People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 27-25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1896 — HEALTH GIVING FLUID. [ARTICLE]

HEALTH GIVING FLUID.

The rock formation underlying all of Rensselaer has out to be tapped to afford a bountiful supply of the most salubrious water. So cheaply can the wells be drilled that every house owner has his own supply. In places the water is too highly charged with mineral flavor to be agreeable upon first acquaintance, but that is only a fancy that disappears with familiarity, though most of the wells produce as pure and crystal fluid as anywhere flows from mother earth. These waters a>e celebrated for their medicinal qualities, and it may be largely the cause of the low death rate of Jasper county, which enjoys the distinction of having the smallest mortality per centage of any county in Indiana. The only available sourceof supply for waterworks would be the subterranean streams, the abundance of whose water could be easily obtained by the sinking of proper wells.