Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-11-27

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Of the place. Handsome and well filed
stores, beautiful residences, and innumera-
BILE la wns, 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 ediices
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.
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. 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 a specific for liver, skin, rheu-
matte and blood disorders. Her Montezu-
ma hotel is the finest hosiery between
Chicago and California, and Is situated In
a beautiful canyon, five miles from town,
where the Hot Springs, forty In number,
come 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
seldom falls, In the shade, below forty de-
grees, while 1t often runs, in the sunshine,
to sixty-f1ve 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 drvness of
the air, caused by the very slight precipi-
tation of moisture; the r~esinous aroma,
rolling down from the pine-clad noun
taiEs; the 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
these all conspire to produce an atmos-
phere which is q balm to all diseases of the
respiratory organs. The percentage of
death from consumption is lower In New
Mexico than it is any where else in the
United States; n no other place In New
Mexico excels Las Vegas in the salubrity
Of its climate. Asthmatics experience
immediate n permanent relief, in this
altitude.
In the way of health and pleasure re-
sorts, Las Vegas is unriyaled. In a radius
of twenty miles, in romantic mountain
glens and beside babbling mountain brooks,
Ell Porvenir, Ssndoval'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 over-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 well-equipped brewery and
mineral and carbonated waters; two wag-
on and carriage factories; a saddle and
harness factory; a foundIJ cleo
trio light plant, three planning mills. \
and other enterprises Of less Importance.
There are eight large wholesale houses,
whose trade extends throughout the Ter
ritory, and into the adjoining sections
while the volume of this trade, and the
value of the stocks which they carry, can
not be duplicated west of Kansas City and
south of Denver. Three merchants brok. |
ers have selected the city as their distrib- |
utipg center, the amount of their yearly |
sales exceeding, in the aggregate, the COM
bined sales Of all other such brokers in
New Mexico. The retail merchants, Of
Las Vegas, are more numerous, and carry |
larger and better stocks of goods than do
the retail merchants of any other town in
this Territory or Arizona.
LAS VEGAS is the distributing point for
nearly all New Mexico. By the Atchlson
system, she has connection with Kansas |
on the east, Colorado on the north, Arizo-
ma and California on the west, Inc Texas
and Old Mexico on the south. Besides
these, she has more stage lines, connecting
other town in New Mexico. This territory
includes the entire section east and south
of the mountains, and comprises the coun-
ties Of Colfax, Mora, Taos, San Miguel,
Santa Fe, Socorr0, Dona Ana, Grant.
Chaves, Lincoln and Eddy, with parts of
Valencia and BernaliIlo-a country larger
than all New England. This takes in the
famous Valley ofthe Rio Grapde. and the
less famous, but not less excellent, Valley
of the Pecos-the finest fruit sections of
the west.
This Territory is rich in everything that
the Wealth of Nations. Iron,
coal, lead, silver, gold, mica, limestone,
sandstone. marbles, gypsum, soda in end
ess variety and exhaustless quantities,
are among the several products of the
which Las Vegas commands.
Sheep, cattle and lumber abound, so that
10 each of these prime articles of commerce
this city is the best market Ii New Mexico.
She handles more wool than all the other
towns 10 the Territory combined, while
her 10 hides is truly enormous.
In the same way, she stands p~re-eminent
for her trade in grains, hay, vegetables,
and other farm products; while her trade
in ice. gathered in the neigbboriuF noun
tain csnvons, extends east into Kansas.
west iato Arizona, md south into Old
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