Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-07-16
THIS LOCALITY
Las Vegas the Chief City
of New Mexico Some
Of Her Resources,
Attractions and
Advantages.

LAS VxaAs Is the natural sanatorium o
the United States. combining more nat
ural advantages than any other place Il
America. Her thermal waters are TIL
equal OF the Hot Springs OF Arkansss
while her climate is infinitely superior
There 10 no malaria. no excessive heat OIL
cold, no gnats, rats or mosquitoes. In'
air Is pure, dry, rarified, and highly cleo
triied-a certain cure for consumption. 4
the disease be taken In time. The ho|
waters are a specific for liver. skin. rheu'
matte and blood disorders. Her Montexu.
ma hotel Is the finest hostelry between
Chicago and California, and Is situated IA
q beautiful canyon, Ave miles from town
whore 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 Il
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-five degrees-or even more. On
the other hand, In the summer, the heat is
never oppressive, IN the shade, and nc
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-
tetion OF moisture; the resinous aroma,
rolling down from the pine-clad noun
tains; the large amount Of electricity Ia
the air, and the consequent ozone, result
in q from fbaaltifuda- and fba ln0o tfon ~ fha
town, land-locked by mountain and mesa
these all conspire to produce an atmos-
pierre which is q balm to all diseases OF the
respiratory a The percentage of
death from consumption ia lower In New
Mexico than 1t is anywhere else In the
United States; and no other place Ia New
Mexico excels Las Vegas in the salubrity
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 babbling mountain brooks,
are the Las Vegas Hot Springs. Harvey's,
FL Porvenir, S~andoval'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, a number OF clubs,
and all the leading civic and social socie-
ties; a roller -four mill, capacity, fifty bar
reis per day; two wool-scouring establish
cleaning 1,500,0 900 pounds of wool
annually; a w~ell-equipped brewery and
bottling establishments; q mandatory of
and carboneted waters; two wag-
on and carriage factories; a saddle and
harness factory; o 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
value OF the stocks which they carry, can
not be duplicated west of Kansas City and
south.of Denver. Three m~erchants' brok-
ers have selected the city as their distrib-
uting center, the amount Of their yearly
sales exceeding, in the aggregate, the COM
bined sales of all other such brokers In
Mexico. The retail merchants, OF
Vegas, are more numerous, and carry
and better stocks of goods than do
The retail merchants or any other town in
his Territory or Arizona.