RECENTLY DISCOVERED HOT SPRINGS IN ARKANSAS 



A. H. PURDUE 



University of Arkansas 



Though the hot springs at the city of Hot Springs, Garland 

 County, Arkansas, probably have been known since the time of 

 De Soto, the existence of other thermal springs within the state 

 was not even surmised until February, 1908. At that time, a 

 man named J. M. Davis, who was then living in or near the town 



Fig. i. — Caddo Gap, from the south 



of Caddo Gap, Montgomery County, discovered other thermal 

 springs issuing from the bed of Caddo Creek in the gap where this 

 stream cuts through Caddo Mountain. This gap is 31 miles west, 

 and 10 miles south of Hot Springs. 



As the region about the gap is densely settled, as there has 

 for many years been a small town within a half mile of it, as it is 

 traversed by a wagon road, and as the stream at usual stage is 



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