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springs yield domestic supplies or form watering places for cattle in
this portion of the Coast Ranges.
A domestic supply of good water is obtained at Tassajara Hot
Springs (Monterey 3, p. 57), from cold springs in a canyon near the
hotel. An analysis of a cold iron spring at this place has been given
with the analyses of the hot springs.
In Santa Clara County a small spring of cool water forms a roadside
drinking place between Gilroy and Gilroy Hot Spring (Santa Clara
9, p. 79), and larger cool springs near this resort furnish a domestic
water supply.
Springs of considerable flow issue on the slopes 2 or 3 miles south
of Alma railroad station, which is 12 miles southwest of San Jose..
Similar springs form the water supply at a small mountain resort
2 or 3 miles farther west, and several others in the locality form
roadside drinking springs.
In the great interior valley of California there are very few springs.
On the eastern side of Sacramento Valley, near the base of the Sierra,
however, there is an occasional small spring near a stream channel.
Willow Spring, which is about 30 miles southeast of Sacramento, is
one of these, and it is probably supplied by subsurface water from
the slopes to the east.
Numerous cool nonmineral springs of perennial flow exist in the
abundantly watered portions of the Coast Ranges north of San Fran-
ciso Bay, but as most of the mountainous country is sparsely inhab-
ited, the springs are of little importance even on cattle ranges, for
the many streams in the region furnish adequate watering places.
A few of them form watering places along stage roads, however.
Among those which are thus made use of the springs at Bell Springs
station, near the northern border of Mendocino County, on the stage
road 40 miles northward from Sherwood, are perhaps the best known.
A few small springs in Lake County furnish roadside watering
places. One spring that is about 4 miles south of Middletown,
beside the road to Calistoga, issues from serpentine and yields per-
haps 2 gallons a minute of water of good quality. Another spring,
about 2 miles farther south, also yielding about 2 gallons a minute,
has been piped a short distance down the slope to a watering trough
at the roadside. Three-fourths of a mile west of Alien Springs (Lake
11, p. 198) a slightly used road branches from the stage road, climbs
southward across a divide, and thence descends into the valley of
Wolf Creek. About a quarter of a mile southeast of its junction with
the stage road a spring that yields about 2 gallons a minute of cool
water of good quality issues from the road bank and forms a pleasant
drinking spring. About 2^ miles beyond it, or a quarter of a mile
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