Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-12-01
THIS LOCALITY
Las Vegas, the Chief City
of New Mexico--S0me
of Her Resources,
Attractions and
Advantages.

and, with its suburbs, has about l0,0OO
inhabitants.
1t has water works, street cars, arc and
i~ncandescent 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 plant
In the United States.
West of the river, the old town has the
quaint and picturesque Mexican appear
arce-adobe houses, narrow, crooked
streets, native people and customs, handi-
G ats and occupations; but the plaza and
all of the new town, east OF the river, con-
stitute q 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 hsalthfulness
of the place. Handsome and welI-dlled
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, in the States
An Academy, Seminary, Jesuit college,
Convent school, Presbyterian Mission
| school, Methodist manuai training school,
Christian Brothers. institute, City high
school, three graded public schools, q 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
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. Ine
air ia pure, dry, rarifed, and highly cleo
trified-a certain cure for consumption, II
the disease be taken In lime. The hot
waters are a specific for liver. skin, rheu-
matte and blood disorders. Her Montezu-
ma hotel Is the finess hostelry between
Chicago and California, and Is situated In
q beautiful canyon, i've miles from Town
where the Hot Springs, forty In number,
come boiling to the surface.
The latitude g 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 THERMOMETERS
seldom falls, In the shade, below forty de-
grees, while IL often runs. In the sunshine
to sixty-ive degrees-ort even more. U
the other bend, n the summer, the heat u
never oppressive, IN the shade, ana nc
night is too warm for comfortable sleep
under one or two blankets. The sun viii
shine nine days out OF every ter, the veal
round. This. with tue extreme dryness Of
the air, caused by the very slight precipi'
tation of m%oisture; the resinous aroma
rolling down from the pine-ciad noun
tains; the large amount Of electricity II
the air, and the consequent ozone, result
ing from thealtitude; and the location OF th'
town. land-locked by mountain ard mess
these al conspire to produce an atmos'
I phere which Is 0 balm to all diseases OF thu
respiratory rgans The percentage o
death from consumption is lower In New
Mexico than it is anywhere else In tn
United States; ard no other place In New
Mexico excels Las Vegas in the salubritl
Of its climate. Asthmatlcs experience
immediate n permanent relief, In thi
altitude.
In the way of health and pleasure re
sorts, Las Vegas ~ unrivaled. In q radiu
of twenty miles, In romantic mountain
: glens and beside babbling mountain brooks
, are the Las Vegas Hot Springs. Harvey's
Ell Porvenir, Sandovars Mineral Hill, 10
nero Ranch Blake;s, Sparks, Sapello
Rociada, and other places, too namerou
: to mention, where health can be recovered
: and life becomes a pleasure to The ennuye
the invalid, tle over-worked Business man
: LAS VEGAS has two daily and ave week..
. papers, three banks, Two building and LOAF
associations, three hotels. many boarding.
. houses, nine churches, q number OF clubs
3 and ali the leading civic and social socie
= ties; a roller f IT mill, capacity, fifty bar
: rels per day two wool.7conring establish
ments, cleaning l, SOC, 900 pounds Of woo
4 annually; a yell equipped brewery an
bottling establishment; q mandatory
mineral and carbonated waters; two wag
T on and carriage factories; q saddle an
! trio light plant, three planning mill
! and other enterprises of less importance.
a There are eight large wholesale house,
whose trade extends throughout the Tel
lritory, and into the adjoining sections
. while the volume of this trade. and th
= value OF the StOcKS WQ-cu Trey carry, Ca
not be duplicated wesj of Kansas City an
e south of Denver. Three merchants broh
ers have selected the city as their distrit
uting center, the amount OF their ycarl
sales exceeding, in the aggregate, the CON
bined sales of all other such brokers !
New Mexico. TIE retail merchants, {
& Las Vegas, are more numerous, and carr
= larger and better stocks of goods than d
! the retail merchants OF any other town !
this Territory or Arizona.
10 LAS VEGAS is the distributing point *
nearly all New Mexico. By the Atchiso
/ system, she has connection with Kanst
:. on the east, Colorado on the north, Arizc
II ma and California on the west. and Texs
ana Old Mexico on the soqth. Resids
her with tributary territory, than has an
,r other town In New Mexico. This ~territor
= includes the entire section east and scout
y of the mountains, and comprises the cour
d ties Of Lolfax, Mora, Taos, San Migue
Santa Fe, Socorro, Dona Ana, Gran
Chaves, Lincoln and Eddy, with parts
Valencia and Bernalillo--a country iarg!
than ali New England. This takes in Il
9, famous Valley ofthe Rio Grande, and II
less famous, but not less excellent, Vale
i of the Pecos-the finest fruit sections
!, the west.
= This Territory Is rich In everything Thu
y constitutes the Wealth of Nations. Iro
r coal, lead, silver, gold, mica, limeston
4. sandstone. marbles, gypsum, soda in emf
w. ess variety and e~xhaustless quantitie
y are among the severed products Of Il
as country which Las Vegas command
sheep, cattle and lumber abound, so th'
II each Of these prime aFtteles OF commer,
this city 10 the best market in New Mexic
SIZE handles more wool than ell the 9th
ut towns In the Territory combined, viii
L. her no 10 hides js truly enormou
ID III the same way, she stands pre-eminel
. for her trade in grains, hay. vegetable
~ and other farm products; while her tra'
Is. IN loo 0athered in the n~eighboriup moul