Mountain Valley Spring Water

Ownership of the spring was transferred in 1902, when August Schlafly of St. Louis, Missouri, already a major stockholder in the company, and his family became sole owners.

An apocryphal tale holds that two strangers, traveling home to New York from Hot Springs by train, were in the dining car, and each produced a bottle of Mountain Valley for his respective table.

This coincidence led to many conversations and then an agreement to form a fifty-fifty partnership for a Mountain Valley Water Company franchise in New York.

Upon exchanging business cards, media mogul William Randolph Hearst discovered that his new partner was the well-known gambler Richard Canfield, a man against whom his newspapers were conducting a negative campaign.

In April 1987, Sammons Enterprises of Dallas, Texas, purchased the company and returned administrative operations to Hot Springs.

[5] Every United States President from Calvin Coolidge to Bill Clinton served Mountain Valley Spring Water in the White House.

Other notable connoisseurs of the water included Missouri State Senator Jill Carter, Elvis Presley, and boxing champions Joe Louis, Gene Tunney, and Sugar Ray Robinson.