Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-06-24

incandescent electric light plant, telephon,
exchanges, Territorial agricultural expert
ment station, headquarters Of the Atchi-
son railway system, New Mexico division
together with railroad machine shops and
tic -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
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 we'll graded. while
sidewalks abound. shaded with growing
trees. Three parks, filed with grass and
trees, add to the beauty and healthfulness
Of the place. Handsome and veil filled
stores, beautiful residences, and lnnumera-
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,
unsurpassed in beauty by similar edifces
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 kim
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
urel 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 gnats, rats or mosquitoes. The
air is pure, dry, rsriiied, and highly cleo
triied-a certain cure for consumption, II
the disease be 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 ituated 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
Tennessee. while the altitude is
nearly $500 feet. This combination gives
a peculiar, but most happy, result. In the
during the day, the thermometer
seldom falls, 10 the shade, below forty de-
while it often runs, in the sunshine,
to sixty-five degrees-or even more. On
Tho nthQr hend in tho amman fba haaf n
never oppressive, IN the shade, and mol
night is too warm for comfortable sleep,
under n or two blankets. The sun will
nine days out of every ten, the year
This, with the extreme dryness of
the air, caused by the very slight precipi-
OF moisture; the resinous aroma,
rolling down from the pine-clad noun
tains; the large amount of electricity In
the air, and the consequent ozone, result
from thealtitude; and MEDICATION of the
town, land-locked by mountain and mesa
these all conspire to produce an atmos- |
phere which Is @ balm to all diseases OF the |
organs. The percentage Of
death from consumption is lower In New
thar it Is anywhere else ia the |
United States; and no other place In New
Mexico excels Las Vegas in the salubrIty
81 its climate. Asthmatics experience
Immediate and permanent relief, in this
altitude. |
In the way of health and pleasure re-
Las Vegas IL unrivaled. In a radius
IL twenty miles, In romantic mountain
ylens and beside babbling mountain brooks,
Fl Porvenir, Sandoval's Mineral Hill, Ro-
nero Ranch, Blake's, Sparks, Sapello,
and other places, too Numerous
% mention, where health can be recovered,
md life becomes a pleasure to the ennuye,
The invalid, the over-worked business man.
LAS VEGAS has two daily and Ave weekly
,apers, three banks. two building and loan
Issociations, three hotels. many boarding
houses, nine churches, q number OF clubs,
nd all the leading civic and social socie-
les; a roller -four mill, capacity, fifty bar
els per day two ~wool-scouring establish
rents, cleaning 100000 pounds of wool
a well-equipped brewery and
establishment: a mandatory of
and carbonated waters; two wag-
N and carriage factoriesi q saddle and
1io light '1 plsns, three '0 pisni1s m sisS.
nd other enterprises Of less Importance.
There are eight large Wholesale houses,
vhose trade extends throughout the Ter.
itory, and into the adjoining sections;
While the. volume of this trade, n the
alue Of the stocks which they carry, can
ot be duplicated west of Kansas City and
ouih OF Denver. Three merchants' brok.
10 uatC DGACCtOA vhO NAh 10 II
ting center, the amount Of their yearly
ales exceeding, in the aggregate, the com
ined sales of all other such brokers in
Mexico. The retail merchants, Of
las Vegas, are more numerous, and carry
irger and better stocks Of goods than do
he retail merchants OF any other town in
mis- Territory or Arizona.
LAS VEGAS Is the distributing point for
early all New Mexico. By the Atchlson
.stem, she has connection with Kansas
n the east, Colorado on the north, Arizo-
a and California on the west, and Texas !
nd Old Mexico on the south. Besides
lese, she has more stage lines, connecting
er with tributary territory, than has any
Their town in New Mexico. This territory
the entire section east and south
[ the mountains, and comprises the coun-
es Of Colfax, Mora, Taos, San Miguel,
anita Fe, Socorro, Dona Ana, Grant,
haves, Lincoln and Eddy. with parts of l
alencia and Bernalillo-a country larger 1
all New England. This takes in the
ANGUS Valley ofthe Rio Grande, and the
famous, but not less excellent, Valley
ne west. I
This Territory is rich In everything that !
the Wealth of Nations. Iron, :
lead, silver, gold, mica, limestone,
andstone, marbles, gypsum, soda in end
ss variety and exhaustless quantities.,
re among the several products Of the
which Las Vegas commands.
heep, cattle and lumber abound, so that
each of these prime articles Of commerce
ais city Is the best market In New Mexico.
lie handles more wool than all the other
3wns Ia the Territory combined, while
er in hides is truly enormous.
D the same way, she stands pEe-eminent
,r her tRads in grains, hay, vegetables,
nd other farm products: while her trade
foo uoeA.r.J In The afAkk1xf
lin anvons, extends east into Kansas,
est iato Arizona, and south into Old
Rates to City Of Mexico.
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