The buildings, which were once all part of a tuberculosis sanatorium, were constructed around 1910 by Dr. Nathan Boyd, medical doctor and international businessman. Legend says that Dr. Boyd had a beloved wife who was suffering from the terrible disease, and that he built the place, up in the rugged yet beautiful mountains, for her. There are other rumors about Boyd's Sanatorium, as well. Rumors of a more ... unknown element. Some say that this canyon is filled with restless spirits, and that some of them happen t be the spirits of the patients who passed away up at the mountainside sanatorium. The Caretaker's house had a wooden porch with a breath-taking view of the valley below. It is not hard to imagine that there might be spirits here. The trail leading up to this place is officially closed every day well before dark, earlier in fact than all of the other trails in the area. And, there have been reports of campers in the nearby canyon campgrounds being terrified by strange visions and horrific nightmare featuring torturous treatments undergone by gaunt and ghostly "patients," even though some of the campers are said to have no prior knowledge of the nearby sanatorium's presence. There have been various paranormal investigations at this location; one group even claims to have gotten photos of "shadowy figures" in the ruins. A hand-hewn stone to where the patients housing used to stand. All that remains of these buildings now are the foundations and old stone stairway leads up the mountainside walls that outline the shapes of where they once existed. Standing in the spot where the patient's housing used to stand, one can look down the mountainside toward the Caretaker's house. Water was piped in from the springs nearby to a holding tank above the terraces where the patient's housing stood; piping carried the water down to the residences and the drinking fountain below. The kitchen and dining hall was located in a separate structure, perched high atop stilt-like beams along the mountainside. In the early 1900's, Dr. Boyd was involved in a court case that would eventually deplete his funds; the sanatorium was sold to a Dr. T.C. Sexton from Las Cruces in the 1920's. It was intermittently run as a sanatorium and resort for severaI more years. Nathan Boyd's son, Earl, bought the place back in the early 1930's and moved onto the land, living in the Caretaker's house. In 1940, while Earl Boyd was away serving in the military, the remote structures were subjected to heavily damaging vandalism and looting by known parties. The place has been vacant ever since, despite changing hands one more time before being acquired by the Bureau of Land Management in 1988.