GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION. There are at the present time between eight and ten thousand mineral springs in the United States, and of this number 659 were listed as commercial producers in 1901. Most of the mineral springs of corn me-reial value are found in the Eastern United States and in the Mississippi Valley: west of the 101st meridian they are largely confined to the Pacific Coast. No hot springs are known in the New England States. In Shaine the springs are slightly alkaline•saline and chit lybeated, with a few of carbonic character. Their temperature ranges from 40° to 46' F. Chalybeated springs are abundant in Massachusetts. Many of the springs of the New England States are utilized for commercial purposes, lint among the Eastern States as a whole New Vo•k stands at the head of the list of producers. The springs at Sara toga have an international reputation, and com pare favorably with any of the foreign spas, the waters from the Congress, Empire, Columbia.
High Rock, Mahon', ;Ind Geyser springs being extensively used throughout the United States.
These are effectual in diseases of the liver, spleen, and skin, in neuralgia, and rheumatic and dyspeptic troubles. Farther south in the palachians are the celebrated Ilot Spring, Virginia. including the Berkeley Springs and the White Sulphur Springs. The waters of the former are used chiefly for certain forms of dys pepsia. diseases of the liver and bowels, while those of the latter are of special value in the treatment of chronic diseases, gout, rheumatism, from France, and the Karl.! ad Sprudel waters are extensively imported into the United States.