GEUDA SPRINGS.

 

Arkansas City Traveler, June 30, 1880.

Drs. Allen and Arnold, late of Salt City, have left for other climes. These gentlemen sold out their interest in the drug store to F. L. Davis, who is now running the same. Mr. Davis is well known, and may rest assured that his many friends will not fail to call upon him when sick, or visiting the far-famed Geuda Springs.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 14, 1880.

Go to your druggist for Geuda Springs water.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 14, 1880.

The Geuda Springs water is now delivered in town regularly twice a week, and is being extensively consumed by our citizens.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 14, 1880.

Mr. Berkey, of Salt City, was in town last Friday. He purchased the counters and shelves in Mantor’s former store room for his store at the famed Geuda Springs.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 14, 1880.

We understand that a certain bath house in Winfield, claim­ing solely to use the famous Geuda Springs water for bathing purposes, has had its supplies shut down in consequence of the fact that only one load of water has been consumed by it in the past two months. While the proprietors are willing that all persons desirous of giving the water a fair show shall have the same in unlimited quantities, yet they are decidedly opposed to encouraging any such fraud as the above, which not only works an injury to the public using their baths, but will ultimately bring discredit upon the Springs, whose waters, as thousands upon thousands can testify from their own experience, possess such wonderful health-imparting and curative powers.

REPORT FROM “B.” - SALT CITY.]

Arkansas City Traveler, July 14, 1880.

                                                       FROM SALT CITY.

                                                    Salt City, July 10, 1880.

ED. TRAVELER: There is quite a stir in our little city. Notestine has rented the Salt City Hotel to Royal of this place, he having got the Hunnewell fever. J. C. Mills has rented the Travelers’ Home to F. L. Davis, who will minister to the wants of the traveling public, and will furnish private rooms to those visiting the Geuda Springs for health.

William Resch, our blacksmith, is putting up a new dwelling house, having rented his former residence. [Sometimes “Rish” is shown as name of blacksmith. MAW]

We have been having good rains, and our corn is looking well. The farmers anticipate a good yield.

Mineral water is being shipped to surrounding cities for the convenience of parties that are busy and cannot visit the Springs.

Berkey will soon occupy his new store room in the stone building.

Newcomers are making their appearance daily, and without an exception are pleased with the country. Bolton can’t be beat.

Health is generally good, and the physicians are grumbling about hard times. B.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 14, 1880.

The Geuda Springs water is daily becoming better and more favorably known, and it will not be long ere its wonderful health-giving properties are heralded throughout the land, bringing hosts of visitors and health seekers to our county and dispensing the priceless boon of health without money and without price. Arrangements have been made by the proprietors of the Springs for supplying the town with this water, and the same will be kept for sale by our druggists, either by the gallon or on draught, from this time forth, thus placing within the reach of all a bona fide specific for “all the ills that flesh is heir to.”

Arkansas City Traveler, July 21, 1880.

George Russell now brings the Geuda Springs water from Salt City. He makes two trips each week, and all who wish may obtain it fresh from the drug stores at this place.

[GEUDA SPRINGS.]

Arkansas City Traveler, July 28, 1880. Front Page.

                                                        GEUDA SPRINGS.

Geuda is a Ponca word, meaning healing waters. The springs, eight in number, and all different, are near Salt City, in Sumner County, Kansas. The nearest railroad is Arkansas City, about eight miles southeast of the Springs, although they are within a circle formed through Arkansas City, Winfield, Oxford, Welling­ton, and Hunnewell, all railroad towns. The proprietors, Messrs. Newman and Mitchell, of Arkansas City, have erected a commodious and tasteful bath house at the Springs, and the place is begin­ning to be quite a resort for the ailing. Some remarkable cures of catarrh, rheumatism, and cutaneous diseases are related. There are always camps of invalids in the vicinity. When the analysis is completed, the Commonwealth will probably have more to relate. Enough now, the place is certain to become famous and fashionable. Commonwealth.

Arkansas City Traveler, August 4, 1880.

Mrs. Farrar and Mrs. Searing are rusticating at the Geuda Springs near Salt City, this week, testing the medicinal quali­ties of salt waters.

