Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-05-11
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The Albuquerque Journal In a cor.
dial editorial commencing the enter
prise Of the Las Vegas and railway
boosters In landing two great enter
crises for this city remarks that the
proposed reservoir will prove OF moro
Importance than the sanitarium. There
are many Las Vegas citizens who OK.
pTess the same sentiment. We do not
agree with them.
VIZ want the reservoir very much.
Il will be the means Of keeping at
home many thousands OF dollars that
arc annually sent outside for supplies.
Il will bring hundreds OF prosperous
tillers OF the soil and other hundreds
who will follow because Of the general
development consequent upon the car.
rying out Ut the enterprise.
But TO our mind the coming Of the
sanitarium a much more. Sena-
tor w. A. Clark uttered truth when he
said that New Mexico had been Great
ed as a sanitarium Of the nation.
Take what other resources you will,
the climate Is susceptible OF greater
development than any. Despite the
possibilities OF irrigation. the limit
must soon be reached and a large part
OF this country must always remain a
dreary desert. Manufactures, stock.
raising, mining-the development Is
limited, but the possibilities from the
development Of the climatic resources
are infinite.
Some section. some, city OF New
Mexico maast hacama the--health cen
ter--the leading exponent Of the great.
est OF our resources. The establish
ment Of Fraternal City here means
that that city will be Las Vegas. We
recall the Swiss cities In the high
Alps, which but a few years ago were
little villages. In one OF these cities,
every nation OF Europe has established
q sanitarium and where there were
hundreds OF residents before there are
now many thousands. The Europeans
have surpassed us In the sensible
treatment OF tuberculosis. They have
carried out the s~anitarium treatment
more wisely and have achieved better
results-results ut least as telling as
those achieved In the government san
itariums In New Mexico. But Ameri
cans are rapidly learning the lessons
that out OF door life in an elevated
region. In a dry and sunny climate
rest and nourishing food are worth
more than all the medicines In the
universe for the cure Of the greatest
scourge Of mankind.
What has been done In Europe vii
be done In America, and with the su
perior qualities of II mountain eli
mate. the results reached here will BIZ
eve pronounced.
The Swiss and the Germans have
conquered or have never yielded Il
that silly fear OF the consumptive, tha'
IN some Of u states. makes him prac
tically IN outcast. They have learned
that the observance OF the simplest
precautions entirely removed thu
slight element Of danger of contagior
Of the disease. In the Swiss and Ger
man cities. nothing is ever heard o.
the sentiment that would ~ostracize thu
unfortunate victim Of bad air and baf
living. The sentiment Ia yet some
times encountered In Las Vegas, in Tho
pure. dry air Of which one would stant
~ much chance OF catching" tuber
culosis MS he would Of not being burn
ed "by holding fire In his hand while
thinking OF the frosty Caucasus"
Such a sentiment has entirely beer
conquered In Phoenix and In Colorado
Springs and In other health resorts oi
the west that has established their rep
utation.
1t must be conquered In Las Vegas
We are reaching out to become the
greatest sanitarium resort In America
Ito become the leader in the develop
ment OF the chief II of the ter
ritory. S%anitaria have received theil
name because they are clearly and
wholesome In every respect. The san
itarium idea will be enforced at Fra
ternal City as II will be in every SAM
tarium established In this section.
A large proportion OF our citizens
who are now In the soundest health
came here invsiids. There Ia life and