Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-03-25

Lithia Springs. now becoming world-re-
powned for their efficacy in cases of
rheumatism, rheumatic govt, diseases of
the bladder, &C., and a. a nerve tonic.
Five miles from Forest Depot, Just west of
Lynchburg. is Bedford Alum Springs with
excellent accommodations. and not far OF
Coyners Springs, the waters of which are
sulphur, alum, and iron.
Liberty is . most popular place for sum-
mer boarders of moderate means, having
two good hotels and number of boarding
houses, and is a most convenient point for
excursions to the Peaks of Otter, under the
very shadow of which Is n new hotel. the
Glendower, with accommodations for 100
guests.
Blue Ridge Springs, exactly on the line
OF the road IN Botetout county, has repu-
tation as wide as the Union not only for It's
waters but for the recreation afforded. The
FIRE there in 1888, which destroyed the
main building OF the hotel, has had the
effect OF rendering the accommodations
most modern.
Roanoke can in the Hotel Roanoke boast
of one of the most charming and pic
turesque public houses in the State. The
hotel accommodates 200 guests.
At Salem is another new and manificent
hotel capable of accommodating $50 guests.
Allegheny Springs, an especial favorite
with visitors from the far South, is one half
mile from Shawsville depot. The waters
here have made some remarkable cures
| of dyspepsia, diseases OF the liver, kidneys,
malaria, &c. The hotels and cottages are
large and commodious, and 600 guests do
! not overcrowd them.
Seven miles from the same station,
Shawsyille. is located the Virginia Arsenic.
| Bromide, and Lithia Springs, and from Big
Bend tunnel ria short narrow-guage road,
the old Montgomery White Is reached
while from Christansburg it is but three
mile ride to the Yellow Sulphur. At Rad
ford the Radford Inn offers delightful ac-
commodations to tourists and pleasure
| seekers, and sixteen miles from Radford,
on the New-Riyer division, is New-Rlver
White Sulphur Springs.
Mountain Lake, or Salt Pond, one OF the
greatest natural curloslties IN the country,
| and consisting OF a lake on top of noun
tain $500 feet above sea-level, is reached
by staging eight miles from Pembroke. on
the New-River division. 1t has hotel and
cottage accommodations. From Bald
Knob, the highest point on the mountain,
the horizon of vision takes in the boun-
dairy lines OF five States.
At Zurich station the stage is taken for
the Monroe Red Sulphur Springs, the
waters Of which are unriyalled in cases Of
lung trouble. The drive is eleven miles
over a good mountain road.
Blueheld Inn is on the Nev-River branch
and is one of the pets of the Norfolk And
Western. Although it is in the heart of
what five years ago was wilderness it Is
an architects dream. At Pocahontas there
Is an eiegantly-kept modern inn, and
at Pulaski Is Maple-Shade Inn, also built
by the Norfolk and Western and which ia
one Of the finest hotels in the State.
he same can be said of the Graham Inn.
Wytheville, as heretofore noted, is an all
the-year-round resort. Glade Spring and
Washington Springs have good accommo-
datlons, and at Bristol is the magnificent
Hotel Paramount.
Around all the resorts noted. especially
those west of Lynchburg, there are beau
tlful stretches of scenery, aud about many
them noted hunting. and fishing. grounds.
LURAY nm AND cAvKRSs.
Coming southwark Cid the Shepandosh-
Valley division, the first great resort il
Luray Page county, with its magnificent
Inn aud ITS caverns that have defed the
descriptive powers Of the most faoile pens
OF the country, and next in order are
Weyer's Cave and the Cave Of the Foun-
talns at Shendun or the Grottoes OF
whlcp the same may be said. This Dart of
the line also runs In close proximity 10 a
number OF mineral springs.
=, AT ves1yius the old pike can be taken 10
Crab-Tres Falls, the greatest cataract in
the state and which it is worth a tourney
OF q thousand miles TO see. This romaptie
spot Is little known, but is destined here
after TO attract large numbers of visitors.
Tue falls are series of cascades. having a
descent OF three thousand feet from the
summit or mountain one OF the cataracts
making plunge OF FIVE hundred feet in
the clear. The actual horizontal fail Is o.
fimated at two thousand feet. AT Basio
lily there is q fine hotel. also one at
The Natural Bridge is another grea.
curiosity. winch is reached by snort
ride-two miles-from the railroad. bnt Of
this nothing need be written. Descriutions
OF the bridge, its history, and pictures OF
its romantic surroundings are famiiay 10
every school-boy II Is sufficient 10 ssy
that its popularity as resort and IN. Al.
hactiveness OF accommodations increeSe
every year II IL the objective point dnring
the summer season on numerous ercnr.
sions. and the Norfolk and Western br,nss
these excursions from gil points. North
south. East, and West. A a poin, of in
terosf u stands abreast with Niagara F.ils