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Show APPENDIX F. CHEMICAL ANALYSES, & a BY DR. L: D. GALE. Siiu- I have carefully examined the. specimens of water, and earthy and saline compounds, from the Valley of the Great Salt Xake, which you put into my hands for chemical, analysis, and X herewith report the* results. • • / I have inspected and tested all the specimens, and made a, de-* tailed analysis of such only as I deemed might ' be of some interest to know. Thus, the ^ ater of the Great Salt Lake, that of the Hot Spring, the Warm Spring, and the native salaeratus, are all more or less important to the public. The first of these is perhaps the most important of all. The water of this Take must vary considerably in its strength at different seasons of the year. It is important, hence, in stating the strength of the water to state the time when the water experimented oh was collected. That fact, so far as it relates to these experiments* will be found, it is presumed, in the body of the work. The specimens examined contain full twenty per cent, of pure chloride of sodium, and not more than two per cent, of other salts, and is one of the purest and most concentrated brines known in the world. The strongest brine reported by Professor & eck, on the salines of the State of New York, is that of the new well at Syracuse, containing ljF. 35 per cent of chloride of sodium.- The Water of the- Warm Spring is a sulphurous water, strongly impregnated with sulphuretted hydrogen, and has medicinal virtues that may render it valuable. The native salreratus from Mud Plain, as well as that from the banks of the Sweetwater, is a valuable domestic salt. Before stating the results of the analyses made, it is proper to say that the quantity of water from the several sources was too small to enable me to make so critical an analysis as I otherwise » 417 |
