Arizona republican., 1906-03-04
WHAT HF HAD MISSED FOR SEVENTEEN YEARS
A Prescott Hans First Visit to Castle
 Hot Springs.

Prescott visitor at Castle Hot Springs thus expresses his pleasant surprise to the Journal Miner:
 Perhaps your readers will not object 70 few lines from Castle Hot Springs which, although within our own cOun- ty, is yet known by so few of even our older residents.
 This occasion is the first time the writer has visited these springs, al- though living within 75 miles of them during the past r years, and he feels that himself and others have hitherto i neglected one of the best attractions which proximity and nature have to | offer us in Arizona.
 1 Even the ride by stage coach from l rhe junction, which to some appears a i barrier to their access to the springs, 1 proves to be a most pleasurable eXper- | fence of the old coaching days now Inearly passed away, except in few To- ! calities. Six blooded and well groomed horses, two abreast, draw a thoroughly new and up to date coach driven by a veteran in such service over as fine a road as one could wish for in a noun tain country and the manner and the 1 style in which the ribbons are handled Iup and down the mountain sides is a marvel of nOrsemanship.
 { To a lover of horsehesh no sight is prettier. none more eXhilarating as the coach rapidly bowls around some ab- Irupt turn in the roadway on down ! hill run preceded by the leaders trot- ! ting proudly. on the very brink, then ] swinging again into the roadway just
 as one wonders if the momentum will mot carry the coach to the gully be- low. The trip is made in about four and a half hours. with a relay of an other six-horse team at the halfway station. Some of the views to be had
 on the divides are grand indeed, ex- tending as they do over d distance of | 12O miles or more, ones vision cover ling a thousand lesser peaks and hills | in the intermediate distance.
 i Arriving at the Castle Hot Springs 1 hotel after a ride through a rocky de- l file adown the bed of a mountain stream, we draw into a fine roadway | extending through gardens lined with palms and orange trees full laden with ] golden globes among greenest leaves. | Here the journey ends by a noble run around the circular drive to the hotel entrance where, as the coming of coach with passengers and mail is the l great event of the day, guests and em- ployes are congregated to receive us. Tle equipment and service of the | hotel as now conducted is most super | for. catering acceptaDly to the most exacting of patrons as well as to those | of lesser needs and means Although Apparently surrounded by wilderness | and fifty miles from nowhere" we l find the table laden with delicacies | Iequalling and sometimes surpassing those supplied at the first class hotels ! of our larger cities.
 | Additional to the unrivalled purity | and abundance of the water flowing i 12O degrees hot from it's source in
 the granite rock from which it flows, we here enjoy steam heated and cleo trically lighted rooms, hot and cold water, baths supplied direct from the i springs, all kinds of electric Turkish, Ivapor and other baths in a new build ling especially constructed and equip bed a stable of good riding horses, billiard and pool tables, shuffle board. | bowling alley, croGuet. and lawn tennis | courts, ice making plant, etc. etc. We ! should also mention the excellent bar | Der and masseur, who appears even in 1 this small community to be kept con | Itinuously busy in his work as an ex- l pert by the weather patrons of the hotel some of whom have found it to their pleasure and profit to return here
 for several seasons in succession. | My only excuse for sending you this lien gthy dissertation on one of the best distractions of northern Arizona is my belief that if the pleasures of residence 1 at Castle Hot Springs were better known and realized by the people of the territory many of those who now
 seek rest or health or recreation hun dreds of miles away from Arizona at proportiOnate greater expenditures of l time and cash would better find what | they seek here on the southerfl slope | of their own mountains.
 The climate is a paradise. Where but | a few miles to the noTthward the chill
 of winter still holds in check the for
 ces of spring-here in this sheltered | nook thousands of birds are giving
 voice to their delight, wild flowers open their hearts to the sunlight per haps unseen by mortal eyes the noun ! tain rivulets make music on it's stony | bed, and man, following the leadership of the giant hills about nim, looks up ward to the skies. and by his intelli- gent mastership of natures forces, given him to make the best use of,
 thus does his part in the work of hon
 bring his Creator.
 IT. B.