El Paso International Daily Times (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. Fifteenth Year, No. 220, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 15, 1895 Page: 8 of 8
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Independent Asssjr office,
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Office and Laboratory, ()or Han
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Paiwitto* bis 88 8| f»M , r’|(
Established 1887,
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and MBlAPlMJKf
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Of Men, Mill 8*4 <hm« l» «»«• »ty|*,
A. a. WHITMER, D. D. Si,
DENTISTRY
In all tL Branches.
Over Santa Fe Ticket Office.
Osld Crown , and Bridge
Work.
C 18 and 20 J
9l<lo nBV
NAPOLEON J. ROT,
Merchant Tailor,
EL ^ABO, TEXAS.
SHELDON BLOCK.
REMEMBER,
UP^O*wi
that we are constantly on the
lookout for something good to
eat, and call your attention to
it in this space.
YOUR CHOICE
from eight kinds of Domestic
and Imported Cheese: Oerve-
Jat, Salami, Vienna Sausage,
Imported and Domestic
FISH.
Sardells, Sardines in Oil,
Tomato Sauce, Soused and
Mustard; Mackerel, 1895 catch,
And moused, bottled and can*
ned goods
A good line of cigars at re-1
tail and by the box.
SUMMER DRINK8. \
Bryant’s Root Beer,No-Tox,
Orange, Claret, Raspberry and
Wild Cherry Flavors, Rasp-
berry and Blackberry Cordial.
POMEROY'S
El Paso Transfer Co.
Hacks, Bus & Baggage.
T«1 18.. 300 to 310 8- Oregon St
Mueller & Kachler,
316 San Antonio St.
Opposite Masonic Block.
^ EL PASO V,
& BOILER WORKS"***
McDUFME Jb SIliHtllV, prop..
General Boiler and
shtet IronWoiki,
Cot Overland ana Stanton Sti.
wrote1
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Pam' Liitiiy Tirno«i. Miuiuay fceutember Is
II Paso’s Climate.
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Health Restoring Qnwiiies
of our Dry Atmosi here
WHAT DOCTORS SAY.
High Medical Authority on tbu Snbjeo*,
GivIdk Facta and Figure* tha» Frova Bt
Pa*o’« Climatic Agvantaga* Superior to
Thoaa of Other Health Ke.orte tu the
United State.-
The reputation of El Paso as a
health resort is already firmly estab-
lished. Thousands of invalids have
found here the relief which they have
sought vainly elsewhere. Especially
is this true iu all cases of pulmonary
disease, and there are today living in
El Paso hundreds of people, In good
health, engaged in business and en-
joying life, who declare that had
they not come to this genial clime
they would either have died long ago
or continued to drag out a miserable
existence. There is not a winter but
numerous invalids who have sought
other health resorts come on to El
Paso by advice of the physicians at
those resorts. They come from Col-
orado and Northern New Mexico be-
cause it is too cool there and they
come from Southern California be-
cause it is too damp there. Here they
find a dry, warm, suuuy climate, with
almost every condition required to in-
sure healthfuluesa.
Some years ago Dr. Alfred S.
Houghton of Chicago wrote that after
a thorough examination and careful
study of the subject, he found El
Paso and San Diego, Cal., the two
places most favorable to all persons
afflicted with pulmonary diseases.
Following is a portion of a table of
statistics of "annual climatic changes”
which Dr. Houghton prepared, and
upon which he based his conclusions:
with much actual business and bound-
less expectations.
The mountain ranges of New Mexico
and old Mexico abutting on the river at
this point give variety and beauty to
the landscape and contribute that ex-
hilernling quality of "mountain air”
which, combined witli the mild tem-
perature of the winter season, consti-
tutes the charm of the El Paso climate.
The altitude is 3760 feet above the
sea level—high enough to be pure and
bracing, and yet not high enough to
embarrass the heart’s action and In-
crease the dyspnoea of those affected
with pulmonary complaints. I found
it true with regard to myself while
suffering from a severe attack of bron-.
chitis, and also with regard to others
whom I met that whereas at Las Vegas,
and Santa Fe (at an altitude respec-
tively of 6700 aud 7100 feet) we suf-
fered from dyspnoea and had to walk
slowly, like confirmed invalids, the de-
scent" to El Paso enabled us to walk
briskly aud soon made us feel equal
to running a foot race.
The soil is sandy and very porous.
The temperature is hot in summer
and mild iu winter. For those who
have the means of traveling it would
be folly to summer in El Paso, aud yet
the dryness of the atmosphere is such
that a temperature of 100 to 105 de-
grees iu the shade is more endurable
than that of 70 and 85 degrees in Phil-
adelphia. Sunstroke is unknown, in
spite of a maximum temperature of
110 degrees in summer, and those
who are compelled to remain there do
not perish with the heat, nor suffer
much, if any, more than the inhabi-
tants of Eastern cities.
But it is the winter temperature to
which 1 wish to call attention, as well
as the small amount of rainfall and
the small number of cloudy days, these
conditions combining to constitute the
charm of the winter, during which
season the invalid can walk, or even
sit out of doors, almost every day.
Combined with the mild temperature
there is, as I have before remarked,
a bracing tonic quality to the air, due,
perhaps, in part, to its rarity and dry-
ness, which I have failed to find in
the air of Florida, of the Gulf, or even
of San Antonio, Texas.
In view of Its mild winter climate,
its altitude, the great dryness of the
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62
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90
142
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67
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* Degree.