Arkansas City Traveler, August 4, 1880.

We are informed that Rudolph Hoffmaster has a melon that weighs over 150 pounds, and is still growing. This is only another illustration of the wonderful powers of the Geuda Springs, and should anyone have doubts as to the truth of this statement they only have to visit the bath house and see this “boss melon” for themselves.

Winfield Courier, August 5, 1880.

We hear a great deal of nonsense about Hot Springs, Eureka Springs, and other springs in the distance, while we have the best spring we know of right at our doors. We refer to the Geuda Springs near Salt City just across the Arkansas.

Arkansas City Traveler, August 11, 1880.

Last Thursday evening we enjoyed the hospitality of Rudolph Hoffmaster at the Geuda Springs bath house, near Salt City. These Springs are visited daily by large numbers of people, and no better man could be chosen to look after the comfort of the wayfarers than our friend Rudolph. He is all accommodation, and the soul of hospitality. Parties wishing to board at the Springs will find it most agreeable to put up with Rudolph and his amiable wife, who set as good a table as any hotel in the county.

Arkansas City Traveler, August 18, 1880.

Stacy Matlack and family took in the Geuda Springs last Sunday.

Arkansas City Traveler, September 1, 1880.

The Arkansas City TRAVELER has a report of a watermelon weighing 150 pounds that is still growing. The construction of this item may be somewhat ambiguous, but its meaning, we trust, is fully obvious. Emporia News.

You are mistaken in the kind of melon, Brother News. This isn’t a watermelon, but a William Melon, a jolly, whole-souled fellow, who can be seen at the Geuda Springs bath house at any time.

Arkansas City Traveler, September 15, 1880.

Miss Arnspiger, who had the misfortune to severely injure her knee-cap some time ago, has been testing the virtue of the Geuda Springs for the last three weeks, and now expresses her belief that in a few weeks she will be able to walk without the aid of crutches. In addition to the medicinal qualities of these waters, she has enjoyed the kindly hospitality and care of Rudolph Hoffmaster and lady, which cannot fail of eventually effecting a radical cure.

Arkansas City Traveler, November 10, 1880.

Our genial friend, Rudolph Hoffmaster, has once more taken up his abode in our city after a summer spent at the Geuda Springs. He has taken charge of Terrill & Ferguson’s livery stable on Fifth avenue.

Arkansas City Traveler, April 20, 1881.

We are under obligations to Hon. C. R. Mitchell, one of the proprietors of the Geuda Springs, for complimentary tickets to their elegant baths, now completed and in good order at the above Springs. These waters have undeniably great medical virtues which we shall take much pleasure in testing in our own proper person.

                                                        GEUDA SPRINGS.

Arkansas City Traveler, May 25, 1881.

The Sumner Co. Press has the following in reference to the famous “Geuda Springs,” situated on the line between Sumner and Cowley counties, some five miles west of Arkansas City. It will doubtless prove interesting, as the most prominent man in the company mentioned is that of our fellow townsman, Mr. Jas. Hill, the engineer and primary worker on our canal enterprise.

“Recently, parties at Arkansas City proposed to conduct the brine through pipes to that point, and engage extensively in the manufacture of salt by the inexpensive process of solar evapora­tion. This scheme, had it been successful, would have taken from Sumner County the benefits to be derived from this great natural resource, and built up in an adjoining county, manufacturing interests at her expense.

“To prevent such an undesirable consummation, the people of Salt City and vicinity have, as above stated, made arrangements by which these waters are to be utilized in the interest of our own county and people.

“To this end they have entered into a contract with James Hill & Co., by the terms of which the latter agrees to open up, develop, and utilize the entire product of brine flowing from the springs. To accomplish this desirable end, the patriotic people of Walton Township have agreed to take two thousand dollars in stock in the enterprise; or, more properly speaking, they have agreed to loan to Messrs. Hill & Co. that amount, to be repaid in salt at the rate of one dollar per sack of one hundred and forty pounds each. This is an enterprise in the success of which every loyal citizen of Sumner County is very properly interested; and we feel assured that the efforts of our Walton Township friends to develop these springs and establish a valuable industry, will meet with the heartiest sympathy and encouragement from every other portion of the county.”

