The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-05-14
NATURES HAIR-RESTORER.

Wonderful Properties cf Spring at
Auburn, Placer County.
According to the New York World there
is spring on the land of Fred Randall, at
Auburn, Placer County. which possesses
marvellous properties as hair-restorer.
When Randall took up his ranch in the
ravine (where he lives now five years ago
all the upper half of his head was bare and
shining. Not only lie, bur the people,
told me this. Now all his scalp is covered
with thick and vigorous growth OF curly
gray hair.
He found a spring on the sidehill above
his shanty, piped the water down 20 his
home and put big half-barrel under TIE
trees at the end of the pipe beside hi, bas.g
door. That was his wash-basin, and every
day, whenever he bathed lis hands and
face, his bare scalp came in for a goOi rub
bling in the fresh, pnre water. This was
for cleanliness sake only, for at that time
he had no idea that the water possessed any
unusual power
At the end Of month he was surprised 10
find soft down coming out all over his paid
scalp, where there had been 10 sign OF hair
for several years. 1t grew and grew, and
in SIX or seven months his crop of hair was
long enough to need the services of
barber.
The more he thought about it the more
convinced he was that it was all on account
of the water from his spring, for during all
that time nothing else had been applied to
his scalp. He spoke about it to several
people in the town, and two or three others
made regular visits to his spring with the
same results.
Cne young woman in Auburn, who had
suit of hair that was like halo-rieh, red
gold in color, soft and fine and lustrOuS as
silk-0wed this part Of her beauty to the
spring. Her hair had fallen cut badly and
grown thin and dry. For three or four
months she bad visited The spring three times
a week. washing her head thoroughly each
time. She said that her hair had afterward
become thicker and longer, and also softer
and more lustrOus than IL had ever been
before. Others have tried the water with
like results.
Mr. Randall has never had the waters of
the spTin analysed. nor has he made he
slightest effort to publicly prove their value
or make money cut of them. He is a miner
from the bottom of his soul. and cares only
10 find gold in the ranch which he owns now,
or TO sell it for enough money to start HIM
self in some locality where the gold pros
poets would be bstter. He says that be IS
a foSter-br0ther Of John MackaY. His
family and Mr. Mackay's family were Jour
train some time in the early SOS when they
were surprised by Indians. and both his
parents were killed. Mr. Maekay's parents
took him into their family and took care of
MIN until ne started out 10 zig sOII, WhlcH
must have been at an early age.
The spring bubbles out from the earth
near the top Of long, steep bill, about
mile from town, which slopes down to the
yellow, muddy waters Of The American. It's
source and its stream for the first few yards
are completely covered with thick, matted,
overhanging growth of ferns and brakes
and flowers and weeds of many kinds.
Then it falls ever a little ledge OF rocks.
Oyerhuhg By wild blackberry and grape vines
and brakes and bushes, and forms cold,
dark pool below. The dark stains on the
rocks show that its waters possess some kind
of mineral ingredients.