Sharp County record., 1880-07-01
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EUREKA SPRINGS, ARK, June Is, 1880.


Eureka Springs, |, as one of the
readers of the RECORD, have con.
cluded to contribute my "mite,"
promising to guard strictly against
exageration, and state facts as near
as possibly can, from what / have
been able to CLEAN since my arrival.
1 have only been able to visit the
following springs here: Dripping
State, Arsenic, Laundry, Table
Rock, Rock House, Eureka, Spout,
Harding, Oil, Crescent the Sulphur
and Iron Springs, all of which are
cool (the Dripping the coldes)
and pleasant to the taste, except the
two last named, which are cool
enough, but too strongly medicated
to be palatable, The Eureka sf-
fords now about two or two-and-a-
half gallons Of water per minute,
| and breaks out of the mountain
side 70 or 100 feet above the bot
| tom of the main run or gulch, run
| ming down over a large rock, Of the
sandstone formation | bolieve, into
a nice basin near the size of an Or
dinary water bucket, the inside of
which is as smooth as a wash bowl
but do not believe it is the work Of
man, because | have seen one just
as smooth as this one, and feel quite
sure 1t was formed as it is now.
There is a large quantity of as clear
and pure-looking water as the Eu-
reka that is conducted down the
mountain in spout to within few
feet of the basin, which is believed
by many to possess all the curative
properties Of the Eureka, OF the
other springs, l shall not attempt to
speak in detail at present, notwith-
standing some of them are natural
beauties and resorted to daily by
hundreds ofpersons. There is plenty
Of water here for $4,000 persons,
and plenty for stock besides. l can
not give the number of springs at
present, as | have not seen all. Of
the writes Of the waters, ! am not
able to speak at this time from per-
sonal knowledge. l have conversed
with numbers who say they have
been cured Of cancers, old sores,
sore-eyes, scrotfula, badness, paral-
ysiS, rheumatism, liver and kidney
diseases, head diseases, blindness
and dyspepsia. | have seen one man
whose leg was sore from his knee to
his instep when he came here last
February, and it is now all we'll and
sound, except place about the
size of a silver dime, and looks as
though it would be entirely well in
a short time. He told me that he
had not used medicine Of any kind,
either internally or upon his leg;
but simply drank and bathed in the
water.
There Is said to be from 10000 to
l4,OOo persons here, and large num-
bers arriving daily, Numbers have
returned to their homes recently TO
attend to their harvest. 1t is
thought that there will be 10000
or 10000 souls here by the 10th
of August. There is supposed to
be 1000 dwelling and business
houses here now, and 100 or more
in process Of erection. | believe
there are more than 100 business
houses here Of the different branch
es. We have one opera house, one
theatre, one cabinet shop, two mat
tress manufactures, two shingle
manufactures, and four or five walk
ing cane manufactures and one
barrel mandatory, and two news
papers--Echo and Herald, one q
weekly and the other semi-weekly,
and preparations are being made to
issue a daily soon. ! would advise
all who feel interested to subscribe
for these papars, as they can learn
more from them, about Eureka, than
they can from private letters or in
dividuals. There are five large and
cemmodieus hotels, and boarding
and bath houses past number. Sew
eral bakeries and blacksmith shops,
livery, feed and sale stables in
abundance. The mercantile and
other branches of business are all
we'll represented. Even the fast
mon are here with all conceivable
devices for gaming and opening the
eyes of the "green." People can
live as vel, and as cheaply, here as
at any other place in the state, as
all kinds OF provisions are here IN