The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1905-12-04

enterprise like this one-to do so in
every way possible to our means and
our position.
New Mexico has other institutions
similar to what this one will be; at
Santa Fe, at Albuquerque and at Sill
yer City, all of which are doing splen
did work and deserve the hearty sup
port of the people of the communities
in which they are situated. L think
there should be no trouble whatever,
! If this hospital should not prove to
be self-supporting, to secure for it
in Chaves county sufficient funds to
maintain it. Such institutions as
charitable people, and especially of
the people who directly benefit by
them.
1T has always seemed to me that
the people of Roswell and of the Pc
cos Valley generally have, if you will
pardon me for stating the matter in
very materialistic way, greatly neg
lected the use and development of
one of their principal resources. This
is true. though not to so great an
extent, of other parts of the Terrific
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climate We have here in New Mex
leo one of the most ideal climates in
the world; climate which if prop
erly used would be the means of saw
ing the lives of thousands of people
and would be for us a stupendous
source Of profit and income. 1t is a
climate which, for people afflicted
with pulmonary troubles, is unsur-
passed. Some of these people need
high altitude, and some a compar-
atively low one: all need plenty of
sunshine and pure air and an equable
summer and winter climate not sub
:ect to- violent changes in tempera-
ture For the former class Santa Fe
and Las Vegas are ideally situated:
for the latter the Pecos Valley offers
equally ideal conditions
Now instead of encouraging inva
| lids of any kind to come here and
providing accommodation and enter
tainment for them, we have always
rather discouraged them. Most peo-
pie nowadays, upon discovering that
they have trouble with their lungs,
do not go away to die,-if their doc
| tors tell them that they are so unfor-
tunate as to be beyond hope, they
stay at home among their friends
| they go away to get well. Many of
| them do get well, and then they stay
in the country that has cured them !;
| invest in it, work for it and add to
its wealth, prosperity and influence.
1--WE need look only into the his
| tory of the great state of Colorado
north of US, to find astonishing proof
of the truth of what 1 say. A large
part of the remarkable development
of that wonderful country and of its
present prosperity is DUE directly Or
indirectly to the energy, brains and
capital Of men who have come there
for their health, been partially cured
| or entirely recovered. Friends, we
should have the same experience
here in the Pecos Valley and in other
parts OF New Mexico, If we were only
as alive to our opportunities in this
respect as we are in many others.
| Instead of soaring away seekers
for life and health, we should find out
| what they want in the way of mater
| ial comforts, and provide for them
When they are cured, many of them
out of gratitude and love for the
country. will stay here. make good
citizens and, with their money and
energy, upbuild the community. Any
institution such as the-one you are
commencing to build today, which
provides such comforts. should, from
every point of view, spiritual, mate
rial and humanitarian, be encourag
ed, and I feel sure that it will have
the continued and strong support o.
the whole ooy,,rnun;tv