Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-12-09
The Hot Springs Of Ar
kansas.
Description Of the Springs s,and
/, their Surrounding Romantic
e SoeDery-An InValiG's Retreat
Impressions Of Visitor.

Va - NESASOEs
From a. Correspondent. =,
Hor SPR1Nes, Ark. Nov. %, rs.
The Arkansas, or Ouchita,
hot springs Of Garland county,
Arkansas, are situated on the
mountain, the creek aud in the
valley of the Hot Springs, 40
miles from St. Louis, fifty-fivc
miles southwest of Little Rock,
the capital of the State, and
twenty-one miles from Malvern,
the nearest railroad station of
the Cairo d Fulton Railroad,
which forms part of the St.
Louis & Texas Line, via St.
Louis, Iron Mountain & South
ern Railway. They issue from
the slope of the Hot Spring
Mountain Ca spur Of The Ozark
Mountains) at an elevation va
1iously given by Doctors Geo.
w. Lawrence, A. S. Garnctt,
Charles Cutter and others, at
from l, 300 to l 400 feet above
the level Of the sea.
The temperature varies from
go to 1902 Fahrenheit. The
springs are said to number fifty
six, and to discharge three hun
dred and thirty-fve gallons of
water per minute, or about $780,
600 gallons per day. Silica and
carbonate OF lime. arc the most
abundant mineral constituents
Of the Hot Springs. Pure, taste
less, inordOrous, natural stimu-
lants, that course through every
part OF the system and are high
ly esteemed in treatment Of
chronic rheumatism, govt, con-
traction Of the joints, secon-
dairy and tertiary syphilis, scrof-
ula, neuralgia, &c,
The crude materials as found
by cumulative analysis of the
waters by Doctors Lawrence. p.
NJ. Ellsworth and others, are
silicates, bicarbonate Of lime,
bicarbonatc Of magnesia, alumni
IA, with oxide Of iron, carbon
ate OF potash, sulphate of mag
nesia, chloride Of magnesia, OK
ide Of manganese, suIphate Of
lime, brominc, a trace; iodine, a
trace; organic matter, 4 trace
Mineral constituents, eight and
one half grains per gallon. y
The accounts given Of their viz.
tues are fabulous.
Hot Springs Of Arkansaw -.
"Of all places and Of all queer things, { |
GU beat Creation; you do by jings.
The water boils, and bubbles, and Kisses, /
And roais, and rants and sings, and scisses,
And pitches over the precipices
Dlnclng in madcap revel,
Hot enough to scaid the devil,
All disease It's bound to level!
Hot Springs Of Arkansas, the blarncy stone !
As sure as razor sharpens on her hone
, Twill cure all ills Of flesh or boner'
Above it is a spar Of the O.
zark, from which the steaming
waters run. The Ozark Noun
tains divide the State Of Arkan-
sa5 into equal parts. Eight
miles distant, near the Ouachita
river, are the so-called Sulphur
where the Hot Springs
patients are sent to recover
from the facilitating effects of
the hot baths, the waters being
a sulphate of potash the pot
ash predominating.
The village, or town, of Hot
is said to be in latitude
north "a deg. % min. longitude
16 deg. OF min. vest, composed
Of but one regularly LAID out
street, which occupies the cen
tire of the valley from one end
to the other. On each side are
numerous hotels, boarding-hou-
ses, doctors offices, apotheca-
ries, lighthouses, business hOu-
SEES, shops, stables, etc. It's
width, east and west, is not O.
yer half mile at any point, I
while the valley proper, varies
from one hundred to six hum
dred feet wide. Most of the {
buildings are put up cheap, for i
present wants. The town is
dusty, dirty and unsightly. L
see nc reason why it should be
ChiIIs and feyers are
said to prevail during the fail
Population 1,163 = !
767 whites and 396 coIored. 1t J
now claims, November, 1875, a.
bout two 'thousand.i Some ten
thousand people visit the
Springs annually. Hotels are
passable to good, with this ex- s
that meats are usually +
-ough. Hotels charge forty to-
,eventy-fiye dollars per month
Dr. ten to seventeen and one-half
dollars per week. I
The Arlington House is a