Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-07-23
THIS LOCALITY
Las Vegas the Chief City
of New Mexico-- Some
of Her Resources,
Attractions and
Advantages.

LAS VEGAS Is the natural sanatarium O
the United States, combining more nat
ural advantages than any other place IL
America. Her thermal waters are tn,
equal OF the Hot Springs OF Arkansas
while her climate is Infinitely superior
There Is no malaria. no excessive heat OF
cold, no gnats, rats or mosquitoes. In,
air Is pure, dry, rariied, and highly cleo.
triied-a certain cure for consumption. II
the disease be taken in time. The hot
waters are q specific for liver. skin, rheu-
matte and blood disorders. Her Montezu-
ma hotel Is the finest hostelry between
Chicago ami California, M is situated IN
a beautiful canyon, five miles from town,
where the Hot Springs, forty In number,
come boiling to the surface. el4aH rl
The latitude 10 about the same as that OF
central Tennessee. while the altitude is
nearly 6.50O feet. This combination gives
q 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-fve 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 dryness OF
the air, caused by the very slight precipi-
tation of moisture; the resinous aroma,
rolling down from the pine-cla noun
tains; 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 al atmos-
phere which is a balm to all diseases OF the
respiratory organs. The percentage of
Mexico than 1t is anywhere else In the
United States; and no other place In New
Mexico excels Las Vegas in the saiubrity
Of its climate. Asthmatlcs experience
immediate and permanent relief, in this
altitude.
In the way of health and pleasure re-
sorts, Las Vegas is unrivaled. In a radius
OF twenty miles, in omant mountain
glens and beside babbling mountain brooks, |
are the Las Vegas Hot Springs. Harvey's,
Ell Porvenir, Sandoval's Mineral Hill, Ro-
nero Ranch, Blake's, Sparks, Sapello,
Rociada, and other places, too Numerous
to mention where health can be recovered,
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 |
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
cleaning 1900, 900 pounds Of wool
annually; a well equipped brewery and
establishments; a mandatory of
and carbonated waters; two wag-
and carriage factories; a saddle and
harness factory; q foundry, cleo
tric light plant, three planning mills,
other enterprises of less importance.
There are eight large wholesale houses, |
whose trade extends throughout the Ter.
ritory, n into the adjoining sections;
the volume of this trade. and the
value Of the stocks which they carry, can
not be duplicated west of Kansas City and
Of Denver. Three merchants brok.
srs have selected the city as their distrib-
uting center, the amount of their yearly
,ales exceeding, in the aggregate, the com.
sales of all other such brokers in
New Mexico. The retail merchants, Of
Vegas, are more numerous, and carry
anger and better stocks Of goods than do
he retail merchants OF any other town in
his Territory or Arizona.