GREGSON HOT SPRINGS. / An Interesting Letter from Butte's Health-Giving Resort.

# Transcription — The Butte Weekly Miner, 1886-06-19, p.3 **Source**: The Butte Weekly Miner (Butte, Montana), Saturday 19 June 1886, p.3. **Status**: Complete. OCR cleaned against the page image. --- **GREGSON HOT SPRINGS.** *An Interesting Letter from Butte's Health-Giving Resort.* GREGSON SPRINGS, June 14. — Every person in Montana has heard of Gregson Springs, and not a few have realized their great medical and curative qualities. While these Springs are known to many, there are few know that their management has undergone a complete change. Prior to May 30 affairs were controlled by Eli Gregson and Patrick Murphy, but since that time they have been leased to Isaac Stoner and Milo French, both of Butte City. Since these gentlemen have taken charge of affairs they have spared neither time nor means in arranging everything in first-class style. Among some of the improvements made is an electric lantern placed upon a high pole immediately in front of the office. This greatly-needed improvement is due to the enterprise and skill of Mr. Stoner. Mr. French has made the place still more inviting by establishing an immense library of choice literature, from a dime novel to Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. Mrs. Stoner reigns in the parlors, and has them furnished to suit the most fastidious, and is ready to welcome and receive guests with the greatest of politeness and generosity. Moses Chung Sung has charge of the cooking department. Mose comes from the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, and has all eatables prepared in elegant order. Persons not wishing to bathe would do well to come here and grow corpulent by indulging in the luxuries of the table. Miss May Wilson, formerly head waitress at the Windsor Hotel, Denver, is the present waitress, and for celerity and promptness in waiting upon the table her equal cannot be found in the dining halls of Montana. Col. Frank Smith has charge of the bath rooms, and is ever ready and willing to assist patients to and from the bath rooms. Mr. Smith is a very clever and kind old gentleman, and his sole delight is to lift prostrated forms in and out of the bath tubs. The saloon, with its paraphernalia, presents a beautiful appearance, and is very inviting to the thirsty. Mr. Adams, the bartender, is certainly master of the art of mixing drinks. Mr. Stoner drives to Stuart and meets all trains, to convey to the Springs those wishing baths. He does not meet you with a mace, shot-gun or revolver, as he did while Marshal of Butte, but with smiles and pleasant words; and when he arrives at the Springs he doesn't deliver you into the hands of Judge French for the imposition of a fine for some offense, but to be treated with the greatest of hospitality. It would be useless for anyone to try to give all the merits to be found in the water at these Springs. In olden times there were a few believed that somewhere on this earth was a fountain of eternal youth; but this was generally regarded as a superstition, and it was not until the nineteenth century that this so-called superstition was established as a fact by the discovery of these Springs. The general exclamation of all who bathe at Gregson's in expectancy of a cure for disease is "Eureka!" B.