Judith Gap journal. [volume] (Judith Gap, Mont.) 1908-19??, 1909-08-13
WRITES OF VISIT TO
WHITE SULPHUR

The Editor Makes Business Trip to the
County Seat.
An enthusiastic resident has truth
fully uttered: "White Sulphur Springs
is located i'll what was originally the
Garden of Eden
This is about the way the splendid
scenery surrounding the town strikes
a stranger as he alights from the four
horse stage after a tedious trip of is
miles from Dorsey, the nearest rail
road station. He could not imagine
that the Garden of Eden could have
been located in a prettier spot.
TO the east are the beautiful Castle
mountains, whose foothills come close
to the town. These foothills are a
succession of gentle slopes covered
completely with grass of verdant
green. The mountains proper are a
succession of formidable castle shaped
peaks which look as If they had been
shaped by the hand of human archi-
tects. 10 the north are the Little
Belt mountains, not SO large as they
are in the vicinity Of Judith Gap, but
more beautiful, as they slope gently
and look as though, il titled, could be
made to raise crops. separating these
mountain ranges, is the Smith river,
beautiful mountain stream whicl.
runs through the town and one of the
most beautiful valleys the eye Of man
has ever beheld, and finally empties
into the Missouri river near Great
Falls, over 100 miles away. TO the
west are the Big Belt mountains 20
miles from town. The Smith valley
for 40 miles down the river from the
town is 20 miles wide and as level rs
a floor. \ good growth of trees skirt
the river banks in the streams sim
uOus course as far as the eye can see,
making a beautiful landscape lano-
rama that one never tires of looking
at. All this land was taken up years
ago by hOmesteaders, but the tempt
ing offers of the live stOckmen caused
them to sell out and move away, and
now it is held by the cattle barons in
large holdings; and they are not anx-
iOus to have railroad cut into their
paradise of rich grass lands. Perhaps
this is the most cogent reason why
White Sulphur Springs has not had a
railroad ere this. But the railroad
will surely come, and these cattle
kings will cut their large tracts up in
to quarter section farms, and sell
them to the land-hungry farmers Of
the East, who will make them pro-
duce rs no land ever produced before,
as there is no richer valley in Mon
tana than this. Beautiful and COM
Portable farm houses will thickly dot
these rich plains, where now can be
cattle grazing everywhere. Then
White Sulphur Springs will be a city
far beyond the proudest dreams of
those who have patiently waited for
10, these many years for theorealiza-
tion of their hopes. The future of the
town depends OH the advent of Il rail
road. The people do not care whether
it is the Northern Pacific from Liv-
ingston to Great Falls, the Milwaukee
from Melstone to MissOula, or from
Dorsey to Great Falls, or the Great
Northern from Great Falls to the
Yellowstone National Park, or all
three Of them. The first one in will
get the cream OF tremendous immi-
grafton of land seekers and searchers
after health, and Il local freight bust
ness OF farm products to Eastern
markets, and valuable ores from the
undeveloped mines of great richness
to the smelters at Great Falls and
Helena, freight tonnage that will pay
for the roads construction within
few wears.
And this brings us to the famous
springs from which the town derives
it's name. They are located within IA
stones throw of Main street in what
strongly resembles meadow. The
water from these springs comes bub-
bling up out of the earth from l2O to
12s degrees, Fahrenheit. The water
contains fourteen medicinal ingred-
tents. the highest of any medicinal
hot springs known in the world, and
only equaled by one spring in the
United States-the White sulphur
Springs of Virginia. These waters
here are sure cure for rheumatism,
kidney troubles and all skin diseases.
Someday big sanitarium will be er-
rected in the eleven-acre field where
the springs are, and health-seekers
will come here from all parts Of the
world, and millions WILDE made from