The hot springs of Arkansas, as they are : a history and guide / by Charles Cutter.

  • Cutter, Charles, 1837-1912.
Date:
1875
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Credit: The hot springs of Arkansas, as they are : a history and guide / by Charles Cutter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Between the Hot Springs and Gulfer Creek, on the road to Magnet Cove, the rock is mostly reddish slate. Near the Fairchild's Mineral Spring the rock is a kind of quartz porphyry, amongst which a calc spar rock is also found. The so-called Sulphur Spring in the Magnet Cove, on the property of Andrew Mitchell, section 19, township 2 south, range 17 west, was also tested qualitatively at the fountain-head, and found to be an alka- line, saline water, similar in its properties to the Main Fairchild's Spring, but less strongly impregnated with alkalies. [This is a very fine spring, and contains more sulphuretted hydrogen and carbonic acid gas than any spring I have ever visited; the large globules bubble up to the surface of the water in such numbers that one could watch them with interest for hours. Some as large as silver dimes and five cent nickels, frequently as many as twenty or thirty at one time. They resembled beautiful opals more than anything elseT could think of.] Dr. Mitchell's Chalybeate Spring, on Stone Quarry Creek, was also tested, and the main constituents found to be: Bicarbonate of iron, Chloride of sodium (common salt), Bicarbonate of lime, Bicarbonate of magnesia, Sulphate of soda, Sulphate of magnesia, Subcarbonate of soda. A mineral water was also tested one mile south of Powers' stand, and was found to be likewise alkaline, saline water, with a trace of sulphuretted hydrogen, the principal constituents being: • Bicarbonate of lime, Sulphate of soda, Bicarbonate of magnesia, Chloride of sodium (common salt), Subcarbonate of soda, Sulphate of magnesia. This spring differs from the Mitchell Spring in containing less chloride of sodium. [On the farm of Dr. J. C. Holliman, near the bank of Magnet Cove Creek, is a valuable spring, though wholly neglected, the waters of which were analyzed by H. M. Keys, M. D., qualitatively, and found to contain : Carbonate of lime, Sulphate of lime, Carbonate of soda, Sulphate of soda, Carbonate of potash, Sulphate of potash, And are useful in anaemic conditions, being tonic^ antacid- and cor- rective.]