Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-05-12

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

LAS VEGAs 10 the natural sanatorlum o
the United States, combining moro nat
ural advantages than any other place ii
America. Her thermal waters are H.,
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. Tn,
air is pure, dry, Fairfield, and highly cleo
triiod-a certain euro for consumption, 4
the disease BIO taken In time. The no
waters are q specific for liver. skin, fheu,
matte and blood disorders. Her ,Montezu'
ma hotel Is tho finest hosiery between
Chicago and California, and IL situated IL
a beautiful canyon, i've miles from town
where the Hot Springs, forty Ia number
come boiling 10 the surface
The latitude Ia shout the same as that oil
central Tennessee, while the altitude II
nearly $500 feot. This combination gives
a peculiar, but most happy, result. In the
winter, during tie day, the thermometer
seldom falls, In the shade, below forty de-
grees, while IL often ruus, In the sunshine,
10 sixty Ave deRrees-or even more. (n
the other hand, Ia the summer, the heat u
never oppressive, IN the shade, and PC
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 or moisture; the rcsinous aroma,
rolling down from the pine-clad 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 10y mountain and mesa
these all conspirs 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 than 1t is anywhere else in the
United States, and no other place In New
Mexico excels Las Vegas in the salubrity
or It's climate. Asthmatics experiences
immediate and permanent relief, in this
altitude. +
In the way OF health and pleasure re-
sorts, Las Vegas II unrlvaled. In O radius
OF twenty miles, In romantic mountain
glens and beside hG6hliag mountain brooks.
are the Las Vegas Hot Springs, Harvey's.
Ei Poryenir, Sandoyal's Mineral Hill, Ro-
nero Ranch, Bleke's, Sparks, Sapell0,
kocfade, and other places, too Numerous
TO mention, where health can be recovered.
life becomes q pleasure to the ennuye,
the Invalid, the oveT-worked business man.
LAS VEGAS has two daily and ave weekly
papers, three banks, two building and loan
associations, three hotels. many boarding
houses, niue churches, 3 number of clubs,
ana ell the leading civic aud social socie-
tiesi a roller tiolir min, capacity, fifty bar
reis per day, two sYool-soouring establish
merits, cleaning 100000 pounds of wool
annually; a well-squipped brewery and
establishments; a mandatory OF
mineral and casboBeted waters; two wag-
On end carriage factories; a saddle and
haruess factory; q foundry. cleo
light planI, three planning mills.
other enterprises Of lass importance,
There are eiEat large wholesale houses, |
whose trade extends throughout the Ter
end into tho edjoining sections:
the volume OF this trade. and the
OF the stocks which they carry, can
lot be duplicated west OF Kansas City and
iouth of Denver. Tnres m~erchants' brok-
'rs have selected The city es their distrib-
ting certer, the amount of their yearly
ales exceeding, in the sggregats, the com
,tned sales OF al othor such brokers in
View Mexico. The retail merchants, Of
Las Vegas, are more numerous, and carry
arger and better stocks of goods than do
he retail merchants or any other town In
bis Territory or Arizona.