It issues from the base of a rocky ledge, where the ravine is about three hundred yards wide, and forms the head of a large brook.

Two small flouring mills are run during the entire year by the water from this spring.

The water is at all times clear, cold, and pure, and is said never to vary in quantity.
Along the stream fed by this spring, the Rebels had established a cantonment for the Army of Northern Arkansas, and erected houses capable of containing ten or twelve thousand men.

The cantonment was laid out with the regularity of a Western city.

The houses were constructed of sawed lumber, and provided with substantial brick chimneys.
Of course, this establishment was abandoned when the Rebel army retreated.