Coalville Times | 1901-03-22 | Page 6 | Uncle Sam's Bath-Houses

1 Uncle Sam's Bath-houses. Few persona know Hint tha United State government derives nn Incorrfo from aomo of tha largest bathing e-tabllsbmenta e-tabllsbmenta In America, If not In the world. Tho Hot Springs of Arkansas, which have been a rtsort for Invalids for many yeara, aro owned by Uncle Sam and he exact n payment of 130 a tub for tho uao of tho medicated waler Aa there aro S3) tubs, tho springs bring him an Income from that sourco of $10,020 a year. According to tradition tha Hot Springs ot Arkansas are the original fountain ot youth of Ponco de Lvoa and Do Soto. The Indian at Florida ' told them that It was toward tbe setting set-ting sun and they set out to find Itv ' There I every evidence In history anil , tradition that De Soto was there. The J earliest Indian legends bar aisoclatsd with them the Idea ot the curative vlr- I tues ot these waters. They surround every shadowed valley, mountain nook nnd rocky cavern with n halo of ro- I mance that makes the "Vale of Vapors" Va-pors" doubly Interesting