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THE LIBRARY
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THE UNIVERSITY
OF CALIFORNIA
EALTH-SEEKERS' SERIES No. 2.
New Mexico
Health
Resorts*.
EIGHTY-SIXTH THOUSAND.
SANTA FE PASSENGER DEPARTMENT,
JANUARY, 1902.
BANCftOPl
LIBRARY
Introduction.
TO sufferers from the various forms of
lung and throat diseases, New Mexico
offers climatic conditions of especial friend-
liness. Here are found a very dry and
aseptic air, a light atmospheric pressure,
maximum of sunshine and minimum of
cloud, slight variations in temperature, and
a porous, dry soil. This is the land of sun-
shine and blue skies. It is never uncomfort-
ably warm in summer, when one is shaded
from the sun's direct rays. There are no
discomforts of winter blizzards and freezing
winds; and the air has a crisp freshness.
The dryness is perpetual, not intermittent.
Naturally the invalid struggling with con-
sumption, bronchitis, asthma, etc., has a
better chance for recovery where external
conditions are helpful, not hurtful. In many
cases the chance becomes a certainty, and
rugged health succeeds chronic invalidism.
The paramount value of "climate cure" is
attested by extracts (appearing elsewhere
herein) from reports on that subject by prom-
inent European physicians. The special
argument for New Mexico as offering the
best available climate in this country is
presented by other practitioners.
The term New Mexico is a broad one, and
comprehends a variety of local conditions.
The northern section is higher, drier and
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colder than the southern; the mountain dis-
tricts and table-lands differ from the valley
regions, but the general characteristics are
the same — plenty of sunshine and pure, dry,
rarified air.
1 New Mexico extends southward nearly to
the thirty-first parallel, which is the northern
boundary of Florida. Its elevation above
the sea ranges from 4,000 to 7,000 feet, the
average being 5,600. This means a temper-
ature equivalent to that of the New England
coast, other things being equal, because
every 800 feet of elevation is climatically
equivalent to a degree of northerly latitude
at sea level. But other things are not equal.
As stated, New Mexico is a country of
sparse rainfall, and there is only a slight
humidity in the atmosphere. Fogs are un-
known. The result is an unusually equable
climate, little affected by summer heat o:
winter cold.
There are few days in the year when it
is unsafe for invalids to venture outdoors.
In summer, the sun's rays, while ardent, are
never harmful; in the shade and at night
the air is always cool. When winter comes,
though deep snow may cover the mountain
tops, it rarely falls on the lower levels, and
does not stay there long, but melts away
rapidly in the genial warmth of the sun.
Yet disagreeable rain and snow flurries
sometimes come, though not so frequent nor
so severe as in other less favored localities.
Visitors should not be disturbed by them.
It is impossible to live without some precip-
itation of moisture. Wait for the sun's long
and glorious reign to begin again, and you
will gladly stay indefinitely. Pine, pifion,
cedar and spruce trees grow abundantly in
the mountain districts, filling the air with
balsamic odors. There is no malaria; hay
fever is a stranger, and epidemics of acute
intestinal diseases never occur.
While New Mexico is pre-eminently a
resort for consumptives, it also attracts
those troubled 'with kidney and rheumatic
diseases. Physicians have come to recog-
nize of late years that certain forms of heart
disease are benefited by a change of climate
and altitude, and it is only in one or two
forms of organic lesion that it is inadvisable
to change to high altitude. Also the old
superstition that a great altitude will pre-
dispose a consumptive to hemorrhages has
been shown to be a fallacy except in excep-
tional cases, the effect of a high altitude
often being beneficial to cases in which
hemorrhages were among the incipient
symptoms. (Writer of this has been cured
of the symptoms of a heart lesion and hem-
orrhages by coming direct from eastern
Pennsylvania to Santa Fe three years ago.)
The term "health resorts" is not used
herein in a restricted sense. It indicates
any place where one's physical condition
may be bettered by baths and medical treat-
ment, or by merely being out in the open air,
engaged in hunting, fishing, riding, walking,
etc. The accommodations at each town
mentioned in the following pages are
plainly set forth, so that the reader may
know exactly what to expect in that
respect. To summarize: Sanatoriums and
other special facilities for' invalids are only
found all the year round at Las Vegas
Hot Springs, Las Vegas, Santa Fe, Ojo
Caliente, Las Cruces, Faywood Hot Springs
and El Paso. The others are either sum-
mer pleasure resorts, like Jemez Springs,
Sulphur Springs and El Porvenir, or they
are cities and villages, some of which pos-
sess certain business advantages, and all of
which have New Mexico's universal endow-
ment of pure mountain air.
The United States government has estab-
lished two important sanatoriums in New
Mexico, located at Ft. Bayard and Ft. Stanton
respectively, for the treatment of soldiers and
sailors suffering from diseases of the respira-
tory tract, thereby emphasizing the curative
properties of New Mexico's superb climate.
There are many seekers after health who
must make a living while they are getting
well. For their guidance a few pages are
devoted to data concerning the avocations
open to invalids, who can perform light
manual labor. This information will also
be of value to still another class, who, after
having been restored to good health by the
climate of New Mexico, must remain in that
region in order to avoid a relapse, and who
eventually find it necessary or desirable to
engage in business.
The attention of physicians who may not
have visited New Mexico is respectfully
invited to the expert medical testimony
which appears herein.
Invalids should be urged to go in the
early stages of disease. Marvelous cures
are effected by this climate, but absolute
miracles should not be expected.
Round-trip tickets at reduced rates are on
sale from Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City,
Denver and other principal cities, every day
in the year, to Las Vegas Hot Springs, and
during the winter tourist season (November
i to April 30), to Deming and El Paso.
For detailed information respecting ticket
rates, etc., address W. J. Black, G. P. A.,
A. T. & S. F. Ry., Topeka, Kan., and Chi-
cago, or any representative of the Santa Fe.
MAIN^BUSINESS. STREET OF ALBUQUERQUE
is
located in the RioGrandeval-
qucrquc* leyj on main line of A> T> & s>
F. Ry. at its junction with the Santa Fe
Pacific R. R. Altitude, 4,935 feet above sea
level. The city lies on the sunny slope of a
broad plain, and is amply protected against
sudden storms by high mountain ranges ten
miles to the east and fifty miles south. The
winters are generally open and bright, and
the atmosphere almost wholly devoid of
humidity. Average noon temperature for
the year varies from 55° in December, 53°
in January and 57° in February, to 82° in
June, 89° in July and 86° in August.
Albuquerque is divided into two sections,
the "old" and "new" — the ancient settle-
ment being close to the river, and the
modern portion quite a distance away. One
dates back to the Spanish invasion; the
other had its beginning with the advent of
the Santa Fe Railway. The new town has a
population of 10,000; prevailing nationality,
American. The old town contains 2,000
people, nearly all Mexicans. There are
eleven churches, one university, one college,
two academies, and several public schools.
Social advantages are numerous and all
prominent secret orders are represented in
Albuquerque. A commercial club owning a
magnificent $100,000 building is the nucleus
of a wide and beneficent hospitality, and
assists the business interests of the commun-
ity. A public sewer system, street-car lines,
water, gas and electric light plants, etc., are
additional proofs of civic advancement.
Although never extensively advertised as
a health resort, Albuquerque possesses valid
claims for being so considered. Here are
the three great essentials— pure air, pure
water and abundant sunshine; and there are
ample provisions for taking care of strangers.
Nearly three hundred persons can be com-
fortably accommodated in hotels, one thou-
sand in boarding houses and two hundred
in private families.
The hotel rates vary from 50 cents to $i
a day (European plan) and $1.50 to $2 a day
(American plan). Lodging houses charge
75 cents to $i a day. Prices at private
boarding houses range from $8 to $12 a
week.
Meals alone may be procured at first-class
restaurants and boarding houses for $4.50
and $7 a week, and nicely furnished rooms
rent for $8 to $15 by the month. If economy
is an object, and one is willing to put up
with fewer comforts, there are many places
where the cost of living is less than the
figures named.
A luxurious hotel for tourists, the Alva-
rado, to cost $100,000 is being erected at
Albuquerque and will be ready for occu-
pancy in February, 1902. It will be managed
by Mr. Fred Harvey, which is sufficient
assurance of high-class service. The archi-
tecture is of the old Spanish Mission style,
pleasing to the eye and well suited to the
climatic conditions. The erection of this
hotel assures adequate accommodations for
travelers.
Ten physicians, many of them specialists
in the treatment of lung and throat troubles,
and a number of competent nurses, make
this city their headquarters. At present
Albuquerque has no sanatorium. Those
needing the special treatment and care
only afforded in such institutions must look
elsewhere.
The Copote mineral Springs are twelve
miles from Albuquerque. Their sparkling
waters are highly esteemed as containing
valuable curative properties. They are
mild, laxative and diuretic, possessing
value in the cure of diseases of the liver and
kidneys, as well as for dyspepsia, chronic
rheumatism, and gout. A bottling estab-
lishment has for years been engaged in
putting up these waters in a convenient and
inexpensive form for home use and ship-
ment to consumers in the East. This is a
favorite place for summer visitors, and is a
pleasure rather than a health resort.
The Jctncz fiot Springs, in the beautiful
Jemez Mountains, are within forty-five miles
of Albuquerque, being connected therewith
by two stage lines, which make daily trips
during the summer months. These stages
leave Albuquerque in the morning, and
reach Jemez by evening; fare, $12 for round
trip. The Jemez Springs are located in San
Diego Canyon, 6,620 feet above the sea, sur-
rounded by pine forests and lofty moun-
tains. There are several groups of springs
here; those at Archeluta and two miles
farther north are most frequented. Board
and lodging at any of the three hotels costs
from $7 to $10 per week. Parties desiring
to camp out may hire tents at a moderate
rental. This is principally a summer resort.
The $Ulpl)Ur Springs are reached from
Albuquerque by taking the stage for Jemez
Hot Springs, and transferring to the stage
for the Sulphurs, a distance of twelve miles.
