The Arizona sentinel., 1894-05-19
AGgA CAE.sENTE.
A Fine EzeaETFs Resort OEs Our
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 for these springs, I jot down a few notes which may prove of interest to some of your readers. It is presumed that most citizens of Yuma are ac- quainted with the leading facts con- corning the Agua Caliente of the Gila valley, and yet 1 am inclined to be- lieve that less IS known of the real value of this resort than should be, otherwise a more general appreciation of its merits would be manifested by the public, and especially by certain invalids. Of course my visit has been too brief to speak of the springs en- tirely from personal experience. But from observations, and from the ex- perience of others who bear living testimony, and are living witnesses, of the virtues of these springs for the cure of rheumatism and kindred dis eases, I venture to speak.
 MT. Wilkes, a carpenter from the Gila Bend Dam, lay in his room for a month under a doctors treatment, experiencing little or no relief from from his rheumatic troubles, was finally brought here about three weeks ago to try the healing powers of Agua Caliente. At first he was unable to wait upon himself, but he is now about as well as ever, and eX- poets to leave for his home in San Francisco tomorrow.
 Mrs. Major Wham, who has been here bathing about month, informed me today that when she came she was scarcely able to walk, and only with much pain and difficulty, that her knees feet and finger joints were swollen to abnormal size, and that at the end of ten days she could discover so little change for the better that she seriously contemplated returning home, believing there was no relief for her here, but friends persuaded her to remain, and the result is that the swelling has about all left her joints and the accompanying paIn with it.
 Mir. Charles Dike, reliable citizen of Graham county, has spent several weeks here bathing for the cure of the "grip." The disease effected hls eye sight, but bathing, he claims, has re, stored his sight as well as ever.
 Mrs. Westfall, widow lady who keeps boarding house here. states that a year ago she was much annoy ed by the poisoning of her skin, and after having employed the best medi- cal skill of both Phoenix and Tucson in vain, she was persuaded to try these springs. She experienced such gratifying results that she bought property here and has decided to re- main.
 Mir. F.. Harris, the mail contractor from Sentinel here, also tells what a cure of rheumatism these springs ac- eomplished for him, when all other medicine he tried proved intellectual,
 Quite list of similar experiences have been related to me of others in the past, but I prefer to mention only those coming directly under my own observation, having no interest in the matter further than to give facts that might prove of advantage for the pubic to know.
 The water of these springs is said to to contain considerable sulphur, soda, magnesia, iron and other mineral sub stances, but no one I have met can give me the analysis. The temper ature of the warmest spring is only 8 few degrees over 100 Fahrenheit. There are probably twenty large springs and at least double the num- Der of smaller ones. The location is naturally pretty, the large level salt grass meadow surrounding the springs being studded with an abundance of the picturesque mesquite, contrasting all the more favorably with the bar ren mountain in the back ground, which seems to stand sentinel over the enchanted spot
 These springs are about 100 miles from Yuma, including a Emile wagon drive from Sentinel. They are about six miles east of the line divid- ing Yuma and Maricopa counties and eight miles below the great South Gila dam (which is to bel.
 For the benefit of those contemp- lating a visit hither this summer (and know a number of such), 1 would say that there is a good boarding house here, kept by lady who knows