Identifier: overrangetogolde00wood (find matches)
Title: Over the range to the Golden Gate : a complete tourist's guide to Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, California, Oregon, Puget Sound and the great North-west
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Wood, Stanley
Subjects: West (U.S.) -- Guidebooks Pacific States -- Guidebooks
Publisher: Chicago : R.R. Donnelley & Sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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e situated in Archuleta County,twenty-eight miles northwest of Amargo, thenearest railway station, on the New Mexicoextension of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad.These Springs lie upon the northern bank ofthe San Juan River, at an altitude of seventhousand feet, and in a situation combiningnumerous advantages and attractions. To thenorth are the peaks of the San Juan range, eastand west are the grassy plains dotted with immense pines and far to thesouth the undulating prairie stretches into New Mexico. With such anenvironment, the Pagosa Springs must ere long gain the celebrity to whichtheir medicinal qualities undoubtedly entitle them. The Indians havinglong been aware of the healing powers of these great medicine waters,and have, until recently, jealously guarded their possession. It is not sur-prising that these children of the wilderness, who find relief from distress Pagosa Springs. The Big Medicine ofthe Indians. HOT SPRINGS, Health and PleasureResort. Elevation, 7,108 feet.
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iuai CASTLE OF THE CUFF DWELLERS, MANCOS CANON, COLORADO. 120 OVER THE RANGE. mainly from the medications of Nature, should deplore the loss of these power-ful thermal waters. Within a basin seventy feet long and fifty feet wide,formed from its own alkaline deposits, which are twenty or thirty feet thick,the water bubbles up at a temperature of 153 Fahrenheit. There are fourother springs in the immediate locality, their similarity to the main source,as shown by analysis, suggesting a common origin. Upon a cold morningthe steam which rises from these different springs can be seen at a distanceof several miles. These purgative, alkaline waters, with the large excess ofsulphate of soda, so much increased in medicinal virtue by the degreeof temperature, would seem to designate Pagosa as the Bethesda forsufferers from calculus disorders, gravel with uric diathesis, rheumatismand skin diseases, when alterative and depleting treatment is indicated.New bath houses are being erected, and the t

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