The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1905-02-21
RoswELL,s CHANCES GOOD.
This Town Has All the Necessary
Requirements for the Frzter-
ma Sanitarium.


cessful entertainment of the National
Fraternal Sanitarium Committee,
when they come to Roswell Thursday,
are gloomy. Unless the roads take on
an improvement beyond the reason
able hopes of the men most interest
ed, the committee will be unable to
take them out of the sight of Roswell.
With the roads drying at the present
rate. they will be of the right consis-
tency to let the mud roll up on the
the wheels in great weight that will
make travel next to an impossibility.
Long drives that would show off the
great resources of this vicinity will
be impossible. and the committee will |
do vel to exhibit the inducements
of Roswell itself, and the immediate |
vicinity and entertain the visitors at
the Club at night, according to the
program that has been nounc
The exact time the committee will
get here is not known. 1t is thought
quite possible that they will postpone
their visit until later than Thursday.
because of delays that are more liza
BILE than they otherwise would be on
account of the bad weather. Another
p-ostponement is just what the enter
tainment committee in Roswell
would like to see. Every day the visit
is delayed the roads will have that
much time for improvement.
The chances for Roswell getting
the Sanitarium are good, in fact. bet
ter than at any other point. People
who have studied the situation de-
clare that it rests between Deming
and some point in the Pecos Valley.
According to the four principal points
upon which the location is to be de-
cfded, it should by all means go to
the Pecos Valley. If it oes not come
to Roswell, which deserves it for the
| reason that this town is the Valley
metropolis and is in the most highly
developed section of eastern New
| Mexico, the sanitarium should by all
means go to some other town in the
Pecos Valley. This Valley has all Of
| the four necessities as no other part
OF New Mexico can boast. The -four
main conditions are:
First. latitude and climatic condi-
| tons.
Second, ample railroad facilities to
get in and out without changes.
Third. an abundance of pure water.
Fourth a large body of available ag-
ricultural land.
These are h principal conditions
and the location that can come near
est to furnishing these demands is
likely to get the institution. While the
committee receives offers of land.
etc., this will not change their ideas
about locating the sa~nitarium. 1t is
the place that will be best for the
consumptives that will get the loca-
ton. Therefore Roswell, or some 9TH
er place in the Pecos Valley. should
have it.
The only point where any of the
| places that want the big hospital a
say the Pecos Valley falls short is
on the railroad question. They may
say this and say it without contradic-
ton by some. but the claim is ground
less. Kansas City and the East send
cars here without change Denver
and the West can easily do the same,
and this arrangement could be made
Immediately If the sanitarium were
located here
Referring to the visit Of the com
mittee in New Mexico. the Globe-De
mocrat, of ST. Louis, of recent date,
| said:
at is practically assured hat New
Mexico will get the sanitarium. as
its rare sunlight and climatic condi-I
lions surpass eve those Of Colora-
do. General Secretary Charles F. Hat
field states that up to date more han
thirty thousand acres OF land have
been offered. E. G. Lewis offered to
build a $4,000 camp, to be known as
the Camp Lewis department of h
sanitarium. Secretary Hatfield says
/ the nIan Of raising the funds with