The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-06-19
CLIMAX SPRINGS.
The Saratoga of the South.
west The Coming Popu-
lar Resort.
The Livest Town Of It's Age in
The Great State Of
Missouri.
The Beautiful Springs Prepared by
Nature and Appropriated
by Man.

4u0 00S3UUA1U1 0PXASS ASPNA OA ~
Nature and Appropriated
by Man.
The rocks and the mountains shall all fade away
But Climax Springs will win the day.
To our pleasure and profit. we a
short time since spent few days,
time at Climax Springs, over in Can
den county, Missouri. Journeying
twenty-five miles east from Warsaw,
the terminus of the Sedalia Warsaw
Southern railway and at present
the nearest railway station to the
Springs, but at no distant day the
locomotive whistle will be heard
there, for the Jefferson City S. w.
railway now extending is pointing
in that direction, and a country 60
rich in mineral agriculture, pasturage
and all of natures greatest gifts as are
bestowed upon the country surround
ing
CLIMAX SPRINGS,
must be developed, opened up and
traversed by a railroad. The Springs
are situated near the west line of
Camden county and about half way of
the county north and south, and are
eight in number which are opened up
to public use, but around one clusters
ali that is strange, curious and wonder
full in nature, located in a large cave
upon a bill some thirty feet under
ground. but easy of access. The en-
rance to the cave has been for med by
the falling in of a part of the stone roof
of the cave, and when once fairly
within, and your eyes become accus-
toned to the apparent darkness. you
behold a body of water, circular in
shape, about forty feet in diameter,
aud of unknown depth, fresh and
pure to the taste, clear as crystal,
and possessing mineral properties
said by DR.. Walton, of Cincinnati,
an eminent physician and chemist.
to be
WITHOUT EQUAL IN THE WORLD
for richness. You taste, you drink
freely, and turn to admire natures
work, when your eyes rests
upon an opening that leads
off to the south from the entrance in
to regions not yet fully explored, but
your reporter went into the mysteri-
Gus depths sufficient to become anx-
ious about the shortest route to day
light, and be again sought the upper
crust, the sunshine, and the other
seven springs. Some three hundred
yards from the wonderful cave spring,
but at the foot of another ridge or
hill, puts out another spring, and
manifestly y very different water from
this spring, is most If the towns sup
ply taken. Three other springs burst
forth within hundred yards of this.
and you have only to taste to be COD
WINGED that they are all mineral, and
of an entirely different character, one
being a strong chalybeate, the
others of the saline class, near this
group of springs
THE CLIMAX SPRINGS ASSOCIATION,
a corporation owning a large tract of
land Immediately around these springs,
are erecting large hotel, seventy
two feet front by eighty-seven feet
deep. two stories in height. and are
finishing and furnishing in first class
style, and the water from the cave
springs will be brought by syphon in
pipes, and flow into every room of
the MOTEL, which will be open for the
reception of guests, health seekers
and the general public ON July LIST
Immediately to the south, and joining
the hotel, will at once be erected bath
houses, separate for ladies and gentle
men, and to the south of and adioin-
ing the bath houses will be two pool
baths for ladies and gentlemen, each
twenty by sixty feet, five feet in
depth of water, with the necessary
dressing rooms and attachments, the
hotel is in one corner of the park en-
closing tour springs, and containing
about five acres of ground, and adjoin.
ing this park and partially surround
ing it is the town of Climax Springs,
Now the largest town in Camden
county, and more enterprising, indus
trious, and intelligent men in it than we
supposed before going could be found
Camden county and as q proof of their
intelligence all that had time to listen
to our lullaby
SUBSCRIBED FOR THE BAZoO.
The town in reality only came into
existence two months ago, and now
numbers over one hundred inhabi-
tants, and is the trading point for a
territory extending from twenty tn