Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-08-03

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A PLEASANT HEALTH RESORT.
Incident to the development of the Pied
mont Belt by the construction of the Airline
Railroad, perhaps no private enterprise along
that entire line has more completely met with
popular favor, and consequently proved per-
feet and deserved success, than the opening to
the public of the All-Healing Springs, the
curative properties of whose waters, as we
shall presently see, have been known for more
than a hundred years. The success of this
health and pleasure summer resort, now in its
second season, is gratifying in more respects
than one 1t is encouraging, first, to know
that our own section has within its borders ma
tive citizens of sufficient energy and capital
to inaugurate such an enterprise, in view OF
the many discouragements by poor remunera-
tive returns on capital invested in similar
property. And secondly, it is no less gratify-
ing to know that our own people are begin
ming to show proper appreciation OF nome
efforts in this direction, not only by bestoWing
their patronage upon pleasure resorts spring
ing up in their midst, but that they are also
beginning to recognize and admit the fact that
our own favored country has all the natural
advantages-both as to health-giving waters,
| favored climate, pure air and attractive and
picturesque scenery-claimed by the boasted
and aristocratic resorts farther North.
The All-Healing Springs can confidently
claim all these advantages They are situated
| in the southwest corner of CASTOR county, n.
c.. two miles from the Cleveland county line,
three miles from the York county line, five
miles west of GaStonia, four miles east OF
Kings Mountain Station, and thirty-five miles
southwest of Charlotte. The nearest point
from the Springs to the Airline Railroad is
two miles, though railroad passengers reach
| the Springs in hacks, whichrun regularly from
Kings Mountain Station and Gastonia.
The Springs are situated at the base of Crow,
der's Mountain, the highest peak Of which
rises to an altitude of near two thousand feet
above the sea level and eight hundred feet
above the level of the surrounding country.
This mountain is of the same range as Kings
Mountain, and the peak rising so majestically
in front of the hotel is distant from the pima
Gle of Kings Mountain p miles. Crowder's
Mountain, and CrOwder's Creek in the same
vicinity are so called from the name of a
settler in that locality during colonial days.
The company controlling the property is
composed of the following gentlemen e. W.
Garrett, John J. Garrett, r. II. Garrett, DR..
F. M. Garrett, I. w. Garrett, r. Y. McAden,
Phil. S. Baker and Freno Dilling, the three
last named having acquired an interest by
subscribing stock in the 'All-Healing Springs
Company the immense body of land-13, 600
acres-embracing the springs, having been
owned since 1862 by Garrett Brothers. These
gentlemen were wealthy and extensive cotton
planters in Edgecomb county, n. G. When
Newbern fell and other points on the North
Carolina coast were being taken by the Fed
erals, there, as in South Carolina, the people
of the exposed localities who had the means
''refugeed" to the interior. Garrett Brothers
owned large number of slaves-fine material
for future citizens-and to whom they were
so fondly attached that they did not want
them to fall into the hands of the Philistines.
So they decided to heed the advice of that
eminent Abolitionist, Horace Greeley, and
Go West. Passing through middle Carolina
they kept on beyond Charlotte, and hearing of
the Crowder's Mine Iron property, which had
only been recently sold by Major B. f. Briggs,
they negotiated with the new purchasers for
the property and bought it, for the purpose of
giving employment to their slaves in the pro-
ducton of iron for the Confederate Govern
ment. Here they remained until the close Of
the war.
Occasionally, during this occupancy of the
property citizens of the surrounding country
spoke to DIR. Garrett of the wonderful medi-
cinal virtues of the springs near Crowder's
Mountain; but at that time his mind was too
much occupied with other matters to even
give a thought to the subject, and at the
termination of hostlities, the Doctor and one
or two of his brothers returned to EdgecOmb
county, resuming their former avocations, be-
slowing little thought upon the Crowder's
Mountain property until the location of the
Airline Railroad, when the completion of
that line prompted the Doctor to look after
the interests which this important work
of internal improvement had so suddenly
drought out of the woods' to one of the
leading thoroughfares of the South
1t was now that DR.. Garrett began to listen
to the wonderful stories of the medicinal prop
critics of ''the Springs.". The statement of
Mr.. Baker, an elderly gentleman, who knew
of cures performed by these waters for fifty
years and when a young man had learned
traditionally that they were used as medicine
waters by the abOrignees, and that it was a
place Of resort by the white settlers before and
during the Revolutionary war, gave some
ground for faith in the stories And it may
here be remarked that this story has been con-
firmed, as strongly as can be, by circumstan-
tial testimony, timbers and other evidences of
habitations around the springs many years
ago, having been found under the ground, in
making excavations for the present improve
ments The stories of the neighbors were con-
firmed by the statements of physicians-nota-
bly, DIR. J. w. Tracy, of Kings Mountain, and
Dr. A. P. Campbell, of Glover, who unhesita-
tingly certified to the curative properties of the
waters. The several authentic statements in
duced DR.. Garrett to subject four of the Wa
tiers to chemical analysis, which gave the fol-
lowing results:
Spring No !, known as "All-lIealing'-
Sulphur, trace iron, a trace arsenic, no.