THE MINERAL SPRINGS OF LAKE 



COUNTY 



AKE COUNTY, having an average altitude of fifteen hundred feet 

 above sea-level, and inclosing within its boundaries the broad and 

 beautiful Clear Lake, is peculiarly a region of mineral springs. It 

 has long been a favorite and beneficial resort for invalids, the purity 

 of its mountain air having in a large measure contributed to the 

 restoration of health of many sufferers from lung, throat, and pulmonary 

 roubles. 



The springs in the vicinity of Lower Lake are Adams, Bonanza, How- 

 ird, and Seigler. 



Adams Springs are situated in the pine woods, about nine miles from 

 .ower Lake, and is a very favorite resort. There are four springs, the 

 raters of which are refreshing, cool, pleasant to drink, and of great medic- 

 inal virtue. 



Bonanza Springs, between Howard and Siegler Springs, about six 

 miles from Lower Lake, are strongly recommended and favored by many 

 visitors during the season. 



Howard Springs are at the southern extremity of Siegler Valley, six 

 miles from Lower Lake. By drinking and bathing in the waters of these 

 springs (forty-two in variety) the following complaints have been cured: 

 Dropsy, rheumatism, catarrh, dyspepsia, dysentery, and chills and fever. 

 These springs embrace in variety hot and cold iron, hot and cold magnesia, 

 potassium, borax, alum, sodium, sulphur, silica, and sparkling cold soda 

 water. The baths are a special feature of these springs. 



Seigler Springs, a most popular resort, are situated at the northern end 

 of Seigler Valley, five miles from Lower Lake. These springs are at an 

 elevation of 2,450 feet, and embrace magnesia, arsenic, iron, borax, and 

 soda water. There is in connection a large swimming tank, where guests 

 can disport themselves during the hot weather; also one of the finest stone 

 dining-rooms in the county, thirty by eighty feet. A course of these baths 

 is strongly recommended by the medical fraternity for the cure of all 

 stomach troubles, rheumatism, gout, malaria, and bronchial affections. 



In the economy of nature the distribution of its good things has given 

 to Highland Springs a distinction which happily places it without a peer 

 as a resort. Many resorts have become famous through the virtues of a 

 single mineral spring. Highland has thirty! Not thirty of one kind, but 

 thirty having each its special characteristics and value as a specific in the 

 cure of a certain class of ailments. 



Bartlett Springs, with its enormous flow of life-giving waters, is one 

 of the wonders of the State, and its climate and surroundings are not sur- 

 passed at any resort in America. Situated in a mountain valley, at an 

 altitude of 2,375 feet — just high enough to obtain the benefits of elevation 

 and the ozone of the mountains, without the deleterious effects of the 

 higher altitudes, it has a tonic, yet mild dry climate, the pure bracing air 

 adding to the remedial effects of the mineral waters. 



The worshiper at Nature's shrine, the lover of grand and varied scenery, 

 will find all that can be desired at Anderson Springs. The perennial moun- 

 tain streams that softly murmur past the cottages, the bright water sliding 

 over mossy banks and beds of pebbles, breaking into showers of sparkling 

 diamonds; the caves, cascades and waterfalls; the cool, leafy dells; the 

 cozy nooks and commanding outlooks; the conical-shaped hills, covered 

 with evergreen trees the profound silence and solitude of the forest, where 

 one can commune with one's inmost self, and where one might almost 

 expect to surprise Pan and his pipes — all, in the glistening moonlight or 

 brighter rays of old Sol, make a picture that only the pen of a Thoreau 

 could describe, or the pencil of a Bierstadt display. 



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