The National tribune., 1910-03-10

SO mineral springs to be differently
compounded and cures for the follow
ing diseases: Liver. bladder. kidney,
stomach and intestinal troubles. rheu-
matism. malaria, chills, neuralgia and
partial paralysis, brain fag, nervous
prostration, overwork and premature
old age. Actual tests by hundreds of
old soldiers and by thousands of others
who have gone to Plat National Park
to drink its mineral waters and battle
in them have proven them, aided by
the invigorating climate and restful
scenic surroundings sure, quick and
permanent cures for the above-enumer-
ated diseases, and that the United States
has in them and Platt National Park
the Nations greatest health bonanza.
The waters rejuvenate men and length
en- their lives many years, especially
the lives of those who are slowly dying
prematurely as result of disease or as
a result of nervous prostration or gen.
eral physical and mental collapse,
caused by over-mental or physical ex-
ertfon and approaching old age. On all
sides of the park the people of the
town of Sulphur and the surrounding
farmers and stockmen have secured
artesfan wells at depths ranging from
l5O to 1000 feet. A number of the
wells are the largest in the world and
the pressure of the water is the great
est known. Some of the wells flow pure
water and some mineral water, but the
water of the mineral water wells as
shown by analysis. are differently COM
pounded. like the waters from the min
eral springs in the park. The Indians
nave long known the healing value of
the medicine springs | When the time
approached for them to commence al
lotting their lands, the Chickasaws and
Choctaws. who owned the springs joint
IN he ar1o0 fr-ai r,I
the hands of individuals who would
commercialize the waters. To prevent
them from being commercialized and
TO keep them as free in the future as
they had been in the days of their tribal
governments, they sold them and
enough land around them for a play
ground, campground and rest place
to the United States, upon the Govern
ments guarantee to maintain them free
thruout all time. The park to date has
cost the United States nearly half a
million dollars. Twenty dollars per
acre was paid the Indians for the land
The remainder was used in paying the
people of the town, which. has been
built around the springs and which the
Government condemned and caused to
be moved from the reservation, for their
condemned properties. The buildings
of the condemned town were sold to
the highest bidder, and the purchasers
removed them from the park within
specified times. Moneys from the sale
of the condemned town have been ex-
pended in the maintenance of the park
and in park improvements.
1T is imperative that the present
Congress appropriate the $4,000 rec
commended by the present Park Super
intendent. Col. w. J. French, for park
sewer system and for other improve
ments. for in 1909 over 100000 people
visited the park, going there from every
State in the Union and from foreign
countries, and for the further reason
that each successive year, as the heal
ing properties of the parks mineral
waters and its unrivaled climate be-
come more widely known, the annual
flow of health and pleasure seekers to
the Governments playground in Okla
homa will become greater and greater"
This project, which is the conception
Of Comrsde William Higgins, Com
mander of the Department OF Okla
homa, and is being earnestly pushed by
him. should be Immediately successful.
Such home as II is proposed to estab-
lish at Sulphur Springs would be a great
boon to the veterans of the United
States. and especially to those living
west of the Mississippi River II will
bring relief and healing to thousands
who otherwise would have to continue
scourged by pain and made incapable
Of any effort for themselves. The
asked for to establish such an
is trihing in comparison with
the immense good which such an insti-
tuition will do. More than ever the vet
Grams of the war need continual treat
ment. The peculiar nature of their dis
eases require treatment by experts in
places specially provided for such dis
abilities and where they can be handled
with much more success than at home
Let Congress at once pass this bill.