They are all carbonated and deposit small amounts of calcium and iron, and have names like Appetizer and Digester.

About 75 yards (69 m) north of the Roundhouse a sulfur spring issued from the base of a bank of dark, crushed shale.

[3] The twelfth spring seeped from massive sandstone 2⁄5 mile (0.64 km) up the ravine from the hotel.

He filed a preemption claim for 160 acres (65 ha) in 1874, and built a hotel and several cottages around the mineral springs.

[9] At its peak the resort covered 260 acres (110 ha) and had a stagecoach stop, post office, restaurant and dance hall.

[8] It offered multiple cold mineral springs for bathing and a bottling plant for drinking.

[2] Guests from the San Francisco Bay Area would reach the resort by taking a train to Cloverdale, then a stagecoach via Ukiah.

[9] In 1910 there were accommodations for 250 people in the hotel, annex and 16 cottages set in an oak grove in a small flat area beside the creek.

[9] A 1922 guide to California resorts said Saratoga Springs could be reached by Northwestern Pacific Railroad to Ukiah, and from there 22 miles (35 km) by stagecoach.

Guests in the 1950s would often stay several weeks, enjoying the good cooking, swimming pool, croquet, tennis, horseback riding, dancing and other activities.