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Show City Keeps Iron In Drinkina Water CANON CITY, Colo., (U.R) Many municipalities in the United States have spent large sums of money for spraying plants to take the iron out of their drinking water supplies but in Canon City money is being spent to keep a supply of iron water available. Inmates ot the Colorado state prison here have begun work on opening up historic old springs at Soda Point which is high in iron content. Many Canon City folk and tourists, too, have expressed a preference for this water over the purer water supply of the city The spring water has not been available recently because of the corrosion in pipes leading to it. The Soda Point spring has a history. The first white men who came here learned of the springs through Indians who believed it contained supernatural medicinal powers. t |