Note 132 — Chapter IV · First Week at Great Salt Lake City.—Preliminaries.
Reading edition
The following is the analysis of the warm spring by Dr. L. D. Gale, printed by Captain Stansbury in Appendix F. It dates from 1851, but apparently more detailed trials have not yet been made. One hundred parts of the water (whose specific gravity was 1·0112) give the following results:
Sulphureted hydrogen absorbed in the water 0·037454
Sulphureted hydrogen combined with bases 0·000728
Carbonate of lime precipitated by boiling 0·075000
Carbonate of magnesia 0·022770
Chloride of calcium 0·005700
Sulphate of soda 0·064835
Chloride of sodium 0·861600
1·023087
The usual temperature is laid down at 102° F.
[133] The water of the Hot Springs was found to have the specific gravity of 1·0130, and 100 parts yielded solid contents 1·1454.
Chloride of sodium 0·8052
Chloride of magnesia 0·0288
Chloride of calcium 0·1096
Sulphate of lime 0·0806
Carbonate of lime 0·0180
Silica 0·0180
1·0602
The usual temperature is laid down at 128° F.