National Republican., 1880-10-13
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Tho Hot Springs High Elevations Poll
tics, Etc.

Tho Hot Springs High Elevations Poll
tics, Etc.
CoTToSwooD SPRINGS, Col, Oct s. 1880.
TO HE Editor Of The National Republican:
SIR; From the Cottonwood canon, which
splits tie Rocky range. and dozen miles cast
ofits divide or watershed, Just west ofthc hoad-
waters Of the Arkansas, on the banks of Cot.
lonwood creek, which is fed by mountain
springs, boiling hot, as the water bubbles forth
from mountains that are covered with porpet-
ual snow, at 1000 feet above the level of the
sea, write you. This hotel nestles in tho
very throat of the mountains with peaks Of
various elevations all around It, tho highest
oven now being white with now coats of the
eternal SHOWS. Here, In this mOuntaiu-locked
basin, we are enjoying the climate of Wash.
ington, Indian summer and all. By going n
few miles westward wo havo view of Pixies
Peak at the east, and of the Sierras far beyond
tho divide, to the westward / will not
attempt oven a faint description of the scenery,
which has been so often and SO beautifully de.
picted by Fremont aud other explorers, and
by almost every news writer who has crossed
the plains. But these boiling springs,
cropping right out of tho mountains
alongside of Cottonwood creek, whose
waters aro ice.cold at all seasons of the year,
arc wonder that would attract thousands of
visitors if they wero more accessible and bet
Nti hhOhus IHt ldltSb uudllSlS VI luclI
waters discoses to each pint d.9 grs. carb.
soda, grs. carb. lime, gr. carb. mag
nesia, 2.3 grs. sulphato of soda, 21 grs.
chloride of sodium, 12I silica, 3 grs. ammonia
muriate, and q trace each of carb. of lithia,
iodine, bromide and ammonium. The waters
are also impregnated with FREQ carhonic.acid
gas aud hydrogen sulphdc. TO trappers and
explorers the virtues aud location Of these
waters have long been known, but it is only
Ntun fl,a., k,,, kn.,
extensively patronized by miners who have
been Frustrated by lead-poison, rheumatism,
dyspepsia, catarrh and mountain and typhoid
fever. The railways to Leadvillo, just cont
leted this season. pass within six miles of this
post Mt Buena Vista, which is growing town In
the Arkansas valley, near the head waters of
that river. A coach connects with each train
twice day. over good road to convey mail
and passengers to and from this spot. A new
hotel and sanitarium with all modern con-
veniences, including baths, billiard rooms and
eating and sleeping accommodations for
hundreds of guests, was erected last year, most
of the material and furniture for the same
having been hauled in wagons forty or fifty
miles over this rough country at enormous ex.
pensc.
came here last week. summoned by tele-
gram to what | feared was the dying bed of
one of your old local reporters, Riley c. Ono
hundro. He was taken with typhoid fever at
one of the camps of the Royal Oak Mining
company, some forty miles up the mountains,
between HillertOn aud Aspen, where ho was
selling miners supplies, and if his partner,
Ed Daniels jr., had not sent him down here
he must have died long since. He was
brought down the mountain in lumber
wagon on, II mattress, and reached here in
high delirium He received the best care and
attention, aud he is now convalcsCent. He
feels greatly indebted to tho medical care of
DIR. j. A. d. Adams, who has charge of this
sanitorium, and who, in connection with c.
X. Hartenstein, esq, has made improvements
upon their property here to the value of
$4,000.
am now sitting by an open window in the
room of tho invalid writing this aud although
we are at an altitude of over 5000 feet, and
my eye rests upon suOw.cappcd heights Mt an
apparently short distance, tho temperature Mt
midday is only $50 ut the south front of the
mansion.
The mountains all around here arC filed
with mineral, and prospectOrs are bury in all
directions, but they expect soon to 'pull in"
for the winter except whore they have shafts
sunk or tunnels bored, so that they can work
all winter getting out mineral. Prospectors
coming in will mostly 90 cast or south to win
ter, with the design Of returning to develop
or sell out their prospects" in tho spring.
Some will go to New Mexico to prospect dur
ing the winter.
The democrats hereabcut alegc that there
are about 10000 Missourians in this state,
and that they are mostly Hancock men-
enough of whom are voters to carry Colorado
against Garfield. The republicans, however,
dispute this assertion, and think that tho poll
tics of the state will remain unchanged. 1t
would be serious joke if the exodus Of Mis-.
souri, democrats into Colorado and the Pacific
states should not only fail to reyolutionize the
politics Of the mining states, but should also
turn the electoral vote of Missouri over to the
republicans. Our friends are laboring hard
in this wide field, and are at the same time
setting strict watch upon the registration
lists, to SEQ that none vote who are not legally
entitled Colorado is sue to rapidly develop
into one Of the richest, If not the very
wealthiest, of the mining states. As au agri-
cultural state it will never amount to much,
for lack of moisture. 1t may do something vt
stock-laising. ID.
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