SHM #198 Steamboat Springs Traditional Cache
RoadRunner: This cache has been under the weather for quite some time. If you get the opportunity to fix the issue at hand, please contact me through my profile (with the GC####) and I will be happy look at it for unarchiving.
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SHM #198 Steamboat Springs
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Most of these locations have a cache so I figured we should encourage people to stop and read this sign. You should only attempt this cache from the northbound lanes on SR 395.
These natural hot springs are notable for their curative qualities. They were nationally acclaimed by President Ulysses S. Grant when he visited them in 1879. Early emigrants so named them because of their puffing and blowing. Located in 1860 (by Felix Monet), a hospital, with adjacent bathhouses, was subsequently added by a Doctor Ellis (1861- 1862). The Comstock mining activities and the coming of the Virginia and Truckee Railroad in 1871 caused Steamboat to become a terminal. Here materials for the silver mines were transferred to freight wagons for the steep haul to Virginia City. The completion of the tracks abolished the need for a junction, but its resort popularity was to reach its peak with the Bonanza Days. To its "fine hotel, commodious dance-hall and elegant bar, came the legendary silver kings, politicos, gamblers and new chroniclers, escorting the lovely ladies of stage and opera house."
With time attendance waned; fires destroyed the luxurious buildings, but the therapeutic waters remained, not only for health seekers, but for conditioning athletes--even producing mineral muds, sought by cosmeticians and race horse owners.
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