They are also reached by boarding the early
morning train at Albuquerque for Thornton,
and there taking the stage, which goes
to the Sulphurs through Bland and the
Cochiti mining district. The altitude here
THE RAIN DANCE AT COCHITI PUEBLO.
is 8,250 feet. The springs are in a beauti-
ful mountain valley, and consist of several
groups of geyser-like fountains, which are
continually bubbling and boiling. These
turbid pools have medicinal virtues that
are possessed by few springs in the world,
they being especially efficacious for all
diseases of the blood. Bath houses are
built over two of these groups of geysers, so
that the full benefit of the vapor, as well as
the mud baths, is obtained. Accommoda-
tions consist of a new hotel of fifteen rooms,
the old hotel now being used as an annex.
There are also several cottages that are for
rent during the summer, and excellent facil-
ities exist for camping parties, which gen-
erally constitute three-fourths of the summer
visitors.
Camp \VI)itC01tlb, eighteen miles from the
city, on the south slope of the Sandia Moun-
tains, with an elevation of 8,000 feet, is a
delightful and very popular summer resort.
There are a number of beautiful canyons in
these mountains, making pleasant places
for camping parties.
DEMING, in Luna County,
at the junction of the Atchi-
son, Topeka & Santa Fe and Southern
Pacific lines, contains a population of 2,000,
mostly Americans.
While particularly noted as a cattle ship-
ping point and a railroad junction point, law
and order prevail, and the social advantages
are excellent. This is evidenced by the
numerous church organizations, the various
secret societies and the fine graded school
system.
Opportunities for outdoor recreation are
unlimited. Splendid roads for riding or
driving; tennis courts abound, and bicycling
has many ardent devotees.
South of the city (a day's drive over
good country roads), is lake Palomas, the
only large body of water for miles around.
It is the resort of wild ducks, etc. North
of Deming in the mountains, the streams
abound in trout, and deer and wild turkey
are found in the same neighborhood.
Cattle round-ups and glimpses of life
among the miners afford further diversions.
The altitude of Deming is 4,315 feet; the
immediate vicinity is level, surrounded by
distant mountains.
Every winter numerous visitors arrive
from all parts of the country seeking a longer
lease of life. Many are cured and all bene-
fited.
Deming is the center of the sunshine
region of the southwest. Pecentage of sun-
shine for fall and winter months, 73.7 per
cent, as compared with 61.7 per cent at Den-
ver, 61.2 per cent at San Diego, and 42.3 per
cent at Cincinnati.
Average noon temperature: Spring, 70°;
summer, 90°; fall, 75°; winter 56°. A pleas-
ant breeze from the mountains tempers the
summer heat, and the nights are always cool.
The physicians here have made a special
study of lung and throat troubles. Invalids
are at present cared for in hotels, boarding
houses and private families.
The Union Depot Hotel (accommodating
thirty guests) is operated by Mr. Fred Har-
vey. Its airy rooms, broad verandas and
fine cuisine, render it a favorite stopping
place for both invalids and tourists; rates,
$3 per day; reasonable terms by week or
month quoted on application.
The cost of living is not exorbitant. An
economical family can get along nicely on
from $15 to $20 per month for provisions.
Rent is from $10 to $25 per month, the latter
securing the best houses in town and some
of them furnished. Board is from $20 to
$35 per month.
Concerning Deming, Drs. S. D. Swope
and Carl Hagen say:
"The climate is one of the best in the
world. The percentage of sunshine, 73.8
per cent, is the highest in the United States,
being nearest approached by San Diego,
Cal., and Denver, Colo., with 61 per cent
each.
"This region has a summer climate a
little cooler than the State of New York,
and a winter climate a few degrees warmer
than that of Charleston, S. C.
"Deming is fairly well sheltered from
winds, and has a most excellent water sup-
ply.
"Experience demonstrates that consump-
tives do well here. When properly man-
aged, they improve in strength and weight,
and often entirely recover."
STREET SCENE IN EL PASO. Bushong & Feldman,.Photo.
€1 P3$0* THE cit.y of E1 Paso> Texas»
(population nearly 20,000), sit-
uated in the lower Rio Grano> Valley, mid-
way between Kansas City and the City of
Mexico, is noted not only as a commercial
metropolis and railroad center, but as a
favored place for those who would escape
the inclemencies of a northern winter. The
altitude is 3,687 feet — high enough to be
bracing, and yet not so far above the sea as
to embarrass the heart's action.
The adjacent mountain ranges of Old and
New Mexico give variety and a rugged
beauty to the landscape. Mt. Franklin is
7,000 feet high. The latitude of El Paso is
the same as that of Savannah, Ga., with the
advantage of being higher above tide-water,
the inhabitants of the former place thus
escaping any of the debilitating effects that
may follow residence in a moister region.
El Paso was settled by the Spaniards in
1549. Since then it has been successively
under the sway of Mexico, the Republic of
Texas and the United States. The city is
built almost entirely of brick, possesses
waterworks and sewerage systems, paved
streets, electric lights and other evidences
of modern industrial and social develop-
ment, such as churches, kindergartens and
opera house.
The soil is sandy and very porous. Average
annual rainfall is eleven inches. It is true
that the summers are rather hot. One does
not go south in August to escape heat. Yel
the dry atmosphere makes the effect of the
heat less enervating than the thermometer
HOTEL DIEU SANATORIUM, EL PASO. BushonS & Feldman, Photo
would indicate; and no one suffers.
In winter the entire season is charming.
Clear days predominate, and merely to
be out of doors and breathe the pure
air is unalloyed pleasure. Persons suf-
fering from asthma, phthisis and bron-
chitis will find the climate of El Paso
very helpful. The annual death rate
averages only seven per thousand, as against
twenty-six in New York; and this is swelled
by the large numbers who come to El Paso
VIEW OF MT. FRANKLIN, EL PASO,
in an extremely advanced state of disease.
Sanitary regulations are rigidly enforced.
The city has several large hotels, such as
the Sheldon, Pierson, Lindell, Orndorff and
St. George, the rates varying from $2 to $4 per
day, on the American plan. A market abund-
antly supplies products of the temperate and
semi-tropical zones. Many places abound
where rooms — either with or without meals —
may be obtained in private families at very
reasonable rates. The cost of living is not
high, all things considered. In a social way
there is little left to be desired. Being on
the border of the Republic of Mexico, pleas-
ant excursions may be made at small ex-
pense to neighboring points of interest.
Juarez, the Mexican city (population 10,000),
which occupies the opposite bank of the
river, is wholly un-American in its customs
and architecture; and by the investment
of a dime for street-car fare one may, in a
lirnited sense, take a foreign tour.
Special attention is called to Hotel Dieu.
a sanatorium conducted by the Sisters of
Charity and located on the south side of the
city. This magnificent structure ranks with
the finest in the west, and is kept in first-
class condition. The building is solidly
constructed of brick and stone, and so ar-
ranged that all rooms have good light and
are well ventilated. Steam-heated apart-
ments and halls insure an even temperature
whenever there is a morning or evening
chill in the air. It is supplied with an ele-
vator. Private apartments, including
board, fire, light, and attendance, range in
price from $8 to $20 per week. Meals are
either served in the patient's room or in the
main dining hall, as desired. Sufferers
from contagious diseases are not admitted.
EL PASO SUBURBS. Bushong & Feldman, Photo.
£3$ LOCATED in the fertile Mesilla
>* Valley (the local name for that
WrilCvS* portion of the Rio Grande
Valley in this vicinity), with the magnificent
Organ Mountains forming an impressive
background, and the near-by Rio Grande
River giving a touch of silver to the browns
and reds and greens of the low lands, is the
attractive city of Las Cruces ("town of the
crosses") whose population of nearly 3,500
souls keeps in touch with the outer world
by means of the A. T. & S. F. Ry. Two
Protestant mission schools, a Catholic acad-
emy, public and private schools, the terri-
torial agricultural college and U. S. experi-
mental station combine to make Las Cruces
an educational center. It is a banking town ;
has Western Union and Postal telegraph
offices; long distance telephone connecting
with the lower Mesilla Valley towns, and
with El Paso, Texas; large mercantile estab-
lishments and well-stocked drug stores.
It is the residence of many professional
and literary persons.
The altitude of the city is 3,873 feet, and
of the Organ Mountains, twelve miles
distant, 8,949 feet. The climate is dry;
average annual rainfall for last twenty
years only eight inches. Mean maximum
temperature during the years 1892 to 1899
has been: For the three spring months,
76.37°; summer, 92.17°; fall, 78.02°; winter,
58.22°. During the same period the mean
minimum temperatures have been 40.65°,
60.26°, 40.86° and 22.94°, respectively. These
figures, which are furnished by the New
Mexico College of Agriculture, are accurate
and attest the remarkable equability of the
climate. There are only twenty-five cloudy
days in the year; in winter the average is
four cloudy days monthly. The remainder
are either clear or fair.
Sight-seers will be interested by drives to
"The Alameda," Mesilla Park, the agricul-
tural college farm, Van Patten's Camp, the
quaint old Mexican villages of Mesilla,
Tortugas and Dona Ana; also the Sacra-
mento and Organ mountains. Those fond
of field sports will find in the surrounding
country an abundance of quail, rabbits,
doves, ducks and geese.
Private boarding houses and cottages
can comfortably stow away as many as five
hundred persons, the rates therein varying
from $7 to $15 weekly. The local agent of
A. T. & S. F. Ry. at Las Cruces will take a
personal interest in assisting those who do
not go to hotels to find suitable quarters
elsewhere.
There are also three- resorts specially fit-
ted up for tourists — The Alameda (a ranch
resort open the entire year), about a mile
and a half from the depot, in the center of
an old Spanish hacienda, surrounded by
wide alfalfa meadows and shade trees, Van
Patten's Camp (summers only), in a shel-
tered mountain nook fifteen miles east of
and overlooking Las Cruces, and the Wood-
lawn Orchard Sanatorium, near Mesilla.
tl)e jfllattKda (W. E. Baker, Manager), com-
fortably accommodates thirty to forty
guests. Rooms are en suite, with southern
exposure ; they are of good size and
comfortably furnished; wide cement
porches afford opportunities for sun baths.
