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Volume 3 (1858-1859) (592 pages)
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Page: of 592
SCENES IN THE VALLEYS AND MOUNTAINS OF CALIFORNIA. 485
SUTTER’S BUTTES, NEAR MARYSVILLE.
Indians sometimes set large portions of
the surface of the mountains on fire;
which, when the breeze is fresh and the
night is dark, and the lurid flames leap
and curl, and sway, now to this side, and
now to that, the spectacle presented is
magnificent beyond the power of language
to express.
The “Sulphur mountain,” at the foot
of which is the spring and hotel, seen in
the foreground of Mr. Rankin’s sketch on
the 484th page, is a well known local landmark, some six miles in a northwesterly
direction from Benicia, Its bold, craggy
top is in perfect contrast to the gently
rolling hills that surround it. The waters of the spring which gush out at its
pase have long been known to the Indians
and native Californians in this vicinity,
for their medicinal properties. Judging
from the numerous beds of shells to be
found there—doubtless deposited by the
Indians, who must have been fond of bivalves—it seems to have been a favorite
place of resort. Be,this as it may, the
springs—which are slightly tepid, and
of which there are two, but a few feet
from each other—are highly impregnated
with sulphur, soda, and other minerals ;
and valuable as a remedial agent in some
bodily ailments. The springs were rediscovered and taken up by Milton
Brockman, in 1855, and who, with others,
built the present commodious hotel. If
the proprietors had the taste and would
take the trouble to beautify the grounds
around, and then keep the hotel as it
ought to be kept—which it certainly is
not, now—it would become a fashionable
place of resort, and very convenient to
invalids from a distance.
Between the Sacramento and Feather
rivers, about twelve miles west of Marysville, are “Sutter’s Buttes,” or, as they
are.sometimes: called, the ‘Marysville
Buttes.” (The former, we think, should