The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1906-10-05


constructed a reservoir into
which it pumps the hot water
There it is allowed to cool, before
being used for ordinary purposes
The reservoir is covered by an
artistic frame shed surrounded
with wire netting, thus render
ing the water pure and free
from any foreign impurities
like TO go up int, he noun
talns. There YOU ~ The sim
pie life. To one W loves To
hold communion with nature, to
the man who takes a delight in
the study of natural history. bot
any and geology the Ozark noun
tains afford a fine opportunity.
rhe geological exposures are
simply magnificent TO behold.
The upheayals that came with
the birth of these hot springs
have thrown the rock strata from
a dead level to living perpen-
dicular. " | use the words ''liv-
ing perpendicular" advisedly,
because it does seem like the en-
tire mountain side would some
day slide down from its digni-
fed height to common obscurity
below.
There are many varieties of
stone here, and you can almost
tell a mans profession by the
kind of stone he studies. If you
or any other good Judge of law
would be here you would study
Black stone, Rockefeller would
look for oilstone, Joe Marx for
whet stone, DIR. Gutgsell for gra-
vel. Michael Durlauf for granite
frank Kuebler for diamonds, the
women for soapstone, surveyors
for corn stones, insurance men
for sandstone and ministers for
birthstone You can find all OF
them here.
They are blasting away a side
Of the mountain down on. Central
Avenue and using the stone fer
street Improvements. - Ii IS
crushed on the spot, = and runs
but INTO the street The streets
are being constructed about as
they are at Jasper except that
the crushed stone is scemented to-
gether by a steam cement rolling
1t would be great
place for Ed. Gutgsell and Edgar
rraylor; one to show the Hot
springs people how to run a
steam power machine and the
1ther how to hustle a cement |
gang.
In blasting away the rock on |
he Avenue they cover the side of \
he rock with railroad crossties. \
)ass an immense iron chain over
hem, one end of which is fast
med to a pine tree on the mount
lin side, and the other to an an
horage in the street. These are
overed with mating and the
last set off.
Down here at Hot Springs they 5
barge a man five dollars every =
ime he turns around. That is
'hy strangers never turn around |
fter the first day. When you 5
tart down town you keep going t
ntil you pass on through the b
own, up the mountain, and when v
o one sees you, you pass around d
pine tree and face homeward
gain five dollars saved. The {
reefs of this town are as l
Judge, as your hind h
g: that helps some, for occa- o
onally you get turned in town |,
nd no one sees you-five dollars v
head b
Judge, am sending you this s
hot air" from up in the noun W
lin. 1t is free up here. Down n
| the city air costs money On n
~ way up the mountain this af- Il
ernoon, | came across a poor Fl
,lored boy tugging away at Il
IS wheel and trying to get it up 5,
le mountain, helped him
while until | became exhausted b;
knew he could not ride a wheel h,
D in the mountain forest Sd l.
lid to him: Joe Cans, how In
ng have you been nutty?H v
e declared he was sane and H
lid air costs so much money *
,wn in the city he had to bring W
S wheel up in the mountain to Al
fate it. -
There is an alligator farm here sc
ith 800 alligators on it. Some G.
e taught to shoot the chutes al
have no use for an alligator, ii
1t | studied them awhile, saw til
, egg hatch, and his alligator tn
,ip start on life's eventful ca til
,er The eggs are about the it
ze of that of a white Wyan- fo
,tte hen, but rather longer. er
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