About three miles from Clear Lake, Napa county, California, and near the borax lakes, is a sulphur bank, from twenty to thirty acres in extent, and supposed to be thirty feet thick sufficiently pure for the use of the mint at San Francisco. The sulphur seems to be constantly forming from a dam, steam rising over the whole surface continually.
This article was originally published with the title "Valuable Discovery" in Scientific American 13, 14, 108 (December 1857)
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican12121857-108e