Eau Claire
a city and county-seat of Eau Claire co., Wis., at the mouth of the Eau Claire river and the head of navigation of the Chippewa river, and on the Chicago and Northwestern , Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, and several other railroads; 85 miles E. of St. Paul. It is the commercial center for northwestern Wisconsin and the outlet of the Chippewa lumber district, with extensive water power. It has a large extentrade in lumber. There are sive manufactures of iron and linen goods, furniture, machinery, paper, steel, sashes and doors, and shoes. The city is noted as a summer resort, and has electric railroads and street lights, water works, public library and high school, Sacred Heart Hospital, National and savings banks, and daily and weekly newspapers. Pop. (1910) 18,310; (1920 ) 20,880.
EAUX BONNES (ō bon), a fashionable watering-place of France, in the department of Basses-Pyrénées, 20 miles S. S. E. of Oloron. It stands in a narrow gorge surrounded by rocks. Eaux Bonnes is much frequented for its hot sulphurous springs, used for bathing. . sulphurous springs , Their temperature does not exceed 91° F. There is also a cold spring here used for drinking. The springs are said to be very valuable for their power of checking incipient consumption, and of curing various affections of the lungs and chest.