The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-07-30
THE NEWS FROM wILHoIT.
Breezy Letter from a Correspondent at
that Popular Resort.


Editor Astorian:-
Nature has made this an ideal spot
where one may rest completely from the
busy cares of life and hear the voices
that speak in the soft whisper of the
mountain breeze and the sweet song of
birds Wilhoit Springs is in canyon,
surrounded by fir trees that rise a hun
dred and fifty to two hundred feet,
straight as an arrow. 1t Is a gradual
climb all the way from Oregon City,
but the last mile has drop of one thous-
and feet.
There is hotel, store, and postoffice,
assembly hall, butcher shop and bath
house. A new bath house is in course of
construction and 1t will probably be ready
for use in the course of a week. There
are fifty-one camps, one hundred and
sixty people, and seventy children.
Our cottage is situated on a clover
covered hillside. In front is a view of
the hotel and the wooded banks Of Rock
Creek, which very obligingly runs through
the front yard 1t Is very well named
too, consisting of more rocks than the
necessary water that goes to make up
a creek. There is forest on the left, for
est to the rear, and a great grove Of frs
on the right, where the campers hold
forth. They say that fifteen wagons
came in yesterday and still they come,
two or three at a time.
This is such a clean place that some
parts Of 1t remind one of Gearhart Grove.
Oregon's beach resorts cannot be ax-
celled, but to those who live near the
sea, a place like this is most beautiful,
The air is pure and invigorating, for it
blows directly from the peaks of the
great Cascade and Coast ranges. As 1t
sweeps through the forest of fir, pine,
cedar, spruce, tamarack and maple, the
mind reverts to the dash and roar Of the
Pacific on its sandy shore.
The mineral spring, which Is the central
attraction, bubbles UP continuously into
cemented cistern, several feet in di-
ameter, The spring has seven outlets
within a radius of fifty feet, and Is so
well charged with carbonic acid gas that
1t bubbles and sparkles for some time
after being taken from the spring. For
those suffering from rheumatism and neu-
ralgia, the water and baths of nature 8
sanitarium are particularly beneficial.
The water contains so much iron, that
the bath towels turn a decided red.
Nature has made this great appetite
producing locality, but she has also pro-
vided the wherewith to satisfy the inner
man. The meat is sweet and tender the
vegetables come fresh from the gardens
some distance away, and even If the
campers stove fails, and the bread is
bad, the mountain air Is such sauce
piquante, that one forgets the vicissi-
tudes of outdoor life.
The Rev. G, w. Grannis and family
have been here little over a week. The
reverend gentleman has been suffering
from rheumatism, but it is rapidly dsap-
pearing, the pain having entirely van
ished.
1t is strange that the majority Of the
campers are valley people, when it should
be just the reverse. The valley people
should go to the coast, and the coast
people to the mountains. One may come
here from Oregon City by daily stage,
twenty-five miles, or from Mt. Angel,
twelve miles The Oregon City route is
very pretty one.
The Southern Pacific is very deslrous
of buying Wilhoit and If the purchase
is made. there will be Il branch road,
either from Oregon City of Mt. Angel.
There is good fishing some distance up
the creek, and an abundance of small
game.
Wilhoit's should be more extensively
advertised, and viii in time vie with our
beach resorts in point of health and
beauty. EDITH NJ. CONN.
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