Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-05-31
ON HILLS0F BUFFALO
SOME NOTES FROM AN oLp-FAsH-
ioNEovlRGlNlA SUMNER RESORT.
a False Impression cerrected-The story
Of Two springs--seenery and Surround
Sngs-1mprevement and Accessibility.

BUrrAro LrTufA SpRrNas. May %. Among
the thousands OF persons who have had
occasion to bless the waters OF Buffalo
Lithia Springs, yet who have never drank
these waters from the Giving fountains"
comparatively the fewest number perhaps
have anything like a truo conception Of
what the place looks like. Hills Of Buff
talo" is certainly not designation in con-
sonAnce with the popular impression re-
rarding this location. The prevailing
Imaginative picture touching Buffalo
Lithia Springs is that they arc situated IN
. low, fat country. Nothing could be fur
ther from the fact. There IS no resort in
Virginia which when visited for the first
time is better calculated than Buffalo
Lithia 10 radically upset preconceived no
tons. and that, too. in most agreeable
way.
ELEVATED AND ROLLING.
The Buffalo Lithia is thu gem Of the
"Hills of Buffalo," an area OF country of
about eight square miles, which is in the
richest part OF Mecklenbure conntv-an
area which in all the elements of pic
turesqueness and bealthfuiness suggests
that the good old county Is masquerading
IA the guise of the Piedmont section OF the
State. Every approach 10 the springs for q
radius of four or five miles is marked by
rolling hills, smiling fields, and beautiful
stretches Of woodland, broken by
romantic dells, and through which run
purling streams. When one leaves the
railroad station, reaches the crest of the
hill above q hundred yards beyond, and
catches q sight Of the CLEANING tree-em-
powered cottages on the opposite slope
almost unconscioLsly he mentally ejacu-
lates " Hero we rest"
AN OLD VIRGINIA RESORT.
And here. indeed, we do rest Buffalo
Lithia Springs is in the world, yet IN q
sense out of il. Dame Nature in locating
one of her mysterious laboratories here
seems also TO have clustered around that
laboratory all the requisites for sanata-
rum, and forcibly illustrates that she never
"does things by halves" The sweet breath
of the distant pines, the dreamy music OF
the nearer woods. the murmur of laughing
waters reminding one of the gleeful inno-
cence of childhood on a quiet. peaceful
Sabbath, are all harmonious coadJ tutors OF
the alchemist working meath the hills in
soothing those who are suffering pain or
WEAKNESS. The place IS one near enough
10 the rush of business TO be convenient to
1t, yet far enough away to be verify In the
country. IL is keeping pace with the de-
mands Of the day in the matter OF accessi-
bility and communication, but is suffi-
GENTLY Invested of the enyir )nments of
modernity to retain all that exquisite
charm of the old Virginia watering place
the charm that affords repose to both mind
and body.
NOT HOSPITAL, THOUGH.
In using the word sanatarium," how
ever. / would not have the readers of the
DISPATCH associate Buffalo Lthia Springs
with O hospital-not bit of 1t. Such an
association would do violence to all tho
conditions that obtain here. AS ] sit this
rs Dat
Heights, the name of the new row of cot
tages erected last year, and look down the
grassy parallelogram fringed with the older
cottages every suggestion Is that even
those who come here sick must almost inn
mediately assimilate the freshness and
brightness of the surroundings. The
springs are conducted exclusively upon
the cottage system and therefore at the
height of the season one can he az Sc
cluded as he pleases. At the same time he
need not lack for company or innocent
amusements il he desires them. There are
the common lawn, the livery, the broad
porticos. the ten-pin alley, the ballroom,
and other places of meet" and social en-
joyment.
TINS OF THOUSANDS.
In the beginning of this letter l spoke
of the thousands who have had occasion
TO bless the Buffalo Lithia waters. |
might have said tens Of thousands and
then been long way within the bounds
of moderation. There are no waters In
this country that are more widely known
or have a grander record for cures accom-
pliahed, and yet believe their good work
Is vet in its infancy. Last year there were
shipped from the springs some $4,000 cases
of the water the shipments covering
every important point in tho United States
and many points in Europe. But this 10
only hint of what the future traffic will
be, now that there ~ n railroad depot
within only a few hundred yards OF the
springs. Indeed the time is coming when
the shipments will only be restricted by
the number of gallons Of water the springs
discharge over and above what Is used on
the place.
LIrHIA WATERS AND LITHIA WATERS.
There are lithia waters and lithia waters,
and nowhere Is this fact more clearly de-
monstrated than il is right here in springs
No. and No. 2. In referring somewhat in
detail to the interesting history of these
springs I shall reverse chronological order.
When Colonel Thomas L. Goode, the pres
ent proprietor of the Buffalo Springs, pur
chased the property about eighteen years
ago only the old Buffalo spring or No. Twas
known. Shortly after taking possession Of
the premises Colonel Goode discovered
"up the branch, as the country folk would
say, an ooZe, which convinced him of the
presence or another valuable lithia
fountain. This spring was dug ont and
his most sanguine expectations re-
allied, and upon the water being
put upon the market testimony as TO
its efficacy began to pour in from oil
quarters and from the most eminent
sources. 1t was demonstrated thst spring
No. 2 was nearer a specific than anything
before discovered for govt, rheumatic
govt, rheumatism, stone, calculi, all
of TTwfR n
betes. nervous exhaustion. acid dys-
pepsia, and various cognate troubles:
As stone resolvent and az remedial
agent in Brights-disease il gained repu-
tation with the medical fraternity that has
never been Rupplanted, and the certifi-
Gates as TO tho cures il has wrought in the
diseases in which it is indicated would fill
volumes. Spring No. shows on analysis
1880 grains of lithia to the imperial gal
Ion. Llthia has long been fayorite
remedy in cases of Brights disease. gouty
diathesis, &c In view of this the remark
able character of this spring IL notably ac-
centusted in the following certificate from
o physician who stands in the front rank
Of his profession in this country and whose
fame has widely extended abroad:
Whatever may be the published ana
Uses of this water" says this authority, II
know from the constant use of 1t person
ally and in my practice for years that the
results from its use are far beyond those
which would be warranted by the ANALYSES
given. am of opinion that it either con-
tains some powerful remedial agent as vet
undiscovered by medical science, or its
elements are 20 dehcately combined in ma
lures laboratory that they defy the ut
most skill of the chemist TO solve the Sc
cret Of their power"
A SPECIMEN TESTIMONIAL.
As specimen testimonial / give the fol-
lowing from another high medical source:
Il have used in my own case and pre-
scribed for others Buffalo Lithia water for
uric acid trouble with excellent results.
and regard II as the safest, surest, and
most agreeable way of removing from the
system this most pernicious derlvative of
urea, uric acid, the rentention of which is
followed by 30 many distressing symptoms,
embracing govt, calcuh of the kidney and
bladder. neuralgia affections. cases of men,
tai depression and nervous irritability and
nervous asthma caused by the irritating
action of uric acid on the bronchial
tubes"
There are also countless certificates Of
its use with invariably goodresults IN cases
OF scarlet-feyer.
OLD buffalo SPRING, on NO. 1.