Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-04-18
Santa Fe Company Offers
Fraternal Sanitarium Company
The Magnificent Montezuma
Committee to Announce final Decision to Location About the First
Of Next MonhMl Go From Here to Demns and Aamosordo
"Trip to Trout Springs 1odayHishIy Pleased With General
Conditions Here.

"You may say that the Santa Fc
has offered to make us a gift Of the
magnificent Montezuma hotel and
grounds on condition that we establish
the Fraternal Ciry here and bring a
certain number Of patients each
year" said President w. r. Edison
of the Associated National Fraternal
committee. 10 The Optic last night.
THE conditions made by the San
ia Fe with regard TO the number of
patients will be easily met continued
Mr. Edison. I'VE appreciate that The
preferred property is a princely one
and we are pleased with its location.
with the beautiful country surround
ing. with the Scenic Highway, with
the fine water and with conditions
generally.
"Still we are not ready to announce
that the sanitarium is coming to Las
Vegas. We have promised Deming
and Alamogordo another visit DEM
ing wants TO make us another offer
and AlamOg0rdo has some decided ad-
vantagess that must be considered, and
the inducements offered there are
considerable. We are acting for an inn
mense number Of people in the United
States and we feel that we justly owe
II TO them to make no mistake.
However, we have reached the
point where we can assure you that The
contest has narrowed down to DEM
ing. Alamogordo and Las Vegas. We
y have just refused pressing invita-
tion NJ 90 to Socorro. hut We are con
yirced nat 4 visit there would sol1iy
be taking our time. and that Of the
people down there without result.
The pressure from Carlsbad, Roswell
El Paso, Las Cruces and other places
still continues, but all these were posi-
lively striken from The list before we
left ST. Louis.
"Of course the members OF the COM
mittee have discussed plans based on
the acceptance of the Montezuma pro-
position, and we have decided If we
do take the offer to keep our patients
erected and to maintain The Montezu-
ma as high-class hotel. We feel sure
that with the vast amount of advertis-
ing THAI will be given the sanitarium.
with the number of patients who have
fame Of the springs and the beauty
Of the Scenic Highway and the noun
tain country beyond. we can keep the
hotel full all the time of people who
are not invalids. The sanitarium
folk were, of course, pleased to see
clouds rising last night and to peer
thorugh mists this morning, as the
Missouri and they were eager for a
change of conditions. However, it
may be just as well TO admit that
there is a suspicion in these parts that
the gentlemen carry their cloud fact
Ipry within them
Z This morning the party took car
to The end Of the trolly line and thence
drove over the Scenic Highway to
Trout Springs.
Entertained at the Castaneda.
The sanitarium committee. accom-
panied by several Las Vegas business
men, spent yesterday afternoon at the
Hot Springs looking over the Monte
yuma hotel and grounds thoroughly.
Upon their return at o'clock in the
afternoon. an informal dinner was ar
ranged to give the gentlemen from
st. Louis the opportunity to discuss
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