The Russellville Democrat., 1880-08-12

up and down the hill to the spring will cut through the upper leather of fne pair of ladies or gentleman's shoes. There is no doubt in my mind whatever, from the indications and general appearance of the coun. try, soil, as especially evidenced in the flint, granite rocks, stones and pebbles. that 1t is the production of a great volcanic eruption of the earth. Every hollow and ravine IS filled; even the tops of the noun
 tains, with particles of all sizes, de scription and colors of stone per fectly porus, which, when broken open show marks of ashes and smoke. Many of them are beauti
 full and gorgeous and glitter, dasxle aLd sparkle with ores doubtless of the richest quality. Springs of clear and beautiful water eventuate from Ill the surrounding hollows for miles around which it is claimed psssess medicinal and curative properties, and many no doubt possessing them equal to the one mostly resorted to and used, the great Eureka basin spring. l cannot discriminate from taste and appearance and only in temperature but little if any difrer- encs in several of them. The Eurs- ka is unqusstionably the warmest I have yet found, but not unpalatably 70. The coldsst it is said is the Hardin spring which I have not yet visited. The night before I reached this place from misdirsction of the road 1 encamped in Greenwood hol. low at . sprlng one and ons-half miles south east of here, which runs out in . stream the sise of your thumb, from . cave situated upon claim owned by, and that day being surveyed and lad of by Mir. W. c. Pearson (as . homestead or pre- emption) late of Fayetteville, or near it, who has been engaged quite extensively, I am told, in steam saw milling in this vicinity for some time; hs has built . house fifty yards above this spring, and . few yards below it . second spring breaks out between the house and the Cave spring, the latter being the coldsst water have yet tasted, and very clear, and believe that if it had as nice polished granite basin as the Eureka, would find as many advo- cates of it's virtues and be sought after for it's health restoring quail ties which many claim it possesses.
 Yesterday with part less Mas- ter Jo Bernard and one of our most useful, necessary and indispensable travelling companions, Mir. Lorenzo Newton Clark our little caravan of health and pleasure seekers consist ing of my daughter, Mrs. H. c. How ell, her daughter, Emma, her two little sons, Gus and Henry. Miss Jessie Howell, her niece, (who ls worth her weight in gold on this trip and excursioa) and Miss Rose Patterson, my niece, equally yalua
 ble according to weight, Mir. Amasa Bernard and myself with our carriage and buggy visited the Johnson spring, the Oil spring and the Mile spring, all in the same hollow one and one-qusrter miles north west of the Eureka, all within an area of fifty feet, over and surrounding which project huge cliffs of rock, under which houses are boxed up and comfortable shelters are afforded a good many visitors and families. The Mills is the coldsst; the John. son, it IS claimed, possesses every quality of the Eureka, and if mis- take not is the one which effected the cure of Mrs. E. NJ. Eudy, of Dover, Pope county, of heart disease, rheumatism, headache and general debility. The Oil spring has no strong indication from taste or ap- pearancs of containing oil in the water, but around tho edges of the spring there is . slight evidence of it. We were told by gentleman at the spring that it had restored hair upon one mans head who was bald and that it was said it would turn the hair black or dark, and being slightly grey and knowing that a little oi ling of my hair was needed, as had been using cold water on my head for long time and there seemed to be harshness and lack of vitality in the roots, undertook to and did give it . regular champooing. The young ladies bathed their hair also in it. I can safely assert that with this ONCE ONLY bathing of my head I
 ind on arising from my bed this morning that my hair is soft, smoothe and pliant and feels as if it had been just turned loose from the barber's hand; don't understand me, how ever. to say that the color is changed. Indeed do not expect 1t, although it is said one such case has occurreed, and even one bald head restored with . new coat or suit. I am told It is bottled up and sent away for barber's use, better than any oil they use or can get. These springs are on the sixteenth section school land a part of which, embracing the springs, has been sold, 40 or 160 acres, and are now owned by Mir. Johnson and others, costing perhaps six or eight thousand dollars, and is