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Show 1 Some Wonderful Results From Drinking and Bathing in the Natural Waters. H SEVERAL OF THEM HAVE NO EQUAL IN WORLD Were Sanitariums Erected tlie State Would Become Great-est Great-est Resort in Country. The springs of Utah form an Important part of tlio natural resources nn well as the curiosities of tho State. When they have been thoroughly tested ns to tho nature of their content i;, tried out for the medicinal properties and properly classl-fled classl-fled they will torm nn Important chapter In the geology of the intcrmountaln rc- Willie Utah is classed as a soml-arld State and Dossesses large tracts of as typical desert ns can bo found on the globe, the oases arc here also. The oases arc tho products of the springs as are tho creeks from which waters are ob-talned ob-talned for irrigation Hie basis of the agrl-cultural agrl-cultural interest of tho country. Without theso springs .Hock raising, tho first and chief Industry, would bo impossible Medicinal Springs Without Number. Aside from tho springs that furnish clear and pure water, there are numerous springs of a different nature, curiosities In many ways, and which as the country grows older will increase In value from year to year as their (lualltlcs become bet-ter bet-ter known. 1 Beginning with t lie warm sulphur springs In the north ond of town and the hot springs with the same character of water, but of a much greater temperature, sltu-ated sltu-ated a mile or more farther north. It can be said of them that their value Is great-y great-y underestimated. A well-known real estate dealer statca that money could be made by bottling these waters and shipping them away to be used for medicinal purposes. Many people go to both of ihc.se places, ho states, (111 Jugs with the water and take It to their homes to drink and obtain the most beneficial results. H Many Are Inaccessible. The worst drawback to thes-j springs, he say si Is that they are so Inaccessible. They would be patronized more, ho thinks, if baths cost more and the water wae not free. In support of this he says 1 that less of the waters from the Manltou springs of Colorado are drank at the springs than arc shipped away. When suitable health resorts aro es-tabllshcd es-tabllshcd at cither or both of theso places their advantages will be better known and Hj more liberally patronized. The same conditions, he states, exist as Hj to the springs near Ogdcn and at Castllla springs, on the Rio Grande railroad, in Hj Spanish Fork canyon. Roosevelt Springs. Another valuable spring is the Roosc-velt Roosc-velt spring, situated some ten miles north-cast north-cast of Mllford, and belonging to a cor-poratldn cor-poratldn recently organized and of which P. B. McICean Is principal owner. Thin water is salt and comes from the ground at boiling heat and an It runs down the H canyon salt crystals of wonderful size and Hl beauty are formed. Many Wonderful Cures. At this resort, which is an old one rc-cctuly rc-cctuly revived, wonderful cures of Intlnm-matory Intlnm-matory rheumatism and other ailments have been effected. It Is expected that this place will become a mecca of noto for those afflicted and will bring tourists ftom a dlstanco In great numbers. A few miles farther northeast Black Rock on the Salt Lake Route, are springs of won-dcrful won-dcrful Mow and purity. About the Hot Fots. The "hot pots," near Kamas, are a foundation for another health report. Hero In miniature form is reproduced some of the curiosities of the Yellowstone park. The mud brought up by the hot water has become petrified and forms the banks for pool3 of all sizes and great depth. Tho water is hot and Is used for bathing with good results. Including tho mud bathu obtained from pools or pots where tho earth predominates over water. Novel Vats for Dipping Sheep. Near Malad. In Box Elder county, and in the Bear River Valley, are a scries of springs, the temperature of the water be-lng be-lng between warm and hot These springs Hj have been put to a novel use as vats for H dipping sheep. The water is already H heated and all that Is necessary Is to add the necessary chemicals 'and tho wants of B the herd aro provided Locomotive Springs. Probably the largest flow is found at the Locomotive springs, north of tho fl Great Sake Lake, between Promontory and Kelton, on the old line of the Souih-era Souih-era Pacific road. These springs are In a series; they are one of the heaviest feed-ers feed-ers of the lake and together would mako fl a river of no mean dimensions. These fl waters are .warm and brackish. Most Wonderful in World. H What Is believed to be tho most won- 1 derful springs In the world for their cura- 1 tlve properties by many who have visited H them and tested their virtue arc located H in the heart of the Great American Des- H crt. In tho Deep Creek country, and about H six miles from Fish Springs. In that H country, remote from doctors and drug H stores, there Is hut little sickness as tho H springs arc used for baths by the lnhabl- H tants for many miles around, Eival Hot Springs of Arkansas. Those well informed as to the worth of 1 these springs believe that in tlmo they will rival the Hot Springs of Arkansas. 1 Thcro Is a shortage of pure water there 1 and the waters are .surrounded with borax, salnratus, saltpeter and many H other Chemical combinations native to H that region. At these springs It Is said B that people go there on crutches and in H bandages and In a very short time they H come out from tho desert entirely cured H and healed. Fish Springs aro warm and 1 slightly brackish, but In this water ccr- H lain kinds of fish thrive and carp attain H a wonderful size. ElnnaJcas Have Healthy Waters. H At Skull valley in the same region, near H the Kanaka settlement, also are spring H used by the Kanakas extensively for H bathing, and theso people have little uso H ' for medicines. Springs of a similar nn- H turc. warm and slightly salt, aro found 1 near GranLsvllle on the Western Pacific H line, now being constructed. In Tooele County. H Tho Salt springs in Tooele county, near H the Nevada line form a system that H yields a wonderful flow. This vvnter Is H aliio warm and slightly brackish, mipport- H lng certain kinds of fish and forming H large marsh areas that arc Ideal places H for -wild ducks, which arc said to exist. H in number to uph an extent that tho B Bear river hunting grounds will evmitti- B ally become a side Issue. Hero thu ducka nest, hatch and winter, and they can bo found. It Is said, every day in the vcur H literally by the millions. H Idthia Springs at Deserot. H And last, .but not cuat In wonder and utility, are the Llthla springs at Deserct, H from which medicated waters are taken 1 and shipped to all parts of thu country, H and the popularity of which Increases With i their mori tgencral uao. |