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Title: The great Northwest : a guide-book and itinerary for the use of tourists and travellers over the lines of the Northern Pacific Railroad, the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company and the Oregon and California Railroad : containing descriptions of states, territories, cities, towns, and places along the routes of these allied systems of transportation, and embracing facts relating to the history, resources, population, products, and natural features of the great Northwest
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Winser, Henry Jacob, 1823-1896
Subjects: Northern Pacific Railroad Company Oregon Railway and Navigation Company Oregon and California Railroad
Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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cold, is palatable, many who had used it whileunder treatment being regularly supplied with it by express, ordering it bythe cask. The surrounding geological formations indicate that the springshave been flowing for many centuries. A chemical analysis shows sulphurto be the predominating constituent, but the water also contains magnesia,arsenic, iodine and lime. The soil near Hunters Springs is highly productive, being enrichedwith gypsum and other strong mineral fertilizers. Everything is producedin the gardens of this section that is cultivated in the States of Ohio, In-diana and Illinois. It is one of the best grazing localities in the Yellow-stone Valley, the whole face of the country being heavily grassed. Back in the bluffs, within easy walking distance of Hunters Springs,there are still many antelope, while hares, ducks, geese and other smallgame abound in the vicinity. Deer are occasionally jumped up in thegroves in the Yellowstone, near the Springs; and it is seldom that the
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Montana Division. 179 sportsman walks far along its banks without having the opportunity towing a goose or duck. Elk are numerous in the mountains a few miles out.Few rivers are more thronged with trout than the Yellowstone. Theangler must be unskillful indeed, who fails to capture a handsome stringin a couple of hours fishing. The largest trout will weigh fully threepounds. Good coal has been found within two miles of Hunters Springs;but the adjacent country has been only superficially prospected for minerals.Springdale Station is about three miles from this place, and there is tele-phonic communication between the two points. Mails arrive and departdaily. Hacks are at the station on the arrival of every train to take tour-ists and invalids to the springs. There are distinct bath-houses for the welland the sick, for male and female, and some of the tubs or tanks arelarge and deep enough for plunging and swimming. Visitors who prefervapor baths are also accommodated; the medicated vap

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