The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-11
HOLLY SPRINGS
AND BROAD ROCK
Chesterfield Water Makes Hit
With Druggists From Ali Over
the country-Holly Springs
Broad Rock Adopted
as Best Medicinal
Waters.
BY FRANK s. wOODsON,
Industrial Editor.

about tho hidden wealth in the hills
ind valleys of Virginia. J. believe
rave done some talking and maybe q
good deal of writing along this line
myself. Last summer, II remember
fright, there was something said in
he Industrial Section about tho value
IF the mineral waters of the old State
Ind the figures then used showed that
The same waters were bringing in a
soodly lot of dollars. OF course. we
al know about the famous springs
and hotel attachments that entertain
people from all over the world every
but possibly the average
reader of this paper does not know
what a tremendous business is being
done all the year round in the sale
of pure Virginia waters. did not
know very much about 1t myself until
/ investigated Having investigated, T.
want to tell. for the information OF
in general and the world
in particular. that right here close to
Richmond there is being drawn from
waters that are famous all over the
country for their health giving quail
ties.
What We Don't Know.
It is a little curious that water.
which is supposed to be as free as the
air. should became salable COM
modify. OF course. we know that in
big towns like Richmond we must pay
in one way and another the cost of tho
water works. but the water works
were supposed in the old times to
furnish fire protection-this and moth
ing more except that, incidentally, we
drank the same fluid that Wen to fur
nish the hath tub, to extinguish fires.
etc.
But a. generation ago a proposition
to sell drinking water for home and
Office consumption In Richmond would
have been regarded as prep osterous as
would an offer made now to sell pure
air for breathing. A century or more
ago a similar condition of affairs cx-
listed in England
Times Have Changed.
In both this country and abroad.
however, conditions have changed.
Population has increased. cities have
grown up, manufacturing plants have
been established, and the sources OF
water supply which formerly were
pure have become polluted.
Rivers are the natural and almost
necessary sewers of the cities drained
by them. and the water thus polluted
is not only often disagreeable to tho
of danger to the health.
II is self-evidents proposition that
where the sewers Of city, town or
hamlet empty into river. the water
of such river must become polluted.
and must be purified either by nature
or by art of man before 1t can, with
safety, be taken into the human sys-
tenn How long under natural pro-
cesses 1t requires. and what course ma
ture pursues In purifying polluted
stream. are questions upon which
scientists have not agreed. and what
artificial treatment can practically be-
followed by city to purify a contain
mated water supply is a problem upon
which doctors disagree.
Richmond Is Happy.
Fortunately, Richmond does not have
to discuss this problem to any great
extent. because right at It's doors ~
has the pure water that CUISINES from
the granite The owners of these
waters and these springs have been
very modest, maybe too much so. In
that they have never footed their own
horns to hurt. But sometimes the
world finds out some good things IN
spite of the rcticence of the holders
OF the same.
Just ont few miles from the pres
ent city limits, that Is to say, apouI
q mile from the centre of the good old
OF pure water, in which there gushes
forth through granite formation
pure lithia water, water that mas
attracted the attention OF doctors and
druggists for 10 these many years. Tho
original name OF the place was Holly
Springs, and the original owner OF
the spring got to selling the water II,
a limited way under that name. me
waters from this spring obtained
most favorable local reputation, and
the owner pdid not find very much
trouble in organizing q company to
handle the growing business.
At n Convention.
Tho company saw very quickly that
they had a good thing, and IN Y rev
months the Holly Springs water was
Richmond, a
Last spring one OF those conventions
that Mr.. Dabney, OF the Chamber OF
Commerce so. much loves to bring 70
this city got here on time. II was the
annual meeting OF the American Drug.
gists' Syndicate, a pretty big kind 81
q concern. am tod that TINS syn syn
cate has over 10000 members that "
has branch offices among the whole
sale and retail druggista OF the coun-
try in as many as 10000 places, Ans
how, the syndicate Is COMPOSED ot
som6-of the most expert drns = pIcn m
| mond they found the Holly springs
water, anu they liked IL.
The members OF the big national or
sanitation made much inquiry about
this water ana when they found that
I Il flowed from a pure granite spring
| that gushed forth on the famous OLD
i Broad Rock Road, and close by 20 the
nlace that was Known In years past
as the broad Rock race course, tNoy,
asked that the name be changed and
that the water shall hereafter bs
known as the BROAD Rock. II vi 5s
After inyestisation.
or course, this deal did not AIS.
place until the American pfuggists'
Syndicate had thoroughly invest tgated
the waters IT Is no secret that thsys
snent not d little money having tfiA
waters analysed and otherwise pro-