Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1903-06-06
SUNM0UNT
TENT CITY
Improvements Progressing
and General Activity
Noticeable at the
Resort.
MOST BEAUTIFUL LOCATION
Santa Fe System, Denver & Rio
Grande and Santa Fe Cen.
trail Railway Taking An
Active Interest.


Each mail brings an increased num-
ber of inquiries about the Tent City on
Sunmount. Many of the queries are
from celebrated physicians and others
in different parts of this country ard
Canada who desire to locate colonies
of healthseekers, or who will send pa
tients afflicted with lung or throat
trouble and people who need rest
and change of climate, to Santa Fe,
now that adequate accommodations
are being provided for them at this
resort. However, work will have to be
rushed at the Tent City to accommo-
date those who have already made APP
plication to avail themselves imme-
diately of the unparalleled health OPP
portunities that this place offers, OPP
portunities which are presented at no
sanitarium and at no other health re-
sort.
The executive building, with a 'front.'
age of 83 feet, has been about complet-
ed, excepting the painting which Will
be white. In fact, white will be the
color Of all buildings and improve
ments and with it's white buildings
and white tents against the green ce-
dar and pinon, and set high on gent
ly sloping hill. the Tent City can be
seen afar.
The daily mail brings letters from
physicians and men of capital who de-
sire to locate colonies at sunmount,
and A. r. Gibson, one of the owners,
will probably leave in few days for
the east to have personal conferences
with physicians and others who are
urging him to confer with them rela-
tive to sending, people ito this climate.
AS he expects TO so east anyway TO
attend the annual meeting 81 the Am
erican Consolidated Copper Company
at Columbus, O., of which he is presi-
dent, the trip will result In bringing
persons desiring change of climate
to Sunmount as fast as accommoda-
tions can be provided for them.
Arrangements were completed today
for the extension of the telephone line
of the Santa Fe Telephone Company to
the Tent City, and Mr.. Gibson, be-
fore leaving for the east will complete
arrangements for all details that will
make Sunmount model resort ana
CITY. Situated as it Is on the south-
eastern slope Of the pine clad santa
Fe range, and enjoying higher per-
centage of sunshine than the Wealth.
er bureau records anywhere else, ioca-
ted at an altitude that Is invigorating
and in a pure, dry and aseptic atmos-
phere, protected from sand and wlno
storms. free from malaria, mosquitoes
and other insect pests, and In climate
which a commission OF prominent
French physicians several years ago
pronounced the best in the world TOT
the cure of lung and throat trouble
the location, of course, offers attrac-
tions that even aside from its splendid
accommodat tons at reasonable rates.
it's facilities and it's conveniences OF
city life. its proximity to the plctur-
esque city of Santa Fe and It's peauti-
full and interesting scenic, historic and
nrehistoric surroundings, It's magnifi-
cent view over the lovely Santa re
valley. bound only by the cloud pierre
tho neaks of the Cochiti, Sandia, Or
tiz, South, Santa Fe and tributary
ranges. Sunlnount is bound to pc tne
most famous and the most successru
health and pleasure resort on TINS con-
tinent.
The Tent City addition has been en-
closed in order that shrubbery ane
trees can be protected and pure wa
ter from the mountain has been pipet
"a the site. The tents thus far erecte|
face the Arroyo Chamiso. The VIA
straets and boulevards named afte
tho states have been laid out and VII
he lined with tents as fast as they cal
ha erected, while not far away VIII
spring up suburb OF beautifui col
tages. :,
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa +
Railway, and the Denver ana ~
crande Railroad, as we'll as the SAINT
Re Central Railway, are taking espec
,a,,v active interest in this model Ten
CITY. which will be a prosperous SUI
nrh Of Santa Fe, and they Will one
every facility to heathseekers all
others to reach it. The compietlol
the Santa Fe Central Railway IN Jul
OF this year, will give an aad''lon' m
route from the east, especialiy' lto'
points reached by the great fSocA =
land system, its many branches o.
it's connections. and this roao WIN
every way possible promote the i'''e
ests of sunmount. The hnahclal su
cess of the Tent City is no iohset
Question. the point now is to proVl'
accommodations as fast as they . :.
demanded. to Increase still further q
haantv and to extend the facilities al
.conveniences which are already
comprehensive and notable.
Those who sample our wines. liquo
and cigars always call again. J. Wei
bergers. south side Plaza.