Cañon City record., 1898-06-09
uUTHoRITIEs generally

number of the sanatoria for the treat
ment of Phthisis are located far
above sea level. The large number
of patients sent yearly to Colorado is
evidence that this view is accepted ny
a majority of the profession in the
eastern states.
DIR. Solly, of Colorado Springs, in
his excellent work on Medical China
tology," has shown from the results
in large number of cases that in all
stages of the disease of IS per cent.
more cases are cured in highland eli
mates than in lowland; while in the
second and third stages 63 per cent.
are cured in high to % per cent. in
lowland climates. The effects of high
attitudes, as has been proven by
number of experiments, the in
crease in the number of red blood
corpuscles, hamoglobin and the power
of absorbing oxygen, the increased
lung expansion and the physiological
enlargement of the heart, are all indi-
Gated in the treatment of all wasting
diseases of which Consumption is
essentially one.
Owing to the topography of the
state there is great difference in
the climate Of different places which
may not be widely separated. The
altitude, its location with regard to
mountains which may protect it, may
make the climate of one town radically
different from that of another which
may be but a few miles away from it.
The purpose of this article is to
call the attention of the reader to the
climate of Canon City, Colorado, as
meeting all the requirements in the
treatment of wasting diseases and
particularly of tuberculosis to great
er degree than. that of any other
place now-known, and as place of
residence during the whole year for
sick and well.
Canon City: Population 5000, alti-
tude 5. 1868 feet, is situated in broad
fertile valley supposed to have been
the bed of prehistoric lake-a
natural amphitheatre from five to ten
miles in diameter, with walls of noun
tains on three sides and open to the
east and presents an almost ideal
location for q sanatorium.
The town Is the third Oldest in the
state and has water works, sewers
and electric light and power plants.
Its people, largely recruited from the
eastern states are of high order both
intellectually and morally. The town
is famed among western towns for its
beautiful shaded streets. There are
churches of eight denominations and
schools second to none in the state.
A free library of over 5000 volumes
is maintained by Ladies' Library
Association.
The valley is divided into small
farms or ranches of from two to
ten acres on which are raised by irri-
cation fruits and berries whose flavor
and general excellence are equalled
by those of no other locality.
There are hot and cold effervescent
Mineral Springs containing sodium
chloride and the carbonates of soda,
lime and magnesium, with traces of
iron and lithia.
The cost of living is moderate and
the hotels, boarding houses, and
ranches where an occasional tourist
is taken in, are good. Fruits and
vegetables of prime excellence are
grown at home and are cheap.
Picnics to the many eahons and
mountains are pleasant and popular
every month in the year and one
might picnic every week in the year
and not go to the same place twice.
The entrance TO the Grand Canon of
the Arkansas and the Royal Gorge are
but one mile from town, and the other
canons, streams and mountains are
source of continual delight to the
amateur photographer, while the bot
anist and geologist can never exhaust
the wonders of flowers and rocks.
The sanitation of the city is excel
lent the resident death rate for 1897
being but a fraction over six per
thousand. Sunstrokes are unknown
and the plasmodium malaria has never
found us out. tuberculosis which
originated here is practically unknown.
From the annual report of the
Weather Bureau for 1897 We find the
annual mean temperature is 53e F.,
which is about the same as that of
Asheville, N. c.: is about 10 higher
than that of Las Vegas. N. NJ, and
is GO higher than that of Colorado
Springs.
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