Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-03-08
THE HOT SPRINGS OF AR
KANSAS.
A Interesting Review of Their
History and surroundings
The Wonderful Curative Prop
critics OF the Water-West Nir-
pinians ON the Ground.
ginians on the Ground
Correspondence Of the Register.

Editorial Correspondence Of the Register.
Hor SPRINGS, ARK, March 4.
have now been at this wonderful
place two weeks, and, although slow in
forming an opinion of the merits OF
these waters, believe have now sue
ceeded in making up one. The town, or
city, Of Hot Springs, can scarcely be said,
by its most ardent admirer, to be a
handsome one, having mainly been
built in day, as il were, after the night,
two years ago, when an ocean OF fire
and flame rolled over and destroyed it.
Besides, the Government claimed the
ground upon which the town stood, and
in rebuilding the people naturally built
only for the present, until some plan
should be adopted by the Government
by which they could secure titles to the
lands. Hot Springs Mountain, from
which flow sixty-fve distinct springs OF
hot and healing waters, rises abruptly
to height OF between 600 and 200 feet,
formingones side OF narrow valley, while
another mountain OF nearly equal
height and ruggedness rises on the OPP
posite side not more than an eighth of
mile distant-thus forming what might
be, not improperly, called a gorge.
Through this valley comes ripping over
pebbly bottoms thickly strewn with
beautiful white and variagated quartz,
rocks and stones, sparkling stream OF
water, whose volume is swollen by the
waste from the medicalsprings. This is
called Hot Springs Greek, and the tenn
perature Of its waters is always pretty
high. kept so by the hot water which
bubbles up in springs from its bottom
and flows into il from the springs on the
mountain side. Some of these springs
come out of the mountain as high up as
100 feet above the bed of the creek, and
Others at different elevations lower
down. The temperature Of the waters
ranges, in different springs, from l56 de-
grees down to 30, but neither the tenn
perature nor the volume OF the water is
ever affected by the variations of the
weather. The water is no hotter
when the suns rays set the
mercury to boiling in the Their
momster than when the chilly
blasts of old Boreas send it down we'll
toward zero. Half q million gallons Of
water is daily discharged from these
springs-enough 10 wash, and cleanse,
and make whole the invalid population
OF the United States.
In the valley described, and on one
side OF a single street, is situated the
principal portion Of the business houses
OF Hot Springs, but at the upper end
the valley widens out into a beautiful
plain OF sufficient area upon which 10
build city of $1,000 inhabitants, and
below there branches off several val
leys, which are being improved " de-
hehtful, cory homes. The population
at this time is probably 5000 10 6,OOO,
sustaining many stores and shops and
two daily papers The leading occupa-
ton Of the residents is to find some
thing to eat for themselves and the
many visitors who throny the place
The latter class frequently numbers
from 1000 to 5000, hence the keepers of
hotels and boarding houses, butchers,
bakeries and retail groceries find active,
and doubtless remuneratiye, employ
ment Outside the immediate business
centre OF the town, there are many
handsome cottages, and, as this is a
wooded country in which no coal is
burned, possessed OF semi tropical cli-
mate, in which many beautiful shrubs
and flowers tender about Wheeling