Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-12-31
Ashland Mineral Waters
And Their Uses

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Ashland creek, Bear creek and num-
erous others are full of trout, and in
the larger streams one may obtain
larger fish, such as the steelhead and
Chinook salmon.
The city of Ashland has sixteen
churches, embracing the Catholic and
Protestant faiths. Every sect and
creed may here be found.
In seeking a health resort, if one
studies the geographical location, the
seasons, scenery, hunting and fishing,
lodge affiliations and religious organ
izations one can readily see that
therein lies the pleasure part of life
that is so essential to the recuperat-
ing patient or the one that desires to
get away from business cares and
worries and live within the environ
ment OF natures handiwork. Ash
land seems to be that place.
The soil of this region is especially
adapted for the location of sanitari-
ums and hospitals, from the fact that
it is very porous, due to the granite
consistency (hence the name Granite
City,, affording ample drainage
everywhere and making a dry soil
and atmosphere.
Nature holds in her bosom here
many minerals of commercial value
yet undeveloped, such as gold, silver,
iron, coal, kaolin and mineral paint.
Mineral springs are numerous in
the vicinity of Ashland, some having
been productive commercially for
many years, others being so improved
as to be used for bathing purposes
and are now being developed for
more extensive uses. These mineral
waters vary in composition and re-
sultant qualities, and their medicinal
merits were not so widely known, but
recent and more careful experimental
ton proves that the waters here have
the medicinal values that have not
had the public recognition they de-
serve. The mineral waters may be
divided into two classes, viz: Car
Donate and chlor-carbonate. The for
mer including all the soda springs
and the latter the lithia and sulphur
waters
The lithia springs contain the Sec
ond highest percentage of lithia of
any of the springs found in the Unit
ed States, and the second highest Of
any in the world. On the other ahnd
the spring containing the highest
percentage of litEia in the world also
contains a prohibitive amount of
sodium chloride, or common salt,
hence it is unfit for drinking or table
water. Therefore Ashland lithia wa
ter is in class by itself. While
lithia seldom or never occurs in wa
ters in large enough dosage to be
predominating factor, still it does
exist in sufficient quantities to have
a decided therapeutic action The
compounds OF lithia are very active
diuretics, and form a very soluble
urate which 10 easily eliminated from
the system. Waters of the above
class also find great application in
the treatment of rheumatism, rheu-
matte tendencies, proteid indigestion
The carbonate or bicarbonate aka
line waters are the most important
groups of mineral waters. AS a class
these waters are used to stimulate Sc
cretions of the digestive tract, dis
solve uric acid, increase the flow of
urine, correct the acidity of the urine
deposits, and are therefore of value
in catarrhal conditions Of the mucous
membranes, rheumatic diathesis,
gout, etc.
Sodium bicarbonate and carbonate
appears as a normal constituent of
the blood lymph and nearly all the
secretions of the mucous membranes,
and where conditions arise that cause
these fluids to become acid, this class
of waters is of great use in counter
acting the effect. They thereby in
crease metabolism and allay irrita-
tions of the mucous membranes of
the genito urinary tract.
Calcic carb, mated waters have, on
the other hand, a quite different ef-
feet from the above named carbon
ated waters. Where. the above car