The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-20
e. 3. Sargent Writes an Entertaining
Letter for Gate City Readers from
the Famous Excelsior Springs
Of Missouri.
CALLED "P1zEN SPRING.
Good Properties Of the Waters Was
Accidentally Discovered by a Man
Who Was Desperate with
the Dyspepsia.
Excelsior Springs. Mo-, Aug. 20.

To the editor of The Gate City:
In his travels your Vincennes cor
respondent, with Mrs. e. B. Sargent
and daughter Margaret, laad occasion
to visit mis- only sister, Mrs. w. A.
Hughes and family. who i've at Elk
celsior Springs, Missouri. and as this
is the most famous health resort in
the United States 1t occurred to him
that the readers of the Gate City
might be interested in a description of
the place.
1t is called the Carlsbad of America
and as town about 5000 people To-
Gated about twenty-five miles north
east of Kansas City, Mo-, being con-
nected with the Wabash and the main
line OF the Milwaukee runs within
mile. of the town.
The main line of the Wabash runs
from Kansas City to st. Louis and 1T
runs within seven or eight miles Of the
town. A stub has been built from Elk
celsior Springs Junction to the city.
Regular hacks run between the Mil
waukee depo. and the business section
of the place.
1t is located on the right bank OF
what is callel Fishing River but it is
so small that would call it creek
instead of river.
The river has it's source in a north
easterly direction and from here runs
In southwesterly direction towards
the Missouri River into which it flows.
Another small creek comes from the
northwest and flows into the river a
short distance from the city and in
the fork and bottoms of both of these
lies Excelsior Springs.
AT the present time there is estimat-
ed to be several thousand people here,
but on account of there being so much
rain in the earlier part of the season
a great many have remained away.
Up to the year 1880 there was no
town here, and the bottoms along the
creeks was in wheat fields and other
grains.
On the right bank of the river there
was a spring, which the natives ca.lel
for the want of a better name "Pizen'
Spring and the harvest hands would
gather under shade of the trees to eat
their dinner. AT that time among the
number was man who had dyspepsia
in its worst form.
In his desperation he drank freely OF
the "Pizen" waters and found i'm.
mediate relief.
Also an old colored woman was bad
ly afflicted with scrofula and she used
freely of the waters and was cured
This spring at the
called Sloan Springs and it's fame is
known far and wide. Hundreds came
and lived in tents. until other accomo
dations were provided.
From that time on the place has
grown until today it is world wide
known.
The Sloan Springs is owned by the
city and is free to everyone who ma.
wish to Come and drink of its waters.
The city employs man who pump.
water at all times of the day for those
who wish to try the water.
The grand thing about the place il
there are. several different kinds o
wells or springs, and almost all kinds
of diseases can be cured or reliever.
There are the Regent Sulpho-Saline
salt-Soda, Lythum Magnesium, Sui
phur Salt Soda land several othe
kinds of springs and wells.
The writer was not particularly II
need of any of the waters, but whel
you are in Rome do as Romans dc
and he has been drinking the water
freely and feels their beneficial effect
The baths are good and l could no
resist the temptation of taking som
OF them, and find that he who take
them will never forget them.
In this hot spell we are having a
thinks he is hot but after he is in tn