Everything about the place — the giant cot-
tonwoods, fields of alfalfa, fruit orchards and
flower gardens — suggests and promotes
VAN PATTEN'S RANCH, NEAR LAS CRUCES.
quiet and restfulness. The rates are $10
to $15 per week for room, board and fire.
Table liberally supplied with a variety of
eatables, and only the best of packing-house
meats are used. Pure Jersey milk and
cream are provided. Riding and driving
horses, and vehicles, may be hired at reason-
able rates. The Alameda furnishes for its
guests facilities to indulge in croquet, quoits,
bicycling, hunting and various indoor games.
If notice of expected arrival is given, guests
will be met at the railway station; arrange-
ments for accommodations should be made
in advance.
The Alameda may be unqualifiedly recom-
mended as affording not only the satisfactory
service of a first-class hotel, but also many
home comforts and attentions. One is agree-
ably surprised to find such a fine table and
agreeable surroundings. The presence of
this admirably conducted suburban hotel
is a very potent reason for wintering at
Las Cruces.
At Van patUn'S resort (altitude 6,000 feet)
there is a substantial stone house where as
many as twenty-five persons may be shel-
tered at one time. It is the center, in
summer, of a colony of tenting parties.
\Voodlawn Orchard Sanatorium (Dr. R. C.
Caldwell, manager), is located on an eighty-
acre orchard tract, two and a half miles
from Las Cruces and near the old town of
Mesilla. There are eighteen rooms com-
fortably furnished; board and room $20 to
$35 per month; rooms only $4 to $8 monthly.
About a mile away is Mclver's ranch, where
invalids are accommodated at $7 to $10 a
week.
The camp is well protected from winds.
A hack runs between Las Cruces and Van
Patten's Camp for patrons of the house at
$2 round trip.
A number of well-to-do ranchers near Las
Cruces and Earlham receive boarders.
Five physicians are located at Las
Cruces, three being lung- and throat special-
ists. There are several competent nurses.
Las Cruces' advantages as a health resort
are so pronounced, that a sanatorium is
being built here. In the absence of such an
institution the present facilities for taking
care of invalids are very good. The
Mesilla Valley climate is so mild that out-
door treatment is availed of to a marked
degree, and necessary medical services can
be readily procured to assist Nature's " sun-
shine cure."
A prominent local physician writes: "As
a resort for those afflicted with chronic lung
trouble, I must say that I know of none
other equal to it. First and indispensable —
dryness. The average rainfall per annum,
eight inches; cloudy and rainy days, about
thirty. Second, temperature. In winter the
nights are occasionally cold enough to form
ice; in spring, summer and fall, cool enough
to be bracing — no more; never hot. Thirdly,
elevation. Four thousand feet is just the
altitude to gently stimulate the circulation,
and render the breathing easy and free.
Fourth, sunshine. A bright sun three
hundred and thirty-five days in the year.
In winter one can be comfortable from
9 A. M. to 5 P. M. with only a light overcoat
in the sunshine. In spring, never too hot.
In summer, always pleasant in the shade.
The fall is like the spring. Barring a few
exceptional days of windstorm or rainy
weather, the invalid with chronic lung
trouble can be in the open air for three
hundred days in the year. Fifth, a porous
soil of sand and loam, absorbing immedi-
ately the little moisture that falls, and suffi-
ciently rolling to shed the rainfall."
Sdckll Rot Springs, sixteen miles north,
is patronized by those afflicted with rheu-
matism. No accommodations here; visitors
"camp out."
ENTRANCE TO THE ALAMEDA, LAS CRUCES.
THE City of Las Vegas contains
a population of 8,000. The large
number of churches, schools,
residences, business houses, etc., testify to
the high degree of social culture attained by
this charming place.
The altitude of Las Vegas is 6,384 feet.
The country to the east is level, with high
mountains on the west. The sun shines
nearly every day in the year and long cloudy
and foggy periods are unknown.
The average noon temperature in winter
is 40°; spring, 55°; summer, 80°; autumn,
60°. These figures indicate a pleasant cli-
mate the year round.
The Castaneda, near the depot, a railway
eating house and hotel, is managed by Mr.
Fred. Harvey. It is. a long, low building,
two stories high, faced with brick, roofed
with red tiles, and, architecturally speaking,
patterned after the old California missions.
This hotel is strictly modern in every
respect and handsomely equipped through-
out. On the first floor is a commodious,
and attractive dining room, a luxuri-
ous office, a billiard room and buffet; also
a lunch counter. The office is so furnished
as to be available for ladies as well as gen-
tlemen. Upstairs there are thirty-five guest
rooms, in addition to reception room, parlors
and usual accessories of baths, toilets, etc.
Mr. Harvey's well-known reputation as
a caterer insures the best of service.
There are several good commercial hotels
and restaurants. Rooms may be obtained
in private families at $8 to $15 a month.
St. Anthony's Sanatorium, built and oper-
ated by the Sisters of Charity, is a beautiful
structure, containing every convenience and
comfort for the sick. There are thirty-five
turnished sleeping rooms, with necessary
toilet and bath rooms, and hot and cold
water service. The system of heating and
ventilation is perfect. The building is pro-
vided with a complete cuisine department,
electric lights, hydraulic elevator, etc.
Terms are moderate being $5 to $15 a week,
according to attention required. One hun-
dred invalids can be accommodated. Full
complement of physicians and nurses.
Outlying resorts are €1 porttCtlir, sixteen
miles from the city above the Hot Springs,
with lake, picnic grounds, etc.; and fiarucp'S,
ten miles farther away. Both are in the
mountains. Conveyance from Las Vegas is
by carriage. Either resort will accommo-
date twenty guests; rate $7 per week, for
room and board.
The Iftacbetl) Ittincral Spring, one mile
from East Las Vegas, discovered by W. R.
Macbeth of Denver, is noted for its strong-
ly impregnated mineral water, flowing from
a deep artesian well and effecting marvel-
ous cures in cases of rheumatism, indi-
gestion, etc. There are no special ac-
commodations at the spring, but the water
is easily obtained in bottled form.
£3S VC^3S LAS VEGAS HOT SPRINGS
is practically a village de-
voted to recreation and the
restoration of health. It
is situated in the northern
part of New Mexico, on a branch line of
the Santa Fe, 6,767 feet above sea level,
and at the very edge of the Rockies.
A beautiful canyon opens at the western
extremity of the grounds. The Gallinas
River, whose source is but a few miles
distant, courses through the property.
Foothills of the Rockies form an almost
complete enclosure, thus affording a pro-
tection against severe winds and sand-
storms, and materially modifying the tem-
perature, which in winter is 20° warmer than
at Denver, and correspondingly cooler in
summer.
.The buildings are numerous, were
erected at a large expenditure, and consist
of The Montezuma, a palatial fire-proof
structure of stone and iron with several hun-
dred rooms and all modern conveniences,
including elevators; numerous cottages
and annexes; bath house, hospital, post
office, casino, station house, schoolhouse;
also telegraph and express offices, etc.
A large park lies in the center. The build-
ings are steam heated and lighted by
electricity.
An irrigated farm belongs to the plant,
and provides fresh milk, vegetables, etc.
Thirty hot mineral springs arise within
the grounds, their analyses are as follows:
PARTS OF SOLID CONSTITU-
ENTS CONTAINED IN 100,000
H
PARTS OF WATER.
NUMBER OF
I
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.
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SPRING.
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S3
h
2 ....
3 ....
105.5
20
27.36
27.38
15-72
5-02
3.04
4-03
2.01
9-97
4.41
65.53
54.06
4 ....
92
23.41
14.62
2.55
4-02
7.20
58.33
r: : : :
40
44
28.54
27.86
16.96
16.86
2. IO
3-30
3-03
.00
8.88
6.03
57.90
56.20
40
28.02
17.98
1.24
•05
6.60
55-63
7 ....
71
28.63
17.86
2.OI
.02
6.03
5.80
8 and 9 . .
14
27.86
10.80
1-54
.01
?
54.60
10 ....
17
27.70
I5.I5
3-20
•°$
5-45
56.40
ii with 10 & 12
24
26.04
17.86
1.52
.18
6.10
54.83
12 ....
12
26.03
15.70
3-14
.26
6.80
56.46
13 ....
36
28.03
17.70
1.50
.01
6.16
57.00
14 ....
92
28.85
18.00
1.03
.24
6-93
55.40
15 ....
82
27.36
18.64
1. 00
.16
?
55.90
16 . . . .
12.5
27.36
ig.86
2.01
.05
7.26
57.73
17 ....
18 . . . .
19 ....
12.5
96
27.86
26.63
17.22
17-54
.08
1. 08
.06
.00
5?33
53-00
56.16
22 with 20
21 ....
106
86
26.87
28.19
11.54
14.10
1.23
1.16
•55
. IO
6.20
54-56
56-95
22 ....
75
27.36
17-32
1. 15
.08
6.'63
57-00
23 ....
123
28.19
12.50
2-33
3.01
6.20
60.20
Cold Sulphur*
33-01
18.14
1 1. 20
38.52
1. 20
102.06
*Sulphuretted hydrogen gas.
NOTE. — Free carbonic acid gas and sulphuretted
hydrogen gas are found in abundance in most of the
springs.
It will be seen the temperatures vary, the
hottest being 144° Fahrenheit. The mineral
elements also are so numerous as to be of
great value as medicinal agents,varying from
the saline to lithia and sulphur. The waters
are conveyed by pipes into the bath house
and natatorium, with little loss of natural
temperature, and there utilized in the treat-
ment of various diseases. There is a peat bed
here. An ample house has been'erected in
PICNIC PARTY AT HOT SPRINGS.
Miller, Photo.
connection with the bath department, where
the peat is employed in the shape of baths,
being combined with the hot mineral waters.
