Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-24

Las Vegas the Chief City
OF New Mexlco-- Some
Of Her Resources,
Attractions and
Advantages.

LAS VEGAS 10 the natural sanntorium OF
the United States, combining more nat
urai advantages than any other place in
America. Her thermal waters are the
equal OF the Hot Springs OF Arkansas
while her climate IL infinitely superior.
There is no malaria. no excessive heat or
cold, no gnats, rats or mosquitoes lne
air Is pure, dry, rariied, and highly cleo
trlied-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 and California, and is situated IN
a beautiful canyon, five miles from town,
whore the Hot Springs, forty in number,
come boiling to the surface. are
The latitude Is about the same as that OF
central Tennessee. while the altitude 10
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-flve degrees-or even more. On
the other band, In the summer. the heat Is
never oppressive, IN the shade. ana no
night is too warm for comfortable sleep,
under one OF two blankets. The sun win
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-c noun
\ tains; the large amount OF electricity Ia
the air, and the consequent ozone, result
ing from tbealtitude; and the location OF the
| town, land locked by mountain and mesa
these all conspire to produce an atmos-
phere which Is o balm to all diseases OF the
respiratory organs The percentage OF
death from consumption Is lower In New
Mexico than IL is any where else in the
United States; and no other place 10 New
| Mexico excels Las Vegas in the s~alubrity
/ 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. 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,
and life becomes a pleasure to the enuuye,
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,
aud all the leading civic n social socie-
tias; a roller -four mill, capacity. fifty bar
rels per day; two wool-scouring establish
meDts, cleaning 100000 pounds of wool
annually; a w~ell-equipped brewery and
bottling establishment: O mandatory OF
mineral and carbonated waters; two wag-
on and carriage factories; q 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.