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possess medicinal properties of a very useful nature. 

 Their temperature, which is exactly blood heat, 

 ninety-eight degrees, never varies, summer or winter. 

 If all I heard concerning the curative properties of 

 these springs is true, they are said to be specially 

 efficacious in cases of chronic rheumatism and syphilis, 

 -invalids will soon be resorting to them from all 

 parts of the United States, if not from Europe. 

 Already the world-renowned Colonel William Cody 

 has started a small township in their vicinity named 

 after its founder " Cody City," whilst a small house of 

 accommodation and a plank-built bathroom, heated 

 with a stove in winter, have been put up at the Springs 

 themselves. 



Both the North and South Forks of the Stinking 

 Water River, clear cold mountain streams of purest 

 water, are full of delicious trout. They contain 

 greyling, too, which I thought very good eating, 

 though locally they are not much esteemed. The 

 trout are not able to get more than two-thirds of the 

 way up the South Fork, owing to the fact that they 

 cannot pass a certain small waterfall ; but whenever we 

 were camped near the water below this fall we could 

 always secure a good dish of trout for breakfast or 

 dinner. They were uneducated fish, which is what 

 I like, and when on the feed would rise readily at 

 almost any kind of fly. They were of a fair size, too, 

 on the average, and we caught many weighing from 

 one pound and a half to two pounds. Once I caught 



