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This spring is located at the Johnson Springview Park north end, 200 meters east of Springview Middle School's soccer field. Access the spring via the footpath to the north of the Wickman Johnson home is possible from Fifth Street. The spring was an important Rocklin resource and curiosity in the late 19th- and early 20th century. Nearly 88 bedsrock mortars, and approximately 4 acres of gently sloping terrain are evidence that this area was once home to many Nisenan. Arlean and Norm Towne, archeologists, say that the "midden", a rising slope on the west side the bedrock mortars covers the refuse of over 1500 years of Nisesan seasonal encampments.
Huff's Mineral Spring is its name. It was named after William Huff. In 1887, he lined the spring with granite blocks and sold it for 25 cents. Huff's Spring gushes 120 gallons per hour of chilly water through its granite liner into an Antelope Creektributary. Strangely, the flow becomes less strong at noon but returns to its normal strength by the time of evening. Christian Carleton from Rocklin, a Rocklin Hydrologist who lives nearby, attributes the slowing flow to deep-rooted oaks, which absorb water from an underlying aquifer when the sun is high. The water is too alkaline to be used for irrigation. However, it is clear and cool. Early Rocklin settlers used the water to replenish the stream and lakes that were brought down by the railroads from Blue Canyon in tanks cars.