Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-11-05


tation due to increase of acid in the
digestive tract; also your springs
.carbopic acid gas resemble
Spring No. II at Nauheim, Germany,
and are therefore suitable for giving
the Nauheim System of baths for
arterioschlerosis, certain other cir
culatory disorders, and especially
some forms of heart disease. Your
field of activity should therefore be
the development of your springs as
a health resort, and this end should
be reached through the application of
your waters as a bath in connection
with certain drink cures. Therefore,
the water should be piped to the city
where there are hotel accommoda-
tions and conveniences that cannot
be secured at the springs themselves.
In constructing the bath houses,
certain forms of plumbing and ap-
paratus must be installed.
QUESTION:-Will the tourist
public take kindly to the piped-in
waters?
ANSWERED. all cases where the
springs are at great distance from
the city, as at Kissingen, Germany.
and other famous European Spas, the
water has been piped to a central
drink hall in the city and to the
bath houses with excellent results.
Wiesbaden is treating 100000 peo-
pie yearly, Harrogate, England, 150,-
600 and Carlsbad 10000. Harro-
gate bonded their city for $4,000,
900, thirty-nine year bonds, on which
they have declared 20 per cent div
idends, and have put down sink
ing fund of over a million dollars.
This gives you an idea of the profits
that may be derived from a properly
developed spa, and you can see from
this that the tourist public does take
kindly to piped-in waters.
QUESTION:-Will the aerating,
precipitating, filtering and carbonat-
ing these waters as per estimate hurt
them and make them less desira BILE?
ANSWER:-I hardly know how
to state to you emphatically enough
that this should not be done. These
waters can be bottled under their
own gas pressure without changing
their naturalization and without loss
of gas. You may have trouble with
the precipitate in the bottle, but if
you use a properly designed bottling
These waters can be served without
aerating, both hot and cold, and the
water remain as clear as crystal,
providing that the pressures are pro-
perly regulated and the heating de-
vices and storage reservoirs that have
been developed at all the European
spas are installed
QUESTION:-Is the piping of
these waters into the city good
move from the standpoint of gaining
more from the advertising view than
We will lose from the deteriorating
of the waters and the possible ef-
feet on our status as a watering re-
sort?
ANSWER:-The propositio ON
should be handled so that there is
no deteriorating. The proposition
should not only be an advertising
medium but 1t should also be a
source of continuous revenue to the
city.
QUESTION:-If We place these
waters in our public parks, and give
it all the appearances of being Ma
ture's handiwork will we be breaking
faith with the people who come Il
spend their money in response t
our advertising?
ANSWER:-Thew water should b
served in properly constructe
drink hall near park in the cente
of the city. The water should b
, served both hot and cold, and unde
. 90 ~, No oi
! tempt should be made to form artif
J cial springs in the village, If that
l what you mean by giving it the al
; pearance of Natures handiwork.
| This should not be attempted, for "
= certainly cannot improve upon n;
r ture in this case.
| QUESTION:-Is the project fair
r worth the cost of $175, 900, for
e year bonds. five per cent interes
Y yearly upkeep not estimated?
: ANSWER do not know Il
S size of your city, or your bonded i
S debtedness. However, l can 81
a that the proposition is worth an e
t penditure of three million dollar
t and that II three million dolla
It we're spent in the development
= WOulu De paying pIOpoSillou'
IT course, considerable progress can
d made for $175, 900, but this shou
Is be considered as first investmeI
h and should be added to year by ye
| as the enterprise expands.
N can make trip to Ashland a
,e time before the 10th of Septemb'
er but after that time it is questio
TX able as to just what time l cou
d, visit your city. Should you deci
lr to start the project along the lin
that | have merely touched upon,
at could act as consulting engineer, ia
tn ing charge OF the design of the co
or plete installation, mechanical and
n chitectural. trust that | ha
20 given you enough information
On serve as food for thought, althou
OH have not taken the time to go n
detail regarding some of my answe
For instance; ! answered one
your questions very emphatically
the negative. The reasons for
would fill book. II may be q