These baths are especially valuable in
skin, blood, liver, kidney, rheumatic and
nervous affections, and are a real delight,
much pleasure being afforded one who
indulges in them. The natatorium is nine
feet deep and fifty-four feet long. It is
filled with hot spring water, and is for the
entertainment of guests. Price for a nata-
torium plunge is 35 cents, with suit. A
partial list of baths, manipulations and
exercises arranged for the bath department
(and, in some cases, the prices therefor), is as
follows: Electric light ($i), cabinet (general),
bell (local), vapor (75 cents), hot air, hot-
blanket pack, cold-sheet pack, full tub (35
cents), half tub, shallow tub, sitz, hot pour,
pail douche, wet-sheet rub, spray, shower,
Turkish shampoo, Swedish shampoo, dry
shampoo, salt glow (75 cents), oil rub (50
cents), alcohol rub (50 cents), witch-hazel
rub (50 cents), electricity, galvanic, faradic
(general, local), massage (general, local),
effleurage (stroking), petrissage (knead-
ing), tapotement (percussion), centripetal
friction, centrifugal friction, fomenta-
tions, cold compresses, peat ($2), sand,
plunge. A series of ten or more baths of
one kind is given at reduced rates. Physi-
cal development: Dumb-bell exercises,
breathing exercises, swimming exercises and
walking exercises. Hunting, fishing, camp-
ing, mountain climbing and other rugged
exercises may be indulged in. Carriage
horses, riding horses and burros are avail-
able, and guides may be procured to any
point of interest.
Guests bringing children may send them
to school here, the educational facilities
being excellent.
Las Vegas Hot Springs has a high and dry
climate, nature's best restorative elements.
The air is aseptic, rare as compared with
lower altitudes, and contains an excess of
VIEW FROM BALCONY, THE MONTEZUMA.
ozone. The annual average number of days
of sunshine is 344. The average monthly
precipitation is 1.32 inches, but from Septem-
ber until June the average is considerably
less. Mean relative humidity (actual) about
20°. One may sleep out of doors without
catching cold. The days are agreeably
warm. Rarely does the temperature reach
80° in summer, while the average winter sun
temperature is 76°. The nights are cool.
No sandstorms occur at Las Vegas Hot
Springs. There are no dusty streets to irri-
BATH HOUSE, LAS VEGAS!
HOT SPRINGS.
tate the throat. The adjacent mountains
are covered with verdure, and no dust blows
from them. High hills almost surround
Las Vegas Hot Springs, rendering severe
winds quite impossible. Pine, pinon, cedar
and spruce trees grow in abundance; thus
the atmosphere is more or less laden with
balsamic vapor. Malaria and hay fever are
unknown in this immediate vicinity. There
are five hundred acres of park and land, so
strict sanitary precautions can be observed.
The water used for drinking purposes is
taken from one of the hot springs. The
veranda, surrounding three sides of the
Montezuma (available for promenades and
open air exercise), is five hundred and forty
feet long, fifteen feet wide, and roofed.
With all these advantages, both natural
and those that art has added, it is seen that
Las Vegas Hot Springs is an ideal spot as
a health resort, and a place for outdoor
sports, amusements, recreation, rest and
recuperation, as well as for persons affected
with disease. The term sanatorium,as applied
to this charming locality, should be liberally
construed. The surroundings are just as
agreeable to the pleasure seeker and general
tourist as to the invalid in search of health.
Ample provision is made for both classes.
The rates at the Montezuma are $2.50 to
$4 by the day, and $14, $16, $17.50 and $21
by the week. Where two persons occupy a
single room a discount of 50 cents each
is made from daily rates, or $i each from
weekly rates. If three occupy the same
room the weekly rate is reduced $2 each.
Medical attendance is extra. Special rates
are granted parties of three or more who
remain a considerable time. Patients are
charged for medical service, according [to
the attention their condition demands, from
$5 a week up.
Las Vegas Hot Springs is six miles from
the City of Las Vegas, and connects by rail
with the main line of the Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fe Railway at that point. Round-
trip tickets from principal eastern cities
may be obtained throughout the year at
greatly reduced rates. Stop-over privileges
are allowed all through passengers passing
this point where tickets permit of such
arrangement.
RiltOtl RATON (4,000 inhabitants) is sit-
uated on the southeastern slope
of the Raton spur of the Rocky Mountains.
The city is amply protected on the north
and west, while the country to the south and
east is open, which makes it a pleasant
winter resort. The altitude is 6,600 feet. A
more delightful climate cannot be found on
the continent, or a more desirable resort
for persons with weak lungs and kindred
afflictions.
Raton is lighted with electricity, and sup-
plied with pure water from the mountains.
Splendid roads and drives lead from the
city to picturesque canyons in the adjoining
mountains, and to the beautiful prairie
country on the south.
The canyons are well watered by living
streams and are thickly wooded. Small
farms, nestling in the hills, add to the beauty
of the surroundings and the comfort of the
health seeker.
The air and water are pure and the atmos-
phere is dry. These are nature's best
restoratives, making it practically impossible
for malaria or hay fever to exist.
The local hotels and boarding houses
charge from $4 to $10 per week for rooms
only, and $25 to $30 per month for board
and room.
IN THE COUNTRY NEAR RATON.
Raton is the distributing point for the
mining camps of Baldy, Elizabethtown,
Cimarron City and Red River. It is also
headquarters for the Maxwell Land Grant
Company.
Furnished rooms and board in private
families may be obtained at reasonable
rates, and several stock ranches in close
proximity accommodate those who desire a
quiet country life.
Santa F£» cap~
ital of New Mexico, and
founded earlier than St. Augustine, lies in
the central part of the territory on a branch
line of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Railway. Estimated population, 8,500; pre-
vailing nationality, Spanish-American, there
being about three thousand Americans
whose blood is not crossed with the Latin
races. Prevailing religion is Catholic, al-
though Protestant sects are well repre-
sented. A fine public school system has
been established; there is also a college for
young men and boys, conducted by the
Christian Brothers, and a like institution for
girls, in charge of the Sisters of Loretto.
Santa Fe* is noted for its hospitality to
strangers. Social advantages are all that
could be desired. Opportunities for out-
door exercise are various. Good driveways
lead to points five and ten miles from the
city. Horseback riding, burro parties, and
walks up and down the hills near by, afford
healthful and delightful recreation.
The chief points of interest for sight-seers
are: Old San Miguel Church, Chapel of
Rosario, Governor's Palace, Historical So-
ciety rooms, Indian Villages of Tesuque,
Santa Clara, Nambe, Pojoaque, San Ilde-
fonso and San Juan, the Cliff Dwellings, the
Pecos Forest Reserve, the Santa Fe Canyon,
the Nambe Falls, the Tesuque Divide,
Cathedral with ancient Spanish Paintings,
Guadaloupe Church, the Capitol, the Terri-
torial Penitentiary, United States and St.
Catherine's Indian Schools, Deaf and Dumb
Asylum, Presbyterian Mission School, Old
Fort Marcy, the Garrote, the Bishop's Gar-
den, the Bishop's Ranch, Box Canyon and
many other scenic and historic spots and
monuments.
The average maximum temperature for
January is 38°, February 44°, March 52°,
April 60°, May 68°, June 78°, July 82°, August
80°, September 72°, October 62°, November
49° and December 42°.
It is a remarkable fact that the average
number of cloudy days in each month never
exceeds six, is more frequently four and five,
CLAIRE HOTEL, SANTA FE.
and falls as low as two. These facts are
attested by R. M. Hardinge, observer U. S.
Weather Bureau, and cover records from
1882 to 1891.
St. Vincent Sanatorium, under the direc-
tion of ,the Sisters of Charity, is designed
for invalids. The house has twenty-one
rooms, well ventilated and supplied with
every possible comfort. Rooms and halls
are steam heated, open fireplaces abound,
and electric lights add to the general cheer.
Special attention is given to the table.
Meals are served in private rooms, and
lunches provided for delicate persons, with-
out extra charge. The nurses are carefully
trained in their profession. The terms vary
from $10 to $15 per week, including meals
and attendance.
The various hotels, sanatoriums, etc.,
comfortably accommodate 250 persons.
Rooms and meals at boarding houses cost
$30 to $35 per month. Rates at first-class
hotels $2 to $3 a day, $12 to $16 a week, $35
to $50 per month for board and room. Pri-
vate families rent rooms for light house-
keeping.
In counting up the assets of Santa Fe
PALACE HOTEL, SANTA FE.
its climate must be taken into account, for
in many respects it is one of its greatest re-
sources and attractions. Its altitude, the
dryness of its atmosphere, the mildness of
its winters and the coolness of its summers
make it a summer and winter resort and a
haven of refuge. In summer the tempera-
ture very seldom exceeds 80 degrees, and
the temperature of 100 is not on record dur-
ing the twenty-eight years that the weather
bureau has kept records at Santa Fe. But
even a temperature of 100 would feel 10 to
20 degrees cooler at Santa Fe than at New
York or Boston on account of the low
humidity of the atmosphere. During the
night in summer there is always a fall from
20 to 30 degrees in temperature, and it is
very seldom if ever at all that the minimum
temperature of any day exceeds 65 degrees.
In winter almost perpetual sunshine with
but few cloudy days make a winter resort
where the air is crisp enough to be bracing,
but where the thermometer in the sunshine
very seldom descends below the freezing
point, where the winds are much less violent
than they are in other parts of the south-
west, where snow falls moderately and is
absorbed by the ground or atmosphere
generally within a short space after its fall.
Hundreds of people, not only in Santa Fe,
but in all parts of the world can testify to
the healing qualities of the climate and the
pine-odor laden air. There is no doubt that
every case of incipient consumption, where
the patient lives an out-door life and ob-
serves the most obvious hygienic and dietary
rules, will be benefited and eventually
cured by it.
Nagle's Sunny Pinecroft Ranch, one mile
southeast of the city at the foot of Round
Top Mountain, is about to be turned
into a sanatorium. Rates $7 to $15 a week.
