The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1878-10-31
sl5instructors. Il was established in 1912 by
the Baptists, in a charming and salubrious
! locality by those excellent mineral waters
| surrounded by picturesque scenery and lofty

III locality by those excellent mineral waters
NJ surrounded by picturesque scenery and lofty
4 mountains.
l. One of the attractions of Salem is Lake
Spring, on the bounGery of the town, where
Pfreestone; limestone and chalybeate springs
and a couple Of pretty little lakes are sur
y EoQnded by some twenty acres of tastefully
n improved grounds, shaded by native forest
II trees. Ten miles from Salem is the Roanoke
I Red Sulpher, the water Of which, contain
7 ing in various forms iron, calcium, lithia,
soda, ammonia, arsenic, alumina and other
4 ingredients, are a somewhat peculiar COM
pound, and are among the least stimulate g
ct our sulpher waters. DR.. Norman, a
standard authority, says that tsas a general
4 hygenlc agent, gently alternating and energlz-
ling the diges tive and assim llating functions,
and overcoming incipient Instructions of the
various organs and tissues that migat ulti-
mately become serious disease, their health
ful value can, scarcely be- oyerestimated.
Its situation is quite elevated, healthful and
picturesque, the spacious grounds shaded by
venerable wild oaks, and affording fine views
OF mountain scenery. In front OF the hotel
is fountain supplied by mountain spring
OF chabybeate water containing also q re-
mark able combination salts, of iron, alum.
ina, etc.
| The fifteen miles up the Roanoke from
Salem to Allegheny is continuation of
charming pastoral scenery, with green
grain fields and rich pastures on either hand.
through which winds and loiters the lovely
| river, while in the distance the lofty peaks
OF the Blue Ridge and Alleghanis hem in
this happy Valley Of Rasselas and seem to
touch the sky. The rise of $50 feet is so
gradual as to be scarcely perceptible, and we
seem to be still in the bottom Of the Valley
when we stop by the pellucid water of Big |
Spring, which has also become somewhat Of |
a summer resort, and near which are valua- |!
pie deposits of iron and copper. Three miles |
from Allegheny Station, near the river, are |
AHeghany Springs whose waters, cathartic,
dluretic and tonic, closely resemble those of |
Blue Ridge. The hotel, surrounded by
chain OF picturesque and comfortable Gotta
ges, has for many years been annually
crowded by hundreds OF health and pleas
ure seekers. In all directions are ravines
and recesses full Of the wonders of nature,
an ana q down one rocky canon Puncheon Run
Fails In a series OF foalny cascades leapstwo
thousand feet into deep abysses, ssshroud.
ed in leaves and vines, where the black
moses cling to the black rocks where the
laurel sways sysmetrically to the music of
the spray, and the sombre refrains OF the
fall, !" and from these depths one may climb i
to Fishers View and look off upon billow I
mountains rolling for miles aud miles away.
AT Allegheny we begin seriously to climb
the ramparts OF the mountains, and as we {
do so every curve of the rocky ledge upon i
which the railroad is securely built opens 4
up new beauties and more extended yistas of !,
the now narrowing but not less lovely valley,
we look down as from an eyrie upon the '
!lttle river and still smaller brooks cleaning r
IN the sun and upon the broader valley in r
the distance, bathed in roseate simmer. :.
extending up the gentle slopes of the noun
talns, the tops OF which are sometimes hoary Il
with glistening snow. Just before entering
me tunnel, four miles from Allegheny and
6oo feet higher, the scene beggars descrip- "
Ion and is almost incompatible. Something N
IKE 1t, Is the view OF one Of TIE richest sec h
lions OF Piedmont from the Chesapeake and
Ohlo Railroad at Alton just before entering p
the tunnel at Rockfish Gap. Emerging Il
from the big tunnel high up in the noun |,
lalns, the train stops at the head of a !.
long ravine down which winds out of sight ~
a tramway mile and a half long to Mont 81
gomery White Sulpher Springs, a famous al
summer rendezvous for Southerners, where q,
ooht'cs and the Lest Cau-e are annually dis :.
'ussed In caucusess, conventions and ami 81
'ersary meet'ngs. The buildings are unusu- u
lilly elegant and substantial, accommodating b.
! Thousand guests and are we'll situated h,
amidst fine aud diversified scenery. The :,
waters are tonic chalbybeate and strong os
llrhur, similar to the Greenbrier White, OF
Dough said to be less cathartic and stimu- pt
Through five and half miles more Of TIM. =
lelsl and deep rocky cuts and across wild 81
aYlnes we climb to Christiansburg, two M
housand feet above the sea, on the water
he'd between the Roanoke which flows into
he Atlantic, and the New River which finds III
Is way to the Gulf through the Kanawha, bt
ohio and Mississippi. ce