Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-11-17
'YHIS LOCALITY
Las Vegas, the Chief City
of New Mexico Some
of Her Resources,
Attractions and
Advantages.

iucandescent electric light plant, telephone
exchanges, Territorial agricultural expert
ment station, headquarters Of the Atchi-
son railway system, New Mexico division.
together with railroad machine shops and
tie preserving works, stock yards, and the
largest sheep shearing and dipping PLAN
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 well 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 we'll filled
stores, beautiful residences, and innumera-
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. 10 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 or 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, IL
the disease be taken In time. The hot
waters are q specific for liver. skin, rheu-
matte aud 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,
boiling to the surface.
The latitude Is about the same as that OF
central Tennessee, while the altitude is
nearly $500 feet. This combination gives
a peculiar, but most happy, result. In the
winter, during the day, the thermometer
falls, 10 the shade, below forty de-
grees, while 1t often runs, in the sunshine,
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 dryDess of
the air, caused by the very slight precipi-
tation Of moisture; the %resinous aroma,
down from the pine-cIad noun
%tains; the large amount of electricity in
the air, and the consequent oyons, result
ing from thealtitude and the location of the
town, land-locked by mountain and mesa
all conspiro to produce an atmos-
phere which is 3 balm to all diseases OF the
organs. Tn percentage of
death from consumption is lower in New
than it Is any where else in the
United States; and no other place In New
Mexico exceIs Las Vegas in the salubrlty
"a AA1bD OhSC
and permanent relief, in this
In the way of health and pleasure re-
Las Vegas is unrivaled. In q radius
Of twenty miles, In romantic mountain
glens and beside babbling 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,
invalid, the over-worked business man.
LAS VEGAS bias two daily and Ave weekly
papers,, three banks. two building and loan
associations, three hotels, many boarding
houses, nine churches, q 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
ments, cleaning 1850. 900 pounds of wool
annually; a we'll equippcd brewery and
establishment; q mandatory of
mineral and carbonatsd waters; two wag-
and cerriage factories; q saddle and
factory; a foundr.y cleo
light plant, three planning mills,
other enterprises of less Importance.
whose trade extends throughout the Ter
-itory, and into the adjoining sections;
the volume of this trade. and the
value of the stocks which they carry, can
lot be duplicated west of Kansas City and
Of Denver. Three merchants brok- |
,rs have selected the city as their distrib-
1ting center, the amount Of their yearly
sales of all other such brokers In
sew Mexico. The retail merchants, of
Las Vegas, are more numerous, and carry
anger and better stocks of goods than do
The retail merchants of any other town in |
his Territory or Arizona.
LAS VEGAS is the distributing point for |
nearly all New Mexico. BY the Atchlson
she has connection with Kansas
N the east, Colorado on the north, Arizo-
la and California on the west, and Texas
md Old Mexico on the south. Besides
hese, she has more stage lines, connecting
Ter with tributary territory, thai has any
'ther town In New Mexico. This territory
the entire section east and south
Il the mountains, and comprises the coun-
les of Colfax, Mora, Taos, San Miguel,
Fe, Socorro, Dona Ana, Grant.
Jhaves, Lincoln and Eddy, with parts of
.alencia and Bernslillo-a country larger
amous Valley ofthe Rio Grande, and the
ass famous, but not less excellent, Valley
( the Pecos-the finest fruit sections Of
he west.
This Territory Is rich in everything that
institutes the Wealth OF Nations. Iron,
oal, lead, silver, gold, mice, limestone,
marbles, gypsum, soda In end
So 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
his city Is the best market 10 New Mexico.
he handles more wool than all the other
.wns in the Territory combined, while
or commerce 10 hides is truly enormous.
. the same way, she stands pre-eminent
II her trede 10 grains, hay. vegetables,
nd other farm products; while her trade
lin canyons, extends east into Kansas,
i1to Arizona, and south into Old
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