Show hot springs among the sagebrush I 1 nested flailed myself to tell you yon of 0 my visit to the locality of one of the tb above mentioned curious lot hot springs known I 1 as is steamboat springs lying eleven miles south of 0 reno on the lino line of the virginia city and Truc keea river toad load or all R it li it familiarly dubbed the very croo crooked ked and terribly dough I 1 acab road OR on alie we way Y we pass a dame miles I 1 loce i 1 u 11 ng through a canyon item its be I 1 r r to convey lumber to the its ou on on an air line from begin baglo ning to end the distance la Is eight miles the course thus taking tailing up ap seven uiles rilles io in twists aud ail turns ltd its height from tho the ground la is about seventy leet feet it I 1 Is shaped like the ietter V suit la 18 made of two inich inch plank nailed together gelhar to in tits thit 1 shape being about two anil ami ono one aeilt feet act in width at the be tot top to tie be statistical let me repeat the fact I 1 tat that hit in its construction there were esad twenty eight tons of naila near all iron break is 4 placed in u the trough slanting bleating to one side aide so that where the timber comes each piece is ili turned toward w ard the side bide and the men at tue the break by a dexterous use of the crow crew bar tend send the wood bot boin tiling to the ground gro urill it required airen only from minutes to halt half an hour for go the timber to a the entire length of the flume and in one lay day five dye hundred coords bordi maybe may be sent bent down the witter power is if furnished by two ote one over a thousand thou BEd feet lung long and six hund hundred roil leet feet in width watching the wood cowe down the tha llama I 1 found annd it impossible to conceive oon ceiva of men making mailing the trip in safety but 11 J ramsdell in the new york am tells of the ride lie ha took in tho the g grant r ert nevada flume in company with J ames 0 fair J a alood and wo hereford all owners of the flume they lat at la in a little boat built I 1 ibo he shop a of tho the huma glins and latting into it the entire trip consumed but thirty live five minu M tei and part of the time they traveled luter faster than any railroad train ever went after the foolhardy fool hardy attempt CM over not one of the participants was anxious for a repetition of the perilous pleasure plott Buro As you near the station which consists of a hotel tog ilog fifty guests a few cottages end and a commodious structure with numerous numero aa bath rooms and a large swimming bath ono one goes it at the right hand band of the track wreaths of vapor ascending from apparently patently ly smooth chalk white conical mouna tao A 1 nester nearer inspection shows that there are many a fringo in two ilia dia finot aloot groups which however I 1 io wever are eon connected with each other the fitio ures vary from a narrow crack is loot foot in width through which the water degrees fahrenheit gur up oil sometimes some timeA spouting an aa high as a ton ten feet sulphur abounds in ili the water for it smells like the tight right end of a lucifer match but no reliable roli alila analysis of it has baa ever been made in absence of which I 1 can only state what people say about the ilia water this if not so atillo still and reliable Is ig vastly loss dry reading it i Is claimed that the water la is a certain cure for rheumatism and ilia dis eases of the blood to have a remark ble effect in paralytic cases to curo cure fevers of all kinds kindi and to have a good offset effect on consumptives ives when the descos discos Is ia not too fax far advanced at it a little distance from the miia main group on 1 is a spring of water clear ba bi cryma tul and it na scalding oal ding hot which keedo oily ocly A pin of aalt and A dusting of popper pepper to convert it into a very palatable dish c of I 1 chicken broth many a one has swallowed a bowlful of it with klon and then le learned Arneil with indignant Bur that the soun soup wag wats cooked in fa the reeking kitchen of his bis mal maj eity down deep in a thedeth the earth find and wa val entirely tire ly innocent of any contact with even t the he shadow of a torre torro atrial chicken chick po having boiled egg gg in three minutes in the bubbling babbling waters thrown in slicks nil nd pebbles only to see ice them rejected gain again with angry webe we be took ourselves oan elvea to the bath house which to is supplied auppl iod with water anti and steam it from OM the springs by means meana of pipes pipea we peeped into the huge laundry where the water is ili always 11 boiling hot ready tor fo r ube nite into the great tank of watoru re Potatoes may be boiled by iss pending them in A sack in the escal ing steam and into the large both bath about thirty feet anturo lah compartment of the bat anth h bouso la 1 again divided into throe three parts first eta an ordinary bath room with all then thea a dark room about two feet square tor for the cold shower and yet beyond a still smaller room or box for the steam bath which aside from the mineral properties of the water Is in efficacious near the depot libonao ii a large dancing ball illuminated at by br means of chinese lant lanterns erDS by day it ft is used for rings bit bil hard playing etc ate by visitors vi just juat south of tho the springs runo the outlet of lk like h loam boat creek whose banks are isla ja with the tender green of willows grass and falfa cor darlington barling toa hawkeye Haw Ilaw keyo koye |