Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1894 — Mineral Waters. [ARTICLE]

Mineral Waters.

According to the report of the United States Geological Survey on the subject of natural mineral waters, there are betwean 8,000 and 10,00(1 mineral springs in this country, and the waters from nearly 300 of them, aggregating '21,100,000 gallons and valueci at $5,000,000, are annually placed on the market. The report shows a large increase in the trade in natural mineral waters. In 1883 the total number of springs the waters of which were known to have been placed on the market was only 189, and their commercial product did not exceed 7,529,433 gallons, valued at $1,119,603, or about onetbird of the present figures.