Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-05-28
THIS LOCALITY
Las Vegas, the Chief City
OF New Mexico--Some
of Her Resources,
Attractions and
Advantages.

~ mas Wutcr WOrkS, sIreeJ cars, arc an
incandescent electric light plant, ~telephon
exchanges, Territorial agricultural exper
ment station, headquarters of the Atchi
son railway system, New Mexico division
together with railroad machine shops an,
tie preserving works, stock yards, and til
largest sheep. shearing and dipping plan
In the United States.
West Of the river, the old town has th
quaint and picturesque Mexican appear
ance adobe houses, narrow, crooked
streets, native people and customs, handi
crafts and occupations; but the plaza anc
all of the new town, east Of the river, con
%stitute q distinctive American city. Tn,
streets are wide and we'll graded, Will,
sidewalks abound, shaded with growing
trees. Three parks, filed with grass anc
trees, add to the beauty and healthfulnesi
Of the place. Handsome and we'll filled
stores, beautiful residences, and innumera
BILE lawns, set in grass ard adorned with
thrubbery and flowers, combine to pro-
claim a cultured community, possessed OF
all modern comforts and c~onveniences.
A city hall, three public school buildings,
court house, Masonic temple, opera house.
Territorial Normal school and Territorial
Insane asy lum 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, Presbyt erian Mission
school, Methodist manual training school,
Christian Brothers, institute, City high
school, three graded public schools, q 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
urel advantages than any other place 10
Her tt ermal 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 Ia pure, dry, rarift d, and highly cleo
certain cure Tor consumption, II
the disease be taken in time. The hot
waters are q specific for liver, skin, rheu.
and blood disorders. Her Montezu-
hotel Is the finest hostelry between
Chicago and California, aud is situated 10
q beautiful canyon, five miles from town,
the Hot Springs, forty 10 number,
come boiling to the surface.
The latitude Is about the same as that OF
central Tennessee. while the altitude is
$500 feet. This combination gives
a peculiar, but most happy, result. In the
during the day, the thermometer
falls, u the shade, below forty de-
grees, while it often runs, in the sunshine,
to sixty-hve degrees-or ever more. On
never or pressive, in the shade, and no
is too warm for comfortable sleep,
under one CT two blankets. Thu sun will
min days out of every ten, the year
round. Tits, with the extreme dryness of
the ali, caused by the very slight precipi-
tati n Of moisture; the resinous aroma,
down from the pine-clad noun
tains; tie large amount Of electricity in
the air, and the consequent ozone, result
ing from thealtitude and the location of the
town, land locked by mountain and mesa
all conspire to produce an atmos-
pnere which is a balm to all diseases Of the
organs. The percentage of
than 1t is any where else in the
States; and no other place 10 New
excels Las Vegas in the salubrity
of its climate. Asthmat:cs experience
and permanent relief, In this
altitude.
In the way of nealth and pleasure re-
sorts, Las Vegas is unrivaled. In a radius
OF twenty miles, in romantic mountain
glens and beside babbliug mountain brooks,
are the Las Vegas Hot Springs, Harvey's,
Poryenir, 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 o~ver-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, q number OF clubs,
and all the leading civic and social socie-
ties; a roller -four mill, capacity, fifty bar
rels per day two wool-scouring establish
ments, cleaning 1900, 900 pounds Of wool
annually; a veil -equipped brewery and
bottling establishments; a mandatory of
mineral and ~carbonated waters; two wag-
harness factory; a foundIJ. elec-
and other enterprises Of less importance.
There are eight large wholesale houses,
trade extends throughout the Ter
and into the adjoining sections;
while the volume of this trade, and the
value OF the stocks which they carry, can
UOL De uuUllChlcQ aWcct VI Aducuo WY nLo
south of Denver. Three merchants brok-
ers have selected the city as their distrib-
center, the amount of their yearly
sales exceeding, In the aggregate, the com
bined sales CT all other such brokers in
New Mexico. Tho retail merchants, of
Las Vegas, are mora numerous, n carry
and better stocks OF goods than do
the retail merchants OF any other town in
This Territory or Arizona.
TIC Ur1Ao 10 tba dietrjbufiup DOjnt for
all New Mexico. By the Atcblson
she has connection with Kansas
On the east, Colorado on the north, Arizo-
pa and California on the west, and Texas
and Old Mexico en- the south. Besides
he sc. she has more stage lines, connecting
her with tributary territory, than has any
town 10 New Mexico. This territory
Includes the entire section east and south
Il the mountains, and comprises the coun-
les of Colfax, Mora, Taos, San Miguel,
Santa Fe, Socorr0, Dona Ana, Grant.
,haves, Lincoln and Eddy, with parts of
Valencia and Bernalillo-a country larger
han all New England. This takes in the
'amous Valley ofthe Rio Grande, and the
ess famous, but not less excellent, Valley
the p. cos-the finest fruit sections of
he west.
This Territory is rich in everything that
the Wealth of Nations. Iron,
,oal, lead, silver, gold, mica, limestone,
audstone, marbles, gypsum, soda In end
,ss variety and e~xhaustless quantities,
ire among the several products Of the
which Las Vegas commands.
sheep, cattle end lumber abound, SO that
q zach OF these prime articles of commerce
his city Is the best market 10 New Mexico.
3he handles more wool than all the other
owns In the Territory combined, while
Ter In hides is truly enormous.
u the same way, she stands pre-eminent
or her trade IN grains, bay, vegetables,
other farm products. while her trade
n ice. gathered in the neighboring noun
ain canyons, extends east into Kansas,
i1to Arizona, and south into Old