Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-03-10
LOCALITY
Las Vegas, the Chief City
of New Mexico Some
of Her Resources,
Attractions and
Advantages.

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city hall, three public school buildings,
court. house. Masonic temple, opera house,
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Onr'stiah Drotheis INSTITUTES S"y n'sh
school, three graded public schools. q kin
| dergarten. a commercial school and two
n,ns;c scbools nas,des sevaraI rrivato ,aacb.
ers, are among the educational advantages
and facilities.
TAO VraAs 70 tho natural sspator;um ~
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Tue oni.eu ota'os, compinins "oro naI-
ural advantages than any other place In
America. Her thermal waters are the
oQuutt " tD0 Ilot oPIt like VI Ahhdhouo,
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, rarided, and highly cleo
trified-a certain cure for consumption. II
the disease be taken In time. The hot
waters are a specific for liver, skin, rheu-
matte and blood disorders. Her MoDtezu-
ma hotel Is the finest hostelry between
Chicago and Califoi mia, and Is situated In
a beautiful canyon, five miles from town,
where the Hot Springs, forty in number,
come boiling to the surface.
Tit latitude Is about the same as that OF
central Tennessee. while the altitude is
nearly Q 500 feet. This combination gives
a peculiar, but most happy, result. In the
winter, during the day, the Thermometer
seldom falls, in the shade, below forty de-
grees, while it often uns, In the sunshine,
to sixty five 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 VIII
shine 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-ciad noun
tains; the large amount of electricity In
the air, and the consequent ozone, result
ing from thsaltitude; and the location OF the
these ali 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 In 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. Asthmatlcs experience
Immediate and ermanen 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 babbling mountain brooks,
are the Las Vegas Hot Springs, Harvey's,
Ell Porvenir, Ssndoval's Mineral Hill, Ro-
nero Ranch, Blake's, Sparks, Sapello,
Rocisda, and other places, too numerous
10 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
and all the leading civic and social socie-
ties; asroller iour mill, capacity, fifty bar
rels per day two wool-scouring establish
cleaning 1,500. 600 pounds OF wool
annually a we'll equipped brewery and
esta blishment; q mandatory of
and carbonated waters; two wag-
on and carriage factories; . saddle and
trio light plant, three planning mills,
and other enterprises Of less importance.
There are eight large wholesale houses,
trade extends throughout the Ter
ritory, and into the adjoining sections
the volume of this trade, and the
value Of the stocks which they carry, can
south Of Denver. Three merchants brok.
srs have selected the city as their distrib-
ltirg center, the amount Of their yearly