The land of sunshine; a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico . miles from the City of Las Vegas, is a group of hotsprings, whose w^aters resemble those at the famous hotsprings at Teplitz, Austria, although its two chief active con-stituents, carbonate and sulphate of sodium, recall the watersof Carlsbad. The hottest of the springs is 144 degrees Fahren-heit. The mineral elements vary from the saline to the lithiaand sulphur. The w^aters are conveyed by pipes into the bathhouses and natatorium, and stimulate the digestive organsinto activity, being especial
The land of sunshine; a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico . miles from the City of Las Vegas, is a group of hotsprings, whose w^aters resemble those at the famous hotsprings at Teplitz, Austria, although its two chief active con-stituents, carbonate and sulphate of sodium, recall the watersof Carlsbad. The hottest of the springs is 144 degrees Fahren-heit. The mineral elements vary from the saline to the lithiaand sulphur. The w^aters are conveyed by pipes into the bathhouses and natatorium, and stimulate the digestive organsinto activity, being especially potent in stomach disorders,intestinal troubles, liver complaints, kidney trouble, gout,diabetes and kindred ailments. The magnificent MontezumaHotel at the springs is to be reopened in 1905. The hot springsare reached from Las Vegas by electric railw^ay. Two groups of hot mineral springs are located in the Vallesmountains, fifty miles -west of Santa Fe, and accessible fromSanta Fe, Albuquerque and Espanola by good wagon altitude of the lower springs is 6,620 feet and of the higher. THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 121 group 0,740 feet. The waters of tlie largest of the lowersprings have a temperature of IBM degrees, running about fiftygallons per minute, with escaping carbonic acid gas and depo-sits of white carbonate of lime. There is also a spring of VA)degrees with free carbonic acid and red brown deposits; aspring of 110 degrees with sulphuretted hydrogen and waters of the other springs in the group range from 102to lOH degrees and carry sodium, lime and magnesia. Thesesprings are very efficacious in rheumatic complaints. Theupper group consists of forty-two springs, whose watersrange in temperature from 70 to 106 degrees. They flow fromcaves of carbonate of lime. The springs contain partsof sohds in 100 parts of water, mostly chloride of sodium andsulphate and carbonate of soda, lime and magnesia and i-esem-ble the famous springs of Marienbad, Europe. Bes
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