The Cairo bulletin., 1908-04-28
NO SOAR NEEDED IN BATHTUB.
Wonderful Spring In tie California
Desert-Elastic Bottom.

DoS IN the California desert, 15C
miles from Los Angeles, and s!S
miles from the line of the South e,E
Pacific railroad, are the remnants oil
what was once the Garden of Eden. .
some twenty-five years ago some St
Louis and Evansville capitalists con.
ceiv the idea that the desert land
eonln be utilized, and BY irrigation
could be made great frult-pro iuc.
Ing country.
Accordingly they set out an i'm.
mense orchard of young trees apri.
cot. lemon, orange and citron built
subs antial buildings for their over
seer and workmen. laid artificial
walks and Deautitied the grounds
V tn shrubbery and flowers.
They made contract with a com
pan. which owned a reservoir on the
San Bernardino mountains, and soon
tn liquid life from the uplands was
flowing into the garden, identifying
and transforming every growing
thing This went on for several
year and from that sandy waste
grow into promise and beauty. n love
ly orchard
So sanguine were the promoters
that they incurred the expense of a
narrow guage railway from their
property to the Southern Pacific.
making connection at Palms Spring
Station. The grove was now at al
mos the bearing point and the inyes-
tors were looking forward to quick
dividends, when. as a result of an
alteration between the grove owners
a the water company, the latter
cut off the water supply, and l~ng
befc' the matter could be adjusted
by the courts the flowers had with
eTsc, the trees had died and the
whole estate had reverted to the
deser', with only the stump OF a tree
+ re and there Ito point the moral
and adorn the tale"
A few miles from this wreck. says
the Louisville "Courier-Journal,"
around the spur of a mountain. Is a |
little valley, owned by canny |
Seotchman, DR.. Murray The doctor |
has brought the water from the |
mountain near by and has created an
oasis in the desert"
He has about ten acres in oranges
ard alfalfa. and nothing could be
= ore pleasant to the eve, after rang
ny over a sandy waste, than this
charming little valley.
An Indian reservation adjolns the
ioctor's ranch, and from them he
eases for 500 per annum. a rar0
ipring. The pool formed by this
pring is about as large as a good
lied room and is covered by rude
hack. The uniform temperature OF
he water Is 100 degrees, and II Ia
aid to have many healing properties
cling especially efficacious In all man.
e o. blood and nervous troubles.
When you first enter this pool yout
Get strike a soft, sandy bottom and
on are apparently in water about
inches deep. All at once a ripple
% 5 over the surface. much as If
tone had been thrown in, and neal
on You notice the sand has opened
isclosing a hole as large as the cir
inference of your body, but how
Yep you are fraid to think
But the doctor calls there Is nc
anger and You take your life In
Dung hands and plunge In. Down
Oh go up to your neck, and, fearing ,
quich sand, you call out to the doc.
II, but he, smiling importantly, bid.
ou keep quiet and await results.
Presently you feel a soft impact :
pom the soles OF your feet, and
owly but irresistibly you feel youi
If being forced to the surface. witt
the space of three minutes YOU
Q again standing In eighteen inchel
water, and the hole has disappear. ,
), only to appear a few feet further
\ on hasten to 1t, plunge in AMI .
ain reach the surface as before, "
My one hole is formed at time, =
ii between the closing of one and y
e appearing of another. there IL
interval of about five minutes. .
In this wonderful bath you do not =
qr're any brush or soap, but when *
u come out your skin is smoot,'
d spotless, here and there appear 1
9 upon your body minute scales OF u
lea. After dashing a bucket OF 81
ID water over you you feel wonder.
lily inVigorated and refreshed
People come hundreds of miles u
the in these healing waters, and Il Ii
2 doctor could only move thii al
ring to Los Angeles he could MAXI in
fortune in few years. The In. I'll
ms (the Mission tribe) attach yt
'at value to the water and use the al
srflow of the pool for bathing and b.
mixing purposes. II