Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-11-12

1T MAKES THE HAIR GROW.
Chemical Properties Of a Spring Discovered
I'm California.

Chemical Properties Of Spring Discovered
I'm California.
From the Chicago Inter-Ocean
The spring is about thirteen miles southeast
of San Diego. at the head OF a little valley
branching Of from the Sweetwater. Standing
on the little mound out of which the waters
gush YOU can see Mount San Miguel TO the east,
TO the southwark Sweetwster lake. and of in the
west a range OF low hills which just shuts Of the
view of the Pacific ocesn. And IL Won follow
the road little farther north you viii find
yourself among the olive ndlemon groves Of the
Sweetwatec and Spring valleys. The tiny val-
| ley is a part Of the old Spanish ..Jamacha"
grant. and had passed through many and ro-
mantle episodes before IL made known the
powers Of It's ii.tie spring. Underlying lite soil
and but few inches below the surface there
Is an immense cement Leposit. highly impreg-
| mated with iron arsenic. sulphur aud magnesia
and it is supposed that the waters get their
chemical qualities by percolating through this
cement bed and dissolving It's ingredients.
The first person TO discover the virtue u
these waters was old man named Jepsen who
| in 1885 lived on an adjoining claim and carried
water for domestic purposes from this spring.
| He was then seventy-fbrue Years old his head
was perfectly bald on the crown and what hair
he had was thin and scattering. In few weeks
a thick growth of hair started up all over his
head and his son. who is now a merchant on X
]
his fathers hair many times during their red
dence on the ranch. At the time they regarded
this growth Of hair an unacconntable phe-
nomenon, and did not think Of attribuung u to
the waters Of the spring until they learned Of
Its effects upon other people.
At about the same time Charles Fitzsllen, an
other bald man. nearly sixty wears old, was liv-
ing on the ranch and regularly using the spring
water. In about two month"; time he found q
new growth Of hair covering his head. which he
IL eoFf and lux IL g.
youthful days.
DIR. p. C. Remondino, DR.. Thomas I. Magee
and DIR. /. A. Davis. ell prominent San Diego
physicians and members Of the board Of health
of this city, have investigated the spring and
its cures, and have reported ne follows TO your
correspondent: The water is alkaline. ferru-
ginous. sulphurretted and arsenical and from
the evidence brought before us we must &C.
knowledge that il has made hair grow on scalps
where 1t had been entirely lost. OF this We
have had several examples on persons whom We
have known for a number of years and who,
until the use Of said waters, had given mp all
hope OF ever again having full head OF hair"
Most OF the people in San Diego who know
anything about this spring will simply laugh
and say Nonsense" If you ask them about
its hair-raising properties. Their skepticism,
however, is based solely on broad. general prin-
ciples and no case was found in which il was
due 10 personal knowledge. But a San Franz
cisco chemist who analyzed the water made
this report: III there is anything in that water
TO make hair grow a liberal application Of
spoliinaris TO a bald head ought 10 raise . red
wood forest"