The Forrest City times., 1904-12-16
REPORT ON HOT SPRINGS.
Secretary of Interior Hitchcock Dc
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The anual report of Secretary of the Interior. Hitchcock contains the fol lowing about Hot Springs. Ark:
 The reports received from the vari ous local land offices, estimating the reserved as we'll as the unappropriat. cd public lands at the close of the fs- cal yeaf give the following figures for Arkansas:
 Area unappropriated and unre. served: Surveyed, 2,427.S57 acres: un. surveyed, none. Area reserved, 2.560 acres; area appropriated, 31,113,2G3 acres.
 The report of Martin X. Eisele, su perintendent of the Hot Springs reser. vation. Arkansas. indicates that the total number of visitors during the year was 101. 900, showing a gain of 100 per cent in the patronage of the resort during the past five years.
 The city of Hot Springs adjoining l the reservation now contains a resi- dent population of about 15O00, and has all the appurtenances of a metro poltan city With it's delightful eli mate, beautiful scenery, and the at fractions of the town itself, to say nothing of the baths, the city of Hot Springs is one of the most interest ing resorts in the country
 Under the authority of an act of congress, approved March 3, 1891, rules and regulations have been formulated by the department from time to time for the government of the Hot Springs reservation. the management of the bath houses. and the protection of per sons taking the baths. Among other objects sought to be accomplished by the regulations adopted June 6, 1903, was the suppression of the nefarious and demoralizing practice of drum ming by physicians. which has flour ished at Hot Springs for many years. says the report A vigorous crusade had been begun against this evil by the various local societies, assisted by the doctors of standing in the com munity, and 1t is believed that the long fight against the drumming evil, Springs and its visitors, is now prac- tically won.
 There are twenty leases provid | ing for the use of hot water from the reservation. the total number of tubs operated being 551. One new lease was granted during the year to todd & Aldrich for a bath house of twelve tubs, known as the Crystal bath House." for the exclusive use of col cred people One lease expired by limitation during the year and was Dy tIO pal bltS III ihtNiOoS'
 The total number of paid baths dur ing the year was SOP, $40; total num- | Der of complimentary baths, II, ,16S. The total amount received by lessees for baths was $1SS,3S7.05.
 The report gives an account of the experiments made by Dr. Bertram B. Boltwood of New Haven, Conn, to ascertain the radio-activity of the wa, ters and his conclusions, as follows:
 | The waters of the springs on the Hot Springs reservation are all radio active to a marked degree.
 ?. The radio-activity of the waters Is due 10 dissolved radium emanation Ga gas), and not to the presence of salts of radium or other radioactive solids.
 8. The tufa deposited by the springs does not contain appreciable quantities of radium compounds.
 The theory as to the source of the heat which is now generally accepted is that advanced by the United States geological survey. viz, that the heat 1 comes from great body of still heat ed, igneous rocks intruded in the earths crust by volcanic agencies and underlying a large part of central Ar kansas Deepseated waters converted into vapors by contact with this bath olith" of hot rocks probably ascend through Assures toward the surface, where they probably meet cold spring waters, which are heated by the yap- ors. or these vapors are condensed and flow to the surface as hot water.
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