Evening star., 1905-08-14

style or ostentation, there is plenty of COM
fort. The beds are good the food is plain,
but plentiful and you can get bath for
dollar which means great deal where
the water has to be hauled 80 miles by
trains, or carried 2,5CO 5000 feet up the
precipitous sides of canyon on the back
OF a mule 1t costs the hotel $S1 a day for
water alone. Every drop that is used for
cooking, drinking and bathing is brought
in steel tanks a distance of 121 miles from
mountain springs, near the city of Pres
colt. 1t is transported in steel tanks made
expressly for the purpose, holding 9,40U
gallons each. There is a train every day
operated by four men who do nothing else.
Upon arrival the water is distilled. filtered,
aorated and distributed by pressure. There
is a spring down in the canyon about four
miles, from which a sufficient supply might
be pumped; but 1T is a mining claim
held by man who wants the modest sum
of $4,000 for it. The supply of drinking
water for another hotel is brought from
Cottonwood Springs, three and half miles
down the canyon, 800 feet below the no.
tel. 1t Is transported in casks of ten gal
Ions. made to fit the backs of burros; two
casks to each burro. 1t is pure, cool, hard
water The water for bathing, cooking and
laundry purposes Is caught on the roof dur
ing the occasional rains and stored in cis-
terms Last season was dry and the sup
ply gave out, so that every drop of water
that was used for three months was
brought up from the Cottonwood Springs.
There is no water the surface Of the
earth within ninety miles of the hotel,
which accounts for the high laundry
charges.
Moderate Charges.
Considering the extra expense OF main
tanning hotel under such circumstances
the rates are very reasonable, and are less
than those charged at the ordinary hotels
at eastern watering places, while the ac-
commodations will average a great deal
better. You can get good, plain, neat
quarters, with excellent meals. at the
cheaper hotels at the canyon for 50 a
day, and better accommodations at the
new hotel for any amount you want to
pay. Those who desire the less expensive
quarters can get room at another hotel
for SeVenty-nVe cents a day and upward
and live on the European plan at prices
lower than are charged at the ordinary
Chicago Washington restaurants. /
have a bill of fare before me which shows
soups at fifteen cents: roast, beef. lamb,
chicken and other roasts, thirty five cents;
etables, fifteen cents; desserts ten and fif-
teen cents; ham and eggs, thirty cents, and
other articles at similar rates People who
want to live still cheaper can hire tents
and camp out.
Saddle horses can be hired by the week
or month, and it is better to engage them
In that way If one is to remain for a week
or more, because you will always be sure
of getting safe and easy-riding animal.
A Great Success.
Inc new motel is great success. 1t Is
one of the most unique buildings In the
country. 1t was built by the Santa Fe
Railway Company al a cost of $3.50, 600 1t
is built of logs and furnished with mis-
sion furniture in a most tasteful manner
1t is more like the big hotels you see in
Norway and Switzerland than any other
In this country. and is admirable In har-
mony, simplicity and dignity. The bed
rooms are large and airy, and the public
apartments are more like those of a club
house than hotel.
You will be surprised to learn that II is
oZ' feet long and 21S feet wide at the widest
part. Ii is quite as perfect in It's accom-
modatlons as any hotel in the country al
though the difficulties of building were verv
great All the labor and materials had TO
pe brought from Los Angeles ninety miles
INTO the woods after leaving the railway.
But the builders appreciated the fact that
IL was necessary to make 1t more than
usually attractive in order to draw patron
age Hence nothing was left undone and
everybody who comes here expresses sur
prise and qualification. But the managers
in measure mistook the public taste. They
PROVIDED beautiful ballroom, in which no
one has yet desired to dance; they put In
billiard tables upon which people seldom
play, and card rooms which are always de-
serted. Occasionally in the evening some
body goes into the music room and sits
down at the piano, but the influence of the
canyon is so impressive. the voice of ma
ture Is SO serious and awe-inspiring, that