Arkansas City Traveler, June 15, 1881.

The salt boom at the Geuda Springs, summer resort, is progressing finely. A large building for storing the manufac­tured article is already up, and some one hundred or more vats to be used in the solar evaporation are about completed, and will be ready to put up by the end of this week. Success; the work is in good hands.

Arkansas City Traveler, June 22, 1881.

The Commonwealth of June 16th, has quite an article upon the manifold attractions and advantages of Arkansas City and the Geuda Springs. We would fain copy, but space forbids.

[FROM THE WELLINGTONIAN.]

Arkansas City Traveler, July 6, 1881.

Will A. Leonard, formerly an editor and joint proprietor of the Sumner County Democrat, arrived in this city the latter part of this week, from Eureka Springs. He says, in his judgment, Geuda Springs, in this county, are fully equal to the former.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 20, 1881.

Will Gray is running a feed stable in connection with the Geuda Springs bath-house.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 27, 1881.

We call attention in this issue to the new “ad” of the Geuda Springs Co., setting forth the advantages to be gained by the use of their justly celebrated Mineral waters. The many cures effected and the immense amount of benefit conferred upon suffering humanity by a liberal use of this health giving water has been demonstrated in our midst for a number of years past, and the time has now come when we can confidently recommend them from the actual experience of many of our citizens. We understand that the building of a hotel and other conveniences in connection with the bath house will shortly be commenced, and when completed, Geuda Springs will become one of the most widely known and largely patronized health resorts of the great West. We will give a more full description of these springs in our next issue.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 27, 1881.

                                                           BATH HOUSE

                                                                      AT

                                             GEUDA MINERAL SPRINGS!

                                         The Best Mineral Water That Flows!

                                           These Springs are all situated near

                                                         SALT CITY, KS.,

seven and one-half miles northwest of Arkansas City. They are seven in number within a circle of 25 feet, and contain seven different kinds of Mineral Water. We have fitted up a first-class

                                                              Bath House,

and are prepared to give baths at nominal prices that are better than any Turkish Bath. They are a sure cure for all Female complaints, diseases of the skin, Rheumatism, Sciatica, Catarrh, Diabetes, Diseases of Liver and Kidneys, Erysipelas and Dyspep­sia, and are the best known remedy to tone up the digestive organs.

We mean just what we say, and to prove it, we will enter into a written contract to cure any of the above named diseases—no cure, no pay—and we will pay the board of invalids in case they are not benefitted by use of the water. A large number of persons are being cured every week by the use of these waters. Go and see for yourselves. For further particulars call on or address, GEUDA SPRINGS CO., ARKANSAS CITY, KANSAS.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 27, 1881.

Our Arkansas City friends are agitating the scheme of bringing brine from Salt City to the terminus through pipes and carrying on the evaporating industry at that point. We understand that the practicability of so doing has been demonstrated, and we are satisfied it would be a good thing for the latter place in furnishing employment to a considerable number of people. We take it the saving on freight on the manufactured article by rail instead of wagon would repay the cost of the plant in a short time. Success to the enterprise. A similar scheme has just been put in operation at Sweet Springs, Missouri, where the water is brought five miles through pipes, and dis­charges 200 gallons per minute. Cost of pipes, etc.: $17,000. Telegram.

GEUDA MINERAL SPRINGS.]

Arkansas City Traveler, August 3, 1881.

                                             GEUDA MINERAL SPRINGS.

The people of Cowley, Sumner, and adjoining counties are just wakening up to the fact that the “Geuda Mineral Springs,” near Salt City, Kansas, are fast becoming quite a popular health resort. The history of these springs is, that the s. w. 1/4 of Sec. 6, R. 34, Tp. 3, on the west line of Cowley County, was purchased of the government by a Mr. Walpole when the Osage lands first came into market, supposing it to be quite valuable on account of a large salt marsh and some very clear water springs that were on the land, since which time the land has passed through several hands.

