The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-12-28
COLONY OF SUN FATHERS.
Health Seekers in the Colorado De
 cort

Health Seekers in the Colorado De-
 sert
 Sunbath, in the center of the Colorado
 Desert in San Diego County, Cal, is tc j, be made a health resort and Arizona
 capitalists have already ordered lumber
 for large sanatorium, says J. K. Han i ming, of Phoenix, Ariz.,~at the St. James
 Hotel. The town has already been laid
 out, and there are at present between l fifty and sixty invalids living there in
 tents A majority of them were suffer- l ing from consumption in it's last stages, and went to Phoenix as a last resort. In the Arizona town they heard of what 1 is locally known as the sunbath treat ment and went to the location in the | desert where others had preceded | them. In two years there have been | but two deaths among the pilgrims, and a majority of them have improved to wonderful extent, while no less than fifteen have departed for their Eastern homes entirely cured.
 "The fact that the climate in this out of the way place is always warm and dry is one of the first reasons why those afflicted with lung trouble improve so TdplulN tH6Te, eNpldlIIeu MT. T1dH1lIlS, but the real reason, we believe, lies In the treatment they undergo. They spend the greater part of the day in an almost completely nude condition. The colony has its own laws, one of which is that by 8 o'clock in the morning of each day the men leave the camp and journey half mile to the other side of a slight sand hill rise, where they remain until noon. They then dress and return to dinner, and in the afternoon the wo- men make the same pilgrimage, the ob ject being to provide the exercise of walking for both men and women, as we'll as to permit of the use of as scanty clothing as possible. At the point where we are to locate the town and sanator- ium of Sunbath the desert is over one hundred feet below the level of the sea- and for many years it was thought to be impossibsle to live there. Since then, however, a number of companies have investigated the place. and found that not only was the clma tic condition con- ducive to longevity, but that it was possible to pipe water from the Color ado River and irrigate the soil in such way that almost anything will grow there.
 ''The efficacy of the sunbath treat ment was first suggested by the health of the Indians, but it was later proved by an actor who was given up for dead several times, but who came to Phoenix, bought a horse and tent, and went out on the desert and lived, wearing no more clothing than a breechclout day in and day out. He is now well and strong and back in his profession.
 ''The intention of the company l rep resent Is to build two large inclosures, one for men and the other for women, fitted up much after the style of the cooling rooms in Turkish bath, with settees, couches, attendants, etc., where the sunbaths may be enjoyed without the necessity of the present colony scheme. The sanatorlum building is to be constructed on new and novel prn- ciples, and the windows will never be closed except when the weather is ex- treme. We will discourage any rail- ways, and will endeavor to make the resort exclusive, the application of pa- tients to be voted on by what will be known as a membership committee. Denver Republican.