Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-06-14
An Unfaillng Mine Of Wealth
Health and Happiness.
IF We But Appreciate its Great
Value, and Develop it.

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very first starter to development and
improvement has been made by the
simplest contrivances or circumstances.
So in the building up of almost any
kind of enterprise or commercial sue
cess. There was time when the great
est cities of this great America had
nothing upon which they could depend
| for a certainty to bring them into
prominence. The ingenuity of man
discovered concealed advantages, and
the perseverance of man, coupled with
natural surroundings, has accomplish
ed the greatest wonders.
There Is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the food, leads on to fortune;
Omitted. all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shadows and in miseries."
And so with cities, with cOmmuni-
ties, with states. There is a time
when opportunities, neglected, fade
and pass away; embraced, developed,
and made strong, they carry with them
on the swelling tide of fortune all who
come within their sweep.
1t is not an idle boast to say that the
city of Great Bend has now within her
reach, plainly visible, and only waiting
to be started, one of the greatest ad-
yantages eyer possessed by a young
and aspiring city. We refer to the
flowing mineral well, located within
three miles of the city. We refer to
the prospecting well, were a constant
stream of clear health-giving crystal
water, wells up from three hundred
| feet below the troubled surface of old
mother earth and trickles away upon
the broad prairies unhampered and I'M
confined. There is health in it. There
is wealth in it. There is that in this
liquid Saline Fountain which, properly
managed, would carry the fame of
Great Bend far and wide.
Yesterday we interviewed gentle
man well known to all our people, DR..
j. Irwin Royce, who for years had
charge of a Michigan Sanitarium, one
of the largest and best known health
resorts in the country, and he says that
Great Bend has, in her flowing we'll of
pure, salt water, one of the finest
chances in the world to become the
greatest health resort on the continent
of America. All that is required to
/ demonstrate the truth of his state
ment, he says, is for fair and honest
trial to be made of the waters. For all
skin eruptions, kidney complaints is,
rheumatic and asthmatic Affections, in
| terHal and external applications of this
water, under direction of skilled and
efficient physicians, will prove an effect
ual cure. Let fair and earnest trial
be made, and let the result be known,
and people will flock to this point from
every direction.
This flowing salt water we'll is the
only one of the kind known in Amer
lea. Other sanitariums, springs, or
health resorts, which have gained a
worldwide reputation for their cura-
tive powers, have no ingredients which
are lacking in this water. None of these
other places had, when starting, any
more favorable surroundings. Great
Bend is in the center of Kansas with a
territory in her own state 400 miles
long and 200 wide, and at just the alti-
tude where the eastern invalid. seek
ing the mountains, should stop and rest
and become accustomed to the purer
air of the foothills.
| Mo Iyn0xxy oil roonIo o,o
more or less, we know that people will
suffer from year to year with a disease
that is slowly consuming their life en-
ergies, because they lido not kno,C that
such and such treatment will do them
any goOd.' Capital is also slow to ven
ture into an enterprise where the prof
its are not almost advanced before in
vestment. Especially is this the case in
this western country, in Kansas, where
fortunes are quickly made. But GER
tainly the experience of other lOcali-
ties, the natural location, the mex
haustible supply of mineral water of
the very best quality-all these things
will impress the minds of some wise
persons who will see the certainty of
success in sanitarium, or health re-
sort at Great Bend. Already a test
has been made of the waters, as has
been before stated in these columns;
and many names of persons who have
been benefited by the use of them can
| be given.
Gentlemen of means, investigate
this matter. If you have no knowledge
of the worth of such well of life, in
form yourselves. If you have no means
to put into the establishment of an in