Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-02
WEST VIRGINIA IS DOTTED
WITH MEDICINAL SPRINGS
Improved Highways Throughout Entire
State Make Health Waters Easily
Accessible to Motoring Parties.

lies IL miles East of Minton on the
Chesapeake g. Ohio Railroad ana Is
another popular member of the mineral
snrings group. Adequate hotel accom-
n7odations are offered, and the water
offers relief from kidney. liver ana
stomach ailments. The Pence Is
very attractive resort and the spring
water there is bottled ana Soio III
distant markets,
The salt sulphur springs at WEBSTER
SPRINGS. Webster County were diScoV-
cred by John f. Hall before the ClVll
War hut development of the springs was
slow until 1896 when the Webster
SPRINGS Hotel was built. The Springs
soon became so popular that the hotel
had to be enlarged in 1908 and for
number of years enjoyed great popu-
larity The hotel burned several years
ago hut is to be rebuilt on a modern
scale The lovely setting of Webster
Springs in the heart of the mountains
and the enjoyment at this time not only
of railroad accommodations via the
West Virginia Midland and Baltimore
& Ohio Railroads but also good reads
from Cowen promise return OF It's
former esteem as Summer and health
resort
Old Watering Place.
The Oldest of the watering places in
Monroe County is Old Sweet Springs
James Moss built the first house at
Sweet Springs about 1850 and the first
patent of land went to William Lewis,
a brother of Gen. Andrew Lewis, and
Thomas Lewis. Old Sweet Springs is
10 miles from Allegheny, station on
the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway near
the West Virginia. Virginia line. The
water there has temperature OF from
II 10 rs degrees and has been de-
Scribed as of value lin cases OF debility
and in many forms of dyspepsia and
functional diseases of the stomach and
bowels" Many visitors of note were
entertained at odd Sweet" long before
railroads were built into that section.
Salt Sulphur Springs is lacated on
Indian Greek, In Monroe County, ID
miles from Fort Springs on the Chesa-
peake 81 Ohio Railway. In addition to
the salt sulphur, there is an iodine
spring. a chalybeate and sweet sui
phur spring on this property.
Red Sulphur Springs is another Of
Monroe County'S watering resorts.
1t. too. is located on Indian Creek, II
miles from Lowell, on the Chesapeake
& Ohio Railway. The water here has
a temperature of 81 degrees and has
long been famous in the treatment of
various diseases of the lungs. It is OF
the milder type of sulphur water, con-
tanning phosphorus and peculiar sui
phur compound, gelatinous substance
which Is the distinctive feature of the
water.
Capon Springs is located in narrow
glen on the east side Of Cacapon River
in Hampshire County. II was discov-
cred in ITS. The Indians knew the
river as "kakapon- Se-pe," signifying
river of medicine waters" years be-
fore the white man trod the valley.
Three-fourths of a century ago it was
one of the famed watering places of the
country and the waters from this spring
have been Endorsed by some Of the most
learned medical authorities Of the Ma
ton.
Shannondale Springs are located five
miles east Of Charles Town, in Jefferson
County. They are three in number,
red sulphur, blue sulphur and chalyb-
cate. A century ago the Shannondale
Springs were a resort which accommo-
dated visitors who went there to cure
certain forms of dyspepsia and nervous
diseases. The temperature Of the water
is So degrees.
Green and Blue sulphur.
Green Sulphur Springs. in Summers
County, contain sulphur sodium and
bicarbonateS. Blue Sulphur Springs, in
Greenbrier County, are equally we'll
known Another Blue Sulphur Springs
is in Cabell County, near Barboursville.
Many of the other counties in the
Allegheny Mountains have mineral
springs, but the greater development Of
these properties has been In Greenbrier,
Monroe and Summers Counties, which
contain many other springs in addition
to those enumerated.
With these mineral springs made ac-
cessible by the completion Of the hard
roads through this territory, thousands
of tourists will be drawn into the State
not only for the purpose Of drinking
the waters for their medicinal value,
but also attracted by the matchless
mountain scenery with which these re-
sorts are surrounded.
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During the calendar year 1927 the