The quarter section opposite this tract was at about the same time purchased by other parties for the famous salt spring on that tract, and for over two years salt was manufactured there, but on account of the vats being constructed of inferior lumber, and because there was no transportation for the salt produced, the manufacture was abandoned until this summer, when James Hill & Co. got a ten year’s lease of the land and have commenced to manufacture again, and the salt produced is of the very best quality, equal to any salt we have ever seen, and it is claimed that the water produces 1-3/4 pounds to the gallon, being equal to the great Syracuse salt well, at Syracuse, New York, heretofore claimed to be the strongest salt water in the world.

Messrs. Hill & Co. are under contract to manufacture 500,000 pounds of this salt the coming year, and at least 1,000,000 per year for the balance of the term of their lease.

As the water is almost inexhaustible, the prospects for an extensive salt manufactory appears to be good.

The clear water springs on the other tract were, for several years, supposed to be of no particular value, as the water in most of the springs had a very strong taste of mineral, and, to a person unaccustomed to drinking mineral water, was very disagree­able to taste.

Robert Mills, Esq., however, an old resident of Salt City, was seriously afflicted with the rheumatism, and, having tried about everything else, concluded to try the water of these springs, and in a short time all symptoms of rheumatism disappeared.

At about the same time, or soon after, others began to use the water for different diseases, and almost invari­ably found relief. The people in the near neighborhood soon had a great deal of faith in the curative properties of the water, but it was not publicly known or generally used until Messrs. Hackney & McDon­ald, of Winfield, Kansas, purchased the land, and Judge McDonald, who was very seriously afflicted with eruptions on his face, which he had been unable to get cured, concluded to try the use of his own medicine, and to his surprise, he was cured up by using the waters for a very short time by bathing his face.

Then Dr. James Allen, who had been at most of the watering places in the United States for his health and finding no relief (he being afflicted very badly with diabetes, and also catarrh—so much so, in fact, that he was unable to even walk), came to try the benefits of these waters, and in a few month’s time was entirely cured.

The news spread until the people generally in the counties of Cowley, Sumner, and some of the adjoining coun­ties, would after­ward, when afflicted, go to Salt City for their health; and there being no accommodations whatever at the springs, they were compelled to camp out.

During the summer and fall of 1879 there were often 8 or 10 tents to be seen near the springs, occupied by persons in search of health.

Messrs. Hackney & McDonald, being attorneys with a very lucrative practice, were not in a situation to improve the springs and sold the same to Messrs. Newman & Mitchell, of our town, for $4,000 cash, and in a short time, probably the best bath house in the State was erected near the springs, and during the summer and fall of 1880, on Saturdays and Sundays, from one to three hundred persons would visit the springs; generally going out of curiosity, but now it has become so popular a place for health that it is impossible to accommodate all who go.

The springs, so far as we are able to learn, have never yet failed to cure ulcerations and other diseases of the uterus, rheumatism, skin and blood diseases, dyspepsia, diabetes, ca­tarrh, and diseases of the liver, kidneys, and digestive organs in general, and are especially effective in female diseases, rheumatism, and affections of the skin and blood.

We have, heretofore, always been skeptical about cures of such magnitude as claimed here, “but seeing is believing,” and we have personally known of at least fifty persons who have been undoubtedly cured by the use of these waters, and we are told that at least five hundred persons have been cured, and we do not doubt it in the least.

Most of our people who have been talking of an expensive trip to Hot Springs, Saratoga, or Colorado, are now going to Geuda Springs. The springs themselves are a natural curiosity. There are seven of them, and they each contain a different kind of mineral, and are within a circle of twenty-five feet in diameter, and it does not require a chemical analysis to detect the difference, as it is readily distinguished by the taste. There are two of these within eight feet of each other that taste as different as does common rainwater and vinegar. It is well worth a trip to anyone who has never seen them to make the trip for that purpose alone.

The ancients supposed that such springs that were of a healing nature, were manipulated by spirits of ghosts—Bethesda, Siloam, and others are instances of such belief. Modern scien­tists, however, have, by chemical analyses, discovered that the curative properties of such springs consists in the different kinds of minerals contained in the waters, and the minerals found in this state are undoubtedly natures purest remedies.

A qualitative analysis of the Geuda Springs shows that they contain the bicarbonates of iron, soda, magnesia, and calcium; sulphates of ammonia and magnesia; chlorides of sodium and potassium; iodide of sodium, bromide of potassium, sulphur and silica, and are strongly charged with carbonic gas.

