MINERAL SPRINGS OF THE UNITED STATES. 
By A. C. Peale, M. D. 
INTRODUCTION. 
In attempting the collection of data for the statement of the commer- 
cial value of the mineral waters of the country for publication in the 
report on the Mineral Resources of the United States, 1883 and 1884, r 
it was necessary as a prerequisite to have a list of the springs from 
which these waters are derived: An examination o# the few gen- 
eral works on the subject very soon showed that all existing lists 
were incomplete. The tables given in this paper were therefore com- 
piled, as the first step in the preparation of the mineral spring sta- 
tistics of the United States. They were omitted from the paper pub- 
lished in Mr. Williams's report, for want of space. Since the appearance 
of that report they have been revised and, with the addition of such 
analyses as could be obtained, prepared for publication as a bulletin of 
the Survey. 
The most complete compilation previously # made of the mineral springs 
of the United States is believed to be that brought together by a com- 
mittee of the American Medical Association 2 and published in Yol. XXXI 
of the transactions of the association (1880). It enumerates about 500 
localities. Walton's Mineral Springs of the United States and Canada, 
published in 1883 (third edition), mentions some 279 localities for the 
United States. Moorman's Mineral Springs of North America, issued 
in 1873, refers to or describes 171 springs. Bell's Baths and Mineral 
Waters, which bears the date of 1831, mentions 21 places, which are 
increased to 181 in his Mineral Springs of the United States and 
Canada, published in 1855. A. X. Bell's Climatology and Mineral 
Waters of the United States, published during the latter part of 1885, 
enumerates 173 localities. The lists prepared for the present com- 
pilation include 2,822 localities. Over 600 are places of resort and 
more thau 200 sell the waters to a greater or less extent. The lists 
may not be complete as to the number of localities and certainly are 
1 . ! 
1 United States Geological Survey. Mineral Resources of the United States. Cal- 
endar years 1883 and 1884. Albert Williams, jr. Washington, 1885. 
2 Drs. William Pepper, H. I. Bowditch, A. N. Bell, S. E. Chaille\ aud Charles Den- 
nison. The list is referred to in this paper as " Pepper's list." 
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