Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-04

Las Vegas the Chief City
of New MexicO-- Some
of Her Resources,
Attractions and
Advantages.

Las VEGAS Is the natural sanatorfum OF
the United States, combining more mat
ural advantages than any other place 10
America. Her thermal waters are the
equal OF the Hot Springs OF rkans
while her climate is infinitely superior
There Is no malaria, no excessive neat OF
cold. no ennts, rets or MOSQUITOES. Ine
air IA pure, dry, rsrifed, and highly eiec-
triied-a certain cure for consumption, II
the disease be taken In time. The hot
waters arc a specific for liver. skin, rheu-
matte and blood disorders. Her Montezu-
ma hotel is the finest hostelry between
Chicago and California, and is situated In
q beautiful canyon, five miles from town,
where the Hot Springs, forty In NUMBER
come boiling to the surface.
The latitude 10 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, in the shndo, below forty de-
prees. while 1t often runs, In the sunshine,
10 ~slxtv-nve degroes-cr even more. On
the other hand. ia the summer. the heat is
never oppressive, IN the shade, and no
nioht ia too warm for comfortable sleep,
under one or two blankets. The sun will
shine nine days ont Of every ten, the year
round. This. with the extreme dryness OF
the air, caused by the very slight preclpi-
tation of moisture; the resinous aroma,
rolling down from the pine-clad noun
tains; tho large amount OF electricity in
the air, and the consequent ozone, result
ing from thenllitude and the location OF the
town, land locked by mountain and mesa
these ell conspire to produce an atmos-
pnere which is 8 balm TO all diseases OF the
r - --.a Tho nawnanfonn nj
dsath from consumption is lower Ia New
Mexico than 1t Is anywhere else In the
United States; and no other place In New
Mexico excels Las Vegas In the salubrity
Of It's climate. Asthfnatlcs experience
immediate and permanent relief, In this
altitude.
sorts, Las Vegas Is unrivaled. In a radius
OF twenty miles, In romantic mountain
elens and beside babbling mountain brooks
are the Les Vegas Hot Springs, Harvey's
Fl Porvcnir, Sandoval's Mineral Hill, Ro
, nero Ranch, Blake's, Sparks, Sapello
! Rociada. aud other places, too ndrnerou
/ 10 mention, where health eau be recovered
: and life becomes a pleasure to the onnuye
|. fine invalid, the over-wcrked business man
LAS VEoAs has two daily and Ave week.,
papers, three banks, two building and LOAF
, associations. three hotele. many boarding
, houses, nine churches, a number OF clubs
aud all the leading civic and social socie
T tiss; a roller -four mill, capacity, fifty bar
: rels per day two wool-scouring establish
ments. cleaning 100000 pounds OF woo
, annually a well-equipped brewery an
bottling establishments; a mandatory 0
s mircral and carbonatsd waters, two wsE
A on and carriage factories; a saddle an
4 harness factory; a foundry. cleo
I trio light plant, three planning mills
B and other enterprises of less Importance.
e 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 tn
value OF the stocks which they carry, CO
not be duplicated west Of Kansas City an
4 south OF Denver. Three m~erchants' brok
ers have selected the city as their dfstrih
utinR center, the amount OF their yeari
sales exceeding, in the aggregate, the com
biped sales Of all other such brokers |
New Mexico. The retail merchants, {
u Las Vegas, are more numerous, and carr
larger AND better stocks of goods b q
/, the retail merchants OF any other town !
y this Territory or Arizona.