Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1903-04-18
Special to the New Mexican.


le miles away, and the White Mountain.
n always proves interesting. The Capi
ls tan branch Of the Eel Paso and North
n eastern leaves the main line at Carri
e zozo. 1t winds over hill and plain, b.
: cattle ranches and small settlements
The ascent to the Indian divide is mad
d on a switch back.
There are two settlements at Captain
t North Captain, is the coal mining
e camp, at which live the 100 Americans
r Italians, Slovaks and Poles who are
: employed in the two mines at presen
5 being worked, No. l. nearest to the
= town, and No. 2 half way between
e North CAPTAIN and Captain. These two
mines yield 4S0 tons of a good quality
of coal daily, the coal from the latter
however, being superior to that of No
l. On the Indian divide and elsewhere,
: there are outcroppings of coal and all
around Captain are prospect holes in
coal measures. The mines are operated
by the Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
pany which has erected about 100 hous-
es, all frame and painted dark brown,
for it's employees, and number of pret-
ty cottages for it's officials. North Cap
itan looks much more cheerful and
| cleaner than the average coal mining
camp.
TOWN OF CAPTAIN.
| Captain lies half mile below North
Captain, and is the terminal of the Cap
| itan branch of the Ell Paso and North
eastern railway. 1t is picturesquely
situated with the snow-capped Sierra
Blanca or White Mountains in the back
ground. It's most conspicuous building
is a modern 2-story school house, a
monument to the enterprise of the peo-
pie of Captain. The town has a news
paper, half a dozen stores, blacksmith
shop, livery stable and other business
enterprises which all seem to do we'll
| for Captain commands the trade of the
country for miles around. Several Of
| the biggest cattle ranches of New
Mexico are tributary to the town.
FORT STANTON RESERVATION.
From Captain there is a good and
much Travelled road to Fort Stanton.
The road leaves the Captain valley
through a precipitous gap in the hill.
1t is only six miles from Captain to the
Fort Stanton military reservation. The
reserve is fenced in and upon it Craze
big bunch of fine cattle, and part of
it is under cultivation. The picturesque
Bonito, which carries large volume of
water at present, flows through the
reservation. The old fort lies at the
foot Of hill on the banks of the Boni- |
to and looks out upon the majestic |
White mountains which resemble the |
Santa Fe range in outline, at least from
this point. The buildings of the fort
make quite a nice sized town and q
large force of carpenters and masons is
at work at present enlarging and re-
pairing them. The houses are of stone,
adobe and frame of various styles of
architecture. The principal buildings
are grouped around Plaza that is COW
cred with a we'll kept lawn. The office |
and dispensary is a fine structure hav-
ing porch with massive Ionic columns.
The sanitarium and officers quarters all |
face the Plaza. An outer square is for |
med by the commissary, barracks, |
kitchen, dining room, saw mill and
barns. Owing to the crowded condition |
of the barracks, many of the patients
live in tents. benefiting much thereby |
in health. In the center Of the Plaza Is |
a high flag pole from which waves Old
Glory.
THE MARINE HOSPITAL.
AS Is we'll known, the Marine Hospital
or rather sanitarium for consumptives,
is located at Fort Stanton. Ever since
the sanitarum has been established,
DR.. P. M. Darlington has been in charge.
He is gathering very valuable data of
great benefit in treating the white
plague and has brought together at the
sanitarium remarkably complete
equipment of instruments and appara-
tus as we'll as Of medicines used in the
treatment of consumption. His bacter-
iologlcal laboratory enables him to car
ry a research along original lines. How
ever, little reliance is placed in medi-
cine, the chief curative agents are con-
sidered to be pure air, nourishing food
and rest The details of the regimen
and Of the dietary have been enumera-
ted so often that it will suffice to say
that they are very simple and conform
to the above three principles.
HoMEsICKNEss AN OBSTACLE.
The writer spoke to number of the
155 patients at the sanitarium. He found
that the chief obstacle to overcome Is
homesickness. While patients are con-
stantly arriving, an equally large num-
ber is constantly leaving. Most cases
show remarkable improvement, but few
remain long enough to perfect a cure.
One patient who has been there 2S
months, an unusually Ions period. said
that consumption cannot be cured even
at Fort Stanton, that however, cases
like his, which are merely a little ner-
vous or physical breakdown, get better. |
But few of the patients will admit to |
themselves that they have consumption.
They call 1t little breakdown" AS a |
matter of fact, the majority Of patients
do not look like consumptives, they are