Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-03-30

sidewalks abound. shaded with gr0winl
trees. Three parks, filed with grass an,
trees, add to the beauty and healthfulnes
Of the place. Handsome and well-flle,
stores, beautiful residences, and Innumera
BILE lawns, eet In grass and adorned witt
shrubbery and flowers, combine to pro
claim a cultured community, possessed o
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 edifcei
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 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, rariied, and highly cleo
trified-a certain cure for consumption, II
the disease be taken In time. The hot
n q faro a r q a onoctAO for Ituor okfn rhau-
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 assthat OF
central Tennessee. while the altitude is
a peculiar, but most happy, result. In the
winter, during the day, the Thermometer
seldom falls, In the shade, below forty de-
grees, while 1t often runs In the sunshine,
to sixty-f1ve degrees-or even more. On
the other hand, In the summer the heat Is
never oppressive, IN the shade, and no
is too warm for comfortable sleep,
nine days out of every ten, the year
round. This, with the extreme dryness of
the air, caused by the very slight precipi-
tation 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
ing from thealtitude; and the location of the
town, and-locked by mountain and mesa
all conspire to produce an atmos-
pierre which is q balm to all diseases OF the
respiratory organs. The percentage of
death from consumption is lower Ia New
Mexico than 1t is anywhere else In the
United States; and no other place In New
Mexico excels Las Vegas in the salubrity
Of its climate. Asthmatics experience
immediate and permanent relief, in this
altitude.
In the way Of health and pleasure re-
sorts, Las Vegas IL unrivaled. In q radius
OF twenty miles, In romantic mountain
glens and beside babblipg mountain brooks,
are the Las Vegas Hot Springs. Harvey's,
Ell Porvenir, Sandoval's Mineral Hill, Ro-
nero Ranch, Blake's, Sparks, Sapello,
Rociada, and other places, too Numerous
to mention, where health can be recovered,
and life becomes a pleasure to the ennuye,
the invalid, the over-worked business man.
LAS VEGAS has two daily and ave weekly
papers, three banks, two building and loan
associations, three hotels, many boarding
houses, nine churches, a number Of clubs,
aud all the leading civic and social socie-
ties; a roller -four mill, capacity, fifty bar
rels per day; two wool-scouring establish
meuts, cleaning 100000 pounds of wool
annually; a well-equipped brewery and
mineral and c~arbonated waters; two wag-
and carriage factories; a saddle and
harness factory; a foundry. cleo
trio light plant, three planning mills,
and other enterprises Of less Importance.
There are eight large Wholesale houses.
whose trade extends throughout the Ter
ritory, and into the adjoining sections;
while the volume of this trade, and the
value OF the stocks which they carry, can
be duplicated west of Kansas City and
south of Denver. Three merchants brok-
ers have selected the city as their distrib-
uting center, the amount of their yearly
sales exceeding, in the aggregate, the COM
bined sales OF all other such brokers In
New, Mexico. The retail merchants, OF
Las Vegas, are more numerous, and carry
larger and better stocks Of goods than do
the retail merchants OF any other Nv In
this Territory or Arizona. lea
LAS VEGAS Is the distributing point for
all New Mexico. By the Atehlson
system, she has connection with Kansas
the east, Colorado on the north, Ariso-
and California on the west, and Texas
and Old Mexico on the south. Besides
these, she has more stage lines, connecting
her with tributary territory, thar has any
other town in New Mexico. This territory
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of the mountains, and comprises the conns
ties Of Colfax, Mora, Taos, San Miguel,
Santa Fe, Eocorro, Dona Ana, Grant,
Chaves, Lincoln and Eddy. with parts Of
Valencia and Bernalillo-a country larger
than all New England. This takes In the
famous Valley ofthe Rio Grande, and the
less famous, but not less excellent, Valley
of the Pecos-the finest fruit sections Of
the west. .ass
This Territory is rich In everything that
constitutes the Wealth Of Nations. Iron,
coal, lead, silver, gold, mica, Limestone,
sandstone, marbles, gypsum, soda In end
ess variety and exhaustless quantities,
are among the several products OF the
country which Las Vegas commands.
Sheep, cattle and lumber abound, so that
In each OF these prime articles Of m
this city lie the best market Ia New Mexico.
She handles more wool than all the other
towns in the Territory combined, while
her In hides is truly m
In the same way, she stands pre-eminent
for her trade In grains, hay, vegetables,
and other farm products; while her trade
in ice. gathered In the neighboring noun
tain canyons, extends east into Kansas,
west iato Arizona, and south into Old
Mexico.