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Show SWINGING ' ROUND THE CIRCLE. 373 others iron, soda and salt mixed. The best tonic is from the Octa-gon Spring, containing about equal parts of iron and soda, with slight admixture of other elements. Invalids insist that the first drink does them good, and that they improve every day they use it. On me its chief effect was to create a marvelous appetite. The Ninety- per-cent Spring, which Gentiles also call the Anti- polygamy Spring, is most heavily charged of all. Of the solid contents, ninety per cent, is pure soda ; the rest some mineral or salt which has strange effects on the male human. A few quarts of it will destroy the strongest fuith in the necessity for polygamy. This lasts but a few days, however. Hooper's Spring is the largest and perhaps the greatest curiosity. It is a rod wide, and presents the appearance of an immense^ caldron boiling furiously; but the water is very cool, and rather pleasant to the taste. The vale near by is covered with heavy grass, which lines the spring and hangs into the water; on all sides rise the majestic mountains, and from the pool a stream six feet wide and a foot deep flows into Soda Creek. The water contains nothing but soda, and all of that it will hold in solution. Mixed with sugar of lemons it makes a drink equal to the best from a patent fountain. Near by, " Wm. H. Hooper, late Mormon delegate in Congress, has a summer residence. The elevation of the valley is some 6,500 feet above sea- level, and the climate in August about like that of October in the States. Farther up the vale may be seen the Formation Springs, where the dripping chemicals have molded a thousand fan-ciful shapes ; and down near the river is Steamboat Spring, from which the water bursts forth at brief intervals with a loud " cough," like the " scape " of a slowly moving distant steam- boat. In a score of places in the bed of the river are springs emitting water loaded with various minerals and gases, from which the bright bubbles play upon the surface. A little way up the river are sulphur springs, and over the mountain eastward is a wooded region abounding in game. The vale itself, some ten miles square, seems set apart by nature as a region of curiosities. The only inhabitants are a few Morrisite Mormons, the remnants of some two hundred taken there by General Connor in 1863 ; and the few Americans who hold an interest with Mr. Hooper in the location. The only hotel is a rambling log- cabin, and all surroundings are rural and primitive in the extreme. But when the narrow- guage road is completed there from Ogden, I fancy this place will drop the prefix " future," and become at least the Sara-toga of Utah and Idaho. From my Idaho jaunt I returned to the Union Pacific, and late in |