Accommodations can also be had at the
ranch homes in the beautiful Rio Grande
and Tesuque valleys, reached from Santa Fe.
There is also ample room for the placing of
tents in the city or surroundings for those
who prefer an out-door life.
Regarding the climatic conditions of Santa
Fe, one of the leading physicians there states
that all authorities concur in the value of
SANTA FE'S OLD CURIOSITY SHOP.
altitude, dryness of atmosphere, the direct
rays of the sun, and the absence of sudden
and high winds, in the successful treatment
of diseases of the lungs. These conditions
are to be found at Santa Fe* to a marked de-
gree. The altitude is 6,939 ^et; the days
are bright, warm and pleasant, and the
nights, even in midsummer, sufficiently cool
to render blanket covering agreeable. At-
mosphere is free from irritating ingredients,
and contains an abundance of oxygen, elec-
tricity and ozone. Drinking water comes
from the mountains; it is uncontaminated.
OjO Calient*— These celebrated hot springs
are located in the "Cliff Dwellers" region,
southwestern portion of Taos County, on
Caliente Creek, a stream emptying into the
Rio Grande, north of the city of Santa Fe.
The altitude of Ojo Caliente is 6,292 feet.
The surrounding country consists of hills
with volcanic dikes and mesas, traversed
by a coarse-grained granite. Climate very
dry, and delightful throughout the year. A
commodious hotel furnishes accommoda-
tions for invalids and tourists; meals, lodg-
ing and baths, $2.50 per day; half rate for
children; reduced rates by month, or for
small parties; sixty-five persons easily taken
care of. This resort is open winter as well
as summer, and is liberally patronized both
by the people of New Mexico and tourists
generally.
The waters of these springs contain a
large proportion of alkaline salts; tempera-
ture, 90° to 122°; daily flow, over 300,000
gallons. Paralysis, rheumatism, neuralgia,
consumption, catarrh, and like complaints
are either greatly benefited or cured. All
kinds of baths given, including plunge,
shower, steam and mud, and first-class medi-
cal attendance is always available.
To reach Ojo Caliente, go by rail from
Santa Fe to Barranca; round-trip fare, $7.50
for three-months tickets. The twelve miles
from Barranca to Ojo Caliente are covered
by stage. Total distance from Santa Fe
about fifty miles.
Clf f)
^*
SILVER CITY, the county seat
°^ Grant County, is built upon
an elevated plateau, nearly
6,000 feet above the level of the sea. Ridges
several hundred feet high immediately sur-
round the place, while a few miles back are
mountains several thousand feet in height.
In this sheltered position it is not deprived
of sunlight— in fact the large proportion of
sunshiny days here leads one writer to
declare that this is "a silver city with a
golden climate." High winds, with their
accompaniment of dust and heat, are un-
known, the greatest recorded velocity here
being twenty miles an hour. The marvel-
ous power of the sun's rays so affects the
air as to render a winter sojourn at Silver
City a great delight and boon to the afflicted.
Living outdoors is possible at all seasons.
There are no sudden changes of temperature,
and the absence of excessive humidity takes
away the danger of catching cold. As a
tonic for tired nerves the climate of this
place takes first rank. There is a quality
in the air which quickly builds up wasted
tissue ; asthma and hay fever are unknown.
Silver City has aptly been termed an
American town with a Mexican quarter, as
distinguished from those towns where Mexi-
cans predominate. The buildings are sub-
stantially constructed of brick, and their
general solidity and neatness are a surprise
to persons who may imagine this to be only
a rough mining camp. Present population,
3,000 ; social advantages excellent.
Average noon temperature for spring and
summer is about 80° and for fall and winter
70°; maximum temperature 90° and mini-
mum 28°. Proportion of sunshiny to cloudy
days is as twenty-eight to one. The annual
precipitation is only ten inches, most of the
rain falling during July, August and Sep-
tember— noon showers, with pleasant morn-
ings and evenings.
This city is well supplied with hotels,
private boarding houses and restaurants.
Houses and rooms are plentiful and cheap;
and housekeeping is not expensive. Silver
City has no sanatorium; but two fine hos-
pitals, one owned by the) county and the
other managed by Catholic Sisters of Mercy,
are well prepared to care for invalids.
That the accommodations are sufficient in
the main is attested by the constantly in-
creasing number of people who come to
this point to get well and go away cured.
There are four physicians located here, and
competent nurses may be secured.
f aplOOOd fiOt Springs, a winter and sum-
mer resort, are reached from Hudson sta-
tion on the Santa Fe. A $100,000 hotel offers
ample accommodations. The hot springs
are specifics for kidney and stomach
trouble and the climate is delightful the
year round. Good hunting and fishing in
the vicinity. Terms upon application. Ele-
vation 5,000 feet. Three miles from rail-
road station.
I
SOCOITO SOCORRO, the county seat of
Socorro County, is situated on
the west bank of the Rio Grande River, at
the base of the Socorro Mountains, the land
gently sloping from the mountains to the
river. Altitude, 4,567 feet.
The city is on the main line of the Atchi-
son, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway. A branch
runs west to the Magdalena Mountains.
There are modern residences, business
blocks, churches and schools, including a
school of mines. Population, 3,000.
Principal industry is mining. From 1880
to 1895 the output of gold, silver, lead and
copper was/valued at $58,000,000.
The water supply is taken from hot
springs at base of Socorro Mountains, and
is useful in kidney, liver and blood diseases.
Climate uniformly delightful; skies bright,
air pure and bracing. The winters especi-
ally are very pleasant. Epidemic diseases
are unknown, and fogs and dews rarely
appear.
The rivers, lakes and ponds are the abode
of geese and ducks in their season. Quail
are plentiful, and sport may be had chasing
the "cotton-tail" and jack rabbit.
Accommodationsmay be obtained at hotels,
boarding houses and private families. Rates
charged vary from $20 to $25 'per month.
The local hotels are better than the average.
There is no regular sanatorium. Two
specialists in pulmonary diseases practice
here; experienced nurses may be hired on
reasonable terms
WATER CANYON is located on
the east slope of Magdalena
Mountains, seventeen miles
from Socorro by a good wagon road; also
five miles by wagon from Water Canyon
station on Magdalena branch of A. T. &
S. F. Ry. This is a much frequented resort
in the summer months, a cool, shaded,
health-giving and delightful retreat; alti-
tude 6,500 feet; a number of cottages have
been built here.
^N THE west sl°Pe °f tne Mag-
dalena Mountains is the town
of Kelly, a favorite resort during the sum-
mer months. Altitude 7,000 feet; population
500, principally interested in mining; one
hotel; daily mail and passenger stage con-
nection with Magdalena, three and one-half
miles distant, which latter point is twenty-
seven miles from Socorro, by rail.
THE town of Springer is
located on the main line of
the A. T. & S. F. Ry., in Colfax County.
Altitude is 5,768 feet. Mean annual tem-
perature, 51°. Precipitation averages ten
inches annually.
The atmosphere is exceedingly dry, light
and invigorating.
The six hundred inhabitants are princi-
pally Americans.
Springer has graded schools, several
churches, two physicians, the usual line of
retail establishments, two^good hotels, sev-
eral private boarding houses/ and either
separate rooms or detached houses that
may be rented by persons who prefer to
board themselves.
Located within a few miles of Springer,
and owned by J. C. Taylor, are fine artesian
wells.
Not far away are lakes and reservoirs,
well stocked with bass, perch, carp, etc.
During the spring and fall these lakes are
covered with wild ducks, geese and other
fowl common to this latitude.
In the mountains, a few miles distant, are
plenty of deer, bear, turkeys and grouse,
and the streams in that section are full of
mountain trout.
Springer is fifty-four and sixty-five miles
distant respectively, from the thriving min-
ing towns of Elizabethtown and Red River
City; daily stage. This district contains
some rich placer and quartz gold mines.
The stage thither enables the traveler to see
HOTEL HIGHLAND, ALBUQUERQUE.
some beautiful mountain scenery, particu-
larly in Cimarron Canyon.
At Iftaxwell Citp, fourteen miles above
Springer, on A. T. & S. F. Ry., invalids can
find accommodations among the neighbor-
ing farmers at $5 a week. The Maxwell
House will care for a limited number at
same rate. The climate here is beneficial
for consumptives; pure spring water obtain-
able.
'DOWN QUIET LANES, LAS CRUCES.
IN THE soutneast corner of
New Mexico, separated
from the Rio Grande Valley by high moun-
tain ranges, is the Pecos Valley region, com-
prising a wide body of land along the Pecos
River a distance of one hundred and seventy-
five miles, from Roswell to Pecos City.
The valley has a population of nearly
15,000. The principal towns are Roswell
(population 2,500), Carlsbad (population
i, 800), Hagerman (population 600) and
Pecos City (population 1,500).
In the spring of 1899 a new ^ne was built
across the plains from Roswell northeast
to a connection with the Santa Fe at
Amarillo, thus affording quicker transit for
passengers and freight from the east.
The Pecos Valley has much to offer the
homeseeker. Its level, alluvial lands,
obtainable at moderate prices and on easy
terms, generously produce alfalfa, sugar
beets, broom corn, fruits, cereals and vegeta-
bles. On the adjacent plains immense herds
of cattle graze, while high-grade cattle and
hogs are fattened on the alfalfa meadows.
Most of this vast agricultural wealth is
due to irrigation, for the climate is naturally
dry, and the rainfall (varying from twelve to
eighteen inches annually) is not of itself
sufficient to mature crops. This very defi-
ciency in moisture, however, makes possi-
ble a climate which has manifold attractions
for the health seeker. The Pecos River
rises in the mountains and hence is inde-
pendent of the rainfall of the plains.
The altitude varies from 3,000 to 3,800 feet.
The atmosphere is clear, warm, dry and
bracing, there being as many as two hundred
and forty days in each year which are abso-
lutely clear, and only forty in which moisture
is precipitated. The winters are brief.
