 In 1903, Colonel McGraw purchased the hotel and expanded it by 115 rooms, completed in the spring of 1904.Of the 89 "non-guest" rooms in the new section, 40 were for salt sulfur baths, which took up the entire first floor of one wing.The entire southern wing of the hotel was given to bath rooms, including; "the plunge," Turkish, Russian, Needle, Shower, and Steam baths.