Bisbee daily review., 1908-05-13
LAND DEAL CLOSED INVOLVING 25,OOO ACRES
Bayard TerritoY In New Mex ico Is Coming to the Front,
 Improvements at the Fort.


 FORT BAYARD, \. Nj, May 12.- A land deal of over 25,000 acres, for which the government paid the sum of $S9,0O0. has been closed here. This new addition to the reservation was purchased with the purpose of adding to the Bayard territory and that the fort might be able to install a gravity water system, the total cost of which Mir. Conlan, the post architect. esti- l mates at Sl00.000. including the $22,- 000 for the 3G09-gallon tank now un- der erection, water main of over five and Galf miles and the reser- voirs at the springs from which the water is to be taken
 This $lS9, eco is but a small part of the vast Improvements either assured ! OT in rospect-improyem that 1 Sill make Fort Bayard one of the finest places in the southwest and the largest hospital in the world de voted entirely to the treatment of tu- berculosis.
 The quartermaster's department has put in estimates of $250,000 for new buildings, exclusive of the ap- propriation for the on-commissioned officers quarters and the new admin istration building.
 The items iD this estimate are: Two new wards SS5000; nurses quarters, $35,000; captains quarters, s2S,000 cold storage plant, S25 900; chapel. s20,000; incinerator, $20,00O; laundry, with equipments, s25 900, and a heating plant, s12,000
 Bids for the two sets of non-com- missioHed officers quarters to be built of succeed brick. are at pres ent being called for and the contract is to be awarded within two weeks.
 The plans for the new administra- ton building have not yet been eu- tirely accepted by the quartermaster general, as. there are some minor details that may be changed. This building will be one of the finest owned by the war department, hay ing a frontage of 16S feet. It will be occupied on the lower floor by the medical and Quartermaster's depart ments and the postoffice, and on the second floor by the clerical force, the telegraph office and telephone ex- change ....
 These expenses, vast as they are, form but part of the money the United States pays yearly for the treatment of the officers and men of the army who contract tuberculosis It pays their transportation and ex- penses from central Alaska and the Philippines as wel1 as from the army posts of the United States; this trans portatiou in the case of one enlisted man who was sent over the interior snows of Alaska amounted to over ] $500 Expenses of hundreds of thous- ands of dollars are yearly incurred here for the entertainment, feeding | and clothing of the enlisted men and officers patients here and the hospital corps, and in pensions to ex-soldiers discharged for disability on account Of tuberculosis.
 There is also the payment of thous- ands monthly for the hospitals large stan of dOctoTs-eveTy one a spe- cialist in the treatment of tubercular | diseases.
 Besides all this, there is the large pc yroll for quartermaster, medical and contractor emplOyes-cierical and labor, the latter being at all times employed in making Fort Bay ard one of the garden spots of New Mexico.
 The United States is here carrying on for the benefit of her soldiers a peerless fight against the disease that is accountable for one out of every seven deaths in the country.
 The big hospital here Is a humani- tarian project unequalled by any na- ton in the history of the world. It is costing millions, but they are mil lions well spent as the results in sol diers restored to health and duty and in lives prolonged by the Bayard treatment far more than justify the | outlay