The summers are not oppressively hot.
Outdoor life is feasible here nearly every
day in the year, even for the frailest invalid.
A porous sandy soil permits of perfect
drainage, and malaria is unknown. Persons
afflicted with consumption in its earlier
stages, bronchitis, asthma, kidney and liver
complaints, etc., are immediately benefited.
Occasionally the days are windy, dusty
and disagreeable— perfect weather does not
exist any where. The preponderance, though,
is largely on the sunshiny, quiet side, with
remarkable freedom from blizzards, northers,
tornadoes and hot winds.
The mean temperature, expressed in
degrees Fahrenheit, is: Spring, 63.1; summer,
79.5 ; autumn, 63.4, and winter, 43.9. Once
in a while during June, July and August
the thermometer registers an apparent heat
of more than one hundred degrees. Such
warmth is exceptional, not long continued
and is no more oppressive than 80° in the
east. Only once within the last few years
has the thermometer fallen below zero, the
usual minimum being 12° to 20° above zero.
While the entire valley can appropri-
ately be termed a health resort, the town
of Carlsbad, with its ten miles of shaded
streets and drives and its roadside water
courses, offers special advantages to the
health seeker. Just across the river is
PECOS RIVER FLUME.
THE CHISUM DITCH.
DIVIDING WATER AT CHISUM RANCHi
Carlsbad|Spring,*which every minute pours
into the Pecos five thousand gallons of
water strongly impregnated with mineral
substances. The following analysis institutes
a comparison with the noted Friedrichschall
water of Prussia:
Parts per 100,000.
Carlsbad
Spring:
Friedrichs-
halL
diluted 13.
Sulphate of soda (Glauber's salts).. ..
Chloride of sodium
44.02
CQ.I^O
40.00
53.10
Sulphate of magnesia (Epsom salts) .
Sulphate of lime
21.63
17.40
34-40
8.95
Carbonate of lime ... ....
14.00
0.09
Silica
1 20
0.29
Iron and alumina. . . ..'. ....
1 .20
Carbonate of magnesia
Chloride of magnesia
2.05
1. 00
26.00
Water of crystallization, etc
3.25
2.18
Total solids...
KO. 2;
166.00
The Friedrichshall spring gives a greater
amount of magnesian salts; otherwise the
two waters are essentially the same in their
effects on the system. The Carlsbad water
is invaluable both as an aperient and
alterative.
The only serious drawback at Carlsbad is
the absence of a sanatorium. Efforts are
being made to build one, with considerable
promise of success in the immediate future.
Meanwhile invalids and others are accom-
modated at hotels, boarding houses and in
private families, the rates being similar to
those charged elsewhere. Mr. R. W. Tan-
sill, who has extensive interests here, an-
nounces that he will give land free to per-
sons who will build on it.
One finds in Carlsbad an excellent school
system. There are several church societies.
The business portion of the town is well
built up, and the merchants carry large
stocks of goods.
Invalids of small means can make a good
living here from the soil.
*s ^e cme^ town °f this region.
It has magnificent avenues of
giant cottonwoods; also numerous large
springs and flowing artesian wells, many of
the latter yielding 2,000 gallons a minute
and irrigating thousands of acres of land.
Boarding houses are numerous, $30 to" $40
per month being charged for room and
board. Roswell's attractions as a place of
residence are fully equaled by its advant-
ages as a growing business center. Its
prosperity is mainly based on important
cattle and sheep interests.
F)Cdltl)
L ItllllCd
*F ONLY the rich or well-to-do
were obliged to travel in search
of healthj the problem would be
a simple one. With a well-
filled purse supplying every
needed convenience and luxury,
the only question would be as
to the best climate for the particular ailment.
The invalid of limited means must con-
side1" the cost of getting well, and is not
CHILD LIFE AT ISLETA.
infrequently compelled by that considera-
tion to go where not only the climate but
industrial conditions are favorable. What
immediately follows is intended for those
who soon after settling in a new home must
consider the necessity of earning. Not being
rugged and able to accept the first work
that offers, the usual alternative will be to
wrest a subsistence from the soil. Light
farming, gardening, raising chickens, bees,
etc., are pleasant and profitable occupations.
A gentleman who has lived in New Mex-
ico twenty years, and knows all sections
thoroughly, is authority for the following:
Dairp and pOUltrp. — For a few hundred
dollars enough cows may be purchased with
which to start a dairy, and a comfortable
revenue is assured from the beginning. The
production and sale of poultry and eggs
requires less capital, and is almost as remu-
nerative. Ninety per cent of the butter,
eggs and poultry consumed in New Mexico
is shipped in from eastern states. Butter
never sells for less than 25 cents per pound,
nor eggs for less than 25 cents per dozen.
Poultry brings from 10 to 15 cents per pound,
according to season. Cheese is not made
here for sale. The higher-priced cheese,
such as that made in Switzerland from
goat's milk, can be produced here with
great profit. Goats pasture themselves,
and their feed is a nominal item.
Broom Corn, — Not a broom is made in the
territory. Nowhere in the world can broom
corn be raised so easily; the long, dry sea-
sons are very favorable for curing. It does
not cost much to set up a small broom
manufacturing plant.
Eonep. — Where alfalfa is cultivated, bees
do well. This is a light occupation, par-
ticularly suitable for women, and many of
them have achieved marked success as
apiarists. Honey commands a good price,
and the yield is larger than in cold countries.
fruit — All kinds of fruit are cultivated
successfully; but it is in the Rio Grande
Valley, south of Albuquerque, that fruit-
raising is most extensively carried on.
Here are many square miles of vineyards
and orchards, producing thick clusters of
grapes as large and luscious as if grown in
sunny France, and pears and peaches that
rival those of California. Wine of a superior
quality is manufactured. Apples, peaches,
nectarines and pears thrive under irrigation
and yield abundantly.
NEW MEXICO FRUIT.
Northern New Mexico, however, is a close
rival of the southern portion. Take for ex-
ample the magnificent orchard in the Cana-
dian River Canyon, tributary to Springer,
containing several hundred acres and owned
by Mr. Melvin W. Mills. Great six-horse
wagons are busy nearly every day in the year
hauling fruit from this orchard to the rail-
road station. Here are profusely grown
the best varieties of apples, pears, peaches,
cherries, plums, prunes, nectarines, apricots,
quinces, almonds, pecans, walnuts and
grapes. The orchard is being enlarged
every year and Mr. Mills reports that even
partial crop failures are very infrequent.
EogS. — Hams, bacon and salted meats are
brought in from the east. With alfalfa (four
tons of which can be raised on an acre of
ground) and field peas, hogs grow fat, and
are a bank always paying dividends. Hogs
may be wintered on alfalfa hay alone. Home-
cured meats would command ready sale.
Co Sum ISp,— On five acres of land, with
water privileges, a family of four or five
persons may make a comfortable living in
New Mexico. This means work, of course,
accompanied by economy. Land may be
bought outright for $35 to $100 per acre, in
a good state of cultivation; or it may be
rented on favorable terms.
Not only can such a family, when located
near a town or city, raise all the vegetables
and grain needed for home consumption,
but by having on hand a few chickens, hogs
and cows, there will always be something to
convert into groceries and clothing. In
most cases ample pasturage exists close at
hand for the larger stock to range upon.
Early vegetables find ready sale at prices
which leave a handsome profit.
The most profitable houses are built with
adobe bricks, made from the soil of the
country, mixed with straw. Buildings of
this material erected two hundred years
ago are still habitable. A good three-room
house, finished with second-class lumber,
need not cost to exceed $150. Owing to the
mild climate, living in tents will also be
found very beneficial and at the same time
cheap by health seekers whose disease has
not progressed so far as to confine them to
their houses.
71
Fff 1C3CD THE municipal government of
V.MI tvy parig recently appointed a
01 special commission for the
PurPose °f determining proper
measures to prevent contagion
of tuberculosis in the hospitals
of that city. This commission
consisted of twenty-five of the ablest med-
ical men in France, and this is what they
conclude on the point of climate cure:
"What, then, must be done with the
tubercular case to cure him, while a cure is
yet possible ? And how ? By the contin-
ued and regular exposure to outdoor air,
day and night; by nourishing diet; by long
rest and sleep. To accomplish this in sana-
toria many can be cured. Therefore, in a
general interest, and in the interest of the
patient himself, he ought to be thus cared
for apart and separate."
* * *
The following extract is from a very inter-
esting paper by Dr. J. L. C. Whitcomb, of
Liberty, N. Y. This paper was published
in the New York Medical Record of Sep-
tember 25, 1898.
" The one point I wish to emphasize with
all the force I am capable of — the point, the
importance of which overshadows and min-
imizes every other consideration in the
treatment of this subject — is that suitable
climatic environments are the absolute pre-
requisite of any successful treatment of
phthisis, so far as medical knowledge can
affirm at the present time. Of no other
disease can this be said. In a nutshell, our
one rational treatment is: (i) early diagno-
sis; (2) a suitable climate. Give the patient
the benefit of these, and we give him nine
chances to get well to one against it. * * *
What is needed is oxygen — the oxygen of
pure, dry air. This alone is a specific in
early phthisis. It will not cure every case;
no specific does that; but it will cure nine
in every ten, providing enough of the rem-
edy is taken."
CHURCH AT SOCORRO, 30O YEARS OLD.
ONE of the most important medical gath-
erings!'of/ modern Uimes recently] held its
sessions in Moscow, Russia. The occasion
was the meeting of the International Medi-
cal Congress. It brought together more
than seven thousand medical men, among
whom were the recognized leaders of every
civilized country. One meeting was devoted
to the discussion of the present methods of
treating tuberculosis. The quotations given
below are from papers read by some of these
great men.
By Dr. Von Ziemssen, of Vienna: "As far
back as we can see in the history of medi-
cine, fresh air has been one of the require-
ments in the treatment of tuberculosis, but
it is only of late that the advantage of high
altitudes has been clearly demonstrated.
