Identifier: appendixtojourna19177cali (find matches)
Title: Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: California. Legislature
Subjects: Legislative journals
Publisher: Sacramento : State Printing
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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l porch. During the sum-mer months an automobile stage line runs to The Geysers from bothHealdsburg and Cloverdale. From the latter it is a picturesque rideup the winding and rugged canyon of Big Sulphur Creek, one timecalled the Pluton River. Formerly there was also a stage line fromCalistoga on the east. SONOMA COUNTY. 339 These geysers themselves (though there are no true geysers thatspout high in the air, as at the Yellowstone Park, Wyoming) are aseries of boiling hot springs in two short tributary canyons on thenorth side of the creek, opposite the hotel (see photo No. 146 and No.151). The ebullition is so violent in the one called the Devils Tea-pot that a column of water about a foot across is continually projected10 to 12 inches above the surface of the small surrounding pool.Because of this violent bubbling, I was unable to take the temperatureof this particular spring, not having a registering thermometer.Scalded fingers were the reward of attempting to get it with the ther-
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Photo No. 146. The Geysers Canyon, Sonoma County, California, from-- - across Big Sulphur Creek. mometer carried. Around this pool is a black deposit of iron sulphide.A small vent near-by gave 206° F., while at the Devils Kitchenjust below, over a space of several feet, temperatures of 130° to 202°were obtained. At a steam vent above, 210° was obtained and 206°at another black sulphur spring. Sulphur crystals are continuallyforming around the steam vents. Epsomite and other minerals, theresult of deposition from the vapors and of efflorescence, are abundant.Just over a small ridge from the main group and in another ravineto the east, is the .Steamboat Geyser. This steam vent roars withsufficient pressure that a 2-inch rock dropped on it is thrown offviolently before it has a chance to cover the aperture. The temperatureis 2l2° F. In the early days of the resort, this vent was capped 340 MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES. with a steam whistle (hence the name); but it is stated to have

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