The Sentinel=record., 1914-07-03
MANUFACTURE ICE FROM SPRING WATER
FAMOUS CHALYBEAT WATER FROM WESCOTT PLACE TO BE
 USED FOR MAKING ICE HERE.
Company Is Now Being Forced to Put Into the Field An Ice Which Will Advertise the City All Over the
 Country.

That Hot Springs, the first health resort of the world, shou d introduce the innovation of the manufacture of ice from fine spring water, the equal of which in purity and chemical analy- sis is not surpassed by any of the table waters of the springs of the country, is an innovation that is to result from the work of a company now being formed in this city.
 The company has secured a conIces- sion from MT. Harry Westcott, owner of the famous Chalybeate spring, one of the largest and finest springs on this continent, to supply the company with the water from this spring for the manufacture of the ice. The plant will be located on ground leased from MT. Westcott within close proximity to the spring, and the conveying of the manufactured ice to the city will be by motor trucks.
 There will be an extensive adver- tising feature in the connection with this work, il that the water supply is sufficient that there shall be sufficient quantity of ice manufactur- ed for the Hot Springs supply, as well SIS to serve the dining cars operated on the trains of the lines entering Hot Springs, and that the spring water ice will be offered for sale to the hospitals and sanitariums of the country out side of this city, thus
 in measure oflsettilg the plan in vogue ncw, where Hot Springs is fre- quently forced to get ice from the outside.
 Several physicians have been con suited in connection with the enter prise, and unanimously they approve the plan. They dec are that he chem- ical analysis Of the Chalybeate spring is nearer the chemical analysis of the Hot Springs water than any other, and that the tufa formations about the Chalybeate Springs, and the fact that the water from this spring is never cold, as other spring waters makes for the almost unquestioned proof that the Chalybeate water is a vein of the hot water in some far dis that formation, mixed with a vein of iron and other mineral cold waters Mr .Westcott bought this famous spring some years ago when there was much conjecture as to the value Of the property. He purchased the property at what some urged was a hieh valuation, while others, taking into consideration the large flow of water beieved the spring at most any price was cheap. The flow of water is so large that there will be sufficient quantity for all the ice manufacturing purposes, besides prob | ably leaving a sufficient sum to later supply the marketing of the water in the event this feature of the business should be entered into.
 Any doubt about the water being | adapted 10 the use of making ice has | been set aside through an inyestiga-
 tion that has been made on this point. The Chalybeate Spring Ice Company
 is now being formed with capital | stock of 50,000, which it is estimated will be sufficient in al events for the
 establishing of a model and sanitary
 ice manufacturing plant and the pur- chase of such equipment in the motor truck line as is necessary to the delly- cry of the ice to the city and to the depots.