Thomas County cat., 1890-04-17
THE MINERAL SPRINGS OF THE
SOUTH.
BUREAU OF SOUTHERN News
j. T. PATRICK, General Manager, I


If the writer OF this letter should make
tl,c statement that at no distant day the
people of the North will go to the
Springs of the South in summer for com
| fort. health and recreation. perhaps many
of our readers world hold up both hands
in surprise, and say; Sooner than that
the skies will fall Nevertheless the
following statements are facts; and some
time the people of the North will know
them. believe them. and act upon them.
First. there are many mineral springs in
the South possessing life and health Civ
ing properties equal to any in the world {.
We know that Saratoga Springs \. T.,
is the queen OF summer resorts. We
know the springs well; that they have
an abundant flow of water, ana are
charged with gases which make their
waters agreeable to the palate of the
drinker. The analyses of the waters of
Saratoga show no more desirable proper
ties rs remedial agents. than the analyses
of very large number of springs in
North Carolina shows No more won
derful cures are on record, of the springs
of any part of the country. than is re-
corded of the springs of this state. As
far as the writer knows, the springs of
the South are not highly charged with
gas. Its absence is atoned for, and the
waters rendered more agreeable, by a de
licious and refreshing GOODNESS. The
temperature of these springs ranges from
forty five to tifty-five degrees. A little
examination will satisfy anyone that
within that range lie both health and
pleasure to the drinker. And now we
here assert that the agreeable and cura-
tive properties of the waters of the
springs of the South are such as to rem
der them attractive to the people of the
North when known. As Il proof that
these spring resorts will be sought as
places for recreation by the people of
the North, We present the fact that ho
tels now existing are falling INTO the
management of men from the North.
Also that new hotels are being erected.
which are being leased by experienced
men from the North.
These men expect northern visitors,
and there is no good reason to believe
that they will be disappointed. One of
Carolina was managed last summer by a
northern hotel man. A we'll known ho-
tel man from Philadelphia recently be-
came the proprietor of new and very
promising hotel in the same state.
Comfort. We have lived through fif-
ty summers in New England and New
York, before coming to our new home
in the South, and think we know some
thing of heat and cold. The idea that
because the winters with us are warm
the summers must be cOrrOspOndingly
hot. is not correct. 1t would be untruth
full to say there is no hotter weather and
no more of it in the South than in the
North. There are hotter days and more
of them with US than at the North; but
the heat is not oppressive. Cool breeZes
fan us every day. The nights are cool,
and a muggy day is never known at these
spring resorts. Hunstro. 10
3of, 81. ant ana the discomforts fF5m heat never
approach what is know as a heated
term" in any town at the North.
When the considerations of climate
and healing qualities are combined. il is
likely that the mineral springs of North
Carolina will prove in not distant fu
ture as attractive as any in the country.
Among the many well known we name
four, of which we have enough personal
knowledge to say that any northern per-
son may go to any of them at any time
of the year, for comfort, health and rec
reatioR. At Littleton, in Halifax county,
on the Raleigh & CASTOR Railroad, will
be found springs, good for stomach and
nervous troubles. Jackson Springs, in
Montgomery county, near the line of the
Raleigh & Augusta railroad, are being
much used for stomach troubles. The
Patterson and Cleveland sulphur springs.
near Shelby. Cleveland county, on the
Carolina Central Railroad, have well
earned reputation. A northern man in a
first-class hotel will draw northern busi-
ness The Lincoln Lithia Springs near
Carolina Central Railroad. have just
been brought into notice A first class
hotel, named Hotel Lithia, has been
erected and placed under the manage
ment of Mr.. Farr. of Philadelphia This
means northern business for all the year