The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-25

beauty and loneliness, and Of magnifcence
and sublimity.
| Seventy six miles from Grand junction
are the famous Glenwood Springs, the
sanitarium of Colorado, whose healing
waters and palatial accommodations attract
thousands of visitors from all quarters of
the globe:
Where Glenwoods great cauldron doth bubble
and STEAM
And forth from the earth flows hot healing
stream,
A stream that some fairy like alchemist
| With love OF the sea in her heart we visit,
With nature obeying her every command,
With subtlest of arts and magical wand
Doth bring from below in bubbling commotion
AS salt as the surf from the far distant ocean
That all may partake from the flow of these
fountains
A salt water bath in the heart of the mountains.
The cut of the famous place is presented
with this article, but cannot suffice to illus
trate the magnifcence of the palatial
equipments of the property, which repre-
sents an expenditure of over $500, 900.
There are ten large springs and a large
number of small ones, the outflow of the
ten springs being ABOUT 5000 gallons per
minute, or more than twenty times as much
as all the fifty-seven springs at Hot
Springs, Arkansas. The properties are re-
markable. They are alkaline, saline, sui
phuric, chalybeate, calcic and thermal.
The extreme temperature of the water is
1854 degrees. The number of grains of
solid contents, or minerals, to the
gallon, varies from 1913 to 1854,
while the next strongest spring in the
United States is at Las Vegas, where there
are 6019 grains in the gallon. Thus it will
be seen that these springs possess in
marked degree, the qualities of six out of
the seven classes of mineral springs in the
United States. One of the most wonderful
of the large number of springs is the one
found in natural cave in the side of the
mountain. The cave is fifteen feet high
and forms good sized chamber with solid
stone walls. The hot spring IN the cave
furnishes natural Russian bath, which
cannot be excelled by the ingenuity of any
bath-house builder in the country.
The medicinal properties have proven to
be of great benefit to persons suffering
from the following complaints, some re
markable cures having been effected |
Blood diseases, Indigestion constipation.
hemorrhoids, nervous prostration, general
debility, rheumatism and govt.
From Glenwood the spikes Peak route
pursues its way to Denver through beauti- |
full wales and over lofty mountains, at one
point reaching an altitude of II 500 feet |
were tunnel over mile in length has
been built straight through the top of
massive mountain range. The traveller is |
taken by Aspen and Leadville, the great !
mining camps, by beautiful Buena Vista, |
viewing from the coach window Berstadt's |
subject for his famous painting, THE Val
ley of the Arkansas" then on to the sum
mer resorts Manitou Park, Green Noun
tain Falls and Cascade, under the shadow
of Pixies Peak, through the Saratogas of
the west, Manitou with the Garden of the
Gods in the distance), and Colorado
Springs, thence through fertile farming
country to Denver, the Queen of the
Plains" where passengers from San Fran
cisco and coast points will make the only
change of cars between the Pacific Ocean
and Chicago.
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