, 1891-03-01
SARATOGA.
Wyoming's Health Resort the Nearest
Town Il the Gold Hill.

Wyoming's Health Resort the Nearest
Town TO the Gold Hill.
SARATOGA. Wyo., Feb. 2l.-TLere Is
something in a name and Saratoga which
is Indian for Miraculous Waters" is
very appropriate for this place as it Indi-
Gates what it is destined to be-a great
and fashionable health resort. Here the
sick and afflicted may regain health, the
worn out business man find rest and
recreation and the rich aud idle upon
whose hands time hangs heavily elsewhere
will here lead a life Of continual pleasure.
There are cool mountain resorts where
green carpeted parks extend to the very
edge OF perpetual snow; clear mountain
streams almost without number and
numerous beautiful lakes beneath the
crystal waters OF which the red speckled
beauties are plentiful; snow capped noun
tains to climb and mountain Businesses
where the hunter will not search in vain
for elk, sheep or deer and he should al
ways go LOADED for bear" as several
species of that animal are found. White
mountain quail, grouse and other small
game 10 some secluded SPOT live out their
natural lives and are never disturbed by
the hunter. The most curious animal is
the snow shoe rabbit" "a little animal
which nature has supplied with snow
shoes. They Are snow white in winter
and a steel grey in summer anj have very
larra nh Ea.s L. 81, .,.,,n ...I-
some very pro ty flowers grow aud straw
berries and other small fruit are quite
plentiful.
THE o SPRINGS.
There are about a dozen of the hot
springs, from which the place first gained
its reputation. They are ALL owned by
W. III. Caldwell, who st ttlcd upon the
land twenty years ago, and Fix years ,ter
put a homestead filing upon 1t. The
waters contain mon, potassium. lime, soda.
maguesia, chloride of sodium and sulphur,
and the temperature is about 100 degrees.
For rheumatism and other blood diseases
these waters are said by those who haze
had ample opportunity 10 test them, to
be equal, if not superior. to any others in
the world. Some remarkable cures have
been performed and THE LEADER could
be filed with testimonials of those who
have been cured. Even those who are
comparative y healthy are greatly bene-
fitted by bathing. After a bath II is in
deed Il pleasure to inhale the sweet, pure
mountain air, and a continual application
would probably cure the most severe cases
OF catarrh.
All OF the coal used in SARATOGA is miued
in the vicinity. Some OF it is taken frou
a big vein on Pass creek fourteen miles
north, and the remainder from q mine
fourteen miles down the river, which is
owned by Richard Savage and Fred
Kindt. 1t is claimed that the coal from
the latter mine is good coking coal and
superior to the Rock Springs coal. The
vein, however, is only about three feet
thick and hard to mine. Savage & kiudt
have opened another vein eight feet
thick. If this proves to lie as Cood coal
as the nrst they nave a OonauZl.
SURROUNDED BY MINEs.
The Gold Hill! mines are not the only
ones tributary to Saratoga. About twelve
miles northeast are the Elk mountain gold
mines. which also carry silver and COP
per. Eighteen miles west in the
Bridger district is the Yankee Jack silver
and copper mine owned by Senator Frank
Williams and ]. W. Heather. About
the same distance or a little farther. south
east in the Sierra Madre range, are ga
lena copper and asbestos mines. Thirty
or forty miles south In the same range on
Grand Encampment creek is the Kurtz
mine. owned by Senator Chatterton. Jack
Kurtz and William Forney. These gen.
tlemen are very close mouthed about the
mine and will say scarcely anything about
its prospects even to their most intimate
friends. Those who are in a position to
know. however, say that good results NAV
be expected from the driving Of a Eve
hundred foot tunnel which is about COM
pleted and will tap the ore body about
900 feet below the surface.
A. sat Valley.
Without any Hot Springs, or any Gold
Hill, ans coal or other mines, Saratoga
would in time be a good town. It is the
natural and only trade center for all the
ranchmen IN the valley. And the valley
Imagine a V shaped valley at least TWEEN.
ty-6ve miles wide at the big end of the V
and nearly one hundred miles long with
Saratoga In the enter sixty miles from