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GOLD SPRINGS Premium Spring water |
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Bottled By: Wurth Bottling Corporation 1165 2200th Street Hartsburg, IL 62643 Phone: 217-642-5314 Fax: 217-642-5448
Source: Gold Springs Atlanta, Illinois |
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Gold Springs, Premium Spring Water, comes from a natural mineral spring located six miles West of Atlanta, Illinois. Gold Springs was formed from the fifth Glacier pass that went through Illinois. A limestone formation cracked and the water, from hundreds of miles around, flows between the two limestone formations and deposits into a basin at Gold Springs. The water is 120 feet deep and creates so much pressure that it is forced up through 90 feet of glacier material that naturally filters the water. The Gold Springs water comes to the surface at a constant temperature of 49 degrees. The springs flows nearly 100,000 gallons per day. The water flowing from the spring is 500 TDS (Total dissolved solids) with 110 parts being Calcium and 47 parts Magnesium. The water is a perfect 7.4 pH.
History These natural springs at Gold Springs are dated back as far as the early 1600’s. At that time the native Indian Tribes came in groves to the springs to bath and drink in this historic old fountain of nature. The first pioneer white settlers coming to this area quickly learned of the existence of these marvelous healing mineral springs. In later year, in and around 1885, a health resort hotel was built nearby so all could partake of these legendary springs.
In different periods of the past two hundred years, these springs have been known by the various names of Great Medicine Waters, Indian Springs, Crystal Water Springs, Hickory Hill Springs, Cold Water Springs, Gravel Valley Springs and Big Ridge Springs and by several other accurately descriptive titles. The springs received its present name of Gold Springs when in 1880 a 49er who dug gold in California and who then resided near the springs by Sugar Creek, washed out of the black sand of Sugar Creek, some excellent samples of flake gold. Near this location, several strong springs bubbled from the earth and owing to the adjacent discovery of flake gold, are now known as Gold Springs.
In 1925, Watkins Beverage Company from Bloomington, Illinois tested 28 different springs from Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin for the bottling of their soda pop. Gold Springs, the last specimen tried, was found to be the most marvelous water of them all. The water at Gold Springs proved under every test to be especially suited for their use.
In 1928, Watkins Beverage Company completed the construction of the present standing spring house. It was 13’ X 13’ made of brick, tiled roof, and lined on the interior with white ceramic tile. Pipes carried the water from the spring house to the near by road where Model T trucks took the water, stored in 5 gallon glass containers, to Bloomington for the production of Crème Soda, Pale Ale and other flavored soda pop. The natural spring water was also distributed as far North as Chicago in 5 gallon glass bottles. In more recent time the spring water was used by the local Coca Cola Bottling Company in Lincoln, Illinois.
In 1996, Wurth Bottling Corporation, acquired the water rights to Gold Springs and constructed a bottling plant four miles from Gold Springs near Hartsburg, Illinois on the old Wurth Homestead. Stephen R. Wurth is the fourth generation to live on the homestead where he and his wife Linda and two of their sons, Chad and Clint bottle Gold Springs, Premium Spring Water.
Wurth Bottling Corporation is an Illinois Corporation organized on July 23, 1996 as a Close Corporation pursuant to Article 2A of the Illinois Business Corporation Act. Wurth Bottling Corporation is a minority, women owned business with just over 69% of the common stock owned by five women shareholders of which nearly 54% is owned by Linda Wurth. Wurth Bottling Corporation is operated by the Wurth family with one outside employee. There is a three member Board of Directors and a seven member Advisory Board that meets monthly.
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