The name “Geuda” is taken from the Indian name “Ge-u-da,” meaning healing, and, although not euphonious, is very appropri­ate. We say this because we have personally tested many of the mineral springs of this country and Europe, and have never known any, in our opinion, to equal their healing and curative proper­ties. The letter “G” in this name has the hard sound, as in the word “get.”

We are informed that a joint stock company is about to be formed, called “Geuda Springs Co.,” and that it is the intention to build a new hotel, and make other improvements which are greatly needed, as not more than half the people, who now want to go there, can be accommodated with boarding. If we mistake not, by the time next spring opens, Salt City and Geuda Springs will experience a boom, such as it never before thought of, and all she will need is a railroad, connecting her with the commercial world, which in time will be built. A narrow gauge road connect­ing it with our town can easily be built if taken hold of right, and thus be a great benefit to both places.

There is also a large quantity of excellent salt water, or more properly brine, there running to waste, which, if here, might just as well as not be manufactured into salt. We see no good reason why pipes should not be laid and this water conveyed here in the near future. By this means it could be utilized not only to the benefit of our town, but to Cowley County, and the adjacent counties. We believe there is some hostility to this enterprise, but if the people in the neighborhood of these springs cannot manufacture it themselves, it is certainly a dog in the manger policy to object to others doing so, especially when they would be equally benefitted by the undertaking.

Arkansas City Traveler, August 3, 1881.

Mrs. Parmenter is now in town, having returned from Geuda Springs, where she has been staying for her health.

Arkansas City Traveler, August 3, 1881.

Mrs. Haywood, Mrs. Newman, Mrs. Gooch, and Mrs. Searing started yesterday for Geuda Springs, where they will probably remain one week, and perhaps longer.

Arkansas City Traveler, August 10, 1881.

                                                       SALT CITY ITEMS.

                                           SALT CITY, AUGUST 7TH, 1881.

Editor Traveler:

Dear Sir: We are still right side up with care. There is quite a crowd in town today—comprising citizens of Wellington, Winfield, and Wichita, besides a large delegation from the Terminus, who came over to take a bath to rouse their systems from the nervous prostration caused by the excessive heat.

Salt City wants a $10,000 [? $19,000 ?] hotel to accommodate those who are daily visiting Geuda Springs for their health.

The following is a list of the visitors at the Geuda Springs Bath House for the week ending August 7, 1881:

A. A. Jackson and family, Seeley.

A. M. Sherp, Kansas City, Mo.

A. E. Kelley and lady, Cowley County.

B. C. Swarts, Arkansas City, Kansas.

M. Stanton, Arkansas City, Kansas.

C. R. Mitchell, Arkansas City, Kansas.

J. M. Hoyland, Cowley County.

H. O. Vigus, Wichita.

C. E. Decker, Eureka.

G. S. Simpson, Kansas City.

Mrs. M. E. Roberts, Kansas City.

J. E. Platter and family, Winfield.

Miss Ella Johnson, Winfield.

Miss Ida Steward, Winfield.

Miss S. W. Bowman, Winfield.

Mrs. E. H. Matlack, Arkansas City.

Miss Mary Matlack, Arkansas City.

Miss Lucy Walton, Arkansas City.

Mrs. A. A. Newman, Arkansas City.

Mrs. W. Gooch, Arkansas City.

Mrs. R. C. Haywood, Arkansas City.

Mrs. J. H. Searing, Arkansas City.

J. H. Folks, Wellington.

____ Blodgett and family, Wellington.

Mrs. Parmenter, Arkansas City.

F. C. Nomnsen, Winfield.

H. Endicott and wife, Arkansas City.

P. Endicott, Arkansas City.

Mrs. Tyner, Arkansas City.

G. C. Cleveland, Indiana.

L. Calvert, Indiana.

A. N. Maher, Wichita.

M. French, Wichita.

J. Kelly, Arkansas City.

Mrs. G. Miller, Salt City.

S. D. Palmer, Chicago.

N. Bowman, Chicago.

C. C. Harris, Winfield.

Mrs. G. L. Horning, Winfield.

