The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-06-25
NEW SIMMER RESORT:
White Stone Lithia Springs Will Cpei!
July F!rst.
4 MODEL OF ARCHITECTURE
Minute Description oi'This Bcautif"i
Resort Whose Waters Are
Attracting Attention
Everywhere.

White Stone Lithia Springs. Spar
tanburg County. Jane 2l.-Special:
The prosperous Piedmont section OF
this State is full of surprises, Wealth,
energy and push have easily placed
her in the front rank of the new south.
The transformation in the past 20
wears of the apparently barren red
hills into fertile terraced fields: the
building of almost innumerable cotton
factories. and surely as night follows
the day. came the upbuilding OF ham
lets into towns, towns into cities, an
increased population, Along with this
toodtide Of prosperity came the educa-
tional institutions, the dlssemlna-
tion Of knowledge. culture and refine
ment.
The up country has always been the
mecca to which the people Of the
lowlandS in the eastern and southern
portions of the State turn their steps
in the summer to escape the malaria
prevalent in those sections. and the
names Of many Of the old and familiar
watering places are household words.
But It's said the best is always saved
until the last, Il was left for Harris
the only Jim" Harris to discover and
utilize the best health giving water
rot only in the State, but perhaps III
tie south.
White Stone Lithia springs are only
one and a half miles from Rich Hill,
a station on the Southern railway sew
en- miles from Spartanburg and 20
FROM Union.
Formerly it was known as kirby
spring" and although in general way
it has for years been known simply
as line spring" by the natives, and
beneficial results were obtained by
drinking its waters: it's true meolcl-
nal qualities were never known until
the property passed into Harris hands
and an analysis was made.
The water abounds in sodium chic
ride, lithium, sodium mangnesium and
iron bicarbonates: iron, potassium
sodium. calcium and lithium sulp-
hates. Also alumina and silica. 1t
is considered very pure mineral
water and containing lithium salts
makes it valuable water medicinal
| ly.
THE LOCATION.
These celebrated springs will be
connected with Rich Hill by railway,
the roadbed of which is now all grad
ed and the work is nearing completion.
The distance is only a mile and a half.
WHITE STONE LITHIA SPRINGS.
The springs are surrounded by high
hills whose SUBMITS rise in some places
to a perpendicular almost a hundred
feet. The stream jutS out Of a tissue
in a massive rock which towers high
above it. An inch pipe has been in
Iected into the rock through which the
cool sparkling water flows, rising to
an elevation Of four feet. The outpour
is at least two gallons minute.
The natural pressure is SO great
that if the piping was ''reduced' to a
! fourth of an inch the stream would
rise to height of 80 or 10 feet. This
is remarkable in the mountainous up
country and is said to be the only one
of it's kind yet discovered.
THE BOTTLING WORKS.
Fifty yard below the spring has been
erected a neat and picturesque brick
building, 30x40, where the water is
bottled, plain and carbonated, and
shipped to all parts of the United
States. The water has already obtain
ed a wide reputation and the daily
shipment now amounts to from $3.50
TO 5000.
1t is claimed that on account Of the
sofUneSs and lightneSs of the water it
retains it's gas longer than any other
mineral water on the market. This
has been already tested and hence
makes it in great demand by all deal
erS.
AN IDEAL SUMNER RESORT.
But to appreciate it, to get the
full benefit of the water, one must
visit the spot, breathe the pure at
mosphere that comes direct from the
Blue Ridge Mountains, enjoy the
magnificent scenery and drink deeply
of the life giving waters.
Here nature has done her most ar
tiStic work. Surrounding the spring
rise three Everlasting hills whose
shady side and seQueStered dales can
not be surpassed in picturesque and
romantic beauty and between whose
base flows the dancing. babbling
brook.
THE NEW HOTEL.