Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-07-29

eS, WAS greatly impressed oH LuaG
trip" replied the governor, with the
Urgent necessity for a summer resort in
this vicinity, and with the loss we are
suffering by delay in preparing to meet
the demand. Everyone i'll Texas who
can get away in the hot season is anxious
to do so, and many thousands follow that
inclination. This is the most convenient
as well as the best place for them to 60
to, and it is our own fault that they dc
not come. Then, OF course, there is the
great section OF country to the eastward
in Kansas and Missouri, where it is as
hot as furnace in summer, and from
which we ought to get fair proportion oil
summer boarders. And whenever we
are ready to accommodate them, and
present the necessary attractions, the far
east will be as ready to send soIourners
here, as to California, Washington or
Colorado"
"You are speaking of simply of sum
mer residents?'
Eyes, had them specially in mind,
but we all know that we have wonder
full year around climate, infinitely super
ior, both summer and winter, to Colorado
Springs, and very soon we Ould get the
same class of permanent residents that
have built up that town and made it so
beautiful"
"What do you think should be done to
bring people here?'
1.-The first thing is to have places in
l., hat 4
difficulty now. There are no accommodate
tons for them. Probably fifty letters a
week come here inquiring as to places to
board, but no satisfactory answer can he
given. The Sanitarium is always full
and besides they can take no one but in
vaids. | see that the Palace hotel has
Just concluded to accommodate season
bcarders, and no doubt will soon be filled,
but that will not help very much. As
careful an estimate as can be made shows
that an average of at least 500 persons
would pass the summer here the first
season that Santa re is ready for them,
and not less than | 800 or : 1000 the sec
ond season. What We need are hall
dozen hotels and dozen boarding houses
built in pleasant localities, with plenty OF
shade and all the attractions which PEG.
pie look for in the summer. As soon as
the start is made the future will take care
of itself. One person draws another; the
presence OF several hundred pleasant So
iourners not only forms a society agree
able to themselves, but attracts hundreds
of others to enjoy it with them"
'And you think the people will surely
come when there are accommodations for
them ?"
81 have not a doubt of it, Santa Fe
is made for a residence and tourist
place. 1t has attractions which no other
can equal. It's climate is unsurpassed.
Then it is universally known. Its name
is familiar everywhere. 70 the eastern
mind there is a romance connected with
its history which is very attractive, and
is of ncalculable value to it as a resort.
1t has beautiful and interesting surround
ings, to hold the travellers when they
come. The trouble is that we have
neglected all these advantages. We
have tried to work against nature instead
of with her. Some of our old people
can not forget that Santa Fe was a COM
mercal town in the days of the trail, and
therefore think it ought to be so still
That was all ended when the railroads
came, and made Kansas City the dis
tributing point. Others have an idea
that for some unknown reason it ought
to be manufacturing town. So we have
wasted ten years in pursuing the I'M
attainable while Colorado Springs, with
not a 1.-THE of our advantages, has taken
the place that we should have had. Just
suppose the people of Newport, which
used to have more shipping than New
York, had wasted their energies in a
vain endeavor to fight with fate and to
retain their commercial position. They
would simply have lost their opportuni-
ties. Nature designed Newport for a
great watering place, and her people
wisely exerted themselves to add to its
attractions, by building splendid roads
and utilizing every loot of beach and
rocky shore, until Bellevue avenue be-
came the most beautiful in Amer
lea, and the city is magnificent
assemblage of splendid residences.
Or suppose the people Of Saratoga had in,
sisted on building cotton factory or a
rolling mill instead of constructing the
drive to the lake, identifying the park at
Congress Spring and planting the trees
that add so much 10 its attractions. 1t
would be no more important than Cohoes
or Gloversvlle.
"The natural destiny of Santa Fe is as
plain as that OF Newport or Saratoga. 1t
starts with more attractions than any
western place. Many an eastern resort
has commenced its career on no more
than the Aztec spring or the volcano a.
the Picacho. Why, st. Augustine has
nothing but Fort Marion and its old gate
way. The Garita alone would boom an or
binary watering place, and the ruins of old
TT. Marcy with the view from them would
be sufficient to insure success. The old
est church and the oldest house are at
fractions to tourists unmatched else
where and the ancient palace with its