The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1895-02-07
HOT SPRINGS, ARKANSAS.
DEAR GAZETTE

HOT SPRINGS, ARKANSAS.
DEAR GAZETTE
Hot Springs, Arkansas. the most famous
of American health and pleasure resorts, is
a cosmopolitan little city situated in the
heart of the Ozark mountains, with an esti.
mated resident population of about $4,000
inhabitants, and from fifty to seventy
thousand visitors annually. 1t contains
over 500 licensed hotels and boarding houses
and about 100 physicians and 80 drug stores.
Hot Springs mountain, from which the ther-
NAL waters flow, is owned by. the govern
ment, and it is here that the army and navy
general hospital is located. The government
reserve comprises four sections 1850 acres)
of land on which the government has spent
near a half million of dollars in the way of
hospital buildings for invalid sailors and
soldiers, administration building, or head
quarters, bath houses, gymnasium, shrub
berry, tropical plants, winding drives, walks.
etc. As health resort, Hot Springs enjoys
a liberal patronage all the year round, but
it is more of winter resort for pleasure
seekers. The latter season is Just now open
ing, and every train brings representatives
of the ''swagger" set from all The principal
cities of the United States. Of the three
principal hotels, the Eastman, which opened
this week, is the largest and ranks among
the lsrgest hotels of the United States. It
is an imposing structure, covering several
acres of ground, and crowned with lofty
towers and observatories; contains eight par.
lors, maintains its own string band of twenty
five musicians; printing Office, postof6ce,
etc. In this s.Valley of Vapors" one need
not want for amusement, with frst-elass
theatrical attractions, football, baseball,
horse racing, and all the festive games run
ming ct full blast; and for music it is unsur-
passed by any other resort in the world. A
coterie of musical artists discourse daily free
concerts in each of the three leading hotels,
and one may laugh at RingwalPs popular
aud humorous strains, feel grand with Muir
doch's stately selections, and become ecstatic
with Joy or sadness over Salisbury's great
descriptives.
Donkey riding is quite popular amuse.
msat, and it is not uncommon sight to
see 209- pound woman mounted upon a
$50. pound ''burrow," ambling through the
streets at a mile-an-hour gait. The
donks live on nothing and board themselves,
and can be srented" in great numbers for a
mere trife, with juvenile colored coacher
thrown in. Hot Springs has the most varied
assortment of spring water of any city. on
this sublunary planet. Hst, cold, tepid,
iron, arsenic. alum, masnesia, and others ad
finitum. People come here for the treat
ment of almost every ailment known to the
human race. but probably the most common
is what is called here ,'cold feet" There
are sevsnty.tw two hot springs with daily
flow of over 500, 900 gallons. The temper
ature varies from SO to l57 degrees Fahren.
heit Chemical analysis shows that the
mineral constituents amount to but 81 grains
per gallon, SO the doctors are fain to ascribe
the healing qualities of the water to its al
most absolute purity, aided by the beneficent
and peculiar heat it brings with it from
dame natures bosom.
So much for Hot Springs. But for the
stSunny South" and Of the Arkansas coun.
try people in..general, I can say nothing te
their credit. They never did have nything
haven't anything now, and never expect to
have anything. Simply drive IN OK team
to homemade wagon to town with a load o.
corn or wood, to trade off for 81 suit OF
something to eat, and when that's gone
same thing over again. They are not ''ir
it" with the Webfoot ranchers.
Respectfully yours,
| ARKANSAS TRAVELLER.
| P.S. A. M. Weaver, formerly with ]
Ell. Harris, of your city, is now Etknlght o
the grip" for the Alcorn Woolen Mfg. Co.
of Corinth, Miss.