Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-07-24
some Health and Pleasure Resorts
Hunting and FishInG Places,

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Few lines of railway in the United States
have SO many places OF resort for health
and pleasure seekers and for spOrtsmen, az
has the Kansas City Southern railway, the
great commercial thoroughfare between
Kansas City, Mo-, and the Gulf of Mexico.
A recent publication Of the Passenger DE.
partment Of this line gives a description OF
nearly all the resorts, where good accommo-
dations may be had at moderate figures.
Among the Health and Pleasure resorts,
noted for their attractive scenery or their
medicinal waters, are the following; Neo-
sho, Mo, a parkliket little city of 5000 peo-
pie, with magnesia waters valuable in the
cure of rheumatism, kidney troubles, skin
and blood diseases. Among the local attrac-
ton are the Government Fish Hatcheries,
several fine parks and numerous springs.
The hotel accommodations are very good
and range in cost from 1850 to 800 per
week. Noel. No, is a very attractive little
village in Mcdonald county, situated in q
nook in the Ozark Mountains on the Elk or
Cowskin River. one Of the best fishing
streams in Missouri. The surrounding
scenery is magnificent. The City Hotel at
Noel has 80 rooms, rates $500 per week.
Sloan Springs, Ark, is a famous health and
pleasure resort, having numerous springs of
excellent water, far-famed for the cure of
rheumatism, stomach diseases, catarrh,
liver complaint, paralysis, nervous prostra-
ton, neuralgia, etc, etc. The scenery sur:
rounding the own is very attractive and
fishing in the streams is good. The hotel
accommodations are ample for a large num-
Der Of people and range in price from 81 to
50 per day, special rates by the week. The
Secretary of the Board of Trade can advise
further. Sulphur Springs, Ark, is in Ben
ton county, and is well arranged for the
comfort of visitors, having hotel
dations and cottage rooms for about 100 peo-
pie, the rates varying from So so to $500 per
week. The springs have been known for
many years as specifics in the cure of ca
tarrh of the stomach, malaria, govt, rheu-
matism, tuberculosis, kidney trouble. There
is considerable variety in the springs, some
being chalybeate, others saline and sulphur.
The parks at Sulphur Springs make this a
very pleasant abiding place. Mena, Ark,
has an altitude Of 1900 feet above sea level
and has 5000 inhabitants. 1t has magnifi-
cent mountain scenery and a most admir-
able summer climate. The Bethesda
springs, three miles from town, are noted
for their cures of ~scrofula and blood dis
eases. TIL streams in the surrounding
country are well stocked with game fish and
the woods are full of game. About hotel ac-
commodations address Secretary, Business
Mems Club. Baker Springs, Ark, are u
miles east of Wickes station, Ark. Their
altitude is about 1000 feet in the most pic
t~uresque part of the Ozark mountains. The
springs are sulphur and have great curative
powers in stomach trouble. The hotel ac-
commodations are sufficient for 20 people
and cost about 81 per day. The Boggs
Springs are at Ascetis P. O., in Polk County,
Ark, and are reached by way of Hatton sta
ton. The scenery is that common to the
Ozark Mountains. The four or five springs
are noted for their cures of dropsy, Bright's
disease, diabetes, torpid liver, kidney
trouble and diseases peculiar to women.
The hotel accommodations are good and the
rates are 81 per day or S. per week. Gran
Miss, Ark, has several medicinal springs
attording cures of chornic constipation and
ailments arising from this trouble. Game
and fish very abundant in the vicinity.
Hotel rates 81 per day, S. per week.
The winter resorts are principally on the
Gulf Coast, though Mena, Ark, and Fl.
Smith, Texarkana and Shreveport, La,
also offer many attractions in the way of a
pleasant winter climate. Beaumont, Port
Arthur, Orange and Lake Charles, all on
lakes or navigable rivers, are ideal resorts.
In the mid-winter the weather is balmy and
s~pring-like and open-air exercise is possible
all winter. There are splendid opportuni-
ties for boating, sailing, rowing and aquatic
diversions of all kinds and of game and fish
dations are excellent in all the towns near
the Gulf.
The list of hunting and fishing places is
a long one. Small game, such as quail and
rabbits, are abundant at all the stations be-
tween Kansas City and the Arkansas State
line. South of Joplin, Mo-, turkeys, squirrels
and deer can be added to the list. South Of
Ft. Smith, particularly near Mena,, Hatton,
Granniss, De Queen, turkeys, deer, bear,
wild cats, etc, are abundant, also in the
pine woods from Shreveport south to Beau
mont, geese and ducks in season are found
in all the waters along the line, but from
Shreveport south they are found by mill
lions during the winter months. Good fish
ing can be had almost anywhere on the line.
Most of the streams abound with black bass,
blue channel cat, red horse, croppie, rain
bow trout, ETC., etc, and the streams most
recommended are Sugar Greek and Marais
des Cygne rivers near Amsterdam, Merwin
and Amoret, Mo-; spring River and Shoal
Creek, near Neosho, Mo-; Indian Creek and
Cowskin River, near Noel, Mo-; Illinois
River, near Sloan Springs; Sallisaw Creek
and Illinois River, near Cans and Bunch,
l. T.; Arkansas River at Redland; Poteau
Fork, Rolling Fork, Cossatott, Kiamichi
and Boog Tugelo, near Rich Mountain and
Mena, Ark; Poteau River near Waldron,
Ark; Mountain Fork River near Jansen
Station, Ark; white perch, rock bass, lake
trout, jack salmon, in the bayous, lakes and
sloughs near Shreveport, La, and at Mans
field, Leesvile, Many, La; Orange, and
Beaumont, Tex. In Lake Sabine both fresh
and salt water fish are found in the greatest
abundance. Herring, mullet, stingrays, sea
cat, trout, founders and other edible and
game fish abound, as well as great tarpons,
alligator gars and large fish. A few miles
out in the Gulf there is a plentitude Of red
fish, red snappers, sharks, tarpon pompano,
menhaden and other fish. In the waters
near the Gulf there is hardly a place where
fish and feathered game cannot be found in
almost countless numbers. Those who are
interested in either health or pleasure re-
sorts or hunting and fishing, can gain accu-
rate information on the subject by address
l Agen IT, at Kansas Ssnsastt. City, tye No Ge''i'' i''''NS''