The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1888-10-05

The miraculous powers for cure pos
sessed by these waters. as believed by
the Indians. came to the knowledge Of
the frontier men and gold seekers who
first entered the region; but the locali-
ty of the springs was concealed for
many years.
In Indian times q succession Of camps
continually surrounded the springs.
Then came the white mans sod house
and the portable hotel. Now there are
large hotels with shady verandas, mar
BILE batll-houses and all the modern i'm.
prOvements.
There are drives down the smiling
valley of the Falling Water, and one
winds up its red sandstone canyon to
the river source, a sloping bank from
which burst many limpid' springs.
There are dozens of mountains to climb
and many ranch to visit.
The region is 5000 feet above the
sea, the air clear, dry and bracing--a
place where continuous, beautiful,
cloudless sunshine prevails.
The scenery is greatly varying and
picturesque.
Science tells of how this whole re-
gion of Dakota included in the Black
Hills and the Bad Lands was once the
bed or basin of a great inland sea. in
whose salt waters disported many
form of life now extinct, whose forms
are even now preserved in the strata
of limeStones and sllales which over
cap great beds of sandstone and gravel.
1t teaches that draining awav of
this great sea took place, followed by
or accompanied with fierce volcanic up
heavals, and tremendous water erosions
of the bed of the entire basin, leaving
it probably something as we see it now.
the strati6ed rocks beat and curved,
compact or decayed. projecting in great
bluffs with almost perpendicular wall,
on one nr the other side of gentle, fer
tile valleys, verdant with succulent
grasses.
Here and there slope will bear ur-
Oh its face great blocks of shattered
stone, as if the scene Of some Titanic
fight. There are deep cut canyons, red
with iron rust. pointed peaked up to
5000 feet. 'buttes,' VERTICAL walled,
flat topped and capped with limestone,
streaked in layers of yellow, red and
black.
'Twixt these are pleasant streams,
quiet meadows and grazing cattle.
Why did / come here?
Because | needed "air," fresh anti
ma!;,rial air,
How did get here?
l went to Charles Wayren's ticket
office and asked the way to the Black
Hills.
Nineteen, coupon ticket, punched
once, thlrtv-eight eighty, change Chi
cago and Missouri Valley ON the North
western, two days, two nights, vestibulc
train. stop Buffalo Gap, breakfast, stage
to dest.
And this he said all in one breath.
So it didn't seem far, the wav he told
it, so came, aud I'm glad l came.
The waters are blood heat-clear,
clean and smooth and very agreeable
they seem to the batllcr You're ex-
pccted to drink as much as you can
hold. The waters contain some sui
pilates and this make them aperient,
washing away the sins of the body.
There are some chlorides which take off
the "tan" of time and trouble.
Ponce de Leon should have consulted
Horace Greedy who would have told
him to "go west, young man." because
these waters improve the complexion
and hence renew youth.
Ladies should make note of this.
The local papers say the waters cure
every thing except galloping consump-
quack medicine which years -ago was
modestly advertised to cure every hu-
NOR except thunder humor," but what
''thunder humor" was never learned.