in this respect, for most of the water of this region is
distinctly sulphureted. Crocker Spring, on the creek of the same
name, about 6 miles west of south of McKittrick, yields a small flow
of mildly sulphureted water; it has furnished a calnp supply for
stockmen. Frazer Spring, 5 miles northwest of McKittrick, is an
old roadside watering place, and Sheep Springs, 2| miles west of
Frazer Spring, yield small stock-watering supplies. Carneros Spring,
6 miles northwest of the Temblor ranch (Kern 4, p. 354), in a tributary
to Carneros Canyon, yields fair water. Walnut Spring and Antelope
Spring are about one-half mile apart and 8 miles in a direct line
northward from Thompson Spring. The former yields a good flow
of water of fair quality; the latter is of smaller flow and is less impor-
tant. Napoleon Spring yields slightly bitter water in a tributary of
Cedar Canyon, at a point about 2J miles northwest of Antelope
Spring. It is about 1 mile from a road, but it is well known to stock-
men of the region. Aido Spring is on the north side of Antelope
Valley and 6 miles in a direct line northeast of the Still ranch (Kern
2, p. 355). Its name was coined from the initials of the phrase " all
in, down and out," by two oil prospectors who found it one hot sum-
mer day. It yields a small amount of water of fair quality. A spring
in Cottonwood Canyon, 5 miles farther north, also yields a small
quantity of fair water. Alamo Solo (Lone Poplar) Spring is, about 4
miles north of the salt spring near Antelope Valley (Kern 1, p. 301)
and yields a small water supply in the northeast end of the Devils
Den oil district.
Farther northwest, in the Coalinga region, there are very few springs
of even seeping flow, but in the vicinity of Mercey Hot Springs
(Fresno 8, p. 78) there are a few of minor importance on the slopes
tributary to Little Panoche Creek. Among the principal springs in
this region, however, are probably those a few miles farther north at
Laguna Seca ranch, which is about 20 miles southwest of Dos Palos,
and Piedra Azul Spring, Carrisalito Spring, and the spring at Arbu-
ruas, the three last mentioned being on the Carrisalitos ranch, a few
milss west of the Laguna Seca ranch.
There are a few perennial springs of minor importance in the
ranges of northwestern San Luis Obispo and southwestern Monterey
counties. Among them is Round Spring, which is in the Los Burros
mining district and is 6 miles from Nacimiento River. A few other