Mrs. G. S. Loose, Winfield.

O. M. Reynolds and family, Winfield.

A. G. Wilson and family, Winfield.

A. W. Davis and wife, Winfield.

E. P. Young and wife, Winfield.

W. T. Grey and family, Winfield.

W. C. Grey and family, Winfield.

Miss Allen, Winfield.

Mrs. H. P. Farrar, Arkansas City.

Mrs. C. A. Howard, Arkansas City.

W. Wentworth, Sumner Co.

                                                                 GEUDA.

[GEUDA SPRINGS: ARTICLE BY WICHITA EAGLE.]

Arkansas City Traveler, August 24, 1881. Editorial Page.

                                                        GEUDA SPRINGS.

                                               Their Remarkable Properties.

Henry Vigus returned home last week from the Geuda Mineral Springs, forty miles below Wichita, in the Arkansas valley. We guess there remains no longer any doubts whatever touching the wonderful properties of these springs, which are right at home. Patients and medical men who have visited at the famous springs of the country, including Saratoga, of New York; White Sulphur, of Virginia; Eureka, of Arkansas; and many others, say that the springs in Sumner County, Kansas, excel them all. Judge Campbell tells us that a bath in these waters is like dipping in water connected with the poles of a strong battery. Vigus says while he was there a man crooked, bent, and helpless was carried to the springs, and that in two weeks he was sporting and dancing about on the prairies.

Geuda is an Indian name, and means healing. There are seven springs within a few yards of each other, no two of which taste alike, but the properties of which do not differ greatly. The famous salt springs are on the same plat of ground, and a large amount of salt will be manufactured there this summer by the lessees, Messrs. Hill & Co.

To many, the waters are at first very disagreeable to the taste, but that soon gives way to a positive liking. Judge Campbell and Henry Vigus both declare that for ulcerations, and other skin diseases, the waters are infallible, while others say that for diabetes, dyspepsia, rheumatism, female diseases, etc., they are equally infallible. There is as much difference in the taste of two of the springs as between rain water and vinegar, but a qualitative analysis of the Geuda springs shows that they contain the bi-carbonates of iron, soda, magnesia, and calcium; sulphates ammonia and magne­sia; chlorides of sodium and potassi­um; sulphur and silica, and are strongly charged with carbonic gas.

Henry Vigus came back after only two weeks, looking like a new man. Let us make up a party of dyspeptic preachers, diabetic lawyers, diableric editors, and malariac doctors, and armed with beds, tents, and cooking pots, go down and spend a week or two discussing prohibition and getting rid of our grunts. Wichita Eagle.

Arkansas City Traveler, August 24, 1881.

A hack line is now running between this place and Geuda Springs tri-weekly, but it will be run daily if the travel warrants it. Messrs. McIntire & Davenport are the proprietors.

Arkansas City Traveler, August 24, 1881.

HACK TO GEUDA SPRINGS, Wednesday and Saturdays of each week. Office at McIntire & Davenport’s Livery.

[GEUDA MINERAL SPRINGS.]

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 25, 1881 - Front Page.

                                   ARTICLE TAKEN FROM WICHITA EAGLE.

Henry Vigus returned home last week from the Geuda Mineral Springs, forty miles below Wichita in the Arkansas Valley. We guess there remains no longer any doubts whatever touching the wonderful properties of these springs, which are right at home. Patients and medical men who have visited all the famous springs of the country, including Saratoga, of New York; White Sulphur, of Virginia; Eureka, of Arkansas; and many others, say that the springs in Sumner County excel them all.

Judge Campbell tells us that a bath in these waters is like dipping in water connected by a strong battery. Vigus says while he was there, a man crooked, bent, and helpless, was carried to the springs and that inside of two weeks he was sporting and dancing about on the prairies.

Ge-u-da is an Indian name and means healing. There are seven springs within a few yards of each other, no two of which taste alike, but the properties of which do not differ greatly. The famous salt springs are on the same plat of ground and a large amount of salt will be manufactured there this summer by the lessees, Messrs. Hill & Co.

