Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-08-08
MERITS OF OJO CALIENTE.
Interesting Account of Famous
Health Resort That should he
Treated as An Annex to
santa Fe.

ought TO claim OJo Callente as ner own
particular Sloan, advertise it rs promi-
nent among her attractions to visitors
and among her advantages to health
seekers.
Indeed, would it not pay to procure a
concession from the proprietor and put
up Santa Fe house with all modern i'm
provements? 1t could be delightfully."-
warmed with water heated in works not
made by hands, lasting as the everlasting
hills, furnished with correctives and cures
for life's ills, which nature, pre-, eminent
physician and druggist, compounded in
her moods of kindness and wisdom.
oJo oALIENTE SHOULD HAVE A RAILROAD.
1t is to be hoped that the Denver &
Rio Grande railroad will sometime build
to OF Caliente. Beyond doubt rail
road to this point would emphasize, as
no other instrumentality could, the won
derful claims of these thermal springs,
and would increase the attendance ten
fold. 1t is only since the Denver d. Rio
Grande pluckiy pushed into these noun
tains that there was railroad anywhere
near Ojo Caliente. AS late as 1870, when
most other springs we're accessible, when
the Arkansas Hot Springs were attract
ing general attention, Ojo Caliente was
500 miles from the nearest railroad sta
tion, among hostile Indians and noun
tains, formidable as the sea, on an uncon-
firmed Spanish land grant, which grant
was not confirmed until twenty-four
years later. 1t is not strange that with
title unsettled, improvements at Ojo
Caliente have been belated, and ont of
proportion to the great merits and posi-
bilities of the springs and tho climate, yet
much effort and much money have been
given to render the virtues of these great
curative agents available to the sick and
suffering.
DAILY STAGE LINE.
There is daily stage from these
springs to connect at Barranca with the
Denver & Rio Grande trains. Its twelve
mile run is not by severe mountain-road,
but is made, even by invallds, with com
fort. Ten baths have been provided, in
different kinds of waters that nature has
cunningly and inimitably prepared, while,
readily had, are various drinking waters
fresh from the fountains, among others,
lithia, iron, arsenic, soda, etc. Comforta-
bic lodging rooms have been provided
with ample sunny portals. The fare is
excellent with variety to meet varying
appetites.
The guests now here are from various
localities, as Denver, Chicago, Los An
geles, CAL, Ration, Las Vegas, Cripple
Greek. etc.
There is much in the surroundings of
| Ojo Caliente to interest the archnologist,
the entomologist and the general scientist.
Near by are the remains of the habita-
tions of cliff dwellsrs; the Aztec ruins
where excavations have been made with
most interesting revelations, notably those
made by Judge VIM. M. Springer, ex-
member of congress, of Illinois.
ONE CAN VISIT THE VOLCANO,
which was probably responsible for the
overwhelming of certain prehistoric cities
whose remains are to be seen to-day.
Then there ia Mexican village across
the Rio Caliente and an old church
scarcely more youthful than Santa Fe's
San Miguel, for it is we'll known that Ojo
Caliente is the third Oldest Spanish set
Element of the country, being out ranked
by only San Gabriel, ten miles distant,
and by Santa Fe.
It is also we'll known that these springs
we're discovered and named by Cabeza de
Vaca in 1854. In the City of Mexico,
describing the wonders of the country to
Co., hoA ko kaok
treasures that he found the strange peo-
pie to possess were some hot springs
which burst out at the foot of a mountain
that gave evidence of being an active
volcano; that
so EFFECTIVE WE'RE THE WATERS
in diseases that the people believed that
they were given to them by their god.
"From the effects of the waters on my
remaining men," he added, 81 am inclined
to-think that they will do many things
not possible with our doctors for they
have relieved two of my men of the most
terrible forms of disease. These springs
l named Ojo Caliente."
1t seems an impertinence for me to de.
or to any New Mexico readers Hon. An
tonic Joseph and his charming wife. But
their courtesy, Kindness and conspicuous
qualities as entertainers are tempting
sub jects for writer. Mr.. Joseph is now
much occupied with various lines of his
home work, alfalfa harvesting among
others. He makes four cuttings season
from his plant.
SUGGESTIVE PICTURE.
1t is suggestive picture, this man who
for ten years was the preferred represen.
tative OF his territory in congress, retired
from the tumultuous political arena, cheer
fully engaging himself with the most
peaceful avocation of private life.
SARAH WINTER KELLOGG.
Notice for Publication.
LSmall Holding Claim No. All