Julius Caldeen Gunter

“ For many years I have recommended the establishment of Supply Depots, large Military Posts, Hospital and Recuperation Camp on the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains, where new levies for the active armies could and would become perfect in physical condition to meet the rigorous requirements incident thereto and where men disabled in the service of their country might be sent for that care and attention which would quickest restore them to a normal condition of health and strength. ”

“ With so many millions of men engaged in this conflict on land and sea, under new and trying conditions of living, the daily toll of sick and wounded becomes a stupendous item. Hundreds of thousands of these men need only care and sunshine, change, rest and proper food, to make them once more fit for the fighting line. ”

“ Such a camp would be of inestimable benefit, not only to our Army, but to the armies of our Allies. The deplorable condition of the men who have been infected by tuberculosis alone in the French Army serves ample warning as to the dangers which confront our own men—dangers which we are peculiarly fitted to cope with here in Colorado. In the New York Sun of September 2nd, a dispatch from Paris says:
"The increase of tuberculosis in France is so great that it threatens the life of the nation. ”

“ The establishment of such a sanatorium here in this altitude and in this unrivaled climate, to which such men might be invalided, would mean the restoration to the service of thousands of fine young men who otherwise must be lost, not only to the Army, but as useful factors in civil life. ”

“ It is these men who should be cared for, for reasons of conservation if no other—that can be sent back on the empty troop ships and forwarded from the coast to Denver at a comparatively small expense, where they can be given their chance for health and a return to duty. ”

“ The military base and line hospitals, as well as the Red Cross institutions, are fully occupied with the constantly flowing stream of emergency cases that pour back from the front. There is no room for the convalescent anywhere. ”

“ Economically, the advantages of this location are very great; within a very small radius everything in the way of produce for such a place can be purchased direct from the producer, eliminating almost all wastage, the middleman's profit, and the long haul. ”