To many the waters are at first very disagreeable to the taste, but that soon gives place to a positive like. Judge Campbell and Henry Vigus both declared that for ulcerations, and other skin diseases, the water is infallible, while others say that for diabetes, dyspepsia, rheumatism, female diseases, etc., they are equally infallible. There is as much difference in the taste of two of the springs as between rain water and vinegar, but a qualitative analysis of the Geuda Springs shows that they contain bi-carbonates of iron, soda, magnesia, and calcium; sulphate ammonia, and magnesia, chlorides of sodium and potassi­um, sulphur and silica, and are strongly charged with carbonic gas.

Henry Vigus came back after only two weeks, looking like a new man. Let us make up a party of dyspeptic preachers, diabetic lawyers, diableric editors, and malariac doctors, and armed with beds, tents, and cooking pots, go down and spend a week or two discussing prohibition, and getting rid of our grunts.

Arkansas City Traveler, August 31, 1881.

                                                                 GEUDA.

Geuda Springs have had no Western boom yet to force them to notoriety; but, by their actual merits as curative agents in all bilious, skin, and chronic diseases, they are steadily and surely coming to the front rank among the mineral waters of the West. And the time is not far distant when, in the opinion of your humble servant, they will outrank them all.

Among the wonderful cures to be noted this season, I may mention a case of dropsy which had been given up by the attending physicians, several cases of rheumatism, and four or five cases of venereal diseases in their worst form, and scores of cases of debility, dyspepsia, liver complaint, etc., in all of their complicated forms, each giving away and decidedly benefitted and cured by the use of these waters alone.

Through the kindness of Mr. Berkey, one of Salt City’s best merchants, I learned that a fine hotel will soon be completed and located south of Mr. Berkey’s store building in Salt City, to be three stories high, and contain one hundred rooms. The means are to be furnished by a young lady now residing in Salt City, a guest of Mr. Berkey.

Salt City Correspondence to Wellington Press.

[GEUDA SPRINGS.]

Arkansas City Traveler, September 7, 1881.

NOTE: A PHOTOGRAPH APPEARS WITH CAPTION ABOVE IT STATING “GEUDA SPRINGS”; ABOVE BUILDING “IN SUNNY SOUTHERN KANSAS”.

BELOW PICTURE: “VIEW OF BATH HOUSE AS NOW COMPLETED.”

ARTICLE:

These springs are situated in the south-western part of Cowley County, Kansas, seven and one-half miles north-west of Arkansas City, are 7 in number, and contain 7 different kinds of Mineral Water; and neither does it require a chemical analysis to detect the difference, as it is readily distinguished by the taste. They are a sure cure for ULCERATIONS OF THE UTERUS AND FEMALE WEAKNESS, generally. Also RHEUMATISM, Diabetes, Sciatica, Catarrh, Diseases of the Skin, LIVER and KIDNEYS; Erysipelas and Dyspepsia, and are the best known remedy to tone up the digestive organs.

We have a first-class Bath House—baths are better than any Turkish Bath.

                                                           GUARANTEE.

To prove that we mean just what we say, we will enter into a WRITTEN CONTRACT TO CURE any of the diseases above named; no cure no pay, and will pay the board of invalids besides, in case they are not benefitted by using the waters.

                                                          TOPOGRAPHY.

The springs, themselves, are a NATURAL CURIOSITY, well worth a trip to see them.

We have an elegant SALT LAKE for boating, excellent roads for buggy-riding; splendid waters for fishing; plenty of game within a few hours ride, for hunting; the most beautiful climate in America, and the most beautiful country “God ever made.” We have implicit faith in this “Bonanza.” Come and see us.

                                                         TESTIMONIALS.

The following named persons have been cured of the ailments mentioned:

L. B. Thomas, Winfield, Ks.,                                        Rheumatism.

J. E. Searle, Winfield, Ks.,                                            Scrofulous sores.

J. Allen, Salt City, Ks.,                                     Diabetes and Catarrh.

H. T. Shivvers, Win., Ks.,                                             Rheumatism and Neu.

E. Mills, Salt City, Ks.,                                     Scrofulous and Rheu.

Mrs. L. Parmenter, Topeka, Ks.                                   Rheumatic enlargement of joints.

