Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-01-21
DR.. DUNCAN'S VIEWS.
The President of the American Health
Resort Association Talks of
Santa Fe's Bright
Future.
doctors who are not PhilaDtrO pists-
The Sanitarium Work and Local
Cn-operation-Pecos Park
and Railroads.
OFFICE OF THE AMERICAN !
Health Resort Association. {


Health Resort Association
To the Editor of the Now Mexican.
CHICAGO, ILL.,, Jan. 14.-I take this oc.
caSlon to thank your good people for the
courtesics extended to me and Mrs. Dun.
can, aud on behalf of the American
Health Resort association l thank them
Tor making our stay so pleasant. Mrs.
Duncan has exhibited the curiosities she
picked up in Santa Fe and has aroused
the anxiety of many of our ladies' to
visit the quaint and curious points OF
interest in your territory. hope your
people will make special fort to be rem
resented at the Worlds fair, and it might
be a good idea for New Mexico to have
also an additional exhibit at some central
point in the city. | hear from various
points much interest manifested in New
Mexico. / hope you will get the national
park which you have set out to secure,
| learned iron Washington that YOUR
representative is working earnestly for it.
and have sent him letter to the presi-
dent indorsng it from a sanitary and
health point of view.
Since my return many people have
come to me making inquiries about New
Mexico, both from health as well as a
financial standpoint, and | am pleased
that made SO thorough an inspection OF
the territory so that | can satisfy in q
measure these inquiries.
TIE sANIrARIUM AND OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. !"
The question of our establishing sani.
tarium in your locality and at other points,
perhaps, has brought me numerous COM
muncations from all over the country,
and your section is evidently getting a
good deal of advertising. To-day a prom
inent physician from neighporing city
called on me-a man of wide influence
and he was pleased to learn what We were
doing to spread the news that New Mexi-
co is good place for consumptives.
But" he added, show is that going to
help US doctors individually w
by the way, We have discovered an
undercurrent OF opposition. expected it
ever since one physician OF whom | in
quired where he sent his consumptives,
replied: "To heaven;' while another
quietly added, 81 hold on to them as long
as | can " have received a number of
letters the burden of which was, ''you are
trying to send away from US our most
profitable patients"
So you see that physicians are not all
phlanthropists, and that it will take more
than chrome to get some suffering peo-
pie out OF the sickly east into the healthy
west. But there are various methods of
accom- mplishlng this in spite OF any under
current of opposition.
IN UNISON FOR GENERAL GOOD.
Therefore let me right here emphasize
fact that l hope your people, wherever
they are, will keep steadily in mind. On
the map Of the United States, or on the
small railroad folders, the territory of New
Mexico does not appear larger than good
farm and when we say "New Mexico for
they can comprehend our
general aim. Many people, whose atten.
ton has not been called to it, hardly know
whether New Mexico is a town, city,
county or a state you must advertise the
facts.
am constantly receiving letters from
your territory in which there is mild
current of criticism because / do not en-
phasize their given point in preference to
every other. New Mexico is a large terri
tory, but it does not compare with Cali
torna, and 60 where you would in that
state, heard only praise for the climate
OF California and not the first criticism or
lnyidious com mparsons. New Mexico
should be united in helping us emphasize
the single four words-the heading of
many an advertisement now appearing
in medical journals-that stand out bold
ly;
NEW MEXICO FOR CONSERVATIVES"
New Mexico has variety of climates
for the different seasons and l do not
know of any section, that can offer ad-
to the great variety Of forms of
dis ases and classes OF people who seek
change OF climate for weak lungs, as your
territory.
By the way, the editors or representa-
tives OF these various medical journals will
doubtless visit New Mexico soon, many
OF them, probably, during the coming
Yonr city being off the main
line OF travel, fear it will not get the full
benefit Of theae visits. 1t is immaterial
now perhaps to recall the reason why you
are on Il branch, but if there is any pos
sible way of securing the main artery of
eastern travel to pass through your city,
no effort should be spared to obtain it.
Ii you get the National park, as | be.
lieve you will, an extension of the road
from Las Vegas hot springs through the
park and on to Santa Fe certainly would
be desirable. About the engineering and
financial difficulties others would have to
decide. OF course the expense would be
large but united effort
HAS ACCOMPLISHED SUCH THINGS.