The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-03-31

and Knights of Pythias lodges, the G. A. R., 8 relief corps, social. musical and dramatic clubs, ladies societies, a cornet band, and THE HOTEL FACILITIES
 are excellent. The Elgin hotel, a largo and handsome and elegantly furnished house, ranks with the foremost in Kansas and is compliment to the publie-spirited citizens who protected and built it, The
 ELECTRIC LIGHT AND WATER WORKS plant recently completed at cost of $l00,0oo, and a fine telephone system, are among the most complete works of the kind in the west, and give Ma rion the air of metropolitan city, The water supply, too, is admirable, both as to volume and purity. A grand resource is the
 sUrERR BrILplNG STONE
 of which thousands of car loads arc annually shipped from the inex hausti- ble neighboring quarries to the towns and cities within radius of 100 miles, where they are in popular demand for every species of public and private buildings. These elegant gray and cream-colored magnetism limestones yield readily to the saw, plane and chisel, are finely stratified from thin fiagging to heavy dimension stones, and are unquestionably the most valu- able building stones in the state. Ot even greater permanent value to the city are it's
 MINERAL SPRINGS,
 located only two blocks distant from the Elgih house, on the banks of the Luta, in one of the most attractive of the peerless natural parks that environ the city. Save only the rapidly grow ing railway facilities of the city, not one of all her splendid resources gives promise of such permanent, material and esthetic value as these mineral waters whose medicinal virtues are attracting more or less attention throughout the west. Of the two springs already developed, the one bears in good measure chloride of so- dium, sulphatc of magnesia, sulphate of lime, sulphate of soda, bi-carbonate of lime, bi-carbonate of iron, silica, ard other valuable constituents, and The other, chloride of sodium, sulphate of soda, su phate of magnesia, bi-car- bonate of iron, silica, and other equally valuable remedial properties. These waters have
 RARE CURATIVE INFLUENCE
 in rheumatic, kidney, bladder and nervous affections, skin and blood dis cases and general debility, the testi- mony to radical cure coming from Il great variety of cases in all parts of the country. So remarkable, indeed have been many of the cures, that It Is surprising that Marion has not as wide and enviable celebrity to-day as the famous Eureka Springs in Ark ansas.
 THE CARTER SPRINGS
 of splendid volume whose mineral wa ters have been tested and approved by such eminent ucientists as Profs. Nudge and Swallow, and by water cure experts, each of whom pro- nounced them among the most valu- able in the country, are only three miles above the city, and will soon enough be brought into one of the lo- cal parks for utilization In baths, drinking and ornamental fountains and the manifold uses of a pleasure and health resort. With these match less, natural parks, half a dozen miles 0: the tree -e,nhowered rivers naviga- ble to pleasure steamers, charming city and country drives, an elevation of ,600 feet above the tide, pure iiie- inspiring atmosphere, fine railway fla cilities, superior schools, pretty churches, cultivated society and a model city, it is only matter of time when these invaluable mineral waters will lift Marion into the dignity and prominence of
 NEW SARATOGA,
 famous alike as summer retreat for the denizens of the fast growing western and southern cities, a tempo rary resort for invallds and a perma- nent home for lovers of the ideal home life. A gentleman skilled in the best ways of the mineral water cure sys- tenn, an accomplished physician, and, withal, A most engaging business man and gentleman, has recently under taken the management of the mineral springs and bath house and with the aid of the capital he Is sure to bring to the advertisement and manage :nent Of these waters, will give new and marked impulse to this beautiful and prosperous town. Of special im- portance to the city, is the certainty of new railway facilities at aH early day. The Santa Fe system is here with its daily trains east west and south tO all the principal points in the south- west.
 The Rock Island system came last summer with its main line from Kan aas City and ToDeka tO the far soutl-