Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-03-15
A VERY NOTED RESORT
The Fame Of Buffalo LiIhia
Springs is World Wide
IFS HEAL TH-G|VIAG WATERS.
The Discovery Of Natures Wonderful
REMEDY In These Hills.
IN HAS MADE A GREAT RECORD.
Thousands Of Cases Cured by
sinnie spring-lncontrovert
Medical Testimony as 10 Different
Affections Treated.
~ HAS MADE A GREAT RECORD.

or is more widely known than Buffalo
I.thia Springs. OF Meckleaburg county,
Va. with it's celebrated waters.
Seen al the seasons height IL Is a pretty
and picturesque settlement gay with
glancing lights and busy with the move
ments OF rapid vehicles and expeditions
travellers. Behind and around I. rises a
rolling outline o. wooded hills. a the foot
OF which. though still 300 feet above the
sea level, the hotel, villas. and cottages
stretch like a toy wooden village which
looks as though it were TO be put away
in box al night. The houses are built
OF wood and are mostly modern and
various characteristics mark the place
that may be seen at the White ..ulphur
aud other Virginia resorts The sur
roundings. indeed. are different. for the
hills have a delicious color and wildness
all their own. No place could be- more
practical than this resort is in it's every
day life. nor any place more sweet and
dreamlike TO the pensiye mood Of cOntem-
plation and the rowing gaze of fancy.
1t received its name from Colonel VIII
Der Of a commission charged with the
duty of defining the line between irginia
and North Carolina. Rumor has 1t that
while engaged in this work he came upon
a herd Of buffalo feeding in the valley
and at his suggestion the region was
named after the species that then in
habited it.
For several generaiions-at least for a
hundred years-Buffaio Hills has enjoyed
Its reputation for health-givng waters.
ana since Colond Thomas f. Goode ac-
CURED The property in the early seventies
the place has steadily increased in popu.
larity as q health resort.
Buffalo drinks the cup Of summer stand.
Ing. The season at the springs be-
gins june 18th and ends October lst. some
fierce Gays Of heat there are in July
and August, but. on the whole the tenn
pcraturc Is decidedly bracng. and the
climate has been declared by memcal ex-
peIts to Do very healthy, a statement tbat
Is borne out in the almost invariabie
longevity Of the Inhabitants.
Buffalo Hills is lucky i'm Its proper
names Of places, having been discovered
As a summer resort late enough TO es-
cape the scm!-Ciassical namings OF
Baths" and Mirrors" and Bowers"
which have sentimentalizcd the ROCKS ana
pools Of the White mountains, most Of
them have an honest, colonial American
ring.
SOCIETY AT THE SPRINGS.
Society at the springs does not differ
In any particularly salient manner from
good society anywhere else. except that
it Is rather more cosmopolitan. Nnen the
guests at small dinner party or luncheon
may have come from New York.
Philadelphia. Boston. Washington, and
Chicago. it is impossible that the
conversation should fall into that Jar
gon OF clique which often
makes the talk OF the most CEN
tralized society like that Of Paris or .-on-
don seem narrow and provincial to the
unfortunate outsider.
Ii would be out Of place for mere
visitor 10 launch into predictions regard
ing the social future Of Buffalo Lithia
Springs There are not the opportunities
Tor display OF riches ard for social COM
petition which already exist I'm other
Virginia resorts. The villas and cottages
are not scattered or Isolated. and the
central point OF meeting is the hotel,
with its large dining and bathrooms.
There are fine drives which afford charm
Ing views OF the surrounding country in
cluding one TO old Randolph Macon COL
lege, from the tower OF which you may
see for miles upon miles the rich verdurc
OF Virginias towering hills and the
wealth of her dowry from the bsnignant
hand Of nature.
1t is not strange that Virginians should
be-as, indeed, they are passionate lovers
of their State. for the country is almost
beyond parallel peaceful. gentle. and
beautiful. There is truth as well os eulogy
IN the honest boast of Nirginians
that this State is universally beloved
and admired by strangers above all others.
GROWTH OF ITS FAME.
The celebrity and popularity OF Buffalo
lAthia Springs does not, however. rest
upon its rare physical beauty, the charm
of the atmosphere which surrounds II. or
the salubrity OF its climate. but upon the
worldwide fame of its mineral waters.
This fame has been built up by the logic
OF accomplished fact. and does not de
pend upon the transient glory Of fatuous
advertisement, as does that OF many SO
called mineral waters. Reports from
eminent physicians throughout this cOrn~
try and in London. Paris. and Berlin go
10 show that the use OF Buffalo Litha
Water has been attended with results that
have converted almost every opponent
to a belief In the benefcent effects of
these mineral waters on the bodily sys-
ten. There are three springs designated
simply a. No. J. No. =, and No 3. The
first has been known for over a hundred
years. and remarkable cures have been
effected by IL, OF which, however, no
record was kept until IL came into the
hands OF Colonel Goode. In 1873.
In that same year No. ? Spring was
discovered by the present owner. 1t WAS
surrounded by every evidence that its
existence was known and that the water
which II put forth was valued years ago
Huge trees evidently the growth OF many
years were cut down from round about
A. and three feet below the surface OF the
ground well-preSeryed casing of wood
WAS found. filled with tiny pebbles How
or when the spring was first opened will
probably never be known. for the Oldest
lnhsbitant had no knowledge OF II. or
recollection that 1t had ever been used
Dr. spoken about.
This particular spring came into ma
iionai repute a year or so after its dis
covery. when Mrs w. a. Hammond the
wife Of a distinguished New York physi-
c'an, was cured BY II OF Brights disease.
DR. Hammond had seen the water adver-
tised In the medical journals. and used II
with such remarkable results that he
invariably prescribed II In such eases. and
sans lis praise IN no uncertain terms.
Chemists and physicians everywhere
! TOOK the matter up. and the spring was
kresorted 10 with highly beneficial and
not infrequently with the most wonder