The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1882-02-22
EUREKA SPRINGS.
What a Correspondent Thinks and Say s
About its Merits.

ised several of my friends that l
would write letter back to be pub
lished in your paper, now task my
self with that pleasure.
I arrived in Eureka on the 9TH inst. 9,
having come here for the purpose of
experimenting the job of excayating
under the Basin Spring hotel, now
belonging to Luther Shobe.
Any person realizing that Eureka
is only a watering place would natu-
rally infer that business and inn
provements at present would be on
the go hack here, but were that per-
| son here, thev.Would more readily
inter that such an idea would be er-
| roneous, for not less than three hum
| dred houses are now being built in
| this wonderful CITY. The business
men OF this place are wide-awake to
its interests, and everything is now
being done TO facilitate good side
walks, boarding houses and dry
streets for the thousands who are ex-
pectcd here this coming summer.
The boom has commenced here a
great deal earlier this year than last.
The amount of daily arrivals here at
present will average seventy-five in
number, and among those arrivals
can be found people from al over
the United States and Europe.
There are all kinds of hotel ac-
commodations here. The finest,
most commodious and costly hotel
of this place is the Perry House,
situated near the Basin Spring. In
an interview with Mr.. Perry, Ilcarn-
cd that this magnificent structure
cost over sixty thousand dollars.
MIR. Perry, its proprietor, after trav-
cling all over the United States and
Europe for his health, came here,
not expecting to live thirty days, but
at once began to improve, and twas
not long before he was a sound and
well man, and shortly afterward re-
solved to spend the rest of his days
at the place which saved his life,
has invested largely here, he being a
very wealthy man, and to-day can
+,-r /, hotel Lat, thof
will rival any in America. EN-Gov.
l. Washbornc of Wisconsin. and his
brother, Ex-Gov. Washborne of
Maine, are here registered at said
hotel, each for his health. The for
mer is affected with paralysis and
the latter with natural debility
There are SO many wealthy men
that come here tor their health and
find 1t and afterwards resolve to
live here that this can't be knocke d
out of always being place of capi-
tai and wealth. and as wealth CEN
tres and accumulates so will enter
prise bring railroads and make
Eureka the county seat and finally
make it one of the leading cities of
the West. The water from these
springs is being shipped every place,
which helps to establish and adver-
tise its virtue, This place is situa-
ted in the hill country of Arkansas.
l here are two mountain ranges in
northern Arkansas. the Boston
mountains running east and west,
and the Ozark mountains running
north and south, the former range
are south OF the OF the springs and
the latter west There are spurs or
points running from each OF these
which explains somewhat TO the
reader the shape ana lorm Of the
hills. which around the springs are
composed of several LAYERS OF rocks
of different quality. on he sop j>
found the a:.:; c9..>g ~ harsi -
flint car be. and all broken into very
small pieces With angles as sharp a>
they can be broken. and al looking
as though some inmenss quartz mill
had made a tour throue:a the coua-
try and tried its power Ca the rock
and done its work we'll This
gravel IS mixed with = small supply ,