That tubercular patients can get a quantity
of fresh air in these regions is evident to
anyone who has visited the places; * * *
but the fresh air that surrounds them is not
all; the altitude brings about an excitation
of the blood-making organs that increases
the corpuscular elements in the blood. Even
in health this reaction takes place, but not
so markedly as in diseased states."
By Dr. Senator, of Berlin: "I am con-
vinced that the only treatment of value is
the climatic, and I believe high altitudes
are of value. I regard altitude as a factor
second only in importance to fresh air.
Sunlight is also of great value, and the
sun's rays^ themselves exert a particular
influence."
OLD CHURCH AT CIUDAD JUAREZ. *»!»«« * Feldman, Photo.
By Dr. Von Leyden, of Berlin, Germany,
greatest general practitioner: "We must
not look to the future ; we are living in the
present and must treat in the present. So
far the only treatment that has given any
success is the climatic. My best results
have been obtained in mountains. The
more comfortable a patient be made there
the better, as a rule, will be the results."
By Dr. Kornig, Court Physician of St.
Petersburg : " I have found an increase in
the red blood-cells in patients who have
gone to high altitudes, and I am inclined to
attribute to this increase a large part of the
benefit derived from mountain sanatoria."
By Dr. Jarvein, of St. Petersburg, and
Professor in the Military Academy of St.
Petersburg: "After listening to the greatest
authorities in Europe on the treatment of
phthisis in mountain sanatoria, I believe
chere can be but little doubt in the minds of
those present that this is at present the only
mode of treatment."
By Dr. Vivant, of Monte Carlo, Riviera,
France: "The climate must be justly re-
garded as of value in the treatment of this
disease (tuberculosis), and offers a certain
number of features in common, viz: Pure
air, that is, oxygen in an unlimited quantity;
and dryness, that is, absence of fogs, of air
charged with moisture, to interrupt light,
heat and chemical action of the sun's rays."
Wh3t DR* GEORGE HALLEY, Pro-
«711* fessor of Surgery, Kansas
DOClOr$ City Medical College, says:
S3l) Of "New Mexico possesses the
SA \ seven great requisites of a
IcCU) sanatorium for the treatment
It)£\i£ft °f consumptive patients and
1 1C V/VI W. those suff ering from bronchial
and certain forms of throat affections, ist.
A very dry and aseptic air, experiment
showing that the atmosphere is as free from
harmful bacteria as that of midocean — the
purest known to science. 2d. A light at-
mospheric pressure caused by the high
altitude of the country, and ample table-
lands where the air has free movement and
the rays of the sun uninterrupted play. 3d.
A maximum of sunshine and minimum of
cloud. 4th. A slight variation of tempera-
ture only between the extremes of heat and
cold. 5th. A minimum likelihood of sud-
den changes of temperature. 6th. A light,
porous, dry soil. 7th (and very important).
A low dew point. I have sent many
patients there, and the result has always
been beneficial.
"It seems, at first sight, a long distance
for patients to travel from France to New
Mexico ; but there is, I believe, no climate
in Southern Europe or Northern Africa — the
localities hitherto utilized for this purpose
by Europeans — that can compare for a
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SANTA CLARA.
moment with that of New Mexico and
parts of Colorado, for the treatment of
consumption."
***
DR. O. D. WALKER, Professor of Physiol-
ogy and Diseases of the Nervous System in
the Keokuk Medical College, Keokuk, Iowa,
and formerly physician in charge at the
United States Government Indian School,
Lawrence, Kan., makes the following inter-
esting and valuable report of his observa-
tions in New Mexico:
"I look upon the climate of New Mexico,
especially the southern part, as an ideal one
for persons suffering from lung troubles,
principally because of the light, dry, equable
atmosphere and almost constant sunshine.
"My visits there have all been made in
the winter time and in the vicinity of Las
Cruces. On one of these trips I left Las
Cruces January 22, and traveled in a moun-
tain wagon across to the Mescalero Apache
Agency; distance about one hundred and
twenty-five miles. The weather was de-
lightful, air light and bracing, and, except
early mornings and late evenings, one could
ride comfortably without an overcoat.
"I have carefully observed the salutary
effects of this climate upon patients. A
young lady, age about eighteen, came to me
July i, 1896, suffering from incipient phthisis.
She was having night sweats, losing flesh,
looked pale and suffered from a very dis-
tressing cough. The microscope showed
an abundance of tubercle bacilli. I used
creosote and injections of Paquin's serum
without marked benefit, and finally advised
her to go to Las Cruces, N. M., which she
did. Her cough rapidly improved, and the
night sweats stopped; she gained twenty
pounds in flesh in a few months and grew
strong and hearty. I saw her in Keokuk,
July 5 last. She seemed to be perfectly
well. Had she remained in the Mississippi
Valley I think she would have succumbed
to this then rapidly progressing disease
within six months, under any line of treat-
ment."
***
DR. E. W. SCHAUFFLER said (in a paper
read before the American Climatological
Association), speaking of southern New
Mexico and the close adjoining portion of
Texas:
" It is the winter temperature to which I
wish to call attention, as well as the small
amount of rainfall and the small number of
cloudy days, these conditions combining to
constitute the charm of the winter, during
which season the invalid can walk, or even
sit, out of doors almost every day. Com-
bined with the mild temperature, there is,
as I have before remarked, a bracing tonic
quality to the air, due, perhaps, in part, to
its rarity and dryness, which I have failed
to find in the air of Florida, of the Gulf, or
even of San Antonio, Texas.
"In view of its mild winter climate, its
altitude, the great dryness of the atmosphere
and soil, and the remarkable preponderance
of clear and fair days, especially during the
winter and spring months, I think it must
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be conceded that this region presents many
of the requisites of a winter resort for per-
sons suffering from pulmonary complaints.
Nor is this merely a theoretical conclusion.
It is confirmed by the experience of a con-
siderable number of asthmatic, bronchi tic
and phthisical patients who have already
tested the virtues of this climate."
" The highest interior of our continent
comprised in the great table-land extending
from the Great Divide in Colorado, through
New Mexico, is not excelled anywhere in
the world as a resort for consumptives. The
altitude, the dryness, the purity of atmos-
phere, and the large amount of ozone it
contains, combine to create conditions very
favorable to recovery from phthisis." — DR.
GATCHELL, in The Medical Era.
"THE air here (New Mexico) is very dry;
by its rarity is tonic and stimulating. The
various altitudes and latitudes give a great
variety of climates as to temperature and
atmospheric tenuity, but all are alike in
dryness."— F. H. ATKINS, M. D., S. B., in
The Climatologist
THE Los Angeles Bullion says: "The
climate of New Mexico leaves nothing- to
desire, and it constitutes an element of
growth and prosperity in the future that is
too important to remain neglected. As an
example of its salubrity, our readers will re-
member that a few years ago Jay1 Gould,
after exhausting the sanatoriums of the
world without obtaining relief from his ills,
was restored to good health by his residence
in El Paso of two months' duration, and it
is a matter of record that his physicians are
responsible for the statement that, had he
continued to dwell there, he would in all
probability be well and living to-day."
WHAT follows is taken from the New
York Herald: "Dr. Yandell affirms that
no cases of consumption originate at El
Paso, and if deaths by accident be excepted
from his tables, the actual mortality of the
city was only 59, or 5.36 per 1,000. It would
be hard to find a town on the continent with
a smaller death rate. Several years ago the
Herald urged upon physicians the desirabil-
ity of establishing winter resorts in the
southwest. The southwest has climate
advantages for certain classes of invalids
superior to those of southern France. It
would surely be a great boon to the many
thousands of people in the northern parts of
the country who have to flee annually from
our severe winters and springs, to have the
choice of a southwestern health resort."
*
* *
"NEW MEXICO is fast becoming a favorite
resort for consumptives, and as physicians
learn more of its advantages it will grow still
more rapidly in favor. Its uniform tempera-
ture, almost constant sunshine, and its dry,
rare atmosphere, are elements that commend
TESUQUE INDIAN VILLAGE.
this climate to our consideration." — F. E.
WAX AM. M. D., Professor of Laryngology
and Rhinology, College of Physicians and
Surgeons, Chicago.
***
"I THINK that New Mexico surpasses any
locality for consumptives I have yet visited,
and I have been all over California, Colo-
rado, the south, the Sandwich Islands and
Europe. * * * I am decidedly of the
opinion that the region visited is, for con-
sumptives, superior to any other part of the
United States or the world, of which I have
any practical knowledge."—]. F. DANTER,
M. D., in Medical Visitor.
The Kansas City Medical Record, a high
authority on such matters, in an editorial
upon the subject of " Health Resorts,"
speaks as follows :
"It has been a great satisfaction to us to
find our opinion regarding the sanitary
characteristics of New Mexico indorsed in a
most significant manner by some very high
authorities on the subject. Some time ago
a party of medico-scientists, commissioned
by the Socttte Medicale of France arrived in
New Mexico, after inspecting many parts of
the world held in high esteem as winter and
summer resorts for consumptives.
"Their object in thus journeying was to
examine and report upon the sanitary quali-
fications of these different localities and
countries, the end in view being the location
of a large sanatorium for the treatment of
consumption. The commission (with, we
believe, the exception of one member per-
sonally interested in another locality)
reported upon New Mexico as in every
respect better suited for such a purpose than
any country they had visited, including far-
famed Algeria and other places heretofore
noted as health resorts, especially empha-
sizing the fact that a case of consumption
was never known to have originated in New
Mexico."
From an article in Canadian Practitioner,
Toronto, Can., written by Dr. J. F. McCon-
nell, of Las Cruces:
" Dryness is not only a ' useful adjunct,'
but a most important factor in the climate
cure. ' Tubercle cannot live without mois-
ture' (Baumgarten); a moist air therefore
nourishes, a dry air tends to destroy it. The
breathing of pure, dry air, not by fits and
starts, but constantly, constitutes what we
P2
desire. In regard to altitude, the physician
must decide in each case as to suitability, as
much depends upon the physical condition
of the patient. It is commonly known that
there is established a certain immunity from
phthisis in mountainous districts. The geo-
graphical and climatic conditions as found
here in Las Cruces may be taken as a type
of southern New Mexico, one of the districts
which, in my opinion, ranks first in provid-
ing the requisites of a suitable climate for
pulmonary troubles."
The extracts below are taken from "Some
Misconceptions of New Mexico Corrected,"
written for the Medical Record of New
York.
* * "While all portions of the United
States east of longitude 97° W. have a con-
tinuous monthly average of more than one
inch, New Mexico is exempt during this
portion of the year. But while it is true
that New Mexico is thus exempt, there is no
month in which some precipitation is not
recorded ; there is no month in which there
are no stormy days ; there is no month in
which there is not danger from exposure.
The advantage is found in the difference in
amount of precipitation, which gives New
Mexico a far greater number of days of
sunshine per year, with a minimum number
of stormy days, together with all the bene-
fits which naturally follow from such excess
of sunshine and such diminution of precipi-
tation.
"The directions not infrequently given by
physicians to patients sent to this territory
are something like this: 'Goto the table-
lands of New Mexico, where are dryness,
altitude, and excess of sunshine. Select a
home, on ranch or in town, where you may
obtain wholesome food. Live out of doors
CATHOLIC CHURCH, LAS VEGAS.
CATHEDRAL AT ISLETA.
SAN FELIPE CHURCH, ALBUQUERQUE.
all you can. Seek medical advice when
required. Depend upon climate and exer-
cise to restore you to health.' This is whole-
sale advice prescribed in a wholesale way,
with evident unfamiliarity with the general
results accruing therefrom. Patients should
be more carefully selected to whom such
advice is given. The prescription should be
more explicit, and warnings more frequent.
It should not be expected that invalids,
whose constitutions are impaired by disease;
whose vitality is reduced below the normal;
who are surrounded with home comforts
and luxuries; who have been more or less
under close medical supervision; who are,
as a rule, unfamiliar with the favorable or
unfavorable conditions affecting the disease
which compels their absence; who, since
they are invalids, are in no wise proper per-
sons to direct their own case, can safely
exchange home life for ranch life, to 'rough
it' as best they may. * * * It is an error to
presume that patients unfitted to conduct
their own case at home without medical
supervision can do so in New Mexico. It is
an error to presume that invalids who have
made no special study of climatotherapy
shall know how intelligently to obtain favor-
able results, because removed to a locatioi^
possessing improved climatic conditions.
It is an error to presume that any of nature's
remedies are exempt from the generally
recognized law that intelligence and experi-
ence shall direct their use. Whereas, it is
true that in the table-lands of New Mexico
are found excess of sunshine, increased dry-
ness, higher altitude, a minimum of precipi-
tation, and less variation of temperature
than in other sections of the continent, yet
it is not all sunshine. There are cloudy and
there are stormy days. There are days that
have considerable wind. There are times
when it is dangerous to expose one's self!
There is an intelligent way to take advan-
tage of the conditions prevalent here, and
there is an erroneous way. There is, per-
haps, no section possessing so great a union
of nature's forces favoring restoration to
health, yet caution must be .exercised if
proper advantage be taken of it."
***
" New Mexico is by far the most favor-
able residence in the United States for
those predisposed to or affected with
phthisis. * * * In a service of three
years in New Mexico, during which period
I served at eight different stations, I saw
but three cases of phthisis, and these were
in persons recently arrived from elsewhere."
• — W. A. Hammond, ex-Surgeon-General
U. S. A.
* * *
Dr. S. D. Swope, of Deming, N. M., con-
tributes an article to the American Prac-
titioner and News on the advantages of the
Western plateau in the treatment of phthisis
pulmonalis. Among other things he says :
"I conclude that southern New Mexico
comes nearer fulfilling all the requirements
for the advantageous treatment of pulmo-
nary diseases than any other region with
which I am familiar. * * * I do feel war-
ranted in asserting that most phthisical
patients sent to this climate in time, placed
in desirable surroundings and given the
regular palliative and supporting treat-
ment, will come nearer recovering from
phthisis than under any other now known
treatment."
Dr. Frank E. Waxham, writes to the Jour-
nal of the American Medical Association,
on the subject of "Where Shall We Send
Our Tubercular Patients?" The following
extracts are taken from that portion of his
article referring to New Mexico:
"Arriving at Las Vegas (altitude of 6,500
feet) we find a thrifty and inviting little city
of 6,000 people. Five miles from Las Vegas
are the hot springs, where there is a good
sanatorium. On account of the altitude the
winter climate is still too much like that of
Colorado; the summer climate, however, is
excellent.
"Santa Fe" is a quaint old city, one of the
oldest in the United States, and still half
Mexican. The altitude is 7,000 feet, too
great for most invalids. The summers are
most delightful and the air is pure, dry and
exhilarating. As a summer retreat from the
hot plains of New Mexico it is an ideal
place. Weather bureau statistics show that
Santa Fe is more wind.-free in winter than
any other place in New Mexico. While
winter nights are occasionally severe, yet
winter days are drier, sunnier and warmer
than anywhere in Colorado, and anywhere
else in New Mexico, north of Socorro.
"Albuquerque is a city of 10,000, one-half
Mexican. The altitude is 5,000 feet. There
are many good boarding houses. The
rates are from $8 to $10 a week. I look
upon the climate of Albuquerque as one of
the very best to be found in the southwest.
The winters are warm and delightful, and
while the summers are hot, they are not
distressingly so. The nights are fairly com-
fortable, even in the warmest season.
"There are but few cities in New Mexico
that offer many inducements to invalids,
and when we have mentioned Las Vegas,
Santa Fe and Albuquerque we have named
them all, with the possible exception of Las
Cruces, Silver City, Deming and Carlsbad.
"Las Cruces is a village of 3,000 and
has an altitude of 3,800 feet. It is south of
Albuquerque, and but forty miles from
El Paso. The winter climate is ideal. There
is hardly a day in the whole winter that one
cannot safely and comfortably sit out in the
sun all day long. The houses are adobe and
usually but one story in height. The board-
ing houses are few in number and only a
small number of patients can be accommo-
dated. Excellent board and comfortable
lodging for about one dozen invalids can be
had at the Alameda.
"Silver City is a mining town of 3,000. It
has an altitude of 5,800 feet. The climate is
magnificent, there being but thirty-seven
cloudy days in the year.
"Going still farther south we enter south-
western Texas at El Paso. The altitude is
3,000 feet and the population 10,000. The
hotels are fairly good and there are many
good boarding houses, but the number is
far too few to accommodate the many inva-
lids that flock here from all parts of the
north during the winter season. Board
varies from $8 to $15 a week. Many rent
furnished rooms and take their meals at the
Chinese restaurants, which are the best to
be found in the town."
Investigations carried on by the Hadley
Climatological Laboratory of the University
of New Mexico have shown that it is well
for consumptives to change altitude at least
2,000 feet every year or so, in order to get
maximum benefit of the climate and alti-
tude cure.
Distance ana Altitude.
PLACES.
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it
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675
285
6,622
1
716
325
5,768
LAS VEGAS
1,245
786
396
6,384
LAS VEGAS HOT SPRINGS .
1,251
793
402
6,767
SANTA FF*
1,328
869
479
6,939
ALBUQUERQUE ....
1,377
918
528
4,933
JEMEZ HOT SPRINGS . .
1,422
963
573
6,620
SULPHUR SPRINGS . . .
1,434
975
585
8,250
CAMP WHITCOMB . . .
i,395
936
546
8,000
Ojo CALIENTE ....
i,378
919
529
6,292
Los LUNAS
I "3Q7
938
548
4,833
SOCORRO
•"•OV/
994
603
4,567
SAN MARCIAL ....
M79
,021
630
4,439
LAS CRUCES
1,587
,128
738
3,873
FAYWOOD HOT SPRINGS .
1,632
,174
784
DEMING
1,607
,149
758
4,315
SILVER CITY
1,655
,197
806
5,796
CARLSBAD (See note t)
1,326
868
1,083
3,200
* Distances from Denver are figured via La Junta,
t Mileage from Chicago and Kansas City is com-
puted via Amarillo; from Denver via El Paso.
Index.
Page
ALAMEDA 25
ALBUQUERQUE 9
CAMP WHITCOMB 15
CARLSBAD 62
COYOTE MINERAL SPRINGS 12
DEMING 15
DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE 89
EFFICACY OF CLIMATE CURE 72
EL PASO 18
EL PORVENIR 33
FAYWOOD HOT SPRINGS 53
GLORIETA oo
HARVEY'S 33
HEALTH SEEKERS OF LIMITED MEANS ... 67
INTRODUCTION '..... 5
JEMEZ HOT SPRINGS 13
KELLY 57
LAS CRUCES 21
LAS VEGAS 31
LAS VEGAS HOT SPRINGS 35
MACBETH MINERAL SPRINGS 33
MAXWELL CITY 61
Ojo CALIENTE 51
OUTLINE MAP OF NEW MEXICO 91
RATON . 43
ROSWELL 66
SANTA FE 45
SELDEN HOT SPRINGS 29
SILVER CITY 52
SOCORRO 55
SPRINGER 59
SULPHUR SPRINGS 13
VAN PATTEN'S 27
WATER CANYON 57
WHAT DOCTORS SAY OF NEW MEXICO ... 76
WOODLAWN ORCHARD SANATORIUM .... 27
NEW MEXICO
; HEALTH
RESORTS
announcement*
US is one of a series of publications
issued by the Santa Fe descriptive
of the health and pleasure resorts
along its line*
Copies of the other books will be
mailed on application* While they are co-
piously and attractively illustrated with a
variety of typical Southwestern scenes,
the scope of this pamphlet requires that
the pictorial feature be restricted to merely
showing views of some of the principal
New Mexico towns, hotels and sana-
toriums.
AD. 93-12-30-01. IOM.
Santa Fe
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