SPRINGS OF SAN BERNARDINO 



COUNTY 



THE Arrowhead Hot Springs are the hottest curative springs known, 

 and among the most abundant. They pour forth from thirty dif- 

 ferent fissures in the solid granite in the side of the Sierra Madre 

 Mountains, at a temperature of 196 degrees and at the rate of half 

 a million gallons a day. The altitude at which they burst forth is 

 about two thousand feet above sea-level and one thousand feet above the 

 floor of the beautiful San Bernardino Valley, which stretches at their feet. 

 They have had a wide reputation ever since the coming of the white 

 man, and thousands of years before his arrival. They owe their name to a 

 remarkable freak of nature — viz.: A blaze on the mountain-side in the 

 shape of a gigantic arrowhead, a quarter of a mile in length and seven 

 and a half acres in extent, pointing towards the hottest spring. This was 

 used as a landmark by the Indians, as a guide to the place of resort and 

 healing. According to their legend, it was burned upon the mountain-side 

 by the fall of a fiery arrow from heaven, showing where the tribes could 

 be healed. This reputation has been abundantly sustained ever since the 

 coming of the white man, and every old settler can tell of the cures 

 worked by the waters of the Arrowhead in rheumatism, lumbago, dys- 

 pepsia, neurasthenia, renal and cardiac diseases. 



It is ideally situated for accessibility, and as a base from which to 

 explore the surrounding country. Only ten and fourteen miles away, re- 

 spectively, are Redlands and Riverside, vaunted as the most beautiful 

 towns of the world — ^the home of the orange, magnolia, and palm. An 

 electric line connects with San Bernardino, and from there less than two 

 hours' ride to Los Angeles, five to San Diego, and the same to Catalina 

 Island. 



SPRINGS OF TEHAMA COUNTY 



IN the northern citrus belt of California, where the famous Washington 

 navel orange and the Smyrna fig vie with each other in ripening 

 under a glorious and ever-welcome sunshine, rises an ancient crater 

 whose fires went out many thousands of years ago. Within this huge 



punch-bowl, at an altitude of a thousand feet above sea-level, are 

 located the Tuscan Springs and hotel. 



The springs are nine miles east from Red Bluff, in Tehama County, 

 and are easily reached from all points. A daily stage runs from Red Bluff 

 to the springs, and on the spot there are telegraph, telephone, and post- 

 office facilities. 



The sixty-thousand-dollar hotel rises on a slight eminence within the 

 crater. The interior of the tavern is not excelled by that of any hotel or 

 resort in Northern California. All accommodations that are to be had in 

 metropolitan cities are provided here. All important periodicals are on file, 

 mail service daily, telephone communication to any part of the State, and 

 every convenience that makes for the comfort of guests. 



This group of springs has attained a national reputation for the cura- 

 tive powers of its mineral waters in a wide range of human diseases. No 

 other springs show a like chemical combination. In ages gone by, when 

 the Sacramento Valley was inhabited by the red man, they brought their 

 sick and emaciated here to bathe and to drink of these waters, and the 

 memory of man runneth not back to the time when Tuscan water was 

 not used and regarded as a specific for the diseases of humanity. 



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