Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1902-06-27
THE HALE NOT TOLD
So Thinks Editor Kelley of the Sioux City
Tribune Concerning Hot Springs
and the Hills.

EulCor helley, OF the Sioux City
Tribune, who recently visited Hot
Springs and the Hills with Col. Blu.
chanan, of the F. E. & M. V. R'y., had
the following to say in his paper upon
his return home:
ga trip across Nebraska at this sea-
son is delightful beyond the imagina-
tion of those who have not the instinct
of the husbandman. It is one vast
garden, or pasture, or meadow, and
the inhabitants seem as happy and
contented as the thousands of herds
of cattle they own and delight in. The
Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley
railroad traverses the trail of the
Indian and the first traders with them.
who "blaze d" the way. Railroads, like
men and lower animals, follow the
line of least resistance as they extend.
and the Fremont, Elkhorn g. Missouri
Valley was not an exception to that
rule.
"But the attractions for the summer
traveller are largely beyond the plain,
glorious as that is to the eye of the
hus5andman. The altitude and at
mosphere of the Black Hills, the me-
dicinal waters at Hot Springs and Cas-
cade are blessings not yet fully appre.
ciated, even by people as close to the
mountains as those of Sioux City. At
the end of the trip, which is mostly a
pleasant night ride, is a palace of a
hotel at Hot Springs, the Evans
managed by trained boniface, w. H.
Dildine. His delightful and helpful
wife and his brother are now in
charge. To the people of Sioux City,
more than to other places, this is as
surance of all that is pleasant. Shen-
stone might have written of sThe
Evans, under the Dildine management.
what has come down to US from his
time as the finest compliment ever
paid to hostelry:
'Whoeer has travelled life's dull round,
Whate'er his fortune may have been,
Must sigh to think he still has found
his W6fmeSG welcome at an 1nn.
Situated in valley in the foothills
Of the Black Hills, valley
clothed with verdure and refreshed
with running waters, are the famous
Hot Springs, in which nature has pre-
pared for men medicinal waters heated
for their use, clear, pure and abundant.
Before white men entered the Hills
the Indians had discovered the value
of these hot springs, and it was re-
sort for the invalids of the aboriginals.
In the sunshine exhiliration of this
'happy valley now embellished with
the comforts and luxuries of modern
life, the old grow younger, the youth
full stronger, and the beautiful more
lovely.
"There is romantic air in the his.
tory of the place that is a perpetual
delight to the invalid. A moving
throng of pleasant people, men women,
and children, give diversion and
cushion the foot of time The differ
ent springs have afforded an occasion
for the building of public and private
baths, at which every variety of treat
ment is given in the waters of many
kinds and virtues. Hotels and board
ing places abound and there are ply
sicians, surgeons, masseurs and at
tendants to supply every want.
"But there is more in the Black
Hills, black yet with the pines that
gave them their name, than hot water,
hotels and health In the near by val.
leys are other cities roaring with the
great industry of mining gold as it ex.
lists today. A vast and extended manu-
featuring business; it's limits are not
set and its rich possibilities are all at
tracing investors and workers from
all parts of the world. In some of
these great institutions Sioux City is
also largely identified. At the present
time the mines of this section are re-
ducing approximately 5000 tons of ore
day. Plants are now in constant op.
GRAFTON with a respective daily tonnage
running from so to 1000 tons of ore
each.
"These vast industries are only few
miles from Hot Spridgs and afford di
version to people used to the 'strenu-
GUS life and who can rest while run.
ming. In these hills speculators may
buy prospects, mines, mills or stocks
and get fat while getting rich, if their
constitutions harmonic with that
method. 1t is the development of this
gold field which has recently sent two
railroads climbing up the mountain
side, the Elkhorn and the Burlington.
Both have entered Lead, which lies be-
yond and above Deadwood few miles.
The Elkhorn has right of way and
depot site in the very heart of the city.
The depot is not yet completed for
either road.
:This addition to the line is called
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