Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-06-03
THIS LOCALITY
Las Vegas, the Chief City
of New Mexico--Some
of Her Resources,
Attractions and
Advantages.

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LAS VEGAS, meaning 1.-THE Meadows,",
Is the county seat of San Miguel county,
lies on both sides of the Galllnas river,
and, with Its suburbs, has about 10000
Inhabitants.
II has water works, street cars, arc and
.incandescent electric light plant, telephone
exchanges, Territorial agricultural expert
ment station, headquarters OF the Atchi-
son railway system, New Mexico division,
together with railroad machine shops aud
tie preserving works, stock yards, and the
largest sheep shearing and dipping plant
In the United States.
West Of the river, the old town has the
onalnt 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 q distinctive American city. The
streets are wide and well graded. while
sidewalks abound. shaded with growing
trees, Three parks, filed with grass and
trees, add to tho beauty and healthfulness
of the place. Handsome and well-tilled
stores, beautiful residences, and
BILE lawns, cot 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,
unsurpassed in beauty by similar edihces
In any town, Of equal size, in tho 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 KIM
| dergarten, a commercial school and two
music schools, besides several private teach
ers, arc among the educational advantages
and facilities.
LAS VEGAS is the natural sanatorlum OIL
| the United States, combining more nat
| nral advantages than any other place In
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 or
cold. no gnRts, rats or mosquitoes. Inc
air Ia pure, dry, rarihed, and highly cleo
triied-a certain cure for consumption, IL
the disease be taken In time. Inc mol
waters are n specific for liver, skin, rheu'
matte and blood disorders. Her Montezu'
ma hotel is the finest hostelry between
Chicago and California, and is situated IL
a beautiful CANYON, five miles from town
where the lot Springs, forty In number
come boiling to the surface.
The latitude 10 about the same as that o
central Tennessee, while the aitltode
nearly $500 feet. This combination give
a peculiar, but most happy, result. In tn
winter. during the day, the thermomete
seldom falls, In the shade, below forty DC
prees. While ii often runs, in the sunsnin'
: 10 slxty-five degrees-or even more. y
the other hand, in the summer the heat
never oppressive, IN the SHADE, !
MONT Is too warm for comfortable slice,
under one or two blankets. The sun WI
shine nine days out of every ten, tho ye,
round. This, with the extreme dryDess
the air, caused by the very slight precip
tatiop of moisture; the resinous arom
rolling down from the pine-ciao niou'
taips; the Jorge amount OF electricity,
the air. and the consequent ozone, resui
inc from thenltitude; and the location or u
town, land-iccked by mountain ana me-
these sl conspire to produce an atmo'
phere which il q balm to all diseases OF u
death from consumption 10 lower In Ne
Mexico than II is anywhere else IN VI
Jnited States; and nc other place In NO
Mexico excels Las Vegas in the saiuDri'
Of it's climate. Asthmatics experiens
Immediate and permanent reiiel, IN I'll
altitude. =
sorts. Las Vegas IL unrivaled. In q rad
Of twenty miles, in romantic moupta
plans and beside babbling mountain orook
ere the Las Vegas Hot Springs. harvey
nj Puryenir, Sandoval's Mineral Hill, n
nero Ranch, Blake's, SPARKS, oapeli
Rooiada, and other places, TOO nan1ero
to mention, where health can w annrs
and life becomes a pleasure 20 the enhuy
the invalid, the over-worked business ga
Las VEeAs has two daily and nVe week
psners. three banks, two building ana lo'
ASSOCIATIONS, three hotels, many Doarul
houses, nine churches, a number o, cru
and ali the leading civic and social soc
= ties; a roller -four mill, capacity MY ~
rpls per day two wool-scourlng estaplIs
's ments. cleaning 100000 pounds q W.
p annually, q well eauippea brewery a
Is battling esca biisnment; q manutnctory
Is mioeral and carbonated waters; TWO W.
G on and carriage factories; q saddie 2
harness factory; founaiy, III
trio light plant, three Pion.
!. and other enterprises of less Importance
\. There are eight large wholesale nous y
n whose trade extends t~hroughout Tue =
le ritory, and into the adjoining sect,o
while the volume OF this trade, ana
value of the stocks which they Garry,
&c not be duplicated west OF Kansas Cley =
south Of Denver. Three mercnants, Or
- ers have selected the city as tneir u'sti
uting ceuter, the amount OF tnelr yea
m sales exceeding, in the aggregate, tne g
lis binad sales OF all other such brokers'
he New Mexico. Tn retail mercnants,
vn Las Vegas, nro more numerous n ca
nd larger and better stocks OF goods mar
al the retail merchants OF any other to"l
- this Territory or Arizona.
LAS VEGAS is the distributing PONY
70 nearly all New Mexico. by the AJchi
en- system, she has connection WIN Aal
ie- on the east, Colorado on the nortn,, A.
ID ma and California on the west, an1 ~
and Old Mexico on the SCUM. pes,
these, she has more stage INES, conueo
her with tributary territory, rnah mas
other town in New Mexico. lbs .eiii'
= includes the entire section east anu ~
Of the mountains, and comprises .ne NJ =.
ties OF Colfax, Mora, Taos oan m,s
Santa Fc, Socorro,. bona ana, ",
Chavez, Lincoln and EDDY, VIE PA. !
Valencia and Bernalillo-a country Ia
than ali New England. This takes IN
ssmous Valley ofthe Rio Grande, and
loss famous, but not less excellent, We
nf the Pecos-the finest fruit sectior
the west. .-;,o
~, d This Territory Is rich 10 everything
lifts constitutes the Wealth of Nations. J
49,, $50 esIxrar nol6 mica. ilmeSl