Newhard, S. F. The following data is extracted from History of
the Pacific Northwest, Oregon and Washington, 1889. S.F.
NEWHARD. - At the southern end of the beautiful Grande Ronde
valley, on the line of the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company,
and at the foot of a high, bald hill, is situated Hot Lake, - or
White Sulphur Lake. This is a circular body of water of about
two and a half acres, with an average depth of three feet, and
is fed by two boiling springs, which appear near together at the
southern edge where the water is deepest. These springs are in
shape of a basin twenty feet across and ten feet deep; and the
water coming up perfectly clear form the bottom is the best
agent that has been found for allaying pain and curing all the
ills that the human family is heir to. In one of these springs
the temperature reaches an average of from one hundred and
seventy-five to one hundred and eighty degrees. Chemical
analyses show it to contain free sulphureted hydrogen gas,
carbonate and sulphate of calcium, su