The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-05-26
an angle of about twenty degrees up

an angle of about twenty degrees up
a high beach. 1t is situated on the
northern shore, about fourth of a
mile this side of the boundary line
between Nevada and California. Other
springs bubble up along the lake for
200 yards westerly, but they have not
been utilized. The waters of these
springs are medicinal. but we have no
analysis. When cool the water is
pleasant to drink, having a faint taste
of gunpowder. w. b. Campbell, the
proprietor, has built a house over the
principal spring, in which he has ar
ranged tub and shower baths, warm
and cold, the warm water being
pumped into a tank at the top of the
house and allowed to cool. A SWIM
ming bath, to be filled with the same
water, is being constructed owe the
edge of the lake, which is here pro-
tected from storm waves by a substan-
tial breakwater. Eight steps from the
bath house, on the same high bank,
Campbell has erected a commodious
hotel, 40 by 81 feet, two and a half
stories high, which stands broadside
to the lake and can be seen from every
point on the opposite shore-twenty-
five miles. A portico extends along
the lake side and west end of the first,
and a veranda similarly graces the
second story-each extending out six
feet from the main building, the We
randa being enclosed by balustrades
and substantial rails. The first floor
has a commodiOus and handsomely
furnished parlor, a bar room lover
which the atfable n. j. Burton
presides), dining room, etc. The Sec
ond story contains eleven large rooms,
superior in light, ventilation, finish
and furniture to those of any hotel we
have ever been in in the State. There
are also two suits of rooms on this
floor. The building itself and every
article of furniture, bedding, carpeting,
etc, in it is new and elegant; and I'M
der the personal supervision of Mrs.
Campbell herself the whole establish
ment bears an air of refinement and
touches of cultivated taste. The third
or half story is cut into five large
rooms, each having two beds. About
eighty yards east of the hotel, nestled
i'll q grove Ofyoung pines, on a plateau
rising a few feet above the level of the
lake, are five twin cottages, facing the
center of square enclosing nineteen
young pines, from thirty to fifty feet
in hight. These cottages are each
twenty feet square, divided by a parti-
ton from front to rear, with a door to
each compartment. These compart-
Inents are subdivided into two rooms,
the front one lOXl1 and the real 9Xl0
feet-all lined, neatly papered and well
by windows. The front doors
are covered by substantial porches,
and the front o feach cottage is painted
the doors being neatly grained
in imitation of oak. These cottages
erected by Mr.. Campbell for the
accommodation of families and parties
to spend a few weeks or
months in one of the most pleasant
and beautiful retreats on the shore of
the lake.
CLIMATE, SCENERY, ETC.
The nights are still chilly on the
shore of Lake Bigler, but the days are
A few weeks more and the
evenings will be genial and balmy as
he days are now. The grass and
flowers are just peeplng from
heir hiding places in the crepusculous
gloom of the forests along the north
ern shore. and the feathered choristers
MARBLE gaily to the echo of their matin
among the hills, and everything
here is conducive to health and elias
lefty of spirit and limb.
are cool woodlands, in whose
dusk arcadeS
The very noon-day seems of twilight
emulous;
hot winds there, but in the silent
glades
The shining dews hang tremulous."
In the early mOrning-when, save
he trilling of the birds and the sullen
oar of distant cataracts, no sound is 1
leard, and the lake lies m%Otionless as
sheet of glass-the continuous chain ]
# snow along the Western Summit,
.bscured here and there by clumps
f dark pines, is inversely mirrored
n the waterand lookslik great ~icicles,
hirty miles in length, %pendulous from I
he ~overhanging mountains, with in y
arvening arcadian vistas-the whole ,
orming Il picture of superb beauty, (
nd one not to be surp assed other
here. 1