Mrs. Day, Wellington, Ks.                                            Ulcerated Stomach and Uterus.

We refer to the above persons by permission. We also refer to the following persons, some of who are now using these waters:

J. Kearsh, Winfield, Ks.,                                                           Dropsy.

H. Vigus, Wichita, Ks.,                                                 Sciatica.

Miss Annie Arnspiger, Cleardale, Ks.

Bettie Berkey, Salt City, Ks.,                                                    Erysipelas.

W. C. Crawford, Wellington, Ks.,                                            Paralysis.

J. M. Mahan, Wellington, Ks.,                                      Inflammatory Rheu.

Judge T. F. Blodgett, Wellington, Ks.,                           Liver Disease.

G. Darlington, Winfield, Ks.,                                                     Blood and Skin Dis.

                                                               HISTORY.

We have never yet failed to cure any of the diseases men­tioned in this circular, no matter of how long standing, and have effected at least 500 cures, 200 of which were of ladies afflict­ed with ulcerations, falling or weakness generally, 100 with Rheumatism, 100 with Skin and Blood Diseases, and 100 with the other diseases mentioned. That such are the facts, we refer to the persons above named, and also the people of Cowley and Sumner counties generally, most of whom are acquainted with these Springs. Write and see what they say. The Springs are named from the Indian word Ge-u-da, meaning healing.

                                                              ANALYSIS.

A qualitative analysis of these waters shows that they contain the

Bi-carbonate of                                                Soda,

     “                                                                  Iron,

     “                                                                  Calcium,

Sulphates of                                                      Ammonia,

Sulphates of                                                      Magnesia,

Chlorides of                                                      Sodium,

Chlorides of                                                      Potassium,

Iodide of                                                          Sodium,

Bromide of                                           Potassium,

Sulphur and Silica, and are charged strongly with Carbonic acid gas.

                                THEY ARE NATURE’S PUREST REMEDIES.

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                                          HOW TO OBTAIN THE WATERS.

The Express Companies have extended their lines from Winfield to Salt City, and will ship the waters to any point desired. Parties desiring waters address H. A. Newcomb, Winfield, Kansas. For further particulars address the

GEUDA SPRINGS CO.,

Arkansas City, Cowley Co., Kansas,

or: Salt City, Sumner Co., Kansas.

NEXT COMES ANOTHER PHOTOGRAPH WITH CAPTION UNDER IT STATING “VIEW OF SALT LAKE TAKEN FROM PHOTO.”

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Arkansas City Traveler, September 7, 1881.

Mrs. Cyphers and Mrs. Basset have been spending several days in the salubrious vicinity of Salt City and the Geuda Springs.

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Arkansas City Traveler, September 14, 1881.

                                                           Geuda Springs.

The Geuda mineral springs, which are just coming into prominent notoriety, are situated in the southwestern part of Cowley County, near Salt City. They were known by the Osage and other Indians, and used by them as a medicine before any white people had settled there, and their traditions are that big medicines, or in common parlance, their pow-wows, were held there every third moon far back in the dim past. They take their name from the Indian word Ge-u-da, which means healing. There are seven of the springs, all very near together, and each of them appear to have a different taste.

They were not known by white people as mineral springs until about 1870, when by accident, they were tried by Robert Mills, who was cured of scrofula and rheumatism. There being but few settlers in that section at the time, no particular attention was called to it for some time afterward.

The water being very bright and sparkling, however, and a road passing close by, many persons, of course, took a drink of them, and pronounced them almost invariably, unfit to drink, as the taste was not agreeable, and they had the effect of a cathartic.

Hackney and McDonald, of our town, purchased the land in 1878. The springs were soon afterward tried by many persons for skin diseases, and we believe invariably with success. They were soon after purchased by Newman & Mitchell, of Arkansas City, Kansas, who paid $4,000 for them, and in the spring of 1881 built a large bath house, and they have since been tried for all the diseases imaginable, almost, and prove to have remarkable effects in most uterine troubles, liver, kidney, and skin diseases as well as rheumatism. Up to the present time only a qualitative analysis of the waters has been made.

ANALYSIS GIVEN...SAME AS THAT USED IN