Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-12-01
AN INTERESTING REGION
Some Interesting Features Of tile Black
Hills as Viewed by u Chicago
Tribune Writer.
HOT SPRINGS A REVELATION
And a Delight to Tourists--Its Hotels, baths
and Beauty.--The Climate and the
Banquet.

HOT SPRINGS, ,. D., " ~. I'LL LIlp
southwest corner of South Dakota lie
the Black Hills-the theater tut eigh-
teen years ago of scenes rivaling in cha
o,ic and desperate action the highest
pitch of outlawry in the rs days Of
California. AS we promenaded tile
quiet streets of Deadwood last: Wednes-
day they seemed lonesome; a deep grief
possessed them; their days "f rough
riders. Gathering hoofs of mule trains. !
tired rumbling of "Ilarney's Peak or
bust" outfits, brawls of wide.open dens
of ri:,aldry and gaming all are gone.
Today law and prosperity. forced to the
front by the inevitable push of civiliza-
ton, jointly reign. Another empire has
been gained to our industrial and
scenic wealth and DeadwO0d is its
metropolis.
Americans are forgetful. Their daily
drive and push. disturbed and disor-
dered by periodic sensations. quickly
recnvers its ascendency and sends into
oblivion the shocking and unbelievable
tales of discovery, massacre or holo-
caust. For ffteenyears the Black Hills
have been forgotten. Few school boys
of that age a tell you where they are.
fewer men can tell you what they hide;
but in the minds OF these few men the
fact has lodged that these 10000 square
miles are the richest in tile United
States. Lead City. Hill City, Newcastle,
Sheridan and Gillette are producing
immense quantities "f gold, tin and
coal. In a few days Speartish will cele-
brate the completion of the Burlington
route to that city, twenty-five miles be-
You'd DeaAwood. This new line adds
to its sourc a scenery through the
canyons more rugged and sublime than
anything in this continent outside of
Mexico.
GREAT HOT SPRINGS.
In the southern range of these roman
tic hills and completely pocketed by
them are the great Hot Springs of
South DakOt,. Seven years ago a
forlorn cabin was the refuge of a few
knowing invalids who came to rid
themselves of their wretched rheuma.
tism. Before that day the Indians held
the waters and you can see today thu
primitive bath tubs cut out of tile solid
rock through which. the healing waters
bubbled. These were the 'cure.all" OF
the tribes infesting the Hills. In the
rush beyond for gold the richest nuggets
were nee.ilessly passed, and many a dis
appointed jumper has since regretfull,
wished he had not been so swift.
1t is a revelation to Chicago tourists
to lind here to-day q, city of $500 people
a dozen hotels. rs many bath houses
and the finest plunge hath in America
This last attraction, covered l,y an i'm
m-nse structure. has u depth Of tive t.
eight feet of the rNrest mineral water
and TOO bathers lave found at n time
the exhilaratimg hila,ity of the plunge
While this is in itself u cure for many
disorders, the marvellous results fol
which the place is SO famous art
reached in the hot baths of the hotel.
and in drinking from the score o.
springs. AT the new %hote,s-and ther,
are no finer between Chicago aud til,
Pacitic-we daily meet people who
have been here from two to four week,
and who are now ready to go home
completely cured of rheumatism. sciati
ca, etc. The government recently sem
twenty-five oil soldiers here for q tes
before establishing a national sanitar
ium. The cases were as tad a lot a,
e have been put through treatment
yet twenty-thrre out of the twenty-tiv,
were entirely cured and the other tw,
murh improved. There is now a bill
before congress for an appropriation u,
Sl5U,O0U for the home.
COUNTRY is FULL OF SPRINGS.
All around us are springs, each claim
ing specific properties and each Justify
ing them. l'his place las sprung int
renown III three years and the finishing
of the new hotels and the Burlington
and Northwestern railroads lave pre-
pared the way to colmfort and pleasur
and health the year round.
While billiards. aud fogs have swer
in fury owe the Mississippi valley "
are lingering in the volnp,uous +mbrat
of Indian summer. Every day bring
its hINucf ckv A,,d ,,olln,v SunsI,iNo nV