The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-06-01

surrounding hills come forth unfailing
streams of water, medicated and tenn
pered in the great laboratory of sub
terranean earth, endowed with health
giving properties in relative proper
lions SO exact that man, with all the
skill that scientific knowledge imparts,
may strive in vain to improve upon
and at last can only initiate. 1t ia the
product of centuries of processes-a
part of the grand scheme OF nature,
which, in preparing the earth for
h%abitation, made provision also to
combat the Ills to which man has
fallen heir. Regarding the curative
properties of the medicinal waters of
the Hot Springs: These springs were
he resort of the Indians long before
the white man found his way into the
jealousy guarded realms Of the Black
Hills country and were considered
by the aborigines as a panacea for all
diseases"
The South Dakota State Soldiers
home is also located at Hot Springs.
How to Reach Hot Springs.
No resort of the west is more favor
ed in the way of railroad accommoda-
tons than Hot Springs; no health and
pleasure resort is more comfortably
and pleasantly reached than this one
Located upon two of the greatest sys-
tens of the country, a trip to this
beautiful resort is one of restful
pleasure.
The Chicago G Northwestern and
the G. B. & @. railroads maintain an
excellent service, bringing visitors
from Chicago in about thirty hours.
Excursion tickets will be found on
sale at all stations.
The Time to Visit Hot Springs.
For either health or pleasure is at
any eason whenever you discover
that your health needs toning up;
whenever o need rest, or whenever
you want the happiest outing of your
life. You may always rest assured
that you will find more agreeable eli
matte conditions here than at home
either winter or summer.
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Altitude of Hot Springs. ..3,400 feet
Average daily sunshine. $500. 1872 days
Precipitation, average annual. 49,.
20 inches
Average temperature, winter months
28 degrees
Average temperature, summer
months .............. 62 degrees
Nearby Points of Interest.
One of the> most notable is the
FAMOUS WIND CAVE, decidedly the
largest cave known, outrivaling the
Mammoth Cave of Kentucky in extent.
Its various ramificatfons have been
explored in different directions to a
distance of ninety-one miles, and no
less than $500 different chambers
have been found which contain strik-
ingly beautiful rock formations in
unique shapes and of dazzling bril-
liancy.
Good auto and livery service con-
veys tourists daily from Hot Springs
to the cave at reasonable rates.
Another pleasant trip is the drive to
Cheyenne Falls; and other points Of
interest near Hot Springs are the
Lone Wells, Fall River Falls and
Cascade Springs,
neutrality-suspicious..
The National Sanitarium, The State
Soldiers Home Hospital, The Sister
Hospital, The Hargens Sanitarium,
the Nichols Cancer S~anitarium are un-
surpassed in equipment.
Value of Sanitariums, hospitals,
bath houses and their equip
ment $1,31O,0Oo
Total ben capacity OF ame..,...2 75
NO. OF patients In 1910. ......12,794
No. of baths given in 1910. =. 10000
Yearly increase in sick business. .2O%
No. of operations 19O7-11. 3,O09
Mortality from operations. V of ~
Mortality from medical treatment. go
Hot Springs has also the most
skilled physicians and surgeons to be
found. So noted have these become
that people come to Hot Springs from
great distances to be treated-there
being specialists here for nearly every
trouble.
A careful comparison. with other
health resorts shows that no other
city Of equal size in the United
States has as many hospitals, beds.
patients, operations and cures as Hot
Springs. South Dakota, and that no
other city of equal size has so much
money invested for the care of the
sick. or has as good buildings, as
good chemical waters. such pure air
and such advantageous altitude.
Hot Springs. South Dakota, is the
natural health center for the two
Dakotas, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska,
Illinois and Wyoming. The country
tributary to it is inhabited by 10000
600 people.