Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-08-31
A new SANITARIUM
Minnesota Capitalists Will Be in
This City Next Month to Con-
slider the Project.
DR.. EROSION IS INTERESTED
The Institution is to Be Located on ]. N,
Nogal's Ranch Near This City Known
as Sunny Pinecroft.

DR.. Francis Crosson, of Minnesota,
who regained his health in the sunshine
of Santa Fe, has written j. M. Nagel,
the ranchman, about a mile from the
city, that at the beginning of next
month he and a party of Minneapolis
capitalists will come to this city with a
view of purchasing a site for a large
sanitarium on Mr.. Nagers ranch,
known as Sunny Pinecroft, and within
a year erect a large building thereon for
tuberculous patients.
DR.. Crosson is of the opinion that the
best climate in the world for consump-
tives is to be found in New Mexico, that
the best conditions in New Mexico for
the largest class of consumptives are at
Santa Fe, and that the %sunniest spot
and the n adapted for a sanitarium is
at the foot of the ridge, where Sunny
Pinecroft is situated.
Mr.. Nagel himself is a living witness
OF what climate can do for a mar
whom the physicians have given up as
NN~N' - IA AClC lOI AEdllu ITOIH
Missouri years ago, and for "a time en-
gagged in business. In Missouri he had
been a landscape gardener, who planned
several of the most beautiful parks in
st. Louis, Kansas City and Jefferson
City, at which latter place he laid out
he capitol grounds. 1t was rather a
rough transition at first from a sue
cessful landscape gardener, contractor
and business man to a .rancher who
first had to make a ranch out Of land
overgrown with an underground of
pinon and cut through by deep arroyos.
But he recognized the beauty of the
place at once. Swallowed by the noun
tains clad with frs 60 feet high; with
two or three natural reservoir sites,
with IA brook purling down the hillside;
with a view that is unrivalled, and ex-
tending over 1,5OO square miles, with
mountains 10000 to 1900 feet high as a
frame; with shelter from wind and
sand storm; with the greatest maxi
mum Of sunshine, and with limitless
possibilities for landscape gardening, he
thought it an. ideal place, and bought
500 acres at as cheap a figure as similar
land not under cultivation can be
bought in New Mexico to-day.
He set to work building himself a
modest home, cleared the ground for
cultivation, set out an orchard, built a
small reservoir, laid a pipe line from it
tn hiC Ihnl1Cn n EJfrfnno n 80 Enn -xo.1.
beautified the surroundings, encour-
aged the growth Of pine, pinon and fir
on land he did not need for cultivation,
bought surrounding land, and to-day
his ranch, after seven years of work, is
worth as many dollars per acre as he
paid cents for it. In all this time he
has had a comfortable living upon it,
regained his health, and can soon con-
slider himself a wealthy man. This is
an example which more of the "lung-
ers" coming to this country should fol-
low. Instead of starting up in some
overcrowded business, trying to crowd
into the trades and professions, or going
back to their homes deluded by the idea
that they can now do without New
Mexico climate, they should take up
land, improve it, and in the course of
years they will regain health, perhaps
have accumulated wealth, and will have
learned to love their adopted territory
so much as to be unwilling to leave it.
Mr.. Nagel has great success with his
orchard. While the fruit crop in the |
valley was a failure, he had a fair yield
of fine fruit this year. The reason is the |
sheltered position of the ranch, and the
fact that in winter, spring and autumn
the temperature on the ranch is always
2 to 5 degrees higher than it is in the
city, and the late frosts do not reach up
to the mountain side. The water supply |
to the ranch Is inexhaustible, and If the
reservoir sites were utilized
Of cubic feet of water could be
Such reservoirs could also be
as fishing and pleasure lakes,
undoubtedly il DR.. Crosson's prof.
act goes through that will be done.
Mr.. Nagel has erected a rural pavil-
ion, swings, a lava grotto and other at
fractions nea his home. He Is a sue
,essful cattle raiser, and has command
II good rich milk and cream; he has a
,ider press going at present, and man.
fractures delicious sweet cider and also
cider vinegar. Poultry, horses, burros
are also part of the belongings of the
'anch. Mr.. NageIs sons have been do
ng much prospecting in the surround
ng mountains, and have located twelve
MICA claims, while silver and gold are
ound on the ranch; in fact, one of the
liAs sftuated on the ranch is partly
Composed Of low-grade gold quartz.
The view from the ranch Is magnif-
'ent. Right below apparently lies the
picturesque city Of Santa Fe, with the
apitol very conspicuous and the quaint !
louses partly hidden by orchards. Fur
her On in the same direction the view .
weeps to the Cochiti mountains, with
heir canons plainly visible in the morn
ng sum-, and the smoke from Buckman's
awmill and the ore mills OF Bland and
Ilbemarle ascending to the sky. South
yard. northward, and closely in the {
ear to the east loom gigantic mountain (
lasses, colored from dark blue to a rich {
urple, while in between are visible
canons and stretches Of the
mesa, with fertile spots and
dobe houses here and there. And then
ne all-pervading sunshine and odor OF '
and fir Il all IA rn1,rd [
Mr.. Nagel this year quietly COM :
lenced the building Of a sanitarium :
, demonstrate to visitors or capitalists
Is ideas Of a sanitarium. He has fol- {
,wed the suggestions Of DR.. Koch, the 8
crowned German specialist on lung !