Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-27
F0LS0M!
FOLSOM, THE BEAUTIFUL! FOLSOM,
THE CHARMING!
Folsom. the Delightful! The Health
Giving! The Life Preserving
CAPULINl THE GRAND! THE MAGNIFI-
CENT!

Folsom Springs, a romantic watering
place near the famous extinct volcano,
CaQulin, in the northeast corner Of New
Mexico, and on the great transconti-
Mental route, between Fort Worth and
Denver, so widely known as the Texas
Panhandle route, - was named for that
beautiful and accomplished lady who
recently presided at the White House, as
a compliment to her and her family.
There are few places in the United
States where all the requirements neces-
sary for perfect summer health resort
can be found; in fact, there are few such
places anywhere.
The writer of this article was once Wis
tied by member Of a French
commission, who were looking for
desirable place for the estab-
lishmeut of sanitarium for con-
sumptives: and the necessary number of
things desired made it almost impossible
for US, with a wide range of study and
ample opportunity Of investigation, to
suggest just such a place anywhere in the
United States. The more important
requirements were:
!. Railroad accommodations and rea-
sonablc proximity to some large city.
,. An altitude of about G000 feet.
3. Such a distance from the ocean
as would secure dryness.
4. Good, pure water, and some having
mineral qualities, nagnesia and soda, so
as to have an apperient effect.
,. Grand mountain scenery, to stimu-
late the Imagination, and walks and
drives for exercise.
s. Pine, fir and other trees OF that
family, for the sake Of a resinous atmos-
phere.
EUREKA! EUREKt,''
Now, kind reader, will you think over
the spots you know and see if you can find
one having all the requirements? You
will find many places having some of
these points, but ca you find one hav-
ing all Of them? In Folsom all of these
requirements are found. If the philoso-
pher Of Syracuse could rush up and down
the street crying "Eureka!' when he
had solved an abstruse mathematical
problem, how much more can we say,
with joy for the world, 81 hare found
it. -
FOR THE OVERWORKED Or INVALID.
=
som, which of two points to put forward
as the more important to oveTwUrked and
diseased humanity-that of rest and re-
creation, or that of recovery from dis
ease.
For the tired, overworked teamwork
ing man or woman of Texas and Louis
lana, no spot offers such a complete rest
as Folsom in summer, 5000 feet above
the sea. The air is pure, soft and invig-
Grating. The delicious GOODNESS, which,
comes on at sunset, requiring blankSt.
or two for ones eouch at nightS.
and invites tired nature sweet
restorer, baYEay Sleep To flee from the
bot, murky coast ofsthe gulf of Mexico,
and rest amOng$ the rocks and crags of
the Ration rangexs5s to take on new life
and vigor; it is 1sEe being born again.
How delightfdaabe day dreams, wan
deriEg up and Sdown the charming
Cimarron, resting Beneath the pines on
such soft, velsety gTaEs, listening to the
tender musiesof the pifes, as they sigh of
love and sweet repose
How grand and aweeinspiring is the
wonderful dome of oldas CapuIin, with
its crater top 5000 feet above the sea.
Perhaps, se1ne 1900 yesfs ago, when
Christ walked upon earth, it was
streams Of lava, but now you can loo k
down into its cold, quiet crater, 800 feet
deep, and see trees rooted i'll the beds of
obsidian-, the broken glass of the old vol-;
cano. Around Its base, where once
poured the molten lava, now is the most
luxurious vegetation. There are weeks
OF study for the geolOgist and naturalist
around this famous volcano and among
the canons and rocky points of the Ration
range.
There are no more fioTid sunsets, more
beautiful sky than can be seen at the
Cimarron, and the eye can be pleased
and delighted with an ever-varying land
scape.
In a short description like this, one
cannot say much of Folsom as a health
resort; but everything is in its favor.
The Consumptive one must find pre-emi-
nently two leading conditions: Altitude
and dryness. OF altitude, an eminent
medical writer on the cure of Consump-
ton SAYS: latitude is the most i'm
portant element. - This opinion Is
endorsed by DR.. Deunison of Denver,
whose standing among medical men can
not be questioned. Folsom has an alti1
tude about like Manitou-a little over
5000 feet. Dryness is not always a.
quality of altitude; but generally in the
Ration range, which is spur s. he
Rockies.
Southern Colorado, east of Trinidad,
is noted for its arYness, and this section
is but a short distance from Folsom.
DR.. DennIson, in his tract, entitled
''The Preferable Climate, - puts the
points gained in the Rocky mountain re-
gion by altitude in the following tabu-4
lated form:
Dryness as opposed to moisture. J
2. Goodness OF cold preferable tea
warmth or heat.
3. Rarefaction as opposed to ses-Ievel
pressure.
4. Sunshine as opposed to cloudiness.
5. Variability of temperature as op-a
posed TO equability.
1t would be idle for us to take up the
labor of trying, at this late date, to show
that consumption or asthma does 1ofs
originate in the moderately high aftf-
tudes of New Mexico, Arizona or Colo
rado, or that people by thousands have
been cured by going there, but we wish
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