Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-09-08

oHN BoLucn8 supply
to great extent the vast region of
country to the North and West of her.
The rivers and creeks of Missouri are
Of pure, sweet water, and once stoclxed.
as is now rapidly being done. will soon
swarm with the finest Of game fish.
We have probably set forth sufficient
natural attractions to some day make
the state great and rich. But there
are more. OF late years valuable me-
dicind springs are being discovered.
These springs are becoming the resorts
of thous1nds of people every summer
We can only designate a few of the
most popular. The Mound City springs
in Holt county, have long been noted
for their curative qualities. Those re-
Gently discovered in Clinton county.
near Plattsbu-g, are this season having
hundreds Of visitors. Clay claims TO
have about twenty of the same kind of
springs, which have been fowipq on
fIom time immemorial without any
one dreaming Of their virtues, and vet
physicians pronounce their waters equal
to thoce of many OF the noted springs
of the east The most famous springs
of all, however. are those of SALINE
county. The Sweet springs there have
become re sort almost as widely and
favOrably known as the White Sulphur
of Virginia. Sweet Springs offers the
invalids and business men who are
worn out with the anxieties and exac-
tons of their hard vocation the chief
feature that draws so many to the sea-
shore 1t has salt baths that are not
inferior in their hygienic virtues to the
rolling surf, for Saline county abounds
in salt spring., and the water from one
Of these is now conveyed distance of
four mi'es, through a six inch pipe to
the grounds here, and poured into ba-
Sins, which add swimming pools to the
other attractions of the place. The
water from this spring is not only
strongly saline but contains other in
gradients also that give it very valua-
be medicinal virtues and make it n
desirable accompaniment to the delic.
iOus sweet water which thousands
are drinking with such agreeable
effects. In addition to this there
is n fine spring of black sulphur water,
the finest probably in the state, situat-
ed about two miles from the grounds.
II is tiled with gas which bubbles UP
continually through the pool of the
spIing and AIDES to its value as a health
full drink. This is to be brought to the
Sweet Springs hotel in pipes also, as
the salt water has already been brought.
When Ills shall have been done there
will be four kinds OF healing water on
the grOunds-the sweet springs, axes
ion, white sulphur and black sulphur
for there is already spring of white
sulphur water hundred feet from the
main pavilion spring; and these, with
the ocean baths, will present a list of
attractions to invalids and pleasure
seekers that Saratoga itself cannot sur
pass.
Down on the Nlangua, i'm Miller
county. is Dryce's spring, which dis
charges I0,927,S7 cubic feet of water
per diem. This is pure, fresh water,
but IL drives a large Touring mill, and
flows away a river forty-two yards in
width. In the same neigbborhood are
many sulphur and chalybeate springs,
which have acquired considerable local
reputation for their medicinal proper.
lies, and have become resorts for the
people of the surrounding counties.
In addition Missouri is state pecu-
liarly adapted for the creation of homes
It's valleys, s hillsides and its billowy
prairies all have their special charms
its scenery abounds i'm the beautiful
and picturesque, and broad field car
be here found for the display of cult
urC1 taste in adorninI and identifying
farm and yelling.
These are some of our attractions
They ought to be sufficient to bring L
our midst thousands from she NOrtl
and East, as well rs from over the sea
Circumstances, no. necessary now Il
allude to, have repealed the new come
in past years. They are rapidly pass
ing away. More people have CONF
among us thi1 season than last Mex
year we hope there will still be great
er runber, and those who do settl
wi,bin our limits in the future we ar
persuaded viii be received with hospi
tally. Old prejud' ces are rapidly dis
appearing; party strifes will neve
again be as butter as in the past; law
are becoming mole Vigorously executed
and save few benighted localities
such as may be found within thelimit
Of almost any state, justice is metcr
on. TO all alike.
AS our varied and wonderful attraC
tiOns become more widely known OH
vacant lands will be peopled, their ricf
ness developed, and Missouri will tax
her rank as first among the members Q
the Union.