Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-07-06
This LOCALITY
Las Vegas, the Chief City
of New Mexico Some
of Her Resources,
Attractions and
Advantages.

Inhabitants.
1t has water works, street cars, ere ant
i~ncandescent electric light plant, telephone
exchanges, Territorial agricultural expert
ment station, headquarters OF tho 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
s~treets, native people aud customs, handi-
crafts and occupations; but the plaza and
all OF the new town, east of tho river, con
stitute q distinctive American city. The
streets are wide and well graded, while
sidewalks abound, shaded with growing
trees. Three parks, flied with grass and
trees, add to the beauty and he~althfulness
Of the place. Handsome and we'll filled
stores, beautiful residences, ard innumera-
BILE lawns, Get in grass and adorned with
~shrubbery and flowers, combine to pro-
claim e cultured community, possessed of
all modern comforts and co%nveniences
A city hall, three public school buildings,
court house, Masonic temple, opera house.
Territorial Normal school and Territorial
Insane asylum ere public buildings, con-
structed of red and white cut sandstone,
unsurpassed in beauty by similar edifices
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. sass
LAS VEGAS Is the natural sanatorium of
the United States, combining more nat
ural advantages than any other place 10
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. il
the disease be taken ii time. The hot
" waters are q specific for liver, skin, rheu-
and blood disorders. Her Montezu-
ma hotel is the finest hosiery between
Chicago and California, and is situated in
beautiful canyon, five miles from town,
where the Hot Springs. forty in number,
boiling to the SURFACE.
The latitude is about the same as thatsot
Tennessee, while the altitude is
nearly $500 feet. This combination gives
a peculiar, but most happy, result. In the
during the day, the thermometer
falls, 10 the shaav, Dsiow forty de-
yrees, while it often runs, in the sunshine,
20 sixty-flve degrees-or even more. On
he other hand, in the snmmer,4the heat is
lever oppressive, IN the shade, and no
is too warm for comfortable sleep,
one or two blankets. The ELS will
'hine nine days out of every ten, the yer
'ound. This, with the extreme cryne1s OF
he air, caused by the very slight pr ecipi-
alton of moisture; the resinous aroma,
'olling down from the pine-clad noun
aims; the large amount of electricity in
be air, and the consequent ozone, result
n & from thealtitude; and the location of the
own, land-locked by mountain ard mesa
these all conspire to produce an atmos-
1nere which Is a balm to all diseases OF The
organs. The percentage of
from consumption 10 lower in New
Mexico than it is any where else in the
United States; aud no other place in New
Mexico excels Las Vegas in the salubrity
II its climate. Asthmatics experience
Immediate and permanent relief, in this
In the way of health and pleasure re-
iorts, Las Vegas is uniiyaled. In a radius
II twenty miles, in romantic mountain
,lens and beside babbling mountain brooks,
ire the, Las Vegas Hot Springs, Harvey's,
81 P%orvenir, S~andoval's Mineral ELL, Ro-
nero Ranch, Blake's, Sparks, Sapello,
iociada, and other places, too Numerous
mention, where health can be recovered,
md life becomes a pleasure to the ennuye,
he invalid, the -over-worked business man.
LAS VEGAS has two daily and Ave weekly
,apers, three banks, two building and loan
ssociations, three hotels, many boarding
Houses, nine churches, a number of clubs,
all the leading civic and social socie-
iss; a roller iour mill, capacity, fifty bar
per day two wocl-scouring establish
cleaning 1,500. 600 pounds of wool
annually "a we'll equipped brewery and
establishment; a mandatory of
and carbonated waters; two wag-
N and carriage factories; a saddle n
'arness factory; "a foundI.J. cleo
nd other enterprises of less Importance.
There are eight large wholesale houses,
trade extends throughout the Ter
itory, and into the adjoining sections;
vhiie the volume Of this trade. and the
'alue of the stocks which they carry, cen
Iot be duplicated west of Kansas City and
outh of Denver. Three merchants brok-
rs have selected the city as their distrib-
ting center, the mount of their yearly
ales exceeding, in the aggregate, the COM
sales OF all other such brokers in
lew Mexico. The retail merchants, OF
.as Vegas, are more numerous, ard carry
anger and better stocks Of goods than do
be retail merchants OF any other town in
his Territory or Arizona.
LAS VEaAB is the distributing point for
early all New Mexico. BY the Atchlson
ystem, she has connection with Kansas
n the e6st, Colorado on the north, Arizo-
a and California on the weet, and Texas
Old Mexico on the south. Besides
hese, she has more stage lines, connecting
er with tributary territory, than has any
Their town in New Mexico. This territory
the entire section east and south
t the mountains, and comprises the coun-
les Of Colfax, Mora, Taos, San Miguel,
ANITA Fe, Socorro, Dona Ana, Grant.
Lincoln and Eddy, with parts of
Talencia and Bernalillo-a country larger
han all New England. This takes in the
amous Valley ofthe Rio Grande. and the
'ss famous, but not less excellent, Valley
I the Peeos-the finest fruit sections of
be west.
This Territory ia rich In everything that
the Wealth of Natl ms. Iron,
lead, silver, gold, mica, limestone,
andstone, marbles, gypsun, soda in end
IS variety and e~xhaustless qua antilles,
re among the several products Of tho
which Las Vegas commands
'heep, cattle and lumber abound, SO that
q each of these prime articles of commerce
his city Ia the best market In New Mexico.
lie handles more wool than all the other
In the Territory combined, while
err comme: CO 10 hides Is truly enormous.
q the same way, she stands prc-eminent
or her TRACE in grains. hay, vegetables,
other farm 1rcducts: while her trade
0 ice. gathered in the neighboripg noun
ain canyons, extends east into Kansas,
rest iato Ariznns, and south into Cid