The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1911-04-06
"MENA SPRINGS

A good thing push it on.


1t is customary to name things &C
cordine to worth.
What is Mena's WORTH Her merit
Pure springs, crystal streams, bah
ling brooks famed to purity by noun
tain breezes. "Mena Springs.
If Mena had no other merit than
her springs, pure streams and her
green decked mountains and ravines,
she would hold in her embrace great
ness. Hundreds of cities, wealthy
and large, are so because for only
three OF four months the long year
they hold for the seeker pure water
and refreshing air. We have their
greatness for four times three months,
for the long. happy year, and right
here in the heart Of the demand, in
calling distance of the hot. swelterine
Southland and the cold North, the
windy, wasted West and the over
crowded East.
What is your first question to the
amazed stranger? Have you seen
natures parkY Have you drank deep
and long from 1.-THE spring. You say
you have reached Dreamland, but
wait till you gaze down deep in that
crystal spring. drink of its pure life
and then you will cry out in the glad
ness of the discoveries of old Eureka,
the fountain of youth, the Queen Of
the 0zarks. And this is but one
| Joy OF the thousands to be discovered
in silent hooks and amidst the vine.
clad hills, forgotten by us slow folks
Don't you remember when you first
came to Mena, how you. Sunday
after Sunday. (and you thought the
Sundays so far apart roamed through
the dales and over the green hills
how you, like delighted child, went
down on your knees, dug among the
ferns and green leaves to find the
hidden source of a ripping stream
and drank from the fountain which
you, feeling like great discoverer
had found? We so easily forget
No, it is thouehtlessness Try to teal
us away from "Mena Springs" and
how we cry outl We may 60. but the
fascination draws us back. Thousands
are looking for just what we are neg
lectine. How often they look over
the railroad folder to find us. They
find Sloan Springs, Eureka Springs,
Sulphur Springs. and often on their
way to Mona the very fascination Of
the word Springs on the folder
forces them to forget the Queen Of
the 0zarks.
II is only when we come in contact
with the man of means, ready to
enjoy life, who have lived where
water is bad. lin half of the U. S. it is
bad) where the heat is terrific or the
the cold is bitter. that we understand
their joy when they find pure water
here amidst the other grandeurs of
the Ozarks. Even a farmer con-
siders a spring or a pure stream, as
one declared. an additional valuation
to farm of at least $500
| We believe that the park land how
little it has cost us) is the fountain
head of half of Mena's wealth. Why
are you here? Why are all these
prosperous people hereY Sometime
we will awake. and we will see the
park spring adorned. at a cost of
thousands OF dollars, with the grandeur
and GOODNESS of concrete. You will
be able TO find the other many springs
in and around Mena by following
| fiower-bedecked winding paths and
drives. Moneyed men and women
have found strength and health at
these God given fountains, which
wealth could not buy.
'Mena Springs. the war cry for
population of ten thousand.
One of the Ten Thousand.