"Scene in park and pleasure grounds at Oak Knoll, Napa Valley, California. - Residence of R. B. Woodward." from 1877 travel guide
English: Identifier: pacifictouristwi00will (find matches) Title: The Pacific tourist : Williams' illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes across the continent, all pleasure resorts and places of most noted scenery in the far West, also of all cities, towns, villages, U.S. Forts, springs, lakes, mountains, routes of summer travel, best localities for hunting, fishing, sporting, and enjoyment, with all needful information for the pleasure traveler, miner, settler, or business man : a complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific Railroads and all points of business or pleasure travel to California, Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, Montana, the mines and mining of the territories, the lands of the Pacific Coast, the wonders of the Rocky Mountains, the scenery of the Sierra Nevadas, the Colorado mountains, the big trees, the geysers, the Yosemite, and the Yellowstone Year: 1877 (1870s) Authors: Williams, Henry T Subjects: Union Pacific Railroad Company Central Pacific Railroad Company Publisher: New York : H.T. Williams Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: miles north from San Fran-cisco. Their waters are much used, both fordrinking and bathing, with good repute for cura-tive results. What are called mud baths aretaken at Calistoga and Paso Robles, and manyother places. There is nothing so muddy aboutthem as one would fancy from the name, exceptat Paso Robles. They are simply baths takenin the spring itself just as it bubbles out of theground, holding all its peculiar virtues unim-paired. At Paso Robles the mud baths are aliteral plunging in thick mud. The waters ofthese springs, and of many others, must be usedwhile retaining their original heat, and cannotbe bottled to any purpose. The San Jose WarmSprings are only two hours from the city, but arenot open to tourists. There are three noted springs which are re-sorted to by health and pleasure seekers, whosewaters are bottled in large quantities. Theseare the Napa Soda Springs, near Napa, and thePacific Congress Springs, in the Coast Range, 10miles from Santa Clara. They have been long Text Appearing After Image: EWE &&€IFW POW&ISP. 273 known, and are very freely used on this coast,especially during the summer months. Theyare bottled by machinery, so as to carry theirnatural volume of gas, and are highly recom-mended by the medical faculty. The last namedis on account of its natural attractions and itsaccessibility, being only 4 hours ride from SanFrancisco, a very favorite summer retreat fromthe city. The water is said to resemble veryclosely that of the far-famed Saratoga Springs,after which it is named, and contains a largerproportion of mineral contents than either of theothers. The last of these, not yet named, is thatof the Litton Seltzer Springs, near Ilealdsburg,not long introduced to the public, but comingfast into favor, and claimed, not only to equal,but even excel the far-famed Congress water. The analysis of these waters gives the follow-ing results : NAPA SODA. Bicarbonate Soda,Carbonate Magnesia,Carbonate Lime, . .Chloride Sodium, . .Sub-Carbon Iron, . .Sulphate So Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. Added by Commons editor: the following text was inadvertently stripped from the original image. written below it is: "scene in park and pleasure grounds at Oak Knoll, Napa Valley, California. - Residence of R. B. Woodward."