The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-01-24
THE MOUNT HOLLY NEWS
TUESDAY. JANUARY24, 1898.
A CALIFORNIA CURIO.
Chemical Properties of a Spring
That Makes the Hair Grow.
The Strange Discovery Of . Bald-Headed
Old Man Whose scalp Was Made to
Produce Generous
Growth.

The spring Is about thirteen miles
southeast of San Diego, at the head OF a
little valley branching from the Sweet
water. Standing on the little mound out
of which the waters gush you can see
Mount San Miguel to the east, to the
southwark Swestwater lake, and OF IN
the west range of low hills which
lust shuts off the view of the Pacific
ocean. And If you follow the road a
little farther north you will find your
self among the olive and lemon groves
Of the Sweetwater and Spring valleys.
The tiny valley is part Of the old Span
ish "Jamacha" grant, and had passed
through many and romantic episodes
before it made known the powers Of its
little spring. Underlying its soil and
but q few inches below the surface
there is an immense cement deposit,
highly impregnated with iron, arsenic,
sulphur and magnesia, and 1t is sup
posed that the waters get their chemical
qualities by percolating through this
cement bed and dissolving its ingredi-
ents.
The first person to discover the virtue
Of these waters, says tho Chicago Inter
Ocean, was an old man named Jepsen,
who in 1885 lived on an adjoining claim
and carried water for domestic pur-
poses from this spring. He was then
seventy-three years old, his head was
perfectly bald on the crown, and what
hair he had was thin and scattering. In
: few weeks thick growth of hair
started up all ,ovr his head, and his
son. who Il now merchant on Il street
in San Diego, says that he had to cut
his fathers hair many times during
their residence on the ranch. At the
time they regarded this growth Of hair
as an unaccountsble phenomenon, and
did not think of attributing it to the
waters of the spring until they learned
Of its effects upon other people.
At about the same time Charles Fttz-
allen, another bald man, nearly sixty
years old, was living on the ranch and
regularly using the spring water. In
about two months time he found new
growth of hair covering his head, which
he says is as soft and luxuriant as 1t
was in his youthful days.
Dr.. p. @ Remondino, DR.. Thomas L.
Magee and DR.. IT, A. Davis, all prom
inent San Diego physicians and
members of the board of health
OF that city. have investigat-
ed the spring and its cures and
have reported as follows to your cor
respondent: THE water is alkaline,
ferruginous, sulphurretted, and arsen-
ical. and from the evidence brought be-
fore us we must acknowledge that 1t has
made hair grow on scalps where it had
been entirely lost. OF this we have had
several examples Oh persons whom we
have known for numberof years and
who, until the use Of said waters, had
given up all hope of ever again having
q full head Of hair. !"
Most OF the people In San Diego who
known anything about this spring will
simply laugh and say, "NonsenseI'' u
you ask them about its Embarrassing
properties, Their scepticism. however,
Is based solely on broad, general prin-
ciples, and no case was found in which
1t was due to personal knowledge But
San Francisco chemist who analysed
the water made this report: IF there
is anything in that water to make hair
grow liberal application OF apollinaris
to bald head ought to raise redwood
forest =