Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-12-21
Las Vegas, the Chief City
of New Mexico
of Her Resources,
Attractions and
Advantages.

son railway system, New Mexico division,
with railroad machine shops and
tie preserving works, stock yards, and the
largest sheep shearing and dipping plant
In the United States.
West of the river, the cid town has the
quaint and picturesque Mexican appear
ance adobe houses, narrow, crooked
streets, native people and customs, handi-
crafts and occupations; but the plaza and
all of the new town, east OF the river, con-
stitute a distinctive American city. The
streets are wide and well graded, while
sidewalks abound, shade with growing
trees. Three parks, filed with grass and
trees, add to the beauty and hsalthfulness
of the place. Handsome and well-hlied
stores, beautiful residences, and
BILE lawns, set in grass and adorned with
~shrubbery and flowers, combine to pro-
claim a cultured community, possessed OF
| all modern comforts and conveniences
A city hall, three public school buildings,
court. house, Masonic temple, opera house,
Territorial Normal school and Territorial
| Insane asylum are public buildings, con-
| structed of red and white cut sandstone,
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unsurpassed in beauty by similar edihces
in any town, of equal size. in the States
An Academy, Seminary, Jesuit college,
Convent school, Presbyterian Mission
school, Methodist manual training school,
Christian Brothers, institute, City high
school, three graded public schools, a kin
dergarten, a commercial school and two
music schools, besides several private teach
ers, are among the educational advantages
and facilities.
LAS VEGAS Is the natural sanatorium OF
the United States, combining more nat
ural advantages than any other place 10
America. Her thermal waters are the
equal OF the Hot Springs OF Arkansas
while her climate is Infinitely superior
There is no malaria, no excessive heat OF
cold. no gnats, rats or mosquitoes. The
air is pure, dry, rarified, and highly cleo
trified-a certain cure for consumption, II
the disease be taken in time. The ho'
W aters are a specific for liver, skin, rheu'
matte aud blood disorders. Her Montezu'
ma hotel is the finest hosiery between
Chicago and California, and is situated II
a beautiful canyon, five miles from town
where the Hot Springs, forty in number
come boiling TO the surface.
The latitude IS about the same as that O.
central Tennessee, while the altitude L
nearly $500 feet. This combination gives
a peculiar, but most happy, result. In thu
winter, during the day, the thermomete
prees. while it often runs, in the sunshine
to sixty-hve degrees-or even more. VI
! the other hand, in the summer, tine neat !
never oppressive, IN the snaue, anu ~
night is too warm for comfortable sleep
under one or two blankets. Thu sun VIII
, - -. 1.-. ont IF auary ten. the YEA
round. This, with the extreme dryness o
the air. caused by the very slight precipi
: ,ation of moisture; the reslnous aroma
rolling down from the pine-clad noun
taips: the large amount OF electrlcity y
, the air, and the consequent ozone, result
1 ing from thealtitude and the location OF Tn
town, land locked by mountain and mes
these all conspire to produce an atmos
nhere which is . balm to all diseases oil Tn
= respiratory organs. The percentage {
d death from consumption 10 owe In Ne
: Mexico than 1t is anywhere else in ia
United States; and ne other place In Ne
Mexico excels Las Vegas in the saluprit
Immediate and permanent relief, in tn
), altitude.
Al In the way of health and pleasure r.
sorts, Las Vegas IL unrivaled. In q radi'
!. OF twenty miles, in romantic mounta
- glens and beside babbling mountain brook
;, are the Las Vegas Hot Springs. Harvey
Ell Porvepir, Sandovaps Mineral Hi, n
IN nero Ranch, Blaks's, Sparks, Sapeil
Rociada, and other places, too ndmero
to mention, where health can be recovere
and life becomes q pleasure to the emmy
q the invalid, the business ma
K. LAS VEGAS has two daily and i've week
papers, three banks, two building and io'
" associations, three hotels, many Doarun
r. houses, nine churches, a number OF clui
IN .ad all fha leading civic and SOCIAL SOCl
or ties; a roller -four mill, capacity, hfty ba
rels per day two wool-scouring establis
OF mepts, cleaning 1,500,0 600 pounds of wt
~ annually; a we'll equipped brewery a
bottling establishment; a mandatory
ar mineral and carbonated waters; two wa
az harness factory; a foundI Ell,
trio light plant, three planning mil
and other enterprises of less Importance
There are eight large wholesale hous
NV whose trade extends throughout the II
est ritory. and into the adjoining section
while the volume of this trade, ana
4, value of the stocks which they carry,
uJ not he duplicated west OF Kansas City g
al sontb of Denver. Three merchants br'
m ers have selected the city as their distr
utinp center, the amount OF their yea
sales exceeding, in the aggregate, tho co
hined sales of all other such brokers
New Mexico. The retail merchants,
Las Vegas, are more numerous, shu Ca
l., larger and better stocks OF goods than
the retail merchants of any other town
" this Territory or Arizona.
b Las VEGAS is the distributing point
IN. MARTY Ali New Mexico. By the Atchl
system. she has connection With Kan
~ on the east, Colorado on the north, Ari
A na and California on the west, and lie
al and Old Mexico on the south. besl
= these, she has more stage INES, connect
-. ,,;th tributary territory, than has
other town In New Mexico. This territ
inclndes the entire section east and so
If the mountains, and comprises the co
it tias If Colfax, Mora, Taos, San Mig
NO., San Fe. Socorro, bona Ana, Gri
..n Cbayes. Lincoln and Eddy, with part
IN Valencia and Bernalillo--a country iai
ms than all New England. This taxes In
pa, famous Valley ofthe Rio drande, ana
Der. less famous, but not less exceiient, va
OF the Pecos-the finest fruit section
the west.
Foi Th,s Torr,torv ia rich In everything
rug constitutes the Wealth of Nations. !
yas. coal, lesd, silver, gold, mics, FINEST
.ro. sandstone. marbles, gypsum, soda In {
ae ess verlety and ~exhaustless quantii
are among the several products OF
country which Las Vegas comma
ion. Sheep, cattle and lumber abound, so
III. In each OF these prime articles OF comm
il OF SIZE baodie more wool than all the o
towns in the Territory combined, v
her 10 hides is truly enorm
In the same way, she stands pre-emi
for her trace in grains, hay, vegetai
and other farm products: while her q
in ice. gathered in the n~eigbDoriug M
II tain canyons, extends east into ka'
T ~ west i1to Arizona, South 'n'o
Mexico -