The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-08-19
SODA SPRINGS.
SODA SPRINGS, Aug. II, SO.
Editors Herald:

tors here this season Idr eXCSeuS Guo !
showing of any previous year may |
be accounted for in the important |
railroad facilities acquired, together
with a more general knowledge Of |
the unsurpassed advantages Of the
mineral claims, which are asserting,
with Just claims, their superiority
over tie more popular in other loo
alities. The accessibility Of this
pleasant retreat, augmented by the
railroad extensions, has this season
afforded the first general oppOr
tunity for establishing its
popularity and true character,
and as matter of ma
tural consequence parties are ar
irving daily from many of the East
ern cities where heretofore nothing
has been known or even heard OF
Soda Springs AMI their health-im-
parting liquid.
Eastern gentlemen who have
travelled extensively, declare that
the boosted Colorado and Arkansas
and even Saratoga springs, to which
thousands in search Of health and
recuperatiOn resort during the sum-
mer months, cannot compare with
these, either in siZs or quality. This
| fact IS associated with another
equally important, viz: that while
for the most part the popular water
ing places east suffer the unpleas-
anJness of hot, sultry atmos-
phere il summer, these phenomenal
springs are situated in part Of the
country where the heat rareiy ex-
ceeds 500, and even then the in
cessant breeze refuses to give place
2 20 sultriness. While, perhaps, in
the majority of cases parties take
recourse to the pleasant premises
, for the purpose of being benefited
by the grand properties Of the water
which by the way is working mar-
i, wells, there are sufficient induce
" ments in the cool, tinVigOrating at
mosphere and the easily accessible
. hunting and fishing retreats, t,
5 fairly fascinate even those who arr
not in any sense inYalids.
2 In the presence Of all these al
: vantages and attractions there
: is little room for wonde
at the action of the railroad
r company in obtaining a larg
interest here and creating perman
enG sustenance in tie way of i'm
! provements which will secure tn
residence of a large number 0
i workmen and add greatly to til
. business OF the place. Nor ca
: there be much cause for surpriS
\ when the announcement is mad
:, that eastern parties are already eI
deaYoring to purchase little sum
mer homeSteadS here, and that steR
are being taken towards the cree
:. ton of a large hotel and other &C
Communications. Messrs. Ephrain
and Thomas Williams (tke latte
having recently Joined his brothe
4 in the enterprise are at present pu
d to their wits end to dispose of thei
a guests in the little hotel, which j
K wholly inadequate; notwithstand
s ing which, however, the amiabl
If hostess, Mrs. Williams. succeed
o most admirably in keeping her Wis
). itors good natuTed and in spreadin
IS an exceptionally nice table, a fes
t, tuTe, by the way, Of no mean import
a ance IN this invigOrating atmOs
d phere. During the past week c
If two there have been visitors frOI
u New York, Boston, Denver, an
e other eastern points as well as froI
n Salt Lake City and other adjacer
: places, all of whom. with0u
e exception, express their admiratiO
70 IN ecstacies, At present there al
n here, Howard SebTee, Esq, an
family, Mrs. w. II. Hooper an
family and Miss Alice Dinw0ode,
DR.. Cass and family of Denver, Nj
II. Hill, MIR. Phillips, Dr.. Grove
Ellsworth Daggett, Esq, and VIII
DR.. Hamilton, and wife, and a larg
number of eastern ladies and gel
tlemen unknown to your CORES
d pendent.
u Quite number are coming owe
tbs Oregon Short Line, in dom
n which they incur, amongst Otht
"a things not decidedly pleasant, il
creased fare, That is if they a
booked from Ogden or points soul
IL while the disagreeable feature {
travelling all night is in itse
D, objection enough. The rCu
to over the Utah & Northern
McCamm0n & Junction, whel
the night can be spent in the lart
O. hotel, built aud now being finished /
al the enterprisiDg Mr.. Hardness. pr
r. prietor Of the extensive ranC
al there, is much more pleasant, Ian
90 ing the passengers in Soda SpTinl
~ at $50 the following morning. b
"a even this should be remedied, for
" matter what the character of Il
accommodations may be at til
stopping off place, it is not satisfa
tory in any degree to be dropped {
20 early in the evening within fort
II FIVE miles of ones destination, wi
- the prospects OF waiting, thirtet
AZ hours for the train. On1 this rou
n the.fnest eating house betwe,
- ON ha and the terminus
a Montana is encountered
s. Logan - the RaiIIo d Eati
by house = admirably managed
ca Mr.. G. II. Baugh. With t
of Improvements which are area
st projected at Soda Springs a raaso
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