Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-03-13
THIS LOCALITY
Las Vegas, the Chief City
OF New Mexico--Some
of Her Resources,
Attractions and
Advantages.

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A city hall, three public school buildings,
court. bouse. Masonic temple. opera house.
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In any toWn, u equai Size ~ tue SLAVES
An Academy, Seminary, Jesuit college,
| Convent school,. P~resbyteriau Mission
sohoot Mo,hoa;st uanra, raining choo,
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CDristlan brotnefs ihstitute' OHy niBn
school, three graded public schools. a kim
doroarten n com uarcisl scbool and tvo
ueis'i.on, :
MUSIC WORCESTERSHIRE seVeia' pii'a'e 'eacn-
ers, are among the educational advantages
and facilities.
TO We. 10 Tho r.,rro, .are,orrrm .,
the United states, combining more nat
America. Her thermal wat rs 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, aud highly cleo
trified-a certain cure for consumption. IL
tho 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 nyon Ave 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 6 500 feet. This combination gives
a peculiar, but most happy, result. In the
winter, during the day, the Thermometer
seldom ia Ills. 10 thes shade, below forty de-
grees, while 1t often runs, In the sunshine,
to sixty-hve degrees-or even more. On
the other baud, In the ummer, 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 dryness of
the air, caused by the very slight precipi.
tation OF moisture; the rssinous aroma,
rolling down from the pine clad noun
teins; the large amount of electricity in
ing from thealtitude; and the location of the
n toTa, l an caos1its % Dy ppoSnss an ana a, mesa
pierre which is a balm to all diseases of the
respiratory organs. The percentage OF
death from consumption is lower In New
Mexico than it is anywhere else in the
United States, and no other place In New
Mexico excels Las Vegas in the salubr.ty
OF its climate. Asthmatics experience
immediate and permanent relief, in this
altitude.
In the way of health and pleasure re-
sorts, Las Vegas Is unrivaled. In q radius
OF twenty miles, In romantic mountain
glens and beside babblirg mountain brooks,
are the Las Vegas Hot Springs. Harvey's,
Ell Porvenir, Sandoval's Mineral Hill, Ro-
nero Ranch, Blake's, Sparks, Sape.lo,
Rociada, and other places, too numerous
10 mention, where health can be recovered,
and life becomes a pleasure to the ennuye,
the invalid, the over-worked bgsiness man.
LAS VEGAS has two daily and dve weekly
associations, three hotels, many boarding
houses, nine churches, a number OF clubs,
and ali 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 we'll equipped brewery and
mineral and carbonated waters; two wag-
on and carriage factories: q saddle and
harness factory: a foundry, elec-
trio light plant. three planning mills, |
and other enterprises Of less importance,
There are eight large wholesale houses,
whose trade extends I'll. oughout the Ter.
ritory. and into the adjoining sections; Il
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-
uting center. the amount of their yearly |
sales exceeding, in the aggregate, the COM
hined sales OF all other such brokers In |
New MEXICO. The retail merchants, of
Tas Vegas. are more numerous, and carry
larger and better stocks Of goods than do