Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1881-08-26
LETTER FROM ]. H. BREWER:
d Trip from Los Angeles to "Azkansaw''-
Places Of Note Along the Route-All About
Eureka Springs.
EUREKA SPRINGS, ARK,
August Sd, 1881.

in Los Angeles, l think it proba
BILE that many of your reader
would with some interest peruse
communication based upon facts a
they present themselves to you
humble servant, pertaining to thu
far famed Eureka Springs. Befor'
entering upon this theme, l thinl
q passing notice is due TO seyera
points while in transit, as also tt
the politeness, attention and &C
commodating spirit of the differ.
ent railroad train officials founG
upon the Southern Pacific anC
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Ft
railroads. The first point which
consider worth special notice il
Albuquerque, situate in New Mex.
leo, about 23l miles north of Dem.
ing and 918 miles from Kansas
City. 1t has reported population
of 5000 souls. Here we met with
the Pueblo Indians Offering their
different articles of hand work fol
sale, while some few do the beg
ging. A glance at the town shows
up quite number of fine houses.
The country surrounding presents
the aspect of good grazing dis
trict, being situated in a small
valley and we'll watered. Industry
here seems to be rather limited;
is carried forward with
as little judgment as energy, no
one participating therein except
the Indians, the chief products of
their labor being wheat, corn and
oats, while here and there you
will notice few vines growing
after the California style of vine.
yards. One of the curiosities of
the place has only recently (within
the pact two months) come to the
surface, being that OF the ruins of
some ancient city within twenty
two miles of Albuquerque imbed-
ed in what is known as lava forma-
ton. From this has been taken
different articles belonging to the
culinary department of house,
hold; also the skeletons of differ
ent individuals. l know of no
point along this whole line of trav-
ell where the outlook is better and
more promising to those interested
in the pursuit of agriculture. The
land upquestionably will yield
most bountifully, while the water
supply for irrigation is abundant.
l am informed that everything the
land would produce would find
a ready and paying market right
at home. The next point that at
tracts the attention of the Traveller
is Starvation Peak, being an
abrupt mountain peak to the sum-
nit of which some twelve or more
Mexicans were, during our late
civil war, driven by band of. In
dams and there surrounded ami
held until starvation ended their
existence. Different crosses erect
ed by their friends now mark the
spot. Next we arrive at Las Vegas,
which is quite a little business
place, showing considerable thrift
and energy. This point is the out
let to quite mining district locat-
ed some sixty miles southeast.
The mines are as yet not fully de-
but bid fair to be exceed
ingly rich. AS time and space are
being rapidly consumed, we leave
this point and turn up at the Eure-
ka Springs, Arkansas, after con-
tinuous journey of five days and
four nights, stopping over during
one night at Wichita, Kansas,
which the weary, worn-out travel
er will find quite agreeable.
When once we arrive at our des-
tination (Eurekal, having previ-
ously formed an opinion of the
city from the reports heralded to
to the public through the various
papers of the city, our anxiety and
in a manner subsidies,
ami the first impression that forces
itself upon US is an utter disre-
spect for those who pictured
a prosperous city of 10000 perma-
nently located residents and as
many more invalids feasting upon
the life-giving waters. The loca-
ton of this so-called city is almost
without limit. 10 the observer
there is nothing about the place
showing permanenoy, being uuilt
promlscuously of rude shanties, af-
fording neither comfort nor con-
yenieuce, The surrounding hills,
eighteen in number, ranging in
height from the lower caflons from
400 to 900 feet, from the sloping
sides of which ooze out the differ
ent springs that have been so high
ly recommended to cure many of
the ills that flesh is heir to, among
which some are deserving of par
ticular notice, viz, scrofula, cancer,
sore eyes, blindness, deafness, bron-
chial affections, asthma, dyspepsia,
catArrh, paralysis, govt, loss of APP.
petite, general debility, supposed
aunerison, heart disease, dIopsy,
Bright's disease Of the kidneys and
various other complaints, laziness
excepted would like very much
to vouch for the truthfulness of all
cures but, while 1 have not the
hardihood to do so, 1 feel justified
in saying that | have seen differ
ent cases of pronounced cancer re-
lieved and healed, while many
Others give evidence to the fact
of having received no relief further
than a cessation of pain in the part
or parts affected. AS to the resto-
ration of sight, after talking with
the different subjects here of un-
questioned truthfulness, who have
themselves been afflicted with
blindness and who have here been
rest ored TO sight, no man can long
er doubt as to the efficacy of the
water in their case, while others,
again, testify to the fact of getting
no better; and SO on, | might
enunerate instances of all of the
aforementioned heir-looms and
diseases. in which some have been
benefited and cured while others
experience no relief. In short, the
only affections which man is heir