MINERAL WATERS. 
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The mineral waters form a very important commercial product of the St ate. The follow 
ng is the output from 190U to 1904 inclusive: 
Production of mineral waters in Mississippi from 1900 to 190J/.- 
Year. 
Number 
of springs 
report- 
ing. 
Product, 
(gallons). 
Value. 
[900 
6 
7 
6 
6 
282, 228 
345, 457 
459, 485 
348,119 
332,131 
$48,617.00 
1901 . 
45, 965. 00 
1902 
77, 868. 00 
[903 
28, 956. 00 
1904 
60, 258. 00 
Among the States and Territories of the United States Mississippi ranked in 1904 nine- 
teenth in the quantit}^ and sixteenth in the value of the mineral waters produced; of the 
outhern States only three produce more than Mississippi. 
