Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-11-21
CARLSBAD THE
BEAUTIFUL.
Its Climatic and Its Other Natural
Advantages are Second Only
to Those of Santa Fe,
PEARL OF PECOS VALLEY.
There is Plenty Of Water for Irrigation
Its Mineral Springs are Bound to Be-
come World Famous-Its Rail
way Connections.

| Carlsbad, the capital of Eddy county
has been much written about, in pros,
and verse; it is a town that was ere
ated by push and energy that took hole
of the natural advantages that existed
in the lower Pecos valley and advertis
| ing has been no small factor in making
| Carlsbad prosperous and a beautiful
| town. All the expectations once had O.
| Carlsbad becoming a big city have moi
yet been realized the time since its
founding having been too short, but il
| nevertheless possesses the making OF
big and prosperous city.
George r. Caldwell, journalist OF
Carlsbad, this week, in some Of the
leading eastern papers had a descrip-
tion of Carlsbad that is literary gem
aside from the information it gives of
the town and it's people. Some liberal
extracts from the article herewith fol-
low:
Carlsbad is as famous for it's climate
as it is for it's curative waters. The
annual temperature ranges from pos
sible zero to a possible 10 degrees
above, while even the average wind
from the north during the winter
months is as soft and balmy as the
traditional spring zephyr in more
northern latitudes Snow falls occa-
sionally, but abides not the presence
of the brilliant Pecos valley winter sun.
The great Carlsbad mineral spring is
two and one-half miles from the town,
and near it is a second spring of near
ly equal flow-the Carlsbad itself
pouring forth it's medicinal waters at
the rate of $500 gallons per minute,
while it's sister spring flows 1900 gal
Ions per minute. These healing waite
ers are specially efficient in the cure of
all stomach and kidney troubles, and
in this respect resembles the waters
OF the great Friedrichshall springs of
Germany, the only analytical difference
in the waters being greater proper
ton of magnetism salts in the German
springs.
These potent climatic and medicinal
facts will compel the erection at an
early day of mammoth Carlsbad
sanitarium, the site of which will, very
probably, be on Hagerman heights, a
beautiful suburb overlooking both
Carlsbad and her spring. Experience
has already amply demonstrated the
extraordinary curative properties of the
Carlsbad air in all lung and throat
troubles and the health giving and
health restoring fame of both her cli-
mate and medicinal waters is bringing
to the town annually increasing num-
bers of health seekers.
The springs of the Pecos valley are
Pecos river, constitute an exhaustless
reinforcement of the rivers irrigation
waters. So true and pronounced is this
that it is estimated that the tributary
springs along any portion of the course
of the Pecos river will furnish them
selves sufficient water for all possible
local irrigation purposes.
VAST RESERVOIRS.
Carlsbad is the seat of Eddy county
and is the center of an irrigation dis
trict whose reservoirs have a storage
and active capacity of five billion cubic
feet of water the system having thirty
five miles of main canal with corre-
spending minor canals and laterals.
The soil is most fertile and yields in
profusion and market excellence all of
the products of the orchard, the field
and the garden. The peaches of the To-