This 1916 photo looking north shows the hotel and bridge across the Rio Grande about two miles south of the Rio Hondo. Dobson House is to the right of the center of the horizon. The bridge was built, according to Max Evans, by Albert Miller and Gerson Gusdorf, bought by John Dunn for $1500, and washed away soon after. The present John Dunn Bridge is another mile to the north of the area shown in the photograph. 

The remains of the hotel still exist. Every year visitors pile rocks around the hot pools. Arthur Manby claimed that the springs were the magic springs of the Aztecs where they began their journey to the south.