Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-07-20
THIS LOCALITY
Las Vegas the Chief city
OF New Mexico-- Some
of Her Resources,
Attractions and
Advantages.

LAS VEGAS Is the natural sanatorium oil
the United States, combining more nat
ural advantages than any other place 10
America. Her thermal waters are tbs
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. lat
air Is pure, dry, rarihed, and highly eiec-
trihed-a certain cure for consumption, II
the disease be taken in time. The hc'
waters are a specific for liver. skin, rheu'
matte and blood disorders. Her Montezu-
ma hotel Is the finest hostelry between
Chicago and California, and 10 situated In
a beautiful canyon, five miles from town,
where the Hot Springs, forty In number,
come boiling to tho 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. 10 the shade, below forty de-
grees, while 1t often runs, in the sunshine,
to sixty-fve degrees-or even more. On
III LNtG uata a. Wv k'1 a11f 50
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-ciad noun
tains; the large amount of electricity In
the air, and the consequent ozone, result
ing from theultirude; and the location of the
town, land-locked by mountain and mesa
these all conspire to produce an atmos-
pnere which is q balm TO all diseases of the
respiratory organs. The percentage OF
death from consumption is lower In New
Mexico thar it is anywhere else in the
United States; and no other place In 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 babbliug mountain brooks,
are the Las Vegas Hot Springs. Haryey's,
Ell Porvenir, Sandovals Mineral Hill, Ro-
nero Ranch, Blake's, Sparks, Sapeilo,
Rociada, and other places, too Numerous
to mention where health can be recover ed.
and life becomes a pleasure to the nnuye,
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 1850, 900 pounds of wool
annually; a ell-equipped brewery and
bottling establishments; a mandatory of
mineral 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
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
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.