The Van Buren press., 1904-12-17
REPORT ON HOT SPRINGS.
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votes Much Space to the Resort.
The annual report OF Secretary Of tho
Interior Hitchcock contains the fol.
lowing about Hot Springs. Ark:
The reports received from the vari.
ous local land Offices, estimating the
reserved as well as the inappropriate
ed public lands at the close of the hs-
cal year. give the following figures for
Arkansas.
Area unapproprated and unre-
served Surveyed. 2.427,s57 acres; un-
surveyed. none Area reserved, $3.50
acres; area appropriated, 3i,115,265
acres
The report of Martin A. Eisele, su.
perintendent OF the Hot Springs reser-
vation. Arkansas. indicates that the
total number OF visitors during the
year was l0l 900. showing gain OF
100 per cent In the patronage Of the
resort during the past five years.
The city of Hot Springs adjoining
the reservation now contains resi-
dent population Of about $4,000, and
has all the appurtenances OF a metro
politan city With its delightful cll'
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, 1908.
was the suppression OF the nefarious
and demorallzng practice OF drum.
ming by physicians, which has -four
ished at Hot Springs for many years.
says tho report A vigorous crusade
had been begun against this evil by
the various local societies, assisted by
the doctors Of standing In the COM
munlty, and II Is believed that the
long fight against the drumming evil.
which has done so much injury to Hot
Springs and It's visitors, Is now prac.
tically won.
There are twenty-five leases provid.
Ing for the use Of hot water from the
reservation. the total number OF tubs
operated being 55l. One new lease
was granted during the year to Jodd
& Aldrlch for a bath house OF twelve
tubs, known as the Crystal bath
House. for the exclusive use OF col
ored people. One lease expired by
Limitation during the year and was
abandoned by the parties in interest.
The total number Of paid baths dur.
Ing the year was G02,b4O; total mum.
Der Of complimentary baths, ll,iGS.
The total amount received by lessees
for baths was slsS,3S7O5.
The report gives an account OF tho
experiments made by Dr. Bertram u.
Boltwood OF New Haven, Conn, to
ascertain the radio.actlvlty OF the wa
ters and his conclusions, az follows:
/. The waters OF tho springs on tho
Hot Springs reservation are all radio.
active to a marked degree
2. Tho radlo.actlyty OF the waters
is due 10 dissolved radIum emanation
Ca gas), and not to the presence OF
salts Of radlum or other radioactive
solids.
3, The tufa deposited by the
springs does not contain approclaole
quantities Of radIum compounds
The theory M to the source OF tho
heat which ls now generally accepted
is that advanced by the United States
geological survey, VIZ. that the heat
comes from great body Of stlll heat.
ed, leuoous rocks lntruded In tho
oarth's crust by volcanic agencies and
underlying a large part OF central Ar
kansas. Doop.soatod waters converted
into yaporB By contact with this bath
oli,h" Of hot rocks probably aacand
through assures toward the surface,
whore they probably meet cold spring
waters. which are heated by the yap-
ors, or these yapors are condensed aud
flow to the surface as hot water.
Poor Woman.
Mrs Gldday-l thought you were on.