Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-03-06
THIS LOCALITY
Las Vegas, the Chief City
Of New Mexico Some
Of Her Resources,
Attractions and
.4ef .k Advantages.

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1t has water works, street cars, arc ant
incandescent electric light plant, telephone
exchanges, Territorial agricultural. expert
ment station, headquarters OF the Atchi
son railway system, New Mexico division
together With railro i'd machine shops ,anl
tie preserving works. stock yards, aud tn,
largest sheep shearing aud dipping plan
in the United States.
West Of the river, the old town has tb,
quaint and picturesque Mexican appear
ance - adobe houses, narrow, CROOKED
streets, native people and customs, hand
crafts and occupations; but the plaza AID
all Of the new town, east Of the river, con
s%titute a distinctive American city. The
streets are wide and well graded. whilt
sidewalks abound. shaded with growing
trees. Three parks, fl cd with grass and
trees, add to the beauty and healthfulness
of the place. Handsome and vel filled
stores. beautiful residences, and innumera-
BILE lawns, set in grass AID 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, Mason temple, opera house.
| Territorial Normal school and Territorial
Insane asy lum are public buildings. con
structed of red and white cut sandstone,
in any town, Of equal size. In the States.
An Academy, Seminary. Jesuit college,
Convent school, Presby terrain Nilsson
school, Methodist mauual training school,
Christian Brothers, institute, City high
school, three grad d 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 In
America. Her thermal wat rs 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 gnats, rats or mosquitoes. The
air ia pure, drv, rarifed, and highly cleo
trified-a certain cure for consumption, II
the disease he taken In time. The hot
waters are q specific for liver. skin, rheu-
matte and blood disorders. Her Montezu-
ma hotel Is the finest hostelry between
Chicago and California. and is situated In
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 OF
central Tennessee. while the altitude is
nearly 6 500 feet. This combination gives
a peculiar, but most happy, result. In the
winter, during the day. the Thermometer
seldom falls, ia the shade, below forty de-
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to sixty-fve degrees-or even more. On
the other hand, In the summer, the heat is
never oppressive, IN the shade, and no
night is too warm for comfortable sleep,
under one or two blankets. The sun will
shine nine days out of every ten, the year
round. This, with the extreme dryuess of
the air, caused by the very slight precipi-
tation of moisture; the resinou, aroma,
rolling down from the pine-ciad noun
tains: the large amount of electricity In
the air, n the consequent ozone, result
ing FROM thealtitude and tine location OF the
town, land-lock-d by mountain and mesa
all conspire to produce an atmos-
pnere which Is q balm to all diseases OF the
respiratory orgaDs. The percentage of
death from consumption Is lower in New
Mexico than IL is any where else in the
United States; and no other place In New
Mexico excels Las Vegas in the salubrlty
4 its climate. Asthmatics experience
immediate and permanent relief, in this
altitude.
In the way OF health and pleasure re-
sorts, Las Vegas Is unrivaled. In a radius
OF twenty miles, in romantic mountain
glens and beside babblieg mountain brooks,
are the Las Vegas Hot Springs. Harvey's,
Ell Porvenir, 'S~andovsl's Mineral Hill, Ro-
nero Ranch, Plake's, Sparks, SapeIlod
to mention, where health can be recovered, |
life becomes q pleasure to the enuuye,
the invalid, the ovsr-worked business man.
LAS VEGAS has tw daily and ave weekly |
papers, three banks. two building and loan
ass ociations, three hptels. many boarding |
houses, nine churches, a number or clu,,s,
and all the leading civic and social sncie-
rels per day two Woodworking establish
cleaning 1900 900 pound of wo
annually a well equipped brewery and
b nttling ests blishment; q mandatory OF
and carbonsted waters; two wag-
on and carriage factories; a saddle and
harness factory; "a foundry, si.e,
and other enterprises of less Importance.
There are eight large wholesale houses,
whose trade extends through ut the Ter.
ritory, n into the adj ininG sections;
the volume Of this trade, and the
value OF the stocks which they carry, can
be duplicated west Of Kansas CITY and
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ers have selected the city as their distr,b-
uting center, the amount OF their yearly
exceeding, in the aggregate, the cum
bined .salps OF all other such brokers In
New Mexico. .Phe retail merchants, Of
Las Vegas, are more numerous, and carry
and better stocks OF goods than do
the retail merchants Of spy other town in
this Territory or Arizona.
LAS, VEGAS IS the distributing point for
neatly all New Mexico. BY the .Atchlson
system. she has connection with Kansas
On the east, Colorado on the north, Arizp-
ma and California on the west, and Texas
and Old Mexico on the south. Besides
Sc. she has more stage lines, connec,ing
her with tributary territory, than has any
the entire section. east and south
If the mountains, III comprises the cnun-
of Colfax, NORA Taos, 6An Miguel,
Santa Fee, Socorro, Dona Ana, Grant,
Chaves, Lincoln and Eddy. with parts of
Valencia aud Be'nalillo--a country larger
all New EnRlaud. This takes in the
ranlous Valley oftbe Rio GraDde. and the
Of the P. cos-th6 finest fruit SECTIONS of
The vest.
This Territory 10 rich Ia everything thai
the Wealth of Natl ms. Iron,
coal, lead, silv r, gold. mice, limestone,
sands one. Marbles, gypsum, soda in end
ess variety and exhau-tless quantities,
are among the several products ~ the
cattle and lumber abound, so that
10 each OF these prime erticle s OF commerce
his city is the best market 10 New Mexico.
Ste handles more wool than all the other
10 the Territory combined, white
her commerce 10 hides is truly emo nous.
In the same way, she stands pTe-eminent
for her trade IL grains, hay, veg Ntahles.
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