The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-11-16
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Il. Mineral Water.
Residents Of Helena, Who were here fol
Of Ays years ago. will recall how. during
% bad % 10 b absolutely unfit to %
Among those who suffered from this caui
was Mr.. Marcus Lissner, proprietor Of "a
International hotel. The bad water was
him double misfortune, 40 not only di
himself and family suffer from tho need Q
pure and wholesome fluid. but he wa
compelled to put before his guests brown
ish colored fluid, called water, with an odo
30 disagr6eable at times as to make thoe
who attempted to drink it deathly sick. At
tor thinking the matter over little while MI
Liasner determined to remedy the matter
guests OF his hotel were concerned. Severa
years prior to this he had purchased |
piece of land in Grizzly Gulch. littl'
distance from town, on which Their
was an ever-running spring OF puF'
1 soft water. Before Mr.. Lissner bought tn
| property it had been in tho possession OF 9
number of people, and in the first days @
Helena the people had secured from THU
source all their drinking water, it being de
livered through the medium Of carts to
the various cabins in the town. Afterwardi
the city spread out, water companies came
in and laid pipes, and the use Of the spring
water almost ceased.
Taking gang Of mon, when the watel
became bad, Mr.. Lissner proceeded to again
| utilize the spring water. First to get down
to the granite rock out Of which the water
bubbles, and this proved concluLively that
it is different from any other water in this
vicinity, in that il comes ont Of granite
formation, while other streams came from
lime stone. Then he constructed reser-
voir, capable of holding 10000 gallons.
This completed, he ran pipes from
the reservoir to his residence on Bridge
!, street, and then continued them on to the In
ternational hotel. Having more water than
tain in front Of the hotel, and since it's ereo-
ton thousands and thousands Of people
have partaken Of the cooling beverage,
without money and without price.
That the water had any curative properties
none of the owners, including Mr.. Lissner,
soft water. apparently pure, and as clear az
| any water in the world. At the hotel the
water was used in the kitchen and in the
boilers. and about the first effect noticed
after its use was that in two or three days
the lime coating on the boiler and ON the
various utensils in which water had been
boiled suddenly disappeared-eaten of. APP
parently, by something in the spring water.
The days rolled on, and Mr.. Lissner was
commended ON all sides for his public
spiritedness in giving the people in the
First ward chance to get drirk of pure
water. Many people living in that section
stopped using the city water altogether.
water. Among the latter were men who had
been suffering with various troubles, some
with kidney disease, others with its kim
dred ailment, others again with indiges-
ton, dyspepsia and the evils which follow
these diseases. After month or two, first
0nvnn md khnvn hat soho had k>na~
using the spring water, came to Lissner
and told him that they thought there was
something in the spring water which had
cured them of their ailments. Guests at
the hotel who drank nothing else, and who
had come to the house suffering from some
thing, and the International proprietor
commenced to think that possibly they
were right-that his spring was mineral
spring, whose water HAD curative properties
In certain diseases. He took some of the
water to DIR. M. Kockman for an analysis
and the doctor advised that II be sent to
Ihos. Price Son, the celebrated San
Francisco chemists, to be tested. This was
done, tho result being report by the firm
saying that the spring water contained
chlorldes, carbonates and sulphates Of
lime, maRnesif. soda and potash, and was
Tree from animal and vegetable matter"
In other words, the Lissner spring water
contained just the element needed to over
come the deleterious effects caused by the
lime water in universal use in Helena. This
analysis also explained the cures attributed
TO the water by those who had used it.
After the analysis Mr.. Lissner looked about
him for some of those who had been made
we'll BY the use of the spring water, and he
found they were more numerous than he
had any idea Of. Most Of them had been
troubled with that very disease or gravel,
and had been sufferers for years, taking all
sorts of medicine. but finally finding cure
at the drinking fountain. They found that
drinking it warm about an hour before
meals had the best effect.
Among the advocates of the curative
qualities of the water ia DR.. M. Rockman.
one of the leading physicians of this city,
and who talks about it from personal ex-
perience. DR.. Rockman, in speaking of the
benehclal results following the use of the
water, says: II know from personal ex-
perience that in certain diseases the Liss-
ner mineral water il Just the thing. For
ten years l suffered almost all the time
from gravel, and consulted the best physi-
clans in the country, making trip once to
New York. The doctors wanted to perform
an operation on me. but decided to wait
and try some more medicine. After a time
I was somewhat relieved, but not cured.
Six months ago commenced to use exclu-
sively Lissner's mineral water, and for the
last two months and half have been free
from palns nave TAKEN no medicine and
have gained rapidly IN flesh. This water
will speak for itself if the people will only
use it. A three weeks, trial, using it ex-
clusively for drinking purposes, will
convince the most skeptical. The mineral in
This water ID not excessively strong, 90 that
there is no show of ill effects il a we'll nor
SON uses it, while in my opinion it is sure to
benefit any ono suffering from kidney or
bladder diseases, Indigestion. constipation.
or liver troubles"
Those who receive the most benefit are
The guests of the International, because the !
water is used throughout the hotel |
md in all the cooking. Thero is such an |
abundance of this water that Mr.. Lissner |
Iays he has sufficient to supply the entire |
,ity with drinking water. Now that the /
7irtues OF the water have been proved be-
1ond doubt, it should be placed within the /
each Of all, and such is believed to be MI. |
Lissner's design, though he has not deter
mined AZ yet just how he will 90 about il,
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