Albuquerque Daily Citizen

GRAND CANYON HOTEL.
It Will Be One of the Finest and Will Cost $150,000.

Santa Fe officials announce that the original plans for the construction of the new hotel at the Grand Canyon of the Arizona have been materially altered, and that instead of building a comparatively small hotel the road will erect a building of 100 rooms, and that no money will be spared to make the hotel one of the finest in the country. Charles F. Whittlesey, the architect of the Santa Fe, has been instructed to draw plans for such a building, and to give to it every possible equipment and convenience.

The hotel will be built at the head of the Bright Angel trail, which is the main thoroughfare through the Grand Canyon. Each year the number of visitors to the Grand Canyon is increasing, and the change in the plans of the hotel is made with a view to the future increases in the tourist travel to the west. It is understood that the hotel will cost completed in the neighborhood of $150,000.

The hotel will have its own electric light plant and water system. It is proposed to secure protection against fire by the location of a pumping station on one of the nearby streams.

The building as designed by Mr. Whittlesey will of itself be worth the trip to the canyon. It will be in style a combination of the architecture seen in the castles of the Rhine and in the Swiss chateaux. The combination is unusual, perhaps unknown heretofore, but the idea of the architect is to bring the building into harmony with the wonderful scenery of the canyon, rather than to put a blot upon its beauty as is so often done by the erection of the common place structure of brick and stone in the scenic resorts of the east. The hotel will be built on the twenty-acre grant given to the Santa Fe by the government for station and terminal purposes. The site has been selected and it is probable that construction will soon be underway.