We cleared up the site and formed a granite basin for the water, sheltered by a little kiosk with seats where visitors could sit as they drank.

We also cleared up the slope round it and set out borders of young pine and balm-of-Gilead trees.
We sent samples of the water in bottles and kegs to dealers in spring waters, along with a descriptive circular--which Addison composed--and the statement of analysis.

Addison embellished the circular with several pictures of the spring and its surroundings, and cited medical opinions on the value of pure waters of this class.

We also invited our neighbors and fellow townsmen to come and drink at our spring.
Very soon orders began to come in.

The name itself, the Rose-Quartz Spring, was fortunate, for it conveyed a suggestion of crystal purity; that with the analysis induced numbers of people in the great cities, especially in Chicago, to try it.
Less was known in 1868 than now of the precautions that it is necessary to take in sending spring water to distant places, in order to insure its keeping pure.