234 University Geological Survey of Kansas. 
Eagle Springs (Highland Station), 
In the extreme eastern part of Doniphan county, surrounded 
on three sides by a bend of the Missouri river, is a peculiar sec- 
tion of country covered with high, rounded elevations, separated 
by deep valleys. The hills become higher in the vicinity 
of the river on the east, forming the so-called bluffs. These 
are well wooded, and it is interesting to note that there is here 
a greater variety of trees than is found in other sections of 
the state. Much of this timber has been recently cut, however, 
to give place to orchards which thrive so well in this section. 
The apple and peach especially seem to be well adapted to this 
soil, which is composed largely of gravel and clay, and it is 
even asserted by some that apples grown upon these bluffs have 
a better flavor than those grown upon prairie soil. From the 
bluffs on the east a very extensive view of the windings of the 
Missouri river may be obtained; this view extends from St. 
Joseph, Mo., northward for perhaps forty miles, and to the 
south and west the high prairie uplands are visible. This sec- 
tion of Doniphan county is drained by Wolf river, which flows 
northward and empties into the Missouri near White Cloud. 
Among the hills east of Wolf river, a short distance from the 
Burlington & Missouri River railroad (Highland Station), are 
situated Eagle Springs, which were developed in 1882. 
IMPROVEMENTS. 
There is here a hotel having a capacity for forty guests, which 
is owned and managed by Pryor Plank, a bath-house, two cot- 
tages, and a fine artificial lake well stocked with fish. Dur- 
ing the summer a resident physician may be usually found at 
the Eagle Springs hotel. The two most important springs are 
the upper spring, which has a flow of not over thirty gallons 
per hour, and the lower spring, which is quite near the bath- 
house, and has a flow of 300 gallons per hour and a temperature 
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