Lists and Analyses of the Mineral Springs of the United States, (a Preliminary Study)U.S. Government Printing Office, 1886 - 235 Seiten |
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Alkaline Alum Springs Aluminium sulphate Ammonium Analyses of mineral analyst Artesian bicarbonate Calcic Calcium carbonate Calcium carbonate Magnesium Calcium chloride Calcium phosphate Calcium sulphate Cañon carbonate Calcium carbonate carbonate Magnesium carbonate carbonate Sodium Carbonic acid Chalybeate Springs commercially Constituents Creek Cubic inches Fahr Flow in gallons gall gallon.b Grains gallons per hour Gases Grains Grains Grains Grains in Grains Grains per gallon Grains per imp Hot Springs Iron oxide Iron sulphate Lithia Magnesia Magnesium carbonate Magnesium chloride Magnesium sulphate Manganese carbonate miles east miles north miles northwest miles south miles west mineral springs Name and location Number of springs Once a resort phureted Potassium chloride Potassium sulphate reted River Saline Salt Silica Soda Springs Sodium carbonate Sodium chloride Sodium sulphate Strontium sulphide Sulphureted hydrogen Sulphuric acid Temperature Township Trace Calcium Trace Iron Trace Sodium chloride Trace Trace Sodium Trace Trace Trace Unimproved Valley Warm Springs White Sulphur Springs
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Seite 10 - The term mineral water in its most extended sense comprises every modification existing in nature of that universally diffused fluid, whether considered with reference to its sensible properties or to its action upon life." Any waters containing a large amount of mineral matter or characterized by an unusual degree of heat, and having a certain therapeutic effect upon the animal economy are usually classed as "mineral waters." It is not within the sphere of chemical analysis to explain in all cases...
Seite 197 - The latter are an important auxiliary to the water resources of the State and materially aid the agriculturist in the increase of his tillable area of land. Nevada occupies a prominent place as a mineral-spring State. Both hot and cold springs ( the former predominating ) are found in every county. Walton's work credits the State with two localities, and yet there are at least ten localities that are utilized for medicinal purposes, and many of them were so used by the Indians long before settlements...
Seite 130 - ... and sulphur almost everywhere. In Adams County, for example, if there is one mineral spring there are thousands. Four are credited on the list. One of these is a place of resort, but the others are identical in character with hundreds of others on all sides. They have come into recognition possibly through the superior intelligence or energy of their proprietors, who call attention to them in one way or another.
Seite 202 - The springs are classified as sulphurated, carbonated, alkaline, saline, chalybeate, and acid. Naturally many of the springs are thermal, for the volcanic rocks with which such springs are usually associated are found in many portions of the State. A large number of the California springs are improved and utilized as places of resort, being visited by thousands of people annually. Many, however, are comparatively inaccessible, and are therefore little known. The best known springs are probably the...
Seite 9 - Mineral Resources of the United States. Calendar years 1883 and 1884. Albert Williams, Jr., Chief of Division of Mining Statistics and Technology.
Seite 176 - This is the simplest of orographic forms, and has been already mentioned as a tilted block, bounded by faults. The whole immense region lying between the Sierra Nevada and Rocky Mountain systems has been broken by a multitude of fractures, having an approximately north and south trend, that divide the region into long, narrow, orographic blocks.
Seite 85 - Florida are remarkable for their great size rather than for the quantity of mineral matter they contain. Some of the streams proceeding from them are large enough to float steamboats.
Seite 106 - Lupton, analyst (1884). KENTUCKY. The State of Kentucky occupies a prominent place as a mineral spring region, not only from the number of springs, but also on account of the quality of the waters. Some of them are among the most remarkable in the country and many are on sale in the East, West, North, and South. Such are the celebrated Blue Lick water and that of the Orab Orchard springs.
Seite 94 - Few neighborhoods in the State are without a mineral spring or well of some kind, good, bad, or indifferent." Many of these springs have extensive local reputations and appear to be used somewhat indiscriminately by the residents for medicinal purposes. Only a few of the springs have any commercial importance. Ocean Springs and luka Springs are the best known resorts. Cooper's Well was well known before the war and, with others, is being revived as a pleasure resort. (222) Spring No. 1. Spring No....
Seite 9 - Springs of the United States and Canada, published in 1855. AN Bell's Climatology and Mineral Waters of the United States, published during the latter part of 1885, enumerates 173 localities. The. lists prepared for the present compilation include 2,822 localities. Over 600 are places of resort and more than 200 sell the waters to a greater or less extent. The' lists may not be complete as to the number of localities and certainly are 1 United States Geological Survey.