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1905 LETTERHEAD MINERAL WELLS TEXAS, GIBSON WELL WATER CO.
1905 LETTERHEAD MINERAL WELLS TEXAS, GIBSON WELL WATER CO.
1905 LETTERHEAD MINERAL WELLS TEXAS, GIBSON WELL WATER CO.

1905 LETTERHEAD MINERAL WELLS TEXAS, GIBSON WELL WATER CO.

$ 34.84

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  • Condition: 6 X 9 1/2" ORIGINAL BETTER THAN THE SCAN

    Description

    1905  LETTERHEAD MINERAL WELLS TEXAS, GIBSON WELL WATER CO.  2 SIDE.  ORIGINAL
    "GIBSON AND LITHIA WATERS"
    MINERAL WELLS WAS AND IS KNOWN FOR THEIR MINERAL WATER (SEE BELOW)
    SEE TESTIMONIAL ON BACK
    WRITTEN TO: R H NORRIS HARDWARE, CHILDRESS TEXAS
    The waters of Mineral Wells, TX have been making folks feel good inside and out since 1881.
    Mineral Wells is 14 miles east of Palo Pinto.  It has a fascinating and rich history which I will cover in more detail in the next few posts.  The town’s history began with the arrival of James Lynch and his family in the late 1870’s. He had a well dug which would eventually be found to have healing properties.  Word spread and before too long, hundreds of people were camping out in tents on Lynch’s property.  A town was laid out and more wells were dug; wells with names like the Crazy Well, the French Well, the White Sulphur Well, the Texas Carlsbad Well, the Lithia Well and the Sangcura Sprudel Well, among many others.
    Bottled water and water crystals were shipped all over the world, advertised on local radio stations and affiliates.
    The Gibson Well Company purchased the Sangura-Sprudel property in 1908 for the sum of ,000. It was to be operated as the Gibson Well property thereafter. An unnamed company shipped twenty-five carloads of water to an equally anonymous firm in Chicago in March of that year.
    The Gibson Well, Pavilion, and Park property covered the entire block, bordered by NW 2nd and 3rd Avenues and NW 6th and 7th Streets. The Gibson Well buildings were on the north side of the block, and the Crazy Water Well Company Bottling Plant was across NW 2nd Avenue--to the east. The Crazy Well Company maintained ambitions to build a large plant to the north of the Gibson Block, at 300 NW 7th Street, in 1921.
    Two buildings remained of the Gibson Well property in the 1920's, but the land was still used as a park.
    SEE MY STORE: VINTAGE HARDWARE STORE COLLECTIBLES
    ORIGINAL, LETTERHEADS, BILLHEAD, BILLHEADS, HARDWARE.