Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-03-07
This LOCALITY
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Las Vegas, the Chief City
of New Mexico Some
of Her Resources,
Attractions and
Advantages.

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OF the place. Handsome and well filed
stores. beautiful residences. and nnnmera.
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bic lawns set In grass and adorned with
shrubbery and flowers, combine to pro-
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court house, Masonic temple, opera house,
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An Academy, Seminary, Jesuit college,
Convent school, PRESBYTERIAN Mission
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CDfistian brotneis' institute, CITY high
school, three graded public schools, q kim
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music scnools, oesides several private teach
ers. are among the educational advantages
and facilities
$500.
LAS VEGAS IL Ine naturai sanaLorlum OF
the United States, combining more nat
ural advantages than apy other place In
America. Her thermal waters are the
eouail OF the Hot Springs OF Arkansas.
while ner climate IA inf snnerior
l1SIe Is ITO mAtaTIH. no EXCESSIVE QeaC OF
cold. no enats. rats or MOSQUITOES The
air il pure. drv. rarifed. and highly cleo
trifed-a certain cure Tor consunnfion If
the disease he taken In time. The hot
waters are n sneciac Tor liver skin rhen.
matin .rd MOI disorJars uar Mo,tayn
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The other hand IN the snmmer. the haat 10
never onnress;va. IN the shade and no]
MONT Ia too warm for comfoTt re- hle sIeen
under cne or two blankets. The sun viii
nine DAYS ont of every ten. the wear
round. This, with the extreme dryness Of
the air. caused by the yery slight precipi.
alton Of moistnre. the resinous aroma.
roIiing down from the pine clad noun.
the large amount OF electricity in
air. and the consequent ozone. result.
from theaititude and the location Of the1
these ali conspire TO- produce an atmos.
phere which il q balm to all diseases of the
organs. The nercentape Of
Heath from consumption is lower In New
Mexico than it is anywhere else In the
States; and no other place 10 New
Mexico excels Las Vegas in the salubrIty]
Of its climate. Asthmatics experience
and permanent relief, in this
altitude.
In the way of health and pleasure re-
Las Vegas is unrivaled. In a radius
or twenty miles, In romantic mouDtain1
glens and besite babbling mountain brooks,
are the Las Vegas Hot Springs. Harvey's,
Ell Porvenir, S~andoval's Mineral Hill, Ro-
nero Ranch, Blake's, Sparks, SapeIlo,
Rociada, and other places, too numerous
70 mention, where health can be recovered,
and life becomes a pleasure to the ennuye,
invalid, the over-worked business man.
LAS VEGAS has two daily and dive weekly
papers, three banks. two building and loan
associations, three hotels. many boarding
all the leading civic and social socie-
ties; a roller -four mill, capacity. fifty bar
rels per day two wo~ol-scouring establish
cleaning 10000 600 pounds OF wool
annually; a we'll equipped brewery and
esta blishment; a manufactory Of
and ~carbonated waters; two wag-
on and carriage factories; a saddle and
harness factory; a foundry, 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
of the stocks which they carry, can
not be duplicated west OF Kansas City and
Of Denver. Three merchants brok-
prs have selected the city as their distrib-
utipg center, the amount of their yearly
sales exceeding, In the aggregate, the COM
eales 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
retail merchants OF any other town In
,bis Tarriforv or Arizona.