In his report Dr. Houghton uses the
fallowing language:
“The number of inches of rain and
snow will give corroborative testi-
mony as to the dryness, etc. In a
place where the air is dry and the
sunshine clear and steady, wide range
of daily temperature or sudden
changes of heat are not only not un-
pleasant nor injurious, but often
agreeable and beneficial from the
stimulation they create, while moder-
ate variation of equability in a damp,
muggy climate is debilitating In the
extreme.
"The dew point in El Paso Is 11 de-
grees below the mean of minimum
temperature, and 27 degrees below the
atmosphere and soil, and the remark-
able preponderance of clear and fair
days, especially during the winter and
spring months, I think it must be con-
ceded that’lEl Paso presents many of
the requisites of a winter resort for
persons suffering from pulmonary
complaints. Nor Is this merely a theo-
retical conclusion. It is confirmed by
the experience of a considerable num-
ber of asthmatic, bronchitic, and phth-
isical patients who have already tested
the virtues of this climate. Some of
these I met myself diking a stay
some weeks last February and March,
and with regard to others I was in-
formed by the physicians of that place
and the army officers of Fort Bliss.
This testimony was the same that is
usually obtained at such places—viz:
■a* " Tair loose
mean of annual temperature, while at tjiat fjie patient soon begins to !
San Diego it is only 3 degrees below j lll8 c0llg|,t |0 improve in appetite, and
the mean of minimum temperature, jt0 g;)jrj jn weight and strength,
aud 10 degrees below the mean of Notwithstanding the newness of the
annual temperature.
“At El Paso tin* mean of relative
and absolute humidity is also much
less than at San Diego, while Jack-
sonville is behind not only both of
these places, but also Denver.
“The average rainfall is 36 inches.
At El Paso it is 11 inches. The aver-
age between dew point and mean of
minimum temperature is 5% degrees.
At El Paso it is 11 degrees. The aver-
age mean annual temperature is 56
degrees. At El Paso it is 64 degrees,
but the seasonal average at El Paso
is 56 degrees.
"In every particular, except spring
winds, El Paso shows a better record
than San Diego, and far better than
Jacksonville or Savannah. The only
place on the Atlantic coast that ap-
proaches El Paso Is Asheville, N. C.,
aud for that place I have no seasonal
figures.”
Dr. Houghton further states that
the altitude of El Paso is 3700 feet,
while that of San Diego Is 67 feet
only, El Paso being neither too high
nor too low.
EL PASO’S PURE AIR.
To the American Climatological asso-
ciation Dr. E. W. Schnuffler, of Kansas
Cltv, made the following report:
El Paso is situated at the extreme
western boundary of Texas, in that
tongue of land which is bounded on
the north aud west by New Mexico
and on the south by the Rio Grande,
its longitude is 106 degrees west, and
its latitude 42 degrees north, the lon-
gitude being the same as that of Santa
Fe, N. M., and the latitude the same
as that of Savannah, Ga.,. and San
Diego, Cal. It is 340 miles south of
Santa Fe, constituting the souiu. u:
terminus of the Atchison, t < i «
Santa Fe railroad, and the • < •
the road connects with the
Central railroad. Three otl. i • u •
lines—two from the east and < m* n
California—center here, bid br.g
the Mexican trade, and thus what w,i
five years ago a sleepy little seitlemen
tinder the wing of Fort Bliss, lift
r become an active, euterprisim
j of some 5000 or-6009 lobuHisnt?
rh'.*' ? ■:
THE TIMES CARD
place, the accommodations of El Paso
are very fair. There are several quite
large and respectable hotels, there Is a
good market, and the price of living is
not high. Although in Texas, it is a
very wide awake Yankee town, with
an elegant court house, public school
building, numerous churches, etc. One
great charm to the visitor or sojourner
is the proximity of Old Mexico, just
across the Rio Grande, where within'
an easy walk or drive, he finds the
city of Paso del Norte, surrounded by
a well irrigated and cultivated coun-
try, teeming with a kindly and Indus-
trious population. For myseff, I
never wearied of watching their
strange seventeenth century methods
of living and working.
Items of Interest bf the Wabash Men.
Bulletin No. 6.
The state of Colorado has at present
about 66.800,000 acres of publto lands.
From Kansas City to St. Louts by
the Wabash, the dtstanos is 2“7 miles,
Toledo 662 miles, New York 1,437, Bos
ton 1,489 miles.
Of vacant public lands in Colorado
there ere 40,851,000 acres.'
The Wsb-tHh Is the popular line east
for I* fr<-« chair cars, excellent meals
at k w prices, and Its dlreot oonneotlons
In nnlon passenger stations.
The United States netional debt Is
at present 8915,962,112, or $14 62 per
capita. The per capita Indebtedness
of France Is $116; in England $87;. In
Dutch East jodla 64 oente.
Any trutbfol ticket agent, lawyer or
newspaper man will tell yon that the
Wabash Is the best and cheapest line
Look out for Bulletin No 7.
O. M. Hampson,
Commercial Agent,
Denver, Colorado.
T>iPdiag of music, magazines
jn> law books, medical journals,
etc., a specialty at the Times
office. Telephone 26.
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European Plan. •
The most centrally located
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Work A SDAPiftltvl G°od sample accommoda
FIRST AND V1RGINIASTS 1 tion8 for commercial men.
Telephone 172. fl Corner San Franoisoo
" and El Paso sts,
El Paso, Tex.
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El Paso International Daily Times (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. Fifteenth Year, No. 220, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 15, 1895, newspaper, September 15, 1895; El Paso, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth541675/